LABEIN

Presentation of LABEIN
ICT TEIP KIS Conference - Brussels, 18 July 2007
Passion for the future
Regional Development and Innovation Management Department

LABEIN Tecnalia - LABEIN is part of TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica
New areas of business
Projects
Services
Operating in 6 markets:
· Iron and steel,
· Automotive,
· Energy,
· Building,
· Environment,
· Regional Development and Innovation Management

LABEIN is one of Europe’s most active rganisations, both in terms of participation in
European Union I+D+I Programmes (over 220 projects since 1986) and of its capacity to
involve Spanish research bodies, companies and universities in the programmes.
We provide a structured offer of specific solutions for specific problems relating to assessment of
conformities, diagnosis, maintenance systems etc.
We create customised solutions to solve problems or use opportunities in relation to our customers’ futures which deal with a number of aspects of products and  processes, our field of expertise.
We develop products to be sold on our target markets, and work with industrial patents.

LABEIN was founded in 1955. It is a Technology Centre with strong links to the business world, and its mission is to act as a natural ally of companies operating in its
markets, with a view to enhancing their innovative capacity
using technology as a tool of competitiveness.

* Staff headcount over 300
* 36 co-operating institutions and companies (Trusteeship)
* Around 30 million euros in earnings
3 business locations
36,000 m2
Over 1,000 customers
per year

RDIM - Our Activities
A - SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODELS
· Innovation Policies and
Strategy
· Regional Development socioeconomic
Models
· Networks and Social Capital
· Innovation Systems in the
European Research Area (RIS)
B – INNOVATION AND SMEs
· Innovation programmes for
SMEs:
· Innovation management and
strategy
· Innovation, culture and people
· Prospective and Business
Intelligence
· People and Entrepreneurship
· Team entrepreneurship
· Intra-entrepreneurship
· Leadership
· Leadership, Culture and
Values for innovation
C – ICT, DIGITAL SOCIETY AND INNOVATION
· Integration of business applications
· Semantic technologies and Service Oriented
Architecture
· Digital ecosystems, e-Business and e-
Learning
· Info-mobility (geographical data exploitation)
· Others (artificial vision, smart interfaces,
digital security,…)
34 high qualified and experience 34 high qualified and experience
researchers working in close researchers working in close
collaboration with the collaboration with the Basque Basque
Government, Government, the the Bizkaia Innovation Bizkaia Innovation
Department Department and other and other regional regional
innovation agents innovation agents
Integration between most advanced ICTs and program management
techniques to help in developing the Knowledge and Information
Society

FP6 – INNOVATION POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
SYSTEMATIC - Sectoral Innovation Systems in Europe Monitoring, Analysing Trends and Identifying Challenges-FP6-INNOVATION
BUILD-NOVA - Building innovation in the European Construction Sector-FP6-INNOVATION
(Lead by Labein)
CENCE - Connecting ENergy Clusters across -FP6-INNOVATION
EMERIPA - European Methodology for Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking- FP6-INNOVATION (Lead by Labein)
RIS-LUBELSKIE - Regional Innovation Strategy LUBELSKIE-FP6-INNOVATION
SYNERGY - Strengthening the competitive intelligence of the European Distributed Energy Resources Sector-FP6-SME (Lead by Labein)
SYNERGY_PLUS - Expanding the Competitive Intelligence in the European Distributed Energy Resources Sector- FP6-SME ( Lead by Labein)
KNOW-CONSTRUCT - Internet platform for knowledge-based customer needs management and collaboration among SMEs in Construction industry-FP6-SME (Lead by Labein)
VIVA - European Virtual Center for Innovation Excellence Assessment-FP6-NMP
WOMEN-CORE - Women in construction scientific research - FP6 Science and Society (Lead by Labein)
E-MULT - European multi-threaded Dynamic SME Networks - FP6-IST
FLUID-WIN - Finance, logistics and production integration domain by web-based interaction network - FP6-IST
e-NVISION - A New Vision for the Participation of European Construction SMEs in the future e-Business Scenario- FP6-IST (Lead by Labein)