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. The Centre develops student innovation and entrepreneurial capacity, promotes knowledge transfer processes, offers services to entrepreneurs and scientific institutions, and actively involves in local and international innovation ecosystems.
The goal of the Centre activities is to ensure implementation of the RTU strategy and sustainable valorisation goals and growth by promoting scientific activities and the involvement of academic staff and students in innovation and knowledge transfer processes, as well as by developing cooperation with industry and scientific institutions.
Contacts:
Head of the Science and Innovation Center Liene Briede
6 Kipsalas Street, Riga
To develop innovative thinking of students, creative and entrepreneurial skills, the Design Factory – part of the Design Factory Global Network has been operating at RTU since 2016. It has an open-type workshop «theLAB».
A team that manages to effectively create innovative high added value products by combining powerful intellectual and technical resources.
Implements local and international education, business support, research and networking programmes, including activities of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.