Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB)

Business model and activity description

Description
The “Parc Científic de Barcelona” (PCB, Barcelona Science Park) is a pole of research of excellence that hosts institutes, companies and technological platforms with the aim to promote innovation. It is an initiative of the University of Barcelona Recognised as a reference model, the PCB is located on the Diagonal Campus and hosts 2,200 professionals, more than 45 companies, a biotech enterprise incubator, 3 institutes, 70 research groups, and a wide range of technological support services for research activities developed in emerging fields of life sciences, biomedicine and medical chemistry, as well as a wide range of experimental and socials sciences. The convergence of public and private sector research makes the PCB a hub for knowledge and technology transfer a setting which promotes the establishment of new technology-based enterprises, private-public initiatives, co-operative projects and other collaboration strategies. To facilitate dialogue between the scientific community and society, the PCB also develops innovative channels of communication to disseminate science.

Last updated
04/05/2012