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Feria Valencia and Ifa launches Idinova, the contest of research, development and innovation

26/01/2007

January 26, 2007

Feria Valencia and IFA (Institución Ferial Alicantina) jointly launch a new competition: Idinova, fair investigation, development and innovation, whose first edition will take place at the Feria Valencia on May 30 to June 1, 2007. Idinova was born from the merger of two existing calls, ProtoDesign and Intermolde, to unify and Alternatively, held in Valencia and Alicante.

Idinova aims to offer SMEs the solutions relating to research, development and innovation. They will be present companies offering products and services that contribute to develop new projects, improve the quality of production and minimize costs.

In order to increase the number of visitors, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, Idinova will be held in Valencia with the joint offer of trade fairs in cross-cutting nature: Laboralia (prevention, safety and occupational health); Ecofira (technologies and services of water, soil, air and waste) and Qualimetrics (quality, calibration, metrology and instrumentalization).

Idinova host software companies, material, highly specialised auxiliary industries, integrated design and engineering design, consultancy, technology centres and machinery.

Congress Inditec

The 4th International Congress of design, technology and product engineering, Inditec will be held simultaneously to Idinova. The objectives of the Congress are: dissemination of technical advances and their applications; promote a culture of relations between the players in the r & d and contribute to the improvement of the company.

The Scientific Committee is chaired by the Manager of the Ddi, Xenia Viladás, with the Vice-Presidencies of the Spanish Office of patents and trademarks and the Impiva. They are part of the same representatives of COTEC, the OHIM, of the universities in the Valencia region, Europe and Latin America, technological institutes and relevant personalities and associations to promote the design and innovation.

The joint call of Idinova and Inditec thus becomes an essential tool for the competitiveness of companies, to present the latest trends in materials and processes.