Cooperation with practice
The transfer of acquired knowledge from the field of basic research into practice is ensured within the TBU in Zlín through the Technology Transfer Centre (TTC),
which was founded in 2008 as a specialized workplace for cooperation with the application sphere and the transfer of research and development (R&D) results, and which is integrated into the organizational structure of the University Institute of TBU in Zlín. Ensuring the industrial legal protection of R&D results and the implementation of the necessary steps leading to their commercialization is the subject of this specialized workplace at TBU. The development of TTC activities and services is in line with the needs of the region and regional partners and contributes to ensuring the functional transfer of the results of applied research activities into practice.
In addition, TTC is an important link between TBU and industrial practice thanks to specialized services in the field of industrial property protection, which it provides not only internally for TBU, but also for industrial entities – external partners or other interested parties, in case of providing consultations, processing research and assessments.
From 2010 to 31 December 2025, TTC TBU has concluded a total of 55 License Agreements, 14 Audio-visual Work Licenses, 54 Technology Transfer Agreements and supported 28 proof-of-concept projects.
The support of high-quality selection of R&D outputs with practical application was declared in 2025 by new directives of the CTT TBU in Zlín: Rector’s Directive No. 32/2025 “Internal Fund for the Support of Innovation Activities” and Rector’s Directive No. 33/2025 “Application and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Arising in Connection with the Creative Activities of TBU Employees and Students in Zlín”. Both directives were issued on 10 December 2025 with effect from 1 January 2026.
In 2025, TBU in Zlín via the Transfer Technology Centre participated in the 6th year of the TRANSFERA TECHNOLOGY DAY 2025 competition, which was organized by the Transfera.cz association.
3 technologies (UNI – CPS, FAI, FT) were nominated for the final round by TBU. Two technologies, namely; the technology “Efficient and ecological production of advanced conductive and non-toxic (bio)materials and composites based on polypyrrole” (UNI – CPS) and the technology “FLAPRIS – a smart helper not only in the event of flash floods” (FAI), received the Certificate “Finalist of TRANSFERA TECHNOLOGY DAY 2025”.
The technology “More friendly gelatine from chicken? New technology changes the rules of the game” won third place in this prestigious national competition Transfera Technology Day 2025.
TBU in Zlín, through CTT, participated in the competition for the INNOVATION OF THE YEAR 2025 Award which is announced regularly since 1996 by the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic.
The competition evaluates the highest quality innovative products of applicants based in the Czech Republic.
Two technologies from Tomas Bata University in Zlín advanced to the final of the Innovation Award 2025 and received HONORABLE RECOGNITION in the competition for the INNOVATION OF THE YEAR 2025 Award. These were the Educational Illustrated Book “Don’t Forget Your Feet” (HOST – Publishing House s.r.o., FMK) and the technology “A New Generation of Anti-Corrosion Pigments Multiplies the Protection of Metal Surfaces with an Emphasis on Their Ecological and Rational Economic Efficiency” (ROKOSPOL, a.s., UNI – CPS).