The Transfer Unit at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) is part of the ITEMAS platform (Platform for Innovation in Medical and Healthcare Technologies), promoted by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III to facilitate the transmission and transfer of scientific, medical and healthcare knowledge in the field of medical and healthcare technology innovation. It is also part of the ACCIÓ Technological Valuation Units, which are special units created by a group of entities within Catalan universities, hospital foundations and the main business schools that have the capacity to provide services to boost the creation of companies with a technological basis and for the protection and commercialization of technology to increase technology transfer between the academia, researchers and hospitals, and businesses.