La Salle Technova Barcelona

La Salle Technova Barcelona Highlights

La Salle Technova Innovation Park (Technova Barcelona) is the innovation park at La Salle–URL,

(www.technovabarcelona.org). Its mission is to provide a high-quality environment for the

development of new technology-based companies and foster technological innovation in SMEs in

the Catalan region. It offers an end-to-end service to new and existent organizations interested in

growing through technological innovation.

Technova connects the R&D capabilities of La Salle–URL with the demands and needs of

organizations in Catalonia. Technova Barcelona coordinates a network of business angels’

investors to provide additional funding sources to the start-ups of the park.

Technova Barcelona incubates over 25 startups that are developing new products and services,

most of them with a strong technological innovation component. Over 50 established companies

in the region use Technova Barcelona innovation and acceleration services in a regular basis.

Technova offers entrepreneurship advice, mentoring programs, innovation consulting, technology

valuation, innovation matchmaking, and technology valuation and transfer to their network of

associated companies and external clients. Furthermore, its extended network includes other

innovation and science parks, start-ups accelerators, a network of individual and corporate

investors, and institutional stakeholders in the promotion of the innovation ecosystem of the

region.

Technova Barcelona is member of the IASP (International Association of Science Parks). Within

this network of more than 400 Science and Technology Parks, Technova Barcelona provides a

challenge call service for innovator companies of Catalonia. Technova calls can reach more than

5000 technological start-ups that can forward solutions to address the challenge. This service

allows Catalan companies to propose cutting-edge technological challenges that can be

transformed to a call to IASP members.

La Salle Technova Barcelona History

La Salle Technova Innovation Park was born in 2001 for developing the third function of the

university, taking advantage of the Education (Talent) and the Research (Technology) of La Salle

Campus Barcelona. In 2016, Technova won the Award as one of the Top 10 Accelerators in

Europe. In 2017, Technova received the Award of the best Business Angel Network by the

Spanish Association of Business Networks (AEBAN). Nowadays host the Presidency of the

International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (400 Parks in 80 countries).