The RTTP status recognises the work, knowledge and experience of technology transfer professionals. This certification was awarded following an application submitted by the INESC TEC researcher, and evaluated by a diversified panel of three to six senior professionals in this area, members of the ATTP founding associations experienced in the evaluation of applications from all over the world.

Catarina Maia now joins a group of world renowned experts, with about 400 certified professionals, which includes Clara Amaro, of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, who was until now the only Portuguese on this list. Other professionals include Lita Nelsen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tony Hickson of the Imperial Innovations (Imperial College London), or Tara Branstad of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (see full list here).

The ATTP is an international organisation featuring members from nine associations of technology transfer professionals – Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP-Proton), Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia (KCA) and PraxisUnico (founding associations) and, more recently, Swedish Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer Support (SNITTS), Southern Africa Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA), TechnologieAllianz, University Network for Innovation and Technology Transfer (UNITT), and Üniversite Sanayi İşbirliği Merkezleri Platformu (ÜSİMP).

It is important to stress that Catarina Maia has been recently invited to integrate the ASTP-Proton.

The INESC TEC researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated only with INESC TEC.

INESC TEC, May 2016