Ivana Vuka

Ivana Vuka is a Senior Innovation Manager at RISE – Research and Innovation Services, specialising in knowledge valorisation, intellectual asset management, and innovation capacity building. She coordinates European IP Helpdesk activities for Widening countries and supports the development of exploitation and intellectual asset strategies within collaborative research and innovation projects. Ivana also leads the Impact Licensing Initiative TT4I in Croatia and coordinates network activities across Widening countries. Previously, she headed the Technology Transfer Office at the University of Split, where she led intellectual property, commercialisation, and innovation support activities. Over the past decade, she has contributed to numerous European and national projects, providing advisory services, developing innovation programmes and policy frameworks, and delivering training in technology transfer, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship.