InTech - fundacja

Foundation supporting the Transfer of
Smart Technologies - INTECH

Mission

Supporting the transfer of research results from academic centres to the industry, particularly to small/medium enterprises developing high technologies
Promoting innovative solutions in the field of Smart Technologies (Smart-Tech)

Goals

Monitoring and trying to improve the current state of technology transfer in Poland
Initiating and stimulating a public debate on support for the technology-targeted research and transferring research results to the industry
Supporting pioneer transfers of research results in the field of Smart-Tech
Integrating (on national and European scale) the community of researchers and industrial partners dealing with Smart-Tech
Creating and supporting the Laboratory of Adaptronics

Activities

Writing and publishing reports on technology transfer (running an Internet forum)
Supporting, participating and coordinating various research projects in the field of Smart-Tech
Organizing Expert Courses in the field of Smart-Tech
Organizing conferences and meetings for promotion of Smart-Tech

Smart Technologies

Smart Technologies are understood here a fast-developing, interdisciplinary field of technology-targeted research, integrating the know-how of several disciplines (e.g. mechanics, electronics, informatics). Thanks to the synergy effect, the final Smart-Tech product is supposed to outperform standard products, not equipped with the Smart-Tech solutions. An example could be adaptive absorption of impact by landing gears, which adjust the stiffness of dampers to the anticipated (based on real-time measurement of sink speed) energy of impact during landing. This way the landing becomes as smooth as possible for given conditions.