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2. 2011 ANNUAL
www.tecnalia.com
REPORT

3. 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

4. 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

5. COMPOSITION
OF THE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES OF
THE TECNALIA
RESEARCH &
INNOVATION
FOUNDATION

6. Composition of the Board of Trustees of the TECNALIA Research & Innovation Foundation
CHAIRMAN
VICECHAIRMAN VICECHAIRMAN
JAVIER ASÍS IGNACIO SÁENZ
SECRETARY
DE GORBEA FÉLIX
ORMAZABAL CANALES
Federación Española IRAOLA
Iberdrola, S.A. de Asociaciones de
Ormazabal Corporate Fundidores
Technology A.I.E.
28 CORPORATE TRUSTEES 10 INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEES
BASQUE GOVERNMENT ALAVA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
ACCIONA, S.A. IBERDROLA DISTRIBUCIÓN ELÉCTRICA, S.A. Juan Ignacio Goicolea Luis Viana
Pedro Antonio Párbole Javier Morrás Pedro Gómez BIZKAIA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
ALMAVIVA, S.p.A. IBERDROLA, S.A. Edorta Larrauri Jesús Peña
Luigi Viscione Asís Canales Xabier Garmendia
Olga Isabel Rivera GIPUZKOA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
BATZ S.COOP. IBERMÁTICA, S.A. Iñaki Errazkin
Pedro Luis Arias
Bingen Aranzabal Iñaki Rementería
UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY
CEMENTOS LEMONA, S.A. INDRA Iñaki Goirizelaia
Ignacio Manuel Machimbarrena Heliodoro Ruipérez
CONSTRUCCIONES Y AUXILIAR DE INGETEAM, S.A.
FERROCARRILES S.A. Miguel Gandiaga
Eduardo Etxeberria LANTIK, S.A. 6 INDIVIDUAL TRUSTEES
ARTECHE CENTRO DE TECNOLOGÍA A.I.E. Roberto Ibarretxe
José Javier Arteche NICOLÁS CORREA, S.A. Andoni Lorenzo Iñaki López
EUROPEAN SOTWARE INSTITUTE- CENTER José Ignacio Nicolás Correa
EASTERN EUROPE Carlos Olabe Luis Goenaga
ORMAZABAL CORPORATE
George Ivanov Sharkov TECHNOLOGY A.I.E. Félix Iraola Pedro Miguel Etxenike
FAGOR EDERLAN, S.COOP. Javier Ormazabal
Juan María Palencia SEA EMPRESARIOS ALAVESES
FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ASOCIACIONES Pascal Gómez
DE FUNDIDORES SDAD. FINANCIERA Y MINERA, S.A. - 3 NUMERARY TRUSTEES
Ignacio Sáenz de Gorbea CEMENTOS REZOLA
FUNDACIÓN BBK - BBK FUNDAZIOA José María Echarri
Fernando Irigoyen DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN TOWN HALL VITORIA-GASTEIZ TOWN HALL
ULMA HORMIGÓN POLÍMERO, S. COOP. 1 Representative, designation pending Iñigo Bilbao
FUNDACIÓN METRÓPOLI PARA LA INNOVA- Mikel Izurieta
CIÓN Y DISEÑO DEL TERRITORIO BILBAO TOWN HALL
VICINAY, S.A. Jon Andoni Aldekoa
Alfonso Vegara Luis María Cañada
GAMESA CORPORACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA, S.A. W.E.E. - HAIZERROTA A.I.E.
José Antonio Malumbres José Manuel Sorazu
GRUPO IGUALMEQUISA, S.A.
José Andrés Gorricho
ZIV APLICACIONES Y TECNOLOGÍA, S.L.
Norberto Santiago
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
GUARDIAN LLODIO UNIO, S.L.
María Pilar Veiga MANAGING DIRECTOR DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
Joseba Jauregizar Iñaki San Sebastián

7. TECNALIA IS THE
FIRST APPLIED
RESEARCH
PRIVATE Mission:
CENTRE IN to transform
SPAIN AND ONE knowledge
OF THE MOST into GDP.
IMPORTANT IN
EUROPE IMPROVING
PEOPLE´S
A unique QUALITY OF LIFE
commitment, BY GENERATING
an opportunity, BUSINESS
a challenge. OPPORTUNITIES
FOR COMPANIES

8. VALUES 7 Business
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
Divisions
intent, researching passionately and tenaciously; we create with We work based on our experience and expertise in each of the
imagination and efficiency; we apply knowledge with audacity, markets in which we operate, with an efficient and proactive
rigour and flexibility; we work from a position of experience and attitude, offering comprehensive solutions thanks to the
specialisation; we take a global perspective in all our challenges transversality of our Business Divisions.
and we share comprehensive solutions.
SUSTAINABLE
COMMITMENT
BUILDING
WITH THE FUTURE
BUSINESS ENERGY AND
PERSPECTIVE ENVIRONMENT
ICT – EUROPEAN
RESEARCH SOFTWARE INSTITUTE
RESPONSIBILITY
EFFICIENT INDUSTRY &
CREATIVITY TRANSPORT
HEALTH
INNOVATION
FLEXIBILITY
STRATEGIES
TECHNOLOGICAL
CONNECTIVITY SERVICES

9. TECNALIA 1.475 192 27
IN FIGURES 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
MILLION EUROS MILLION EUROS
CASH FLOW INVESTMENT
4.059 28 93
CLIENTS NTBCs
ESTABLISHED
PATENTS
IN OUR PORTFOLIO

10. TECNALIA, TECNALIA is a member of EARTO-EUROTECH
and was given the EARTO Innovation Prize in
2011, together with SINTEF and TNO, for their
A EUROPEAN
“Hyperspectral” project to detect electric and
electronic waste.
REFERENCE TECNALIA’s INVOLVEMENT IN THE EU 7FP (2007-2011)
No. of approved
229 No. of
51 86 M€
1 ST projects projects led Return
PRIVATE SPANISH
ENTITY
EUROPEAN RESEARCH RANKING
No. 24
ON THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
1. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE
SCIENTIFIQUE
2. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR
13. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
14. KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
15. ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE
FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN
IN THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK FORSCHUNG E V
LAUSANNE
PROGRAMME 3. COMMISSARIAT A L’ENERGIE ATOMIQUE
16. DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
17. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
4. MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR
18. DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND
FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
14th
RAUMFAHRT EV
5. THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS
19. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
20. KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
RESEARCH 6. THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 21. WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
ORGANISATION 7. CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES 22. UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
CIENTÍFICAS 23. LUNDS UNIVERSITET
8. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
24. FUNDACIÓN TECNALIA RESEARCH
9. IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE & INNOVATION
TECNALIA is the first private Spanish entity in the Seventh Framework. TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Programme in terms of participation, leadership and return. 10. EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE
25. UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS
HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH 26. STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG
According to the European Research Ranking, TECNALIA Research
ONDERZOEK
& Innovation is number 24 on the list of participants in the Seventh 11. NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR
TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK 27. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Framework Programme, and the 14th Research Organisation.
ONDERZOEK TNO 28. UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
CDTI highlights TECNALIA’s involvement in one of the four great 12. TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND ...
European public-private partnership initiatives: Building the Future.
It is involved in 22 European Platforms (in the Steering Committee
of 9 of them). Source: www.researchranking.org

11. Our international presence consists not only in structures owned INTERNACIONAL
PRESENCE
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

12. Ocean Power
Renewable Energy
Smart Grids
FUTURE
CHALLENGES
Solar Power
Electric Storage and Mobility
The Energy
System of
the Future
SUSTAINABILITY
AS MEGA-TREND
ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENT
New Materials Environment
from Waste and Climate
Change SUSTAINABILITY
Prediction Systems AS MEGA-TREND
Water Cycle
Reduction of the environmental
footprint of the built environment
The Urban
Environment Sustainable and
SUSTAINABLE Intelligent Construction
BUILDING Energy Efficiency
Smart Transport in Buildings
Systems
Electric Cars:
Electrifying Transport
Sustainable Transport A Sustainable
Future
for Transport
New Manufacturing New Drugs
Processes
New Biotechnology
Smart Processes for Materials & Biomaterials
Material Transformation Manufacturing
Processes Healthy Implants
INDUSTRY AND Lifestyle
Rehabilitation
TRANSPORT
E-Health
Smart Manufacturing
Systems and Processes
Manufacturing HEALTH
Smart Robotics the Future
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS
Collaborative Robotics AS MEGA-TREND Ageing
QUALITY OF LIFE OF Technologies
PEOPLE AS MEGA-TREND for Greater
Optimisation of Autonomy at
Production and Life Cycle Home
People
with
Disabilities Assistance Technologies
Strategies, tools and Companies
Methods for Innovation
in SMEs Internet of Things
INNOVATION ICT-EUROPEAN
SOFTWARE Security
Helping Institutions to Design and STRATEGIES
Deploy Innovation Policies INSTITUTE Next Generation Networks
A cross-connected
Innovation
Impulse Companies in the Elaboration and and Interactive Friendly Cities
Policies
Development of their Strategic Innovation Plans world “a friendly
Planet” Ubiquitous Software
QUALITY OF LIFE DIGITALISATION Interactive Contents
OF PEOPLE AS MEGA-TREND Reduction of the Digital Gap
AS MEGA-TREND

13. INSPIRING DAYS EUSKAMPUS
TECNALIA
13 AND 14 APRIL 2011 IN EUSKALDUNA INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS
CONFERENCE CENTRE, BILBAO. OF EXCELLENCE
On the first day, 13 April, all the people from TECNALIA gathered at an event Corporación Tecnológica Tecnalia, made up of AZTI-Tecnalia, NEIKER-
that presented “the new TECNALIA”, and showed how it works every day to Tecnalia and TECNALIA Research & Innovation, together with DIPC
achieve its main goal: transform ideas into GDP through applied research. (Donostia International Physics Center), has collaborated with the
University of the Basque Country‐Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea to develop
On the second day, 14 April, nearly 600 clients, companies and institutions
the EUSKAMPUS, International Campus of Excellence project.
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 The aims of EUSKAMPUS are to form a hub for internationally relevant
opportunities, derived from future challenges. training, research, transfer and innovation, and to turn this new concept into
the cornerstone of social and economic transformation in the Basque Country.
There was also a technology exhibition where visitors were able to find out
about more than 70 new business opportunities developed by TECNALIA. 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.
euskampus.ehu.es

14. INGRID BUILDSMART
SMART GRID READY-TO-MARKET
RESEARCH FACILITIES ENERGY-EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS
In 2011, in Bizkaia Technology Park, TECNALIA started to build one of the Today there is a need for the construction of buildings with very low
first facilities in Europe to conduct research on Smart Grids, at the service electricity consumption requirements as a key factor in the development of
of the electrical equipment manufacturing sector. the low carbon city.
They will help to overcome the challenge we are facing of moving and TECNALIA works on the development of a methodology for the design,
storing electricity in the most efficient way possible, to respond in real time construction, monitoring and use of residential and tertiary sector
to the increasingly complex requirements by generators and consumers. buildings, halving energy consumption in relation to equivalent traditional
constructions.
• Electrical systems for renewable energies
• Smart management of electric power consumption Methodology validation will be done by means of the construction of 11
• Equipment and components for power grids pilot buildings, thus positioning TECNALIA as a benchmark in the design
• Smart grids 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

15. MARINE QUALITY OF
ENERGY SOFTWARE
SERVICES
INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM FOR MARINE ENERGY CMMI-ACQ IS THE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY
CAPTURING DEVICES. STANDARD FOR SOFTWARE SERVICES
Ocean energy, such as offshore wind power, features significant growth TECNALIA and international consultant Everis have implemented, for the
and its future prospects are incredible, having as one of its most important first time in a Spanish public body, the DGT Directorate-General for Traffic,
challenges to transport the energy to the coast, an issue for which there is the CMMI-ACQ model, which is the international quality standard for
still no cost-effective solution. software services.
Therefore, TECNALIA has focused on the development of a submarine The goal was to improve and rationalise all the internal IT network of the
device allowing the connection of umbilical cables between the energy DGT, simplifying, expediting and guaranteeing the quality of its processes,
generators to the coast evacuation cable. 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
TECNALIA has signed an agreement with INGEINNOVA to verify this
body works with have also been unified and systematised.
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 Thanks to the improvement of all these internal processes, the user shall
economical viability of the system before starting the serial production. 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.

16. MORE PROFITABLE SMART
FOUNDRY MATERIALS
HIGH-POWER THERMAL PLASMA VARSTIFF: VARIABLE STIFFNESS STRUCTURE BASED ON
FOR FOUNDRY PROCESSES DEFLATABLE STRATIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
TECNALIA reduces Foundry costs through the “Plasma Torch”, a system VARSTIFF® is a patented smart fabric fully developed by TECNALIA, whose
that has revolutionised the industry since it provides great precision when singular feature lies in its variable hardness achieved under different
heating metal, thus reducing operation costs, improving the metallic pressure conditions.
quality and saving energy.
At atmospheric pressure, it behaves as a flexible and malleable material, but
It is a novel system that, by applying a High-Power Thermal Plasma, allows at moderate vacuum conditions (removing air) it reaches a hardness similar
heating the necessary amount of metal, at a certain temperature and at the to that of a standard plastic. The process is reversible and can be repeated
precise casting moment (when the cast metal should be taken out of the as much as desired and it can adopt different shapes in each case.
furnace). It allows programming the temperature range in which they wish to
VARSTIFF® is an active fabric opening a window for a new generation of
cast the metal and maintains it automatically during the entire casting time.
uses and components. From car interiors, as a substitute for the boot shelf or
The success of the “Plasma Torch” has been immediate and thanks to the functional seats, to healthcare applications such as wristbands, elbow bands
commercial effort of SERT Metal, Fuchosa (Bizkaia) and Lingotes Especiales or immobilisers as an alternative to plaster or other conventional materials.
(Valladolid) have already installed this device in their facilities highlighting
It has also sport-related applications and might be used in professions
the good performance of this new equipment.
where safety clothing is needed, as a protection agent in shin bands,
snowboarding garments, etc.
“Courtesy of Lingotes Especiales”

17. SMART OPPORTUNITY
LIGHTING MAP
LUIX ALLOWS ENERGY SAVINGS WE IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP BUSINESS
IN STREET LIGHTING UP TO 80%. OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMPANIES
LUIX is a technology-based company specialising in Smart Lighting thanks “How do we identify opportunities for the companies?
to the blending of wills from ACR Group, Eguzkitan and TECNALIA. We develop a tailor-made strategy, since each business is different and its
The LUIX system regulates the illumination of streetlamps depending potential and possibilities are unique”.
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 We evaluate the business and the environment, visualising its future and
sequence and direction, depending on the prediction of pedestrian and translating all that into an Opportunity Map with ideas giving response to
vehicle movement and direction. This is achieved by a device integrated in any strategic innovation challenge for that particular company.
the streetlamp which is able to detect both presence and movement.
The Opportunity Map is a flexible and adaptable performance solution
Today, economical and energy savings are a priority for city halls, since on which TECNALIA relies to co-design the innovation strategy jointly
lighting consumption accounts for 55% of their energy expenses. In order to with companies by identifying business opportunities strengthening their
give response to such a demand, the new system is being partially tested in competitiveness.
different towns in Gipuzkoa and Navarre such as Gabiria, Tolosa or Uztarroz.
From our technological know-how, the close collaboration amongst the
Once the efficiency of the system was proven, Isaba and Salinas, located different Business Divisions within TECNALIA and the far-sighted approach,
in Navarre, have fully implemented it in every street. The installation works we focus towards a clear goal: to help companies to identify business
took place in September 2011 and the estimated savings for these cities is opportunities and turn them into results.
20,000 euros in just one year, with energy savings nearing 80%.
OPPORTUNITY
MAP
ANALYSIS FOCUS ACTION

18. Inspiring Business
IMAGINE
+
MAKE IT
COME TRUE