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2011 ANNUAL REPORT
A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN The establishment of TECNALIA Research & Innovation on 1 January 2011 was the main event in the technological history of the Basque and Spanish Technology and Science system. Over this first year, we have proven that this was so, and most importantly, we have proven that TECNALIA is necessary for the society in general and companies in particular. We are larger, with almost 1,500 on staff; but above all, we are different. We have revolutionised the world of research with our work philosophy: “Inspiring Business”, which perfectly summarises our mission and vision: “To transform knowledge into GDP to improve people’s quality of life, by creating business opportunities for companies”. This is reflected in our first Strategic Plan 2012-2014, which is based on five pillars: financial/economic sustainability, international relevance, research excellence, economic and social impact, and committed people. With this ambitious plan we hope to extend our staff to 1,750 people and to have a turnover of 170 million euros. Since we are convinced that innovation will be the trigger to change the economic model, we must strengthen our promotion of R&D&I, as the leaders in Europe do. We are now getting closer to these leaders, too: TECNALIA is number 24 out of thousands of private and public entities taking part in the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, and we are the first private one in Spain. We closed the year 2011 participating in 229 projects, but most importantly: leading 51 of them, thus meeting the level of trust that other companies and leading research organisations in their respective fields have placed in us. I would, therefore, like to thank and congratulate our staff, clients, the administrations, partners and/or collaborators and all those who have make TECNALIA a reality today. Thank you very much. Javier Ormazabal Chairman of TECNALIA
A WORD FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
We can safely say that in 2011 we obtained “good results in very complex economic climate�. Our turnover has reached 116 million euros. 56% accounted for income from the market and the remaining 44% accounted for strategic research projects. Our cash flow was positive - 9.1 million - which guarantees financial stability. Thanks to this, TECNALIA has invested 17 million euros, enabling us to increase project quality, provide greater added value in the services offered to clients, totalling more than 4,000, and improve infrastructures and equipment for the benefit of society. In 2011 we also managed to double our amount of international sales. Contracting has gone from 2.9 million in the international market to 6.2 million. This geographical paving of the way for TECNALIA has been possible thanks to our numerous international scientific-technological networks that help accelerate the generation of knowledge and increase the value contribution. Regarding European projects, from 2007 until last year we contracted a total of 229 projects, leading 51 of them. Thanks to this we have gained a return of 86 million euros over these last four years, and we are consolidated as the leading private R&D&I entity in Spain. We have backed a total of 28 technology-based start-up companies and maintained a stake in 21 of them. These companies have had a turnover of 10 million euros and they employ 158 people. We are facing 2012 with our responsibility towards nearly 1,500 people on staff in TECNALIA, knowing that our contribution will help to overcome the current economic situation through applied research, so that society will want TECNALIA to carry on existing. Joseba Jauregizar Managing Director of TECNALIA
COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION FOUNDATION
Composition of the Board of Trustees of the TECNALIA Research & Innovation Foundation
CHAIRMAN
JAVIER ORMAZABAL Ormazabal Corporate Technology A.I.E.
28 CORPORATE TRUSTEES ACCIONA, S.A. Pedro Antonio Párbole
IBERDROLA DISTRIBUCIÓN ELÉCTRICA, S.A. Javier Morrás
ALMAVIVA, S.p.A. Luigi Viscione
IBERDROLA, S.A. Asís Canales
BATZ S.COOP. Bingen Aranzabal
IBERMÁTICA, S.A. Iñaki Rementería
CEMENTOS LEMONA, S.A. Ignacio Manuel Machimbarrena
INDRA Heliodoro Ruipérez
CONSTRUCCIONES Y AUXILIAR DE FERROCARRILES S.A. Eduardo Etxeberria
INGETEAM, S.A. Miguel Gandiaga
ARTECHE CENTRO DE TECNOLOGÍA A.I.E. José Javier Arteche EUROPEAN SOTWARE INSTITUTE- CENTER EASTERN EUROPE George Ivanov Sharkov FAGOR EDERLAN, S.COOP. Juan María Palencia FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ASOCIACIONES DE FUNDIDORES Ignacio Sáenz de Gorbea FUNDACIÓN BBK - BBK FUNDAZIOA Fernando Irigoyen FUNDACIÓN METRÓPOLI PARA LA INNOVACIÓN Y DISEÑO DEL TERRITORIO Alfonso Vegara GAMESA CORPORACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA, S.A. José Antonio Malumbres GRUPO IGUALMEQUISA, S.A. José Andrés Gorricho GUARDIAN LLODIO UNIO, S.L. María Pilar Veiga
LANTIK, S.A. Roberto Ibarretxe
VICECHAIRMAN
ASÍS CANALES Iberdrola, S.A.
VICECHAIRMAN
IGNACIO SÁENZ DE GORBEA Federación Española de Asociaciones de Fundidores
BASQUE GOVERNMENT Juan Ignacio Goicolea Pedro Gómez Edorta Larrauri Xabier Garmendia Olga Isabel Rivera Pedro Luis Arias
ALAVA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Luis Viana BIZKAIA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Jesús Peña GIPUZKOA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL Iñaki Errazkin UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY Iñaki Goirizelaia
6 INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES Andoni Lorenzo
Iñaki López
ORMAZABAL CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY A.I.E. Javier Ormazabal
Carlos Olabe
Luis Goenaga
Félix Iraola
Pedro Miguel Etxenike
SDAD. FINANCIERA Y MINERA, S.A. CEMENTOS REZOLA José María Echarri ULMA HORMIGÓN POLÍMERO, S. COOP. Mikel Izurieta VICINAY, S.A. Luis María Cañada W.E.E. - HAIZERROTA A.I.E. José Manuel Sorazu ZIV APLICACIONES Y TECNOLOGÍA, S.L. Norberto Santiago
FÉLIX IRAOLA
10 INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEES
NICOLÁS CORREA, S.A. José Ignacio Nicolás Correa
SEA EMPRESARIOS ALAVESES Pascal Gómez
SECRETARY
3 NUMERARY TRUSTEES DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN TOWN HALL 1 Representative, designation pending
VITORIA-GASTEIZ TOWN HALL Iñigo Bilbao
BILBAO TOWN HALL Jon Andoni Aldekoa
GENERAL MANAGEMENT MANAGING DIRECTOR Joseba Jauregizar
DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR Iñaki San Sebastián
TECNALIA IS THE FIRST APPLIED RESEARCH PRIVATE CENTRE IN SPAIN AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IN EUROPE A unique commitment, an opportunity, a challenge.
Mission: to transform knowledge into GDP. IMPROVING PEOPLE´S QUALITY OF LIFE BY GENERATING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPANIES
7 Business Divisions
VALUES At TECNALIA we identify and develop business opportunities, we turn these opportunities into competitive advantages for our clients with our attitude and methods: we observe with intent, researching passionately and tenaciously; we create with imagination and efficiency; we apply knowledge with audacity, rigour and flexibility; we work from a position of experience and specialisation; we take a global perspective in all our challenges and we share comprehensive solutions.
We work based on our experience and expertise in each of the markets in which we operate, with an efficient and proactive attitude, offering comprehensive solutions thanks to the transversality of our Business Divisions.
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
COMMITMENT WITH THE FUTURE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ICT – EUROPEAN SOFTWARE INSTITUTE
RESEARCH RESPONSIBILITY EFFICIENT CREATIVITY
FLEXIBILITY CONNECTIVITY
INDUSTRY & TRANSPORT INNOVATION STRATEGIES
HEALTH
TECHNOLOGICAL SERVICES
TECNALIA IN FIGURES
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1.475 STAFF
DOCTORS
NATIONALITIES
(31st December 2011)
116
MILLION EUROS INCOME
56%
Private Contracts
30%
Competitive Public Funding
14%
Non-Competitive Public Funding
9,1
17
CASH FLOW
INVESTMENT
MILLION EUROS
4.059 CLIENTS
MILLION EUROS
28
93
ESTABLISHED
IN OUR PORTFOLIO
NTBCs
PATENTS
TECNALIA, A EUROPEAN REFERENCE 1
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PRIVATE SPANISH ENTITY
No. 24
ON THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
IN THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
14th
RESEARCH ORGANISATION
TECNALIA is a member of EARTO-EUROTECH and was given the EARTO Innovation Prize in 2011, together with SINTEF and TNO, for their “Hyperspectral” project to detect electric and electronic waste.
TECNALIA’s INVOLVEMENT IN THE EU 7FP (2007-2011) No. of approved projects
229
No. of projects led
According to the European Research Ranking, TECNALIA Research & Innovation is number 24 on the list of participants in the Seventh Framework Programme, and the 14th Research Organisation. CDTI highlights TECNALIA’s involvement in one of the four great European public-private partnership initiatives: Building the Future. It is involved in 22 European Platforms (in the Steering Committee of 9 of them).
Return
86 M€
EUROPEAN RESEARCH RANKING 1. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
13. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
2. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V
15. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
3. COMMISSARIAT A L’ENERGIE ATOMIQUE 4. MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV 5. THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 6. THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 7. CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS 8. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
TECNALIA is the first private Spanish entity in the Seventh Framework. Programme in terms of participation, leadership and return.
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9. IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 10. EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH 11. NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO 12. TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND
14. KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
16. DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET 17. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 18. DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT EV 19. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID 20. KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE 21. WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY 22. UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN 23. LUNDS UNIVERSITET 24. FUNDACIÓN TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION 25. UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS 26. STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK 27. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT 28. UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART ...
Source: www.researchranking.org
Our international presence consists not only in structures owned by TECNALIA but also through relationship networks and other innovative formulas of collaboration. This allows us to create different typologies of TECNALIA’s presence abroad to increase sales, to be close to markets of interest and to accompany our (present and future) clients.
Branches Abroad ∙∙ Mexico (Monterrey) ∙∙ Portugal (Caparica) Technological Nodes ∙∙ France (Montpellier) ∙∙ Italy (Pisa) ∙∙ Serbia (Belgrade) Shared Innovation Centres ∙∙ Colombia (Bogota) ∙∙ Bulgaria (Sofia) ∙∙ Egypt (Cairo) ∙∙ France (Anglet) Sales Network ∙∙ Colombia ∙∙ Korea ∙∙ Chile ∙∙ Brazil ∙∙ Panama ∙∙ Uruguay ∙∙ Argentina ∙∙ Bulgaria ∙∙ Peru ∙∙ Portugal ∙∙ France ∙∙ Finland ∙∙ Hungary ∙∙ Italy ∙∙ Canada Alliances ∙∙ JIIP: Brussels ∙∙ KEMEN: Latin America, Africa and Middle East
INTERNACIONAL PRESENCE
Ocean Power
Renewable Energy Smart Grids
Solar Power The Energy System of the Future SUSTAINABILITY AS MEGA-TREND
Electric Storage and Mobility
FUTURE CHALLENGES
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Environment and Climate Change
New Materials from Waste Prediction Systems
SUSTAINABILITY AS MEGA-TREND
Water Cycle
SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
Smart Transport Systems
Reduction of the environmental footprint of the built environment Sustainable and Intelligent Construction
The Urban Environment
Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Electric Cars: Electrifying Transport Sustainable Transport New Manufacturing Processes Smart Processes for Material Transformation
A Sustainable Future for Transport New Drugs
New Materials & Manufacturing Processes
Smart Manufacturing Systems and Processes
Manufacturing the Future
Smart Robotics Collaborative Robotics
Biotechnology Biomaterials Healthy Lifestyle
INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORT
Implants Rehabilitation E-Health
HEALTH SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS AS MEGA-TREND
Optimisation of Production and Life Cycle
Strategies, tools and Methods for Innovation in SMEs Helping Institutions to Design and Deploy Innovation Policies Impulse Companies in the Elaboration and Development of their Strategic Innovation Plans
Ageing
QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE AS MEGA-TREND
People with Disabilities
Assistance Technologies
Companies
INNOVATION STRATEGIES Innovation Policies QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE AS MEGA-TREND
ICT-EUROPEAN SOFTWARE INSTITUTE
DIGITALISATION AS MEGA-TREND
Internet of Things Security A cross-connected and Interactive world “a friendly Planet”
Technologies for Greater Autonomy at Home
Next Generation Networks Friendly Cities Ubiquitous Software Interactive Contents Reduction of the Digital Gap
INSPIRING DAYS TECNALIA
EUSKAMPUS
13 AND 14 APRIL 2011 IN EUSKALDUNA CONFERENCE CENTRE, BILBAO.
INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS OF EXCELLENCE
On the first day, 13 April, all the people from TECNALIA gathered at an event that presented “the new TECNALIA”, and showed how it works every day to achieve its main goal: transform ideas into GDP through applied research.
Corporación Tecnológica Tecnalia, made up of AZTI-Tecnalia, NEIKERTecnalia and TECNALIA Research & Innovation, together with DIPC (Donostia International Physics Center), has collaborated with the University of the Basque Country‐Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea to develop the EUSKAMPUS, International Campus of Excellence project.
On the second day, 14 April, nearly 600 clients, companies and institutions were able to get to know “the new TECNALIA”, and took part in the seven workshops organised to jointly identify and find technology-based business opportunities, derived from future challenges. There was also a technology exhibition where visitors were able to find out about more than 70 new business opportunities developed by TECNALIA.
The aims of EUSKAMPUS are to form a hub for internationally relevant training, research, transfer and innovation, and to turn this new concept into the cornerstone of social and economic transformation in the Basque Country. It also aims to become a teaching, science and technology benchmark for the European Atlantic Axis. To this end, the bases for this cross-border campus have been established in close collaboration with the Bordeaux University consortium, which have made up a “pôle de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur”. EUSKAMPUS is an integrating project in the knowledge value chain in the Basque Country, to promote the “education, research and innovation” knowledge triangle with international scope.
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INGRID
BUILDSMART
SMART GRID RESEARCH FACILITIES
READY-TO-MARKET ENERGY-EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS
In 2011, in Bizkaia Technology Park, TECNALIA started to build one of the first facilities in Europe to conduct research on Smart Grids, at the service of the electrical equipment manufacturing sector.
Today there is a need for the construction of buildings with very low electricity consumption requirements as a key factor in the development of the low carbon city.
They will help to overcome the challenge we are facing of moving and storing electricity in the most efficient way possible, to respond in real time to the increasingly complex requirements by generators and consumers.
TECNALIA works on the development of a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring and use of residential and tertiary sector buildings, halving energy consumption in relation to equivalent traditional constructions.
• Electrical systems for renewable energies • Smart management of electric power consumption • Equipment and components for power grids • Smart grids
Methodology validation will be done by means of the construction of 11 pilot buildings, thus positioning TECNALIA as a benchmark in the design of Zero Energy Buildings, an emerging market born from the application of the new European directives.
14
MILLION EUROS
3.500
M2 BUILDING
7
PLATFORMS
10.000 M2 PLOT
MARINE ENERGY
QUALITY OF SOFTWARE SERVICES
INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM FOR MARINE ENERGY CAPTURING DEVICES.
CMMI-ACQ IS THE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY STANDARD FOR SOFTWARE SERVICES
Ocean energy, such as offshore wind power, features significant growth and its future prospects are incredible, having as one of its most important challenges to transport the energy to the coast, an issue for which there is still no cost-effective solution.
TECNALIA and international consultant Everis have implemented, for the first time in a Spanish public body, the DGT Directorate-General for Traffic, the CMMI-ACQ model, which is the international quality standard for software services.
Therefore, TECNALIA has focused on the development of a submarine device allowing the connection of umbilical cables between the energy generators to the coast evacuation cable.
The goal was to improve and rationalise all the internal IT network of the DGT, simplifying, expediting and guaranteeing the quality of its processes, which is vital given that the DGT completes about 25 million transactions per year. The relations between the DGT and the almost 50 suppliers the body works with have also been unified and systematised.
TECNALIA has signed an agreement with INGEINNOVA to verify this submarine device -christened as KANPAI- in the sea. For this they will build a full-size operational prototype that will serve to prove the technical and economical viability of the system before starting the serial production.
Thanks to the improvement of all these internal processes, the user shall perceive, both at the DGT’s offices or through the Internet, a simpler and quicker processing of the procedures, and an improvement in the service and attention.
MORE PROFITABLE FOUNDRY
SMART MATERIALS
HIGH-POWER THERMAL PLASMA FOR FOUNDRY PROCESSES
VARSTIFF: VARIABLE STIFFNESS STRUCTURE BASED ON DEFLATABLE STRATIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
TECNALIA reduces Foundry costs through the “Plasma Torch”, a system that has revolutionised the industry since it provides great precision when heating metal, thus reducing operation costs, improving the metallic quality and saving energy.
VARSTIFF® is a patented smart fabric fully developed by TECNALIA, whose singular feature lies in its variable hardness achieved under different pressure conditions.
It is a novel system that, by applying a High-Power Thermal Plasma, allows heating the necessary amount of metal, at a certain temperature and at the precise casting moment (when the cast metal should be taken out of the furnace). It allows programming the temperature range in which they wish to cast the metal and maintains it automatically during the entire casting time. The success of the “Plasma Torch” has been immediate and thanks to the commercial effort of SERT Metal, Fuchosa (Bizkaia) and Lingotes Especiales (Valladolid) have already installed this device in their facilities highlighting the good performance of this new equipment.
“Courtesy of Lingotes Especiales”
At atmospheric pressure, it behaves as a flexible and malleable material, but at moderate vacuum conditions (removing air) it reaches a hardness similar to that of a standard plastic. The process is reversible and can be repeated as much as desired and it can adopt different shapes in each case. VARSTIFF® is an active fabric opening a window for a new generation of uses and components. From car interiors, as a substitute for the boot shelf or functional seats, to healthcare applications such as wristbands, elbow bands or immobilisers as an alternative to plaster or other conventional materials. It has also sport-related applications and might be used in professions where safety clothing is needed, as a protection agent in shin bands, snowboarding garments, etc.
SMART LIGHTING
OPPORTUNITY MAP
LUIX ALLOWS ENERGY SAVINGS IN STREET LIGHTING UP TO 80%.
WE IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPANIES
LUIX is a technology-based company specialising in Smart Lighting thanks to the blending of wills from ACR Group, Eguzkitan and TECNALIA. The LUIX system regulates the illumination of streetlamps depending on the people and vehicles in transit in the street at a given moment. It progressively switches the streetlamps on and off, in the appropriate sequence and direction, depending on the prediction of pedestrian and vehicle movement and direction. This is achieved by a device integrated in the streetlamp which is able to detect both presence and movement.
“How do we identify opportunities for the companies? We develop a tailor-made strategy, since each business is different and its potential and possibilities are unique�.
Today, economical and energy savings are a priority for city halls, since lighting consumption accounts for 55% of their energy expenses. In order to give response to such a demand, the new system is being partially tested in different towns in Gipuzkoa and Navarre such as Gabiria, Tolosa or Uztarroz. Once the efficiency of the system was proven, Isaba and Salinas, located in Navarre, have fully implemented it in every street. The installation works took place in September 2011 and the estimated savings for these cities is 20,000 euros in just one year, with energy savings nearing 80%.
We evaluate the business and the environment, visualising its future and translating all that into an Opportunity Map with ideas giving response to any strategic innovation challenge for that particular company. The Opportunity Map is a flexible and adaptable performance solution on which TECNALIA relies to co-design the innovation strategy jointly with companies by identifying business opportunities strengthening their competitiveness. From our technological know-how, the close collaboration amongst the different Business Divisions within TECNALIA and the far-sighted approach, we focus towards a clear goal: to help companies to identify business opportunities and turn them into results.
OPPORTUNITY
MAP ANALYSIS
FOCUS
ACTION
Inspiring Business
IMAGINE + MAKE IT COME TRUE