Tecnalia

About us

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TECNALIA is the largest center of applied research and technological development in Spain, a benchmark in Europe and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance. We collaborate with companies and institutions to improve their competitiveness, people’s quality of life and achieve sustainable growth. We do it thanks to people who are passionate about technology and committed to building a better society.

  • Our Mission: To transform technological research into prosperity.
  • Our Vision: To be agents of transformation of companies and society for their adaptation to the challenges of a changing future.
  • Our Values: we are a team of people who behave honestly, transparently, and coherently, in line with our Organisation’s values set out below, creating an environment of trust both inside and outside of TECNALIA: client focus, collaboration, social commitment, excellence and innovation.

THE VALUES THAT FORM PART OF WHAT WE ARE

WE TRANSFORM TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO PROSPERITY

We work with an increasingly strategic business relationship model based on trust, collaboration, and a shared technological approach, whereby our main scopes of action are: smart manufacturing, digital transformation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, health and food, urban ecosystem and circular economy.

We are the first private Spanish organisation in contracting, participation, and leadership in the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme and we are ranked fourth in European patent applications.

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OUR FIGURES

1520

employees

9800

client companies

137

income

315

PhDs

73

SME clients

47

private income

741

patents in portfolio

17

Partly owned deeptech start-ups
impactful research

“For every euro invested by a company in R&D with TECNALIA in 2023, an income of €14.32 is added to its Income Statement, 5% more than in 2022”.

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