Innovation Ecosystem

Discover the excellence spaces, oriented to the promotion and management of the innovation processes, we are leading from the UPC and our stakeholders community.

Our objective is to obtain more synergies, emerging from the integration of related and same-result oriented areas, create innovation sources, and increase the innovation generation ability. This way, we aim to serve the productive tissue and the competitiveness of the territory.

Emprèn UPC program

Training our talents in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Inside the Innovation Management Service, entrepreneurship is represented by the brand Emprèn UPC, a pre-incubation program that aims at supporting possible entrepreneurs from the UPC community  to develop their idea or project.

Visit the Emprèn UPC program website

Incubation UPC

Preparation and screening of corporate acceleration projects.

We organize events and generate services to promote the swap of knowledge and opportunities, creating synergies between the projects, the incubated companies and the UPC community agents.

Visit the UPC Parc website

Corporate Venturing & Innovation HUBs

Alliances with corporates to generate open innovation, through the Innovation Hubs.

We provide companies who want to innovate with the necessary key elements to help them in their Corporate Venturing strategy, making them partners of the UPC Innovation Ecosystem. 

See our leaflet.

UPC Innovation Ecosystem presentation.

UPC creation spaces

Generation, growth and maturation of innovative projects.

We provide necessary spaces and tools to allow prototyping in different spaces of the university:

Sectorial acceleration

Own or shared acceleration programs.

The acceleration process allows the startups to quickly validate their business model, get access to a larger customer segment, improve their brand positioning, and discover new markets.

The UPC positions itself as a leader in designing and coordinating acceleration programs, like for example: