Ton Guardiet is an example of company success and above all of “how to move from the knowledge generated from university and research to the market with real impact.” Expert in growing companies, Guardiet has been a completing his Industrial Doctorate at UIC Barcelona, together with the company PICVISA, with the aim of developing a methodology to identify the factors and strategies that most affect the success of acceleration and entrepreneurship programmes.

As a result of his study, the Industrial Doctorate methodology was applied in creating the Acceleralia startup, which a digital platform for corporate acceleration. “The good results have led to investors, institutional support, customers, suppliers and subsequently employees. With the same name as the Industrial Doctorate project, a company was created and is currently working in the metaverse with some twenty people from ten different countries,” Guardiet said as he explained how the Industrial Doctorate led him to create a company. “These good results are a great example of what the Industrial Doctorate Plan aims to achieve: transfer knowledge from the university and research to the market and make a real impact on society,” concluded the doctoral student.

About the Industrial Doctorate

The essential element in the industrial doctorate procedure is the research project of the company or institution where the doctoral student carries out their research training, in collaboration with a university or research centre, and which is the subject of a doctoral thesis. Industrial doctoral students become the bridge of knowledge transfer and contribute to closer relationships between the industrial world and universities and research centres.