VdA the only law firm attending the biggest Nanotechnology event in Europe

Fernando Resina da Silva, partner at VdA heading the IT practice was one of the guest speakers at IMEGINENANO 2013, the largest nanotechnology event at European level which took place in Bilbau, Spain on late April.

Attending the event were circa 1500 participants from 42 countries. The aim of the event that happens every two years is to join heads of research, decision makers in the industrial sector and academics from various areas in order to share knowledge and to foster the creation of partnerships for business development.

VdA is proud to have been present at the event through partner Fernando Resina da Silva, head of the IT practice of the firm who was invited by Phantoms Foundation. The lawyer approached the subject ‘Technology development and transfer in the nanotechnology field'. The abstract of the talk may be found here.

Seen as "the next industrial revolution", nanotechnology is a promising field due to the world of solutions it presents in a wealth of strands. Aware of how important are advances in this science and how crucial it is to safeguard rights and duties deriving from nanotechnologies' development, VdA VdA's multidisciplinary team of lawyers advises and follows up companies, researchers, entrepeneurs, universities and institutes so that research results may turn into an added value contributing for the social and economic development of human beings and their countries.