{"id":849,"date":"2025-12-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/?p=849"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:32:51","slug":"from-lab-to-market-how-dat-alierta-turns-university-science-into-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/from-lab-to-market-how-dat-alierta-turns-university-science-into-business\/","title":{"rendered":"From lab to market: how DAT Alierta turns university science into business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The true value of a technology park is not in its buildings, but in what happens inside them. The foundational vision of DAT Alierta is clear: to be an environment designed for \u00abtechnology transfer\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how does an idea travel from a university laboratory to become a market product? The answer lies in the physical integration of the University of Zaragoza (Unizar)<\/strong> into the district and the rise of Spin-offs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seedbed: I3A Spin-offs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A) acts as the quarry for Deep Tech<\/em> companies. We aren’t talking about simple apps, but technology based on years of science:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Dive medical:<\/strong> eye tracking and AI technology for visual medical diagnostics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Epic power converters:<\/strong> energy recovery systems, crucial for industrial efficiency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bit&Brain:<\/strong> pioneers in neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The journey of innovation at DAT Alierta<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    The district is designed to accelerate the lifecycle of these scientific companies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Birth (Unizar):<\/strong> the research team develops the intellectual property.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Incubation (CEEI):<\/strong> the new company installs itself in CEEI Aragon (inside DAT), receiving mentorship and business structure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Prototyping (ITA\/CIRCE):<\/strong> they collaborate with the district’s technology centers to scale their industrial prototypes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Market (Industry):<\/strong> they have direct access to partners like Siemens<\/strong> or Integra<\/strong> in the adjacent building to validate and sell their technology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Research at the highest level.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      To guarantee this flow, DAT Alierta has secured the presence of the most powerful R&D engines: CSIC<\/strong> (basic science), CIRCE<\/strong> (energy), and ITA<\/strong> (AI and robotics).The vision:<\/strong> at DAT Alierta, the physical proximity between a Unizar PhD student and a Siemens Innovation Director is not a coincidence; it is the strategy for Aragonese science to turn into GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The true value of a technology park is not in its buildings, but in what happens inside them. The foundational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datalierta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}