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26/06/2015
A Delegation From Porto Alegre Visits the Barcelona Synchrotron Park
A delegation from Porto Alegre, Brazil, came especially to Barcelona during two days to know about science and technology parks and their role in the economic development.

11 people from administration, research and corporate worlds spent June 23 discovering the ALBA synchrotron and UAB university territory and its three parks: PTV, PRUAB and Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP).

Together, these three parks cover the entire value chain that aims at transforming basic research into economic growth through technology transfer, new companies incubation and support etc. in a dense business environment made of more than 10,000 companies within a 5 km radius of ALBA.

The delegation took advantage of the visit paid to BSP to discover both the ALBA synchrotron and the ASCAMM-EURECAT technology center that hosts the headquarters of EURECAT, the result of the merger of the six Catalan technology centers that have been in place heretofore.

Image: Porto Alegre

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