Transcript Diapositiva 1

JUNTA DE COMUNIDADES DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
INNOVATIVE REGIONS: PROMOTING SMEs THROUGH RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT
KEEP
COMPETITIVENESS,
BY PROMOTING R&D
HOT SPOTS
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GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION
Castilla-la Mancha is a region located in the central part of Spain, it is mainly formed by a
not too high plateau of nearly 80.000 km2 surrounded by mountains.
It has a mediterranean climate with extreme features: very hot summer, with temperatures
that often reach 35 ºC, and water shortage along the whole year.
Its nearly 2 million inhabitans represent the 4,3% of the Spanish population.
It has a population density of about 24,3 inhabitants per square kilometer, one of the
lowest in Spain.
Agriculture and livestock represent the main part of our production, but nowadays industry
is increasing its importance in some locations: those very close to Madrid, and those which
we have called “hot spots”, spread around our region: Puertollano, Talavera de la Reina,
Albacete or Almansa.
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INDUSTRIAL AREAS
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INDUSTRIAL MAP
Castilla-La Mancha represents the 3,4 % of the Spanish Gross Domestic Product (GDP), what amounts more than 33
million €. and places us as the ninth region of the country. Regional GPD growth in the last ten years has been faster
than the spanish average values.
The distribution of regional GPD is the following: Agriculture 11,64% Industry 14,95% Energy 3,44% Construction 10,06%
Services 49,78% . Agriculture is mainly based on wheat, vine and olive oil.
Historically, Castilla-La Mancha has lacked of a relevant industrial network. Although since our joining to the EU the
number of enterprises in our region has grown up significantly, we still have to solve several disadvantages:
Enterprises are located in a too wide geographical area, and they belong to very different industrial sectors.
Small size of our industry, SMEs and family business in most of the cases, we lack of big, R&D industries.
Low R&D investment.
Deficit in infrastructures.
No exporting tradition.
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RESEARCH CAPACITY
The regional research capabilities are focused on its university and on the research centres
depending on it. They also rely on two large scientific facilities located in our region: The
astronomical observatory of Yebes, and the National Center for Hydrogen of Puertollano.
The regional University was founded in 1982, now it is formed by 7 campus, and offers 64
different qualification opportunities to its around 30 000 students, 200 of whom are in their doctoral
stage and 25 following international postdoc studies financed by regional grants.
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CAPACITY IN TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER
The Albacete Science and Technology Park is our main infrastructure devoted to promotion of
relationship between university and industry and among enterprises themselves.
The project of Albacete Science and Technology Park in Albacete emerged at the end of the year
2001 when the Foundation Albacete of Science and Technology Park was created, sponsored by
the Regional Council, the Regional University, the Town Hall and the Albacete Provincial Council.
The ideas that define the identity of the Park are the following:
To improve the process of technology and innovation transfer.
To back High Technology strategic sectors.
To design the project according to the model of sustainable development.
To foster the creation of innovative enterprises.
To achieve an appropriate town-planning that favours the relationship company-company
and company-university.
To design a highly populated area with modern infrastructures and which is integrated in
the town.
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SO WHAT CAN WE DO IN THIS
SCENARIO?
Enterprises located in a too wide
geographical area, belonging to very
different industrial sectors.
WE NEED TO CREATE
RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT “HOT SPOTS”
BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL OR
INDUSTRIAL NEEDS AND
CAPACITIES
Very small
enterprise size
Low R&D investment
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THE R&D “HOT SPOT” OF
PUERTOLLANO
Its economy was based for many years on the extraction of coal and today is
the most industrial city of Castilla-La Mancha with chemical firms as Repsol
or Fertiveria and two thermal power stations. Nowadays, its economy is
deeply changing due to the installation of a large number of companies
related to the production of alternative energy, particularly solar panels, and
very recently hydrogen-based energy production. We now call Puertollano
“The Energy City” and we pretend it will become an example of changing old
dirty sources of energy, into modern, environment friendly, ways of energy
production.
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THE SOLAR “HOT SPOT” OF
PUERTOLLANO
To become a centre of reference that provides reliable information
to the entire world on the power and productivity of commercial
CPV systems.
Train a group of experts capable of promoting both high level
research and local industrial development by means of setting up
pilot photovoltaic concentration plants.
INSTITUTE FOR
CONCENTRATION
PHOTOVOLTAICS SYSTEMS
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Engineering support
Maintenance support
Measurements: rating and productivity
Reporting
Standard Development - IEC
DNI data reporting
Participation in R&D projects
Training
Dissemination
QC implementation
Legal support
CPV Business Model
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THE HIDROGEN “HOT SPOT” OF PUERTOLLANO
The Hidrogen National Centre is a new scientific research and Tecnology
facility created as a consortium of the spanish ministry of science and
innovation and the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha. It was
stablished on December 19th 2007 in Puertollano.
Its main objectives are: to lead the regional strategy on hydrogen and fuel cell
technologies, combining research activities and technology stakeholders to
benefit the industrial sectors involved and to promote “lighthouse projects”.
The Centre is formed by several R&D units devoted to:
Hy production, storage and distribution, purification and separation and Hy
applications. These units are developing projects on fuel cell technologies,
including proton exchange membrane fuel cells, solid oxid fuel cells, direcmetrhanol fuel cells, phosphoric acid fuel cells, alkaline fuel cells, prototypes..
etc.
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