Before 2001, Spanish universities had only created 18 spin-off companies. Now there are hundreds of them, and many of them are Catalan. Spin-offs are companies created by scientists at a university or scientific institution to directly exploit the fruits of their research

JOAN CARLES AMBROJO | APRIL 1ST, 2011

The Spanish government seems willing to encourage foreign investment in R+D. It would not be a bad strategy since the R+D expenditures of Spanish companies is quite low, but experts say Spain must undertake major reforms to attract foreign investment

XAVIER PUJOL GEBELLÍ | DECEMBER 16TH, 2010

The marketing malpractice of Wyeth has been exposed after the publication of a complete analysis of how this drug maker sold menopausal hormone therapy under false claims. It has been proven that the company commissioned and managed to publish articles in medical journals that promoted the unproven benefits of the drug and concealed or minimized the risks associated with breast cancer.

MALÉN RUIZ DE ELVIRA | SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2010

Map of Technological Resource of Catalonia that facilitates the access to the supply of Information Technology of Catalonia. The project has been driven by the Barcelona Digital Foundation, with the collaboration of four members of its board, the Center for Business Innovation and Development (ICW), Getronics, Microsoft and Capgemini.

The Chamber of Commerce of Girona will host the conference of TIC.cat entitled "Future Technology Trends". The conference will take place on the 25 March from 17.45 h to 20.00 h. The aim of the event is to get to know where the main technological fields in this sector are evolving to through real examples of Catalan ICT companies.

22 March 2010

Since its launch in May 2009, the Plan TIC.cat Plan has generated investment exceeding 65 million Euros in the ICT sector, a figure 2.5 times the investment made in concept of aid and financing located around 30 million. These figures mean that in its first year, the TIC.cat Plan has by far exceeded the initial budget estimates in both the performances and the grants. In particular, almost € 9 million to 165 projects for Research, Development and Innovation (R & D) have been allocated. The Plan has also allocated 11 million Euros in loans to 25 technology projects.

19 march 2010

The secretary general of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, Enric Aloy, accompanied by the Director of Regional Services for Innovation, Universities and Business in the Lands of the Ebro, Josep Felip Monclús, and the Area Manager of Technology Transfer ACC1Ó, Oriol Alcoba, will visit today, Friday 19 March, La Senia, to attend the inauguration of the headquarters of the Center for Technological Diffusion Fusta i Moble de Catalunya (CENFIM).

19 march 2010

As part of the institutional mission that the councillor Huguet is making in Egypt and Syria, one of the companies of the delegation, PGI Grup, has managed to find outstanding local partners in the world of construction to go together to public competitions to build hospitals in Egypt, as well as a hotel and a private clinic in Syria. Their work will develop the concept of the work and advice on implementation, bearing in mind that the company provides comprehensive engineering services.

19 march 2010

The United States currently leads the investment in transforming the current energy model. But it is not the only protagonist. Europe, with the help of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, aims to encourage communities to reunite higher education and enterprises with the double objective of improving the science of climate change and get benefit in the form of innovations in the energy sector.

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | 18 March 2010

They innovate in health, they have potential growth and they need an injection of capital of 200,000 Euros to 2 million Euros to go ahead with their business plans. These are the main common points of the nine Catalan companies which have presented their projects to hundreds of investors at the Barcelona Healthcare Investment Forum and the Private Investors Forum and Family Offices of IESE -a historical event with already 43 editions-. It has taken place at the main office of the Barcelona Medical Association (COMB).

15 march 2010

Held on Monday, 3 March 2010, the University-Business Career Day for Nursing included a colloquium in which the following healthcare centres participated: Mútua de Terrassa, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Hospital General de Catalunya, Centre Mèdic Tecknon, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Fundació Hospital-Asil de Granollers.

12 March 2010

Yesterday the BIO-Europe Spring conference closed, which for three days has converted Barcelona in the European capital of biotechnological partnership. It has enjoyed the participation of 1,061 companies and 1,800 attendees from 43 countries. The organizers, EBD Group, say that this has been the most successful in its history, with an increase, despite the crisis, of 15% over last year's congress in Milan. BIO-Europe Spring has facilitated 9,000 'one-to-one’ meetings to establish partnership relations between actors of the biotechnology sector.

11 March 2010

Next April starts the third edition of BioEmprenedorXXI program with the aim of positioning the city of Barcelona as the entrepreneurial capital of reference and give impetus to the strategic sector of life sciences. This is a joint initiative of "la Caixa", Barcelona Town Hall (through Barcelona Activa), Biocat, the Genome Spain Foundation and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce that seeks to promote the creation and consolidation of innovative technology-based firms.

5 march 2010

Ecolabel website, a system created by the European Commission in 1992 to encourage businesses to market more environmentally friendly products and services .

Next Tuesday 23 February, from 15.45 to 19.00 h, the Barcelona Digital Technology Center and the Department of Telecommunications and Information Society, under the Plan TIC.cat, will hold a meeting on Future Trends of Technology to analyze and discuss ICT developments in our country and get to know the real examples of eight Catalan ICT companies.

18 February 2010