INNOVATION AND COMPANY

The Centers and technological innovation

The Technology Centers perform a twin role: first, they generate knowledge in terms of technological development; and second, they collaborate with the business sector in applying this knowledge appropriately for the purposes of innovation, acting by raising awareness, dissemination and training, carrying out R&D&I projects, and providing technological services of high added value. Thus the Centers act as agents that boost company productivity and competitiveness.

As a result of the loss of competitiveness in the European economy, the Lisbon Strategy set a spending goal of for R&D of 3% of GDP, and adopted new strategies and instruments for R&D&I to address this situation.

It is precisely in this sense that the Technology Centers can produce a difference, as they have demonstrated through their results that they are an extraordinarily efficient tool in producing technological changes and innovations. They help companies improve their productivity levels and their growth capacity in a strongly competitive global environment.