Technologies Developed at BSC Have Allowed the Creation of 10 New Companies in 5 Years – HPCwire

Oct. 26, 2020 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has created ten spin-offs in the last five years. These companies use results from part of the research and technology developed at the center to offer cutting-edge services in such diverse areas as biomedicine, aerospace and automobile industries security or quantum computing.

The launch of these ten BSC spin-offs has resulted in the creation so far of 93 high-skilled job posts. Together, they reach an external funding of 2,5M of Euros, as well as contracts for more than 8M of Euros.

These constitution operations have entailed the transfer of 23 BSC technologies, as well as others from different research institutions such as the UPC (Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya), UB (Universitat de Barcelona), IRB (Institut de Recerca Biomdica), ICREA institution, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas) or Imperial College London, through the signature of license contracts.

BSCs associate director, Josep M. Martorell, states that the creation of these ten spin-offs confirms the commitment of the center for the development of not only outstanding research, but also relevant; that is to say, with a high impact on society. According to Martorell, in the mid and long term, we hope that many companies from our center co-live within our ecosystem, and that they produce quality job posts and attract investment continuously. This would be one of the many ways we have to give back to society what it has offered to us since our creation.

The diversity of the technologies exploited by these companies (from life sciences to earth sciences, as well as engineering and computing) shows the wide scope of our research. Supercomputing technologies are one of the most important and enabling ones today, without which many disciplines could not exploit all their research potential.

The ten BSC spin-offs

The last spin-offs created from BSC have been Energy Aware Solutions, S.L. (EAS) and FRONTWAVE IMAGING, S.L., constituted last September.

You can check all BSC spin-offs at this link.

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