📢 Awards for Innovation, Inventorship, and Patents: What Is Behind Them?
📡 For the third consecutive year, I am deeply honored to have received recognition for
#BestInnovation in
#TechnologyTransfer by
@CEDIAec (Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia).
💡 Behind this award, there is much more than a patent, a certificate, or a public recognition. There is a strong motivation to address scientific and societal needs through research-based innovation. In our case, this means developing technologies that may contribute to better biomarkers, improved regenerative strategies, and new ways to understand and repair damaged tissues.
🫴 Innovation is not easy, especially in contexts where the ecosystem is still growing. In
#Ecuador, we are only beginning to consolidate a stronger environment for science, intellectual property, technology transfer, and university-industry collaboration. In this path, the role of CEDIA has been essential in helping build bridges, capacities, and opportunities for researchers and institutions.
🧠 One of the most important lessons I take from this process is that a patent is not the final goal. A patent is a tool. It helps us valorize research efforts, reduce uncertainty, understand where value can be created, and make better decisions: what to protect, what to publish, what to license, what to abandon, where to invest, and with whom to collaborate.
🎖️ A strong intellectual property strategy is not measured only by the number of patents obtained, but by the quality of the decisions those patents help us make and by the impact they can generate when connected to real-world needs.
🧭 I am amazed and honored to share this achievement with outstanding scientists and colleagues. Special congratulations to
@ValeriaOchoaHe2 for receiving the award for Best Innovation for Sustainability, and to @JuanCarlosCollantes, PhD for being recognized as this year’s Best Inventor.
🚀 My sincere thanks to María Laura Fuenzalida and
@Alejo_bermeo , who lead the Universidad San Francisco de Quito Technology Transfer Office, and to the leadership of the
@USFQ_Ecuador for supporting a vision where scientific discoveries can move beyond the laboratory and become solutions for society.
☄️ Inventions are key to transferring the value of scientific discoveries into everyday solutions. They generate motivation, new ventures, institutional growth, and a culture where science is not only published, but also transformed into impact.
Grateful for this recognition and even more motivated to keep building science, innovation, and technology transfer from Ecuador to the world. 🚀
@DatoCienciaEC @edicionmedEC @UsfqB