Valorization is one of the areas of RTU activity laid out in the university strategy. It implies commercialization of the products developed at the university and promotion, patenting, and launch of results of applied research.
Intellectual property resulting from research at Riga Technical University (RTU) is offered for licencing or acquisition in accordance with Article 39.5 of the Law on Scientific Activity.
RTU UseScience is an online scientific service, equipment, and program register, which ensures RTU employees, students, representatives of enterprises and other institutions, as well as public users with the information regarding the research equipment, software, and the offered services, which are available at the RTU and UseScience partner institutions.
Competencies of the team of highly qualified experts of the Science and Innovation Centre meet an excellent technical support – the best-equipped prototyping workshop in the Baltic States and supercomputing resources.
HPC allows solving complicated computing tasks in a short period of time. Computing is carried out on high-performance computers (shared memory mainframe, computing cluster) made from many parallel processors. Modern HPC is an essential element of any contemporary university, it is used for various purposes ranging from solving engineering tasks in Mathworks MATLAB environment to Big Data analysis and machine learning.
Using the human resources, expertise and material resources available at the University, RTU provides various types of services – from consulting to launching the manufacturing of new products.
RTU provides an environment that encourages technology transfer and development of innovations, which promotes establishment of new tech companies and new product design.