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Tecnalia muestra oportunidades de negocio concretas a más de 300 empresasTecnalia shows opportunities of concrete business to more than 300 companies
24 May 2012
Tecnalia Research & Innovation gathered the past 16 May in Madrid to companies, institutions, customers and collaborators, for the first time from his birth in January of 2011, to show how works in the day in day out to attain his main aim: transform the ideas in GDP through the investigation applied, generating opportunities of business for the companies through the technology.
Tecnalia is the first private centre of investigation applied of the country and one of the main of Europe. In fact, it will develop in 2012 more than 400 projects of R&D with 250 companies in Spain, Europe and in the rest of the world. 65% of these companies are SMEs and 35%, big companies. Besides, Tecnalia collaborates with a small percentage of these companies in projects of ‘risk shared', to which will allocate this year around 8 million euros to develop jointly opportunities of business.
During the day, Tecnalia presented different initiatives or opportunities of business for the companies, by means of a technological exhibition. In her could know closely initiatives that suppose big challenges for the technological centre and his customers in areas of activity like the health, the communications, the power, the sustainable construction or the factory of the future. Also in the program of the day included the celebration of five workshops or workshops of work related with the main challenges of future of the society and in which Tecnalia is involucrada.