Services
Technology Offers
The Innovation Relay Centre is proactive in the promotion of new and innovative technologies and can help you locate potential partners throughout Europe for licensing and/or manufacturing agreements. The IRC can assist you create a technology profile in English, choosing the right technology keywords and documenting the innovative aspects and main advantages of your innovative product or service.
Technology Requests
The IRC can also assist you to identify the technology solutions for your business. Through its network, the IRC can submit details of your technology needs to the 68 IRCs across Europe. In this way your disseminated technology profile will enable interested businesses or R&D centres in Europe contact you and supply you with new technologies and ideas pertinent to your particular requirements.
Thematic Groups
IRCs in regions that have strengths in a particular technological field such as biotechnology, environmental technology or wood technology form Special Interest Groups.
These provide platforms for highly targeted joint activities such as brokerage events or inter-company visits. Their in-depth understanding of the sectors concerned helps to streamline technology transfer.
Bringing together IRCs with shared technical expertise, the Special Interest Groups build bridges between European regions which are active in common and/or complementary industrial or technological sectors. IRC Malta is particularly active in:
- Environment Technology
- Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
- Fish Technology
Technology Transfer Days
A variety of selectoral brokerage events organised by other IRCs to promote the activities to companies and organisations to regional, national or European level. Participants have one-to-one meetings with potential technology partners.
Workshops and Seminars
Regular information and training sessions for Maltese companies on innovation, TT and relevance to enhanced business competitivity.
Subscribers to Malta's IRC Services - Register as a user and contact us for one to one support with:
- Technology Search
- Newsletter / Publication mailing list
- Notification of overseas sectoral events
- Notification of workshop and TT Days
- Assistance in participating in TT Events
- Free enquiry and library service
- Company visits by IRC Staff
- Identification of potential sources of new technology/ies
- Assistance in marketing of new technologies