TEC
Will Open Technology Park in Liberia
(InfoWeb Press) This past 4th of December an
agreement was signed for cooperation in the
establishment of a technological park,
“Solarium”, for the Technological Institute
of Costa Rica (TEC). The new installations
will develop research, product and service
innovation in the industry, hand in hand
with training, knowledge generation and
company incubation.
This project is part of the plans that of
TEC to form a network of technological
parks; aside from Solarium another one in
Cartago is being developed, that will be on
TEC premises. The initiative is the fruit of
the joint work by TEC, Solarium Group and
the National Program for Competitiveness and
Regulations Improvement (Pronacomer).
The technological park has as a main
objective the focus of becoming a catalyst
for the adequate incorporation of new local
and regional knowledge from universities and
research centers, as a support to
industries, for the production of goods and
services of high aggregate value and offer
these to both national and foreign markets.
“The technological park will actively
participate in the construction of a more
sustainable cultura, in the humanistic sense
of science and technology under the service
of society, respectful to nature and other
cultures, that contributes effectively to
the economic Development, social equality
and environmental responsibility”, indicated
the engineer Giannina Ortiz, vice provost
for teaching of TEC.
It will contribute specifically to the
strengthening of the scientific,
technological and socio-economic national
and regional innovation production by
receiving, attracting, participating and
creating new companies that offer pertinent
innovation to the society from the
advancement thanks to knowledge.
Also, it will bring together regions of the
country to globalization in the fields of
science and technology, with a deep critical
sense with respect to the way to act and the
theme’s pertinence and spirit of
entrepreneurship and the strategic alliances
for mutual benefit. One of the principal
tasks will be to support the proximity and
work between University, Enterprise and
State.
The administration of this park will be
under the care of the Technological
Foundation (FUNDATEC) and will have an
infrastructure of 16500 square meters, where
seven investigation centers are already
contemplated: Biotechnology, Mecatronics,
Electronic Manufacturing, Technological
Management of Materials and Processes,
Renewable Energy; Water Quality and a
Company Incubation Center, that last one
that will be working as a common space for
all centers, at an approximate cost of $25
million.
At the same time, the Institute of
Telecommunications and Information
Technology of Costa Rica is being
contemplated, that will have various
laboratorios: Investigation and Software
Experimentation, Computer Networks, Signal
and Image Processing and Analysis,
Investigation in Microelectronics and High
End Computing; for a total investment in
equipment greater than $4,525,000.
Each center will distribute its resources in
accordance to needs of every discipline
presented to be competitive in the market,
for example, the Biotechnological Research
Center will spread its efforts in the areas
of Biocontrollers, Environmental Biology,
Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Molecular
Biology, Bioprocesses and Bioproducts, added
to the total investment of $10000, including
other minor things.
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