The past Wednesday 21 September took place a new day on science and innovation, organised by IQS together with the Beauty Cluster under the premise «Science and Innovation: Elements of Competitiveness in Cosmetic». In this event, attended more than 50 professionals of the sector to the installations of the University of Barcelona to share knowledges and discover new appearances on the influence of the science and the innovation in the industry of the cosmetic and perfumery.
The day inaugurated with the welcome institutional by part of the Dr. Salvador Borrós, General Director of IQS, and Iván Borrego, General Director of the Beauty Cluster.
Enric Bayó, Manager of Innovation and Model of Business, Unit of Business Strategy of Acció, headed the first conference of the day. It began defining the concept of innovation and commissioned to do a brief introduction related with how each company can implement it and incorporate it in his structure. Besides, it put of self-evident that, in front of a world and surroundings that finds in a continuous change and evolution, the innovation plays a transcendental paper in this capacity of adaptation that have to possess the companies not to remain backwards.
Next, the Dr. Pascual Square CSO of RNB, showed from the business perspective how a company that accumulates more than 30 years of route in the sector, faces up the changes and adapts to the sector. For them, the innovation applies so much in the optimisation and standardisation of formulas already established in the market, as in the incorporation of a new mark following the last tendencies in cosmetic.
The Dr. Santi Nonell, professor chair of IQS School of Engineering, exposed the advances that happens at present in the group of investigation of photochemical biological that leads on solar protection. The more remarkable and important innovation for his use in cosmetic would treat of the development of solar filters photoactivable with the light, that allow to adapt to the index of exposed radiation.
The Dr. Albert Jané CEO and Co-founder of Vytrus Biotech, a company of active based in the cells vegetal mother, winners of multiple prizes to international level, added to the business testimony and shared his experience with the rest of assistants. Vytrus Is a referent in the case of young and innovative company that involves so much by the development of new products, as by the respect and care of the environment and the corporate social responsibility.
Finally, the day came to an end with a round table, that was moderated by the Dr. Núria Vallmitjana, in the which participated Squared, Nonell and Jané, and took place a debate with several points related with what the previous speakers had exposed.