Due to its innovation
and technological capacity, INOV occupies the position of
an interface structure between knowledge-generation institutions
and industrial entities, boosting the interactions and synergies
between the various actors, targeting its activity in the
strategic areas corresponding to the key competences of
the organisation (telecommunications; monitoring, navigation
and control; information and electronic technologies). In
accordance to this position, INOV, being a private nonprofit
technological infrastructure, mostly promotes and commercialises
the development abilities and know-how in the technologically
advanced areas and the capacity for integration of different
technologies in an innovative way.
To perform efficiently and productively these tasks, INOV
accompanies its corporate customers in the identification
of new projects, providing a full-scale support –
at design, project management, development, integration
and tests, training and technical assistance/maintenance
during investigations – in order to guarantee that
all the stages of the innovation process are assured since
the definition.
The mission INOV
can be resumed to the integration and synergy process based
on cooperation between the strategic partners representing
the offer (knowledge-generation institutions) and the demand
(industrial entities), so that the technology transfer is
carried out on the basis of just-in-time philosophy.
Occupying the intermediary position between the University,
other centres of knowledge and the Industry, INOV has among
its privileged partners universities; polytechnic and R&D
institutes (autonomous and business-related); specialised
national and international technology providers; institutions
defining policy in the area of technology; "think tanks"
and innovation associations; entities for innovation promotion
and support (including innovation incubators and seed/risk
capital providers); national and international companies
of different scale (from micro-businesses to large corporations).
The following figure illustrates in a synthetic form the
INOV action model.
