Knowledge and technology transfer

The Louvain Innovation Network (LIN), established by UCLouvain, assembles six university partners in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.

All of them aim to support and equip leaders of innovative and entrepreneurial projects in order to create new businesses. While highlighting university and partner resources, LIN provides greater publicity in a high-density space for available offers: training, coaching, funding sources, co-working spaces, offices and services.

The LTTO was officially created in 2011 to meet the challenges of research development and knowledge transfer.

A spin-off is a company born of a transfer of knowledge from the university to civil society, and thus also of the university’s mission to serve society. UCL, via the Louvain Technology Transfer Office, has contributed to the start-up of 79 spin-offs since 1986, of which 67 are still in business.