Fedit
FEDIT is a non-profit private entity that represents the Spanish Technology Centers. Its mission is to encourage and foster innovation in the enterprise and in society through the consolidation of the Technology Centers.
FEDIT is composed of 63 Technology Centers that work for more than 25000 client companies with a staff of more than 5000 people. In 2006 Centers in FEDIT reached a total turnover above 430 million Euros.
FEDIT members cover the entire national territory, with particular prevalence in the main national industrial poles. They also export their services to other international regions (mainly North Africa, Latin America and Europe). They are key agents in enterprise competitiveness and regional economic development, and play a fundamental role in the internalization of their client companies and through cooperation in regions with high enterprise potential.
GENERATION, DEVELOPMENT, TRANSFER AND DIFUSSION
The activities in FEDIT Technology Centers cover the whole pipeline of industrial innovation:
1. Applied Research, Technological Development, Technological Innovation and Advising.
- Strategic R&D
- Contract R&D
2. Technology services, Technological Innovation and Advising
3. Technology Dissemination and Training
4. Generation of Technology Based Companies
Technological innovation: a key factor for enterprise competitiveness
This kind of activity requires a high amount of financial, human and material resources to which many companies have no individual access. Given the structure of the industry in Spain, which is mainly based on small and medium sized enterprises (SME), Technology Centers have successfully covered this necessity. Spanish SME have chosen to externalize their R&D resources by sharing them with other companies with similar needs for innovation, and have therefore generated results which have contributed to the maintenance and improvement of their products in the market. Furthermore Technology Centers have become the necessary partner of many Spanish companies of any size providing them with the most advanced technologies and the most innovative techniques.
What is a Technology Center?
Technology Centers are non-profit private entities that provide companies with applied research, technological development and innovation services. They act as a support platform for their customers generating and facilitating the exploitation of technological knowledge.
Technology Centers act as companies strategic partners. They constitute a smooth and efficient support link for R&D, especially, but not only, in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). Their success is due to their efficient use of institutional funds, and more importantly, to their capacity to satisfy the real needs o f industry in the innovation field. This takes place as a result of the establishment of a sustained relationship of assessment, cooperation, training, technological transfer, knowledge generation and new technological developments through diverse R&D&I contracts.
Sectors and Technologies
Developed and specialized according to the different industrial regional profiles, FEDIT covers most of the Spanish industrial sectors from de most traditional (Automotive, Textile, Furniture, Shoes, Food, Toys, Construction...) to the most modern (Aerospace, Information and Telecommunication, Biotechnology, Renewable Energies).
Production Technologies
• Materials • Metal Mechanics • Micro and Nanotechnologies • Production Processes • Biotechnology • Society for Information Technology • Aeronautics and Space
Members of FEDIT
- AICIA - AIDICO - AIDIMA - AIDO - AIICA - AIJU - AIMME - AIMPLAS - AIN - AINIA - AITEMIN - AITEX - AITIIP - ANFACO-CEOPESCA - ASCAMM - ASINTEC - AZTERLAN - AZTI - BMCI - CARTIF - CEDETEL - CEIT - CEMITEC-CITEAN - CESOL - CETEM - CETEMMSA - CIDAUT - CIDEMCO - CIDETEC CENTER - CMT - CNTA - CTA - CTAEX - CTC - CTComponentes - CTM - CTME - CTMETAL - ESI - EUVE - FATRONIK - GAIKER - IAT - IBV - IDEKO - IKERLAN - IKERTIA - INASMET - INESCOP - INVEMA - IPE - ITC - ITCL - ITE - ITEB - ITENE - ITG - ITI - ITMA - LABEIN - LEIA - LEITAT - ROBOTIKER - TEKNIKER - VICOMTECH
For more information visit http://www.fedit.com