<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Marc Torrens, PhD &#187; entrepreneurship</title>
	<atom:link href="http://marctorrens.net/category/entrepreneurship/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://marctorrens.net</link>
	<description>Random Thoughts on My Context</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:42 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='marctorrens.net' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/44555714b52715fe712c9e103f8fffaf?s=96&#038;d=http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Marc Torrens, PhD &#187; entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://marctorrens.net</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://marctorrens.net/osd.xml" title="Marc Torrens, PhD" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://marctorrens.net/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>10 years ago, we were too ahead of the market&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://marctorrens.net/2009/06/05/10-years-ago-we-were-way-too-ahead-of-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://marctorrens.net/2009/06/05/10-years-ago-we-were-way-too-ahead-of-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology and internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marctorrens.net/?p=521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Patrick Hertzog just sent me this interesting post. This is about WorldMate launching an iPhone application for travellers. The application (also available in all other popular mobile platforms) will basically accompany and assist you during the whole journey experience: checking the travel plan, receiving flight alerts, lookup for flight status, get maps and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=521&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friend <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-hertzog/0/85/110">Patrick Hertzog</a> just sent me this <a target="_blank" href="http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/04/worldmate-iphone/">interesting post</a>. This is about <a target="_blank" href="http://worldmate.com/">WorldMate</a> launching an iPhone application for travellers. The application (also available in all other popular mobile platforms) will basically accompany and assist you during the whole journey experience: checking the travel plan, receiving flight alerts, lookup for flight status, get maps and directions, search for hotels, look for weather forecasts, and anything else you think may be useful to have at hand when travelling. The application is well designed and looks robust. This is cool because travel has been one of the most promising areas on the Internet, and especially on the mobile Internet.</p>
<p>Back in 1999, a group of crazy scientists and entrepreneurs (<a target="_blank" href="http://liawww.epfl.ch/~faltings/">Prof. Boi Faltings</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://hci.epfl.ch/members/pearl/">Dr. Pearl Pu</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfrei">Dr. Christian Frei</a>, Andreas Güenthard and myself) were creating very similar software for business travellers on mobile platforms. We founded Iconomic Systems and were developing a software to plan business trips intelligently and then offering travel support on the road with a PDA. I guess we were ahead of the market&#8230; this was 10 years ago. Anyway, we had tons of fun, we learnt a lot, and on top of that we made money! Here you have a taste of what we built a decade ago!</p>
<p><a href="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/11.gif"><img src="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/11.gif?w=300&#038;h=175" alt="realityPC1" title="realityPC1" width="300" height="175" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-529" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2.gif"><img src="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2.gif?w=300&#038;h=175" alt="reality2" title="reality2" width="300" height="175" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-530" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1.gif"><img src="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1.gif?w=184&#038;h=300" alt="reality1" title="reality1" width="184" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-525" /></a><br />
<a href="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/5.gif"><img src="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/5.gif?w=184&#038;h=300" alt="reality5" title="reality5" width="184" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-531" /></a></p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/torrens.wordpress.com/521/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/torrens.wordpress.com/521/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=521&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://marctorrens.net/2009/06/05/10-years-ago-we-were-way-too-ahead-of-the-market/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/db7a2babb4615d3ab313f98d1d465857?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">torrens</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/11.gif?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">realityPC1</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2.gif?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">reality2</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1.gif?w=184" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">reality1</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/5.gif?w=184" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">reality5</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Seminari: &#8220;Sistemas y experiencias practicas de transferencia de conocimiento desde la investigación científica&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://marctorrens.net/2009/05/29/seminari-sistemas-y-experiencias-practicas-de-transferencia-de-conocimiento-desde-la-investigacion-cientifica/</link>
		<comments>http://marctorrens.net/2009/05/29/seminari-sistemas-y-experiencias-practicas-de-transferencia-de-conocimiento-desde-la-investigacion-cientifica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marctorrens.net/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahir vaig participar a un seminari força interessant sobre la transferència de coneixement i tecnologia de les institucions de recerca cap a les empreses privades, organitzat per l&#8217;ICMAB (Institut de Ciències Materials de Barcelona) del CSIC. La transferència de coneixaments i tecnologia dels investigadors cap al sector industrial privat un tema cabdal per al nostre [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=428&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='opaque' data='http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?id=1505543&#038;doc=str-mt-uab-knowledgetransfer-090527-090529045422-phpapp02' width='450' height='369'><param name='movie' value='http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?id=1505543&#038;doc=str-mt-uab-knowledgetransfer-090527-090529045422-phpapp02' /><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' /></object></p>
<p>Ahir vaig participar a un <a href="http://www.icmab.csic.es/icmab/ca/node/965">seminari</a> força interessant sobre la transferència de coneixement i tecnologia de les institucions de recerca cap a les empreses privades, organitzat per l&#8217;ICMAB (Institut de Ciències Materials de Barcelona) del CSIC.</p>
<p>La transferència de coneixaments i tecnologia dels investigadors cap al sector industrial privat un tema cabdal per al nostre desenvolupament econòmic i superar aixi la gran dependència que tenim amb sectors de tan poc valor afegit com la construcció, el turisme, o la producció de béns bàsics. Un tema clau per sortir d&#8217;aquesta crisi econòmica i reinventar-nos una mica el model, si podem.</p>
<p>La jornada va començar amb la presentació de Rickard Bucksch del <a href="http://parc.uab.es/">Parc de Recerca de la UAB</a> sobre les activitats que realitzen contruint sinergies entre centres d&#8217;investigaciói el món empresarial, especialment en la promoció de l&#8217;esprit emprenedor entre científics. El PRUAB és una oficina de transferència de tecnologia i compta amb un gran equip. Seguidament, el Professor Alberto Nieto va explicar la seva experiència al capdavant de Pando, el parc tecnòlogic de la Universidad de Uruguay. Una persona molt interessant des de molts punts de vista. Per exemple, va viure a Barcelona fa 20 anys i parla un català excel·lent! Eva Baltar i Lucía Colmenero que venien de Santiago de Compostela van explicar una oficina de transferència de tecnologia que estan começant. Bona iniciativa, poc a poc anirem progressant. Després, vem presentar 3 casos pràctics, jo sobre <a href="http://www.strands.com">Strands</a> (<a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/">IIIA-CSIC</a>),  Josep Lladós sobre ICAR (<a href="http://www.cvc.uab.es/">CVC</a>) i Ventura Guamis de <a href="http://ab-biotics.com">AB-Biotics</a>.</p>
<p>Al final de les presentacions vem participar tots en una taula rodona. Des del meu punt de vista falta cultura emprenedora dins les universtitats. Això només es pot canviar si es fomenta l&#8217;esprit emprenedor en els estudiants. També hi ha una mancança d&#8217;empreses de capital risc que realment entenguin el negoci del capital risc i que estiguin ben connectades localment. Hi ha una tendència (comprensible) dels investigadors a pensar: &#8220;tinc una bona idea, busco finançament públic, contracto un gestor que munti la empresa, i així jo puc continuar investigant&#8221;. A mí em sembla que és un enfocament equivocat i que aixi es molt dificil emprendre amb èxit. Per emprendre cal assumir riscos, econòmics, professionals i personals. El millor emprenedor serà sempre l&#8217;innovador o científic al darrera de la idea. Contractar un gestor perquè executi la genial idea que hem tingut no serveix en la majoria de casos. Si la idea ve d&#8217;investigadors sèniors que no volen asumir el rol d&#8217;emprenedor, el meu consell es que creïn un equip del grup d&#8217;ivnestigadors i que s&#8217;animin a sortir del laboratori i fer el pas. L&#8217;empresa serà dels emprenedors, i l&#8217;originador de la idea que es quedi al laboratori hauria de tenir un participació més o menys important però quedar-se al marge de l&#8217;activitat empresarial. Aquest no és un tema trivial&#8230; i aquestes son només algunes impressions informals i personals, res més.</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/torrens.wordpress.com/428/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/torrens.wordpress.com/428/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=428&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://marctorrens.net/2009/05/29/seminari-sistemas-y-experiencias-practicas-de-transferencia-de-conocimiento-desde-la-investigacion-cientifica/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/db7a2babb4615d3ab313f98d1d465857?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">torrens</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jornada &#8220;Els Errors dels Emprenedors&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://marctorrens.net/2009/04/02/jornada-els-errors-dels-emprenedors/</link>
		<comments>http://marctorrens.net/2009/04/02/jornada-els-errors-dels-emprenedors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://torrens.wordpress.com/?p=282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I participated in the Jornada &#8220;Els Errors dels Emprenedors&#8221; organized by the Parc de Recerca de la UAB which consisted in few talks about entrepreneurship and its most common mistakes. The session started with an introduction and a warm welcome by Júlia Palma from the Parc de Recerca de la UAB. Then, Prof. Ramón [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=282&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='opaque' data='http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?id=1238376&#038;doc=str-mt-uab-withoutvideo-090325-090402061542-phpapp02' width='450' height='369'><param name='movie' value='http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?id=1238376&#038;doc=str-mt-uab-withoutvideo-090325-090402061542-phpapp02' /><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' /></object></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-288" title="p4010001" src="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/p4010001.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="p4010001" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>Yesterday, I participated in the <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/udt/en/blog/dsierra/2009/jornada-errors-del-emprenedors">Jornada &#8220;Els Errors dels Emprenedors&#8221;</a> organized by the <a href="http://parc.uab.es/">Parc de Recerca de la UAB</a> which consisted in few talks about entrepreneurship and its most common mistakes.</p>
<p>The session started with an introduction and a warm welcome by Júlia Palma from the Parc de Recerca de la UAB. Then, <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/en/individual/ramon-lopez-mantaras">Prof. Ramón Lopez de Mántaras</a> gave an introduction about the <a href="http://www.iiia.csic.es/en">Artificial Intelligence Research Insititue</a> and its main activities. It is interesting to see all the different topics they are covering from AI. Basically they are focusing in three main areas: 1) Learning Systems, 2) Multiagent Systems, and 3) Reasoning and Logic.</p>
<p>The second speaker was Enrique Puig from <a href="http://www.secot.org/">SECOD</a>. He gave a very interesting talk about the common mistakes young companies easily do. I am very happy to have learnt about SECOD which is an organization of senior and retired professionals that want to be active by helping early stage companies. This group of more than 100 senior professionals are volunteers to give all kind of advices and solutions for free, just for the fun to be involved with the industry and the business world. They are high level profiles, usually executives and managers from all kind of sectors and type of companies. Very interesting concept!</p>
<p>I was talking about Strands (a spin-off out of IIIA) and the experience of starting a company from our perspective. You can take a look at the slides above.</p>
<p>Finally, Joaquim Querol from <a href="http://www.endornanotech.com/">Endor Nanotechnologies</a> explained their experience in founding a company about nanotechnology. It is motivating to see other people creating successful and interesting companies in Barcelona, and nanotechnology is so cool!</p>
<br />  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/torrens.wordpress.com/282/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/torrens.wordpress.com/282/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marctorrens.net&amp;blog=5996371&amp;post=282&amp;subd=torrens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://marctorrens.net/2009/04/02/jornada-els-errors-dels-emprenedors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/db7a2babb4615d3ab313f98d1d465857?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">torrens</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://torrens.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/p4010001.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">p4010001</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>