URL OFFICE FOR THE TRANSFER OF RESEARCH RESULTS (OTRI)

The Ramon Llull University has an Office for the Transfer of Research Results (OTRI), currently divided into four sections:

Sarrià Chemical Institute IQS: PEINUSA
For more than forty years the IQS as an entity has been working in continual cooperation with companies and industries to which it applies its knowledge to the solution of specific real problems that arise, innovating in procedures and technologies. PEINUSA is the company that channels the work and studies made by the IQS towards companies by offering services to industry, in the field of chemicals, biotechnology, materials and microbiology. It also offers services to companies, the result of an experience acquired with the Masters course in Industrial Company Management.



La Salle Technology Transfer
Over more than one hundred years dedicated to providing training, La Salle has acquired a slid knowledge base from its teaching activities (degree courses, masters and doctorates in engineering, architecture and management), research activities and activities linked to the corporate world. This experience led to the creation ten years ago of La Salle Technology Transfer, the aim of which is to transfer technological know-how generated at the university to companies. This project is very closely linked to the La Salle Technological and Corporate Innovation Park, which provides the university with a clear, close-up and wide view of the corporate world.

As a result of this decade of activity, at La Salle Technology Transfer we have progressively increased our areas of expertise. We currently have more than ten fields of technological action with more than one hundred professionals from different backgrounds. This structure provides the flexible, multidisciplinary character that has enabled us to consolidate projects in outstanding companies in the sector.

The services we offer to companies are based upon innovation, making it possible to come up with new products and services, using both emerging and well-consolidated technologies. Needless to say, we are aware of the importance of time in the process of technological change in companies, and during this period, we have clearly shown our awareness of their needs in order correctly to manage innovation. Furthermore, to provide them with further information as they decide among different technological options in each project, we offer a state-of-the-art monitoring service to for the technologies, products and services that can affect their business.

In sum, the innovative, multidisciplinary and flexible scenario in which we are moving allows us to become their strategic ally in technology and training. Thus, La Salle Technology Transfer can link up with companies to become two closely-related partners in the mid or long term to move forward together to achieve a common goal - innovation.



Blanquerna Tecnologia i Serveis
Blanquerna Tecnologia i Serveis S.L. is a services company that combines research, innovation and professional training, all elements inherent to university teaching, with the practical application of this knowledge. The following services are provided: Biomechanics laboratory, a service offering advice and psychological help, advice and psychopedagogical integration to students, a university books and reviews publishing service, and a service for producing and disseminating audiovisual works. The following services are provided:

Advice and psychological help to students
Our reasons for offering this service are in part because we want to offer more services to Blanquerna Foundation students and, indeed to all students of the Ramon Llull University during the time they study with us, but partly also to provide an opportunity for the professional development of both teaching staff and recent graduates from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.
The advice and psychological help service provides guidance and support to students throughout their time at university, and also to teaching and non-teaching staff faced with needs that may arise throughout their personal and emotional development. They are offered guidance and psychological support which allow them a greater awareness of possible problems, facing up to these and resolving them in terms of their personal development and mental well-being. This could include their personal well-being or as part of a relationship, with help being provided by a team of professionals qualified in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.

Advice and psychopedagogical integration service
This service is available to schools and families and aims to contribute to improving educational processes through advice and, if necessary, action in the face of difficult situations that often emerge in the development of children and young people.

This service offers advice, analysis, assessment and design of proposals to optimise aspects in teaching - learning processes, such as attention to diversity, teaching to learn, specific teaching strategies, and so on. In addition it offers psychopedagogical assessment and, if necessary, individual or group-based support in situations that require specific methods, such as understanding difficulties, the personal conditions of disabled persons, different levels of performance, or problems in specific areas and contents.

University books and reviews publishing service
This service has been set up to allow the dissemination of scientific and university works through publishing books and reviews. It will also facilitate relations between students of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and the world of work through the release of publications for general use.

Service for the production and dissemination of audiovisual works
This service enables the creation and production of audiovisual products, and involves the drafting, management and design of scripts for television, video, radio and multimedia.

Biomechanics laboratory
This service aims to respond to society's needs in the healthcare, work and legal areas.
1) In the healthcare area, objective biomechanical assessments are made to help in medical diagnoses and follow-up on the rehabilitation process.
2) In the work-related area, objective data are provided to assist in assessing and preventing muscular-skeletal risks in different tasks, and optimising working conditions through a comparative study of different working methods based on variations in posture, gesture and ergonomics.
3) In the legal area, different legal bodies are afforded the possibility to make objective assessments of the after-effects on the locomotor apparatus.



Pere Tarrés Social Projects (in catalan)
The Social Projects unit has been designed as a centre for the transfer of knowledge and social action. As such, it brings together the tradition and prestige of the ICESB in the field of research and the renowned experience of the Pere Tarrés Foundation in social action.

Social Projects considers that innovation, understood as the interaction between social needs, technologies and markets, is the key instrument for improving quality of life for individuals. In this connection, Social Projects carries out the following strategic lines of action: research into new social needs resulting from the rapid changes in society, personalised advice on organisational change, responding to the needs for innovation in the incorporation and management of the ICT, and the promotion and management of social action projects and digital products, services and virtual environments in the field of social research.