We promote biomedical research and the transfer of its results to society
The ISABIAL Foundation’s goals include promoting biomedical research and transferring the results to society in the form of advancements in knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases that impact public health.
The Innovation Area takes on the tasks of managing and valuing innovation and knowledge, establishing mechanisms to transfer activity results to the productive sector or any other social sector benefiting from scientific-technical progress.
The area’s mission is to foster, enhance, and spread an innovative culture by providing a suitable framework for creating multi-institutional and interdisciplinary teams. These teams collaborate on the joint design of technologies to solve unresolved clinical problems. Thus, it channels innovative ideas or proposals from their inception and throughout the innovation or transfer process until their potential protection and commercial exploitation. In this way, we ensure these ideas can become products or services that provide value to the Valencian Community Health System and its society.
What do we do?
Our objectives are:
- To promote the generation of innovative ideas and launch various initiatives that facilitate their development.
- To manage the protection of knowledge generated as a result of the research carried out at the Institute
- Promover y gestionar la trasferencia de los resultados generados en la Fundación.
- To promote and advise on the formalization of alliances with entities and companies that stimulate a sustainable healthcare R+D+I system model.
- To foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
If you have an original idea or an innovative project that could add value to patients and/or professionals within the Alicante Health Department, this is your place. We know that trying to change things can be complex. That is why the ISABIAL Innovation Area wants to accompany you on this journey and put all our knowledge and enthusiasm at your disposal.
Contact the ISABIAL Innovation Area or fill out our idea submission form.
Frequently Asked Questions
Knowledge, often generated through public funding, is a resource that can contribute to economic growth if managed correctly, ensuring it feeds back into research and reaches society through industrial or commercial exploitation. If scientific results are not protected, they lose commercial value and may no longer interest companies, as they will only invest in development if they can recover the resources spent. Requesting protection can grant us exploitation rights and authorship recognition.
Intellectual Property: provides recognition of authorship. Although this right arises from the simple act of creation without the need for registration, it can be filed with the Intellectual Property Registry for evidentiary purposes (e.g., computer programs).
Industrial Property: grants exploitation rights in the market for a limited time and a defined territory (e.g., patents, utility models, trademarks, etc.).
Trade Secret: a strategy of keeping knowledge secret so that only a small number of people have access to it, thereby gaining an advantage over “competitors.” This can be a complementary strategy to a patent or used when the subject matter is not protectable.
For an invention to be patentable, it must meet a series of requirements:Para que una invención pueda patentarse debe cumplir una serie de requisitos:
- Novelty: the invention must not be part of the “state of the art,” meaning it must not have been made available to the public, in Spain or abroad, through written or oral description, use, or any other means before filing the patent application.
- Inventive Step: the invention must represent a contribution to the state of the art that an expert in the field could not achieve on their own.
- Industrial Application: the object of the invention must be capable of industrial exploitation.
- Description of the Invention: the invention must be drafted in such a way that it can be carried out using the information contained in the descriptive report.
No, but it must be done in the proper order. First, the patent application must be filed at a patent office, and only then can it be published. This ensures compliance with the novelty requirement; once the application is submitted, the invention’s content can be published or disclosed in any medium.
- Recognition as authors of the invention.
- Public disclosure of results.
- Participation in the benefits obtained from its exploitation.
Contact
Carla Ordiñana 965 913 926
Olga Jornet
innovacion@isabial.es
Location
Ground Floor Modular offices (Opposite the IT department)
Dr. Balmis General University Hospital
Avda. Pintor Baeza, 12, 03010 Alicante
Hours
Monday to Friday
9:00 AM to 2:30 PM
