A special purpose vehicle of the University – fast track of cooperation

The structure of the university and legal conditions often become a barrier to an efficient and flexible approach to cooperation with the socio-economic environment, in particular with business. Often, scientists resign from undertaking scientific and project cooperation due to the excess administrative activity associated with it. One of the tools that eliminates these problems is the University's special purpose vehicle. Operating as a classic company, it combines the needs of the market with the specificity of the University's activities, in an agile manner and adapted to the realities of the market

The scope of operation of the special purpose vehicle is wide and open to reported needs. Concentrating on commercialisation of research results, development works and technologies, as well as transfer of knowledge from the University to the economy, in order to build cooperation between the spheres of science and business, are the main areas of activity of SPIN-US, a special purpose vehicle of the University of Silesia. This unit, through cooperation with researchers, brokers and business representatives initiates implementation of innovative solutions. It operates also in the field of incubation and implementation of ideas, which results in introduction of innovative products, services and solutions to the market.