Over 90 percent of the companies that are innovating with Eurecat are small and medium-sized enterprises, to which the technology centre offers highly advanced technological solutions in the industrial, digital, biotechnological and sustainability areas, in order to boost their competitiveness.
With this in mind, the president of the Eurecat technology centre, Daniel Altimiras, stresses the importance of “small and medium-sized enterprises investing ever more in innovation, to create new products or services and improve their production processes to expand their market and their specific weight in the economy”.
In the words of the Eurecat’s general business manager, Miquel Rey, “technological innovation is essential to help small and medium-sized enterprises to launch new dynamics that make them more competitive, generate quality employment and create wealth”.
Seventy-one percent of Eurecat’s revenue is linked to projects and initiatives with SMEs, which Eurecat supports with numerous services to accelerate their technological innovation processes, including the Inspira Lab service. This service helps to explore and streamline the creation of new solutions to business challenges quickly, thanks to agile concept tests to create products or services, optimise production or incorporate new technologies.
This methodology, integrating several cross-cutting disciplines and a multi-technological vision, is based on the generation of innovative proposals and the agile development of demos and prototypes, for the execution of proofs of concept in laboratories and pilot plants in cutting-edge technologies of Eurecat in a short period of time, with an average of three months depending on the level of complexity.
To achieve this, the technology centre offers its expert and multidisciplinary teams to SMEs to increase competitiveness through levers such as digitalisation and sustainability and supporting companies throughout the value chain, helping them to carry out disruptive changes. In addition, it provides the SME ecosystem with technological transformation plans, tools for monitoring new technologies, market studies or information systems, among other things, for all economic sectors.
It also organises training sessions tailored to the needs of the SMEs for the transfer of technical knowledge and new technological capabilities. These training activities enable the focus on solving the specific problems of each company, while training and specialising technical staff in their own field of work.
