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international project is „A pilot project on the transfer of technology
from university to industry” and is held as a collaboration between
The European Patent Office, the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office
and the University of Ljubljana.
The Ljubljana University Incubator (LUI) strives to create the best
possible business conditions for students in order to help them
realise their prospective business ideas. While introducing the
academic world to the economy, the incubator and its educational
programmes grew into an important crossroads, indicating new
research paths for researchers. Through its activities, the LUI
follows the goals of the University of Ljubljana, which consist in
stimulating other forms of knowledge transfer such as, for example,
the setting up of new detached spin-offs or other corporate bodies,
the establishing of which is based on implementation and use of
university rights regarding intellectual property.
LUI also organizes a series of workshops on „How to start a business”
which admit a limited number of participants in order to give a
platform with highly relevant information pertaining to setting
up a business. “Turn Your Idea into a Success Story” is a series
of workshops hosting various experts in entrepreneurship who help
young people develop their ideas and write business plans.
The Institute for Innovation and Development at the University of
Ljubljana (IRI UL) was established by the UL and ten technologically
advanced and successful Slovenian companies. The institute had
already set up and implemented projects in 2008, which are aimed
at securing an adequate environment for facilitating interdisciplinary
projects and the acquisition of relevant competences.
University of Ljubljana joins knowledge and technology together
with Slovenian industry and SMEs in many multidisciplinary Centres
of Excellence. In the old financial perspective of Structural
Funds the UL was the holder of 2 out of the 10 Research Centres
of Excellence (CO – Centri odlicnosti) in Slovenia. The Faculty of
Electrical Engineering is the holder of the Centre of Excellence for
Information and Communication Technologies and the Medical
Faculty is the holder of the Centre of Excellence for Biotechnology
and Pharmacy. In the new Structural Funds financial perspective
(2008-2013) University of Ljubljana cooperates in all 8 newly established
Networks of Excellence, in two of them as coordinator: Centre of
Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies and Centre of Excellence
for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control.
E) European projects are also of significant importance for
the development of the UL research activity and its increased
interconnection with the economy, as well as for market orientation
development and regional development. UL is very active in
international and European research, education and development
programs in many of them in partnership with companies and SMEs.
It has cooperated and still cooperates in 117 FP6 projects, in 77 FP7
projects and in many other research, development and educational
projects financed by European union.