The Foundation for Development Innovation and Technology (FUNDITEC) is a not for profit public equivalent body that has as its main mission to contribute to economic and social development via the promotion of technology and innovation.

In this way, FUNDITEC supports and collaborates with Public Administration Agencies; Enterprises; Public and Private Organisations; Regional, Local and International entities; Technology and Research Centres; Universities and Third Sector actors in the fields of innovation policy development, cooperative projects, SMEs support among many other social and economic areas.

• Territorial instruments and Innovation Policy: Promotion of innovation-support mechanisms by strengthening the role of business incubators and Science and Technology Parks and developing case-specific managerial tools; conducting research initiatives on funding instruments and networks (seed funds, …); designing, monitoring and evaluation of Regional Innovation Plans, etc.


• Social Innovation: Design, monitoring and evaluation of measures aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the welfare state; development of R&D activities; promotion of Information and Communication Technologies as a moving force for economic development.


• Awareness raising and Life Long Learning: Professional training initiatives, encouraging lifelong learning and employment, targeted at enterprises and public administrations. Improving European SME’s innovation capacity in products and services through the application of creativity techniques, encourage entrepreneurship and innovation by providing professional business training and advisory services for students, graduates, people at research and education agencies and developers, etc.


• Business and Economic Innovation: In addition to designing and promoting measures to support business development and entrepreneurship, FUNDITEC also focuses its efforts on the development and encouragement of a more sustainable economy, using innovation and R&D mechanisms, to foster environmental, RSC and gender-equality schemes, respond to energy and sustainable development needs and support standardisation initiatives.

REGIONAL ACTIVITY

NATIONAL ACTIVITY

EUROPEAN ACTIVITY