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Yearly Archives: 2016

Highlights International Year of Light 2015. There were several highlights from the closing ceremony held in Mexico on the 4-6th February of this year, including: Optics and Photonics – Optics and Photonics have a great impact on quality of life on a global scale. The International year of light was a global […]

Highlights International Year of Light 2015

26/02/2016 in Industry by Gunnar Thorsén

“Graphene is going to change the world—or so we’ve been told”– Phys.org What is graphene? Graphene is a brand new material first isolated by scientists in 2004 formed by a single-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. It has high electron mobility and it is thought […]

Graphene

18/02/2016 in Technology Transfer / Technology Watch tagged Graphene advantages / Graphene applications / Graphene properties / Photonics applications by Ernesto Barrera

Open innovation in Photonics well expresses the need of cross-sectional technologies and a huge opportunity to speed up innovation processes and external collaboration. But specially for SMEs and start-ups there’s a lot to do to deal with ever-shorter cycles of innovation. Today we must improve our innovation processes and guidelines and practical […]

Open Innovation in photonics guidelines

20/01/2016 in Open Innovation tagged Henry Chesbrough / inside-out open innovation / Open Innovation / open innovation culture / Open innovation in Photonics / open innovation tools / Outside-in open innovation / Photonics by abraham

In recent years, many companies that were seeing their income and profits sink in red numbers, did what most successful executives do when faced with failure. They used it as an opportunity to find a path to success through innovation. Rather than give up, they were fuel an amazing comeback. […]

Open Innovation

18/01/2016 in Open Innovation tagged Henry Chesbrough / Open Innovation by abraham

Laura M. Lechuga received PhotonTransfer in her office and ICN2 facility Laura M. Lechuga is one of the most recognized researchers in biosensors and Surface Plasmon Resonance in the world and received PhotonTransfer at her lab in the ICN2 facility. This is what we learned. Besides her scientific distinguished career […]

Laura M. Lechuga received PhotonTransfer

15/01/2016 in Technology Transfer tagged Laura Lechuga / PhotonTransfer / research and innovation / SPR / Surface Plasmon Resonance / Technology Transfer by abraham