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The Ascamm Foundation will invest 40 million euros in r & d

21/04/2008

April 21, 2008

The Ascamm Foundation, Center of international reference in applied to various industries design and production technologies, will invest a total of 40 million euros in r & d, over the next four years, as set out in its Strategic Plan 2008-2011.

It's the most important investment provided for in the Ascamm Foundation in r & d, since its creation in 1987 and shows their clear will enhance and strengthen the activities related to research in the service of enterprises.

Only in the last financial year, from the technological centre of the Ascamm Foundation, based in the Parc Tecnològic del Vallès (Cerdanyola) and a founding member of Fedit (Spanish Federation of innovation and technology entities) and recognized by the Generalitat as accredited technology centrea hundred of r & d projects to various industrial sectors, with the participation of more than 200 companies, most of them small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been developed.

Investment accumulated over the years research has been of 19 million euros. Income recorded last year were 7.3 million euros.

Among its priority objectives the generate its own technology, together with companies in their environment, to its corresponding application in various sectors and productive areas.

Own technology

In its new Strategic Plan is to enhance the generation of its own technology, with the collaboration of companies, as a key element of business competitiveness.

In this sense, this strategy so far, has made it possible to achieve important results will be intensified over the next four years:

6 patents of its own (joint with Business 2)
12 new technology-based business products
3 technology-based companies: Neos Surgery and Hexascreen, oriented applications for the health sector and biotechnology, and Plastiasite, related to ICT applications.

Recently, the Ascamm Foundation, which is also a founding member of the Fundación OPTI (Observatory for Industrial Technology foresight) and of the Aserm (Spanish Association of Rapid Manufacturing), has patented a new system that allows to create prototypes in three dimensions from the application of ultrasonic vibrations.

Also, in the course of the last few months has been in operation, the first virtual community for manufacturing and entrepreneurial companies (project Mapropo).