Vice-rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Fotografia Jordi Berenguer vicerector de Transferència Innovació i Emprenedoria UPC
vr.jordi.berenguer@upc.edu

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Jordi Berenguer Sau

  • Technology and knowledge transfer policy
  • Promotion of industrial doctorates (in coordination with the vice-rector for Research)
  • Associated research entities (except CERCA centres) and technology transfer
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation, licences and patents
  • Knowledge and innovation communities (KIC) (in coordination with the vice-rector for International Policy)
  • Relations with companies and technology centres
  • Enterprise chairs and UNESCO Technology and Culture and Numerical Methods
  • CIT-UPC
  • Parc UPC facilities policy
  • Coordination of the pilot plan for industrial final thesis grants
  • Intexter, IOC, IRIS, INTE and CTECNIO support for transfer (in coordination with the vice-rector for Research)

      Biography

      Jordi Berenguer is a full professor at the Department of Signal Theory and Communications. He has undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Telecommunications from the UPC. He teaches courses in emitters and receivers, radiolocation and air radio navigation communications and systems at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC).

      He was the vice-president of the Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineering (Telecos.cat) (2011-2015), of which he was the treasurer and a founding partner. He was awarded the Special Doctoral Award, prizes for the best final and doctoral theses awarded by the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers and the UPC’s Silver Medal.  From 2004 to 2018, he wrote the chapter on telecommunications in the Enciclopèdia Catalana yearbook. He promoted the European Space Agency business incubator in Castelldefels and the CENSAT consortium on small satellite technologies and applications.
      He was the director of projects at the Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society, the rector’s delegate for the Baix Llobregat Campus (2006-2008), the director of the EETAC (2008-2014) and the vice-rector for Knowledge Transfer and Innovation (2017-2021).

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