We are a government-owned company of private law attached to the Department of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Islands Regional Government, with over 25 years’ experience committed to science and technology as essential pieces in the socioeconomic transformation and sustainable development of the Canary Islands. We contribute to the business fabric competitiveness opening the way to new areas of the industrial and technological sector.

As an instrumental body of the Canary Government, our activity is set in the implementation of regional research and innovation promotion policies applicable to the production sector, as well as the execution of international collaborative and co-operation projects as the execution of international collaborative and co-operation projects.

Our R&D&i activity is aligned with specialisation areas identified in the Canary Intelligent Specialisation Government Strategy (RIS3) for 2014-2020, the Island group socioeconomic transformation roadmap which defines regional public investment in research, development and innovation. From this path of economic, intelligent sustainable growth and to add value to our coastline and geostrategic location in the Atlantic, we are working to make the Canaries a natural laboratory of international reference in the development of environmental sustainability and energy efficiency technologies, likewise inspiring the technological advance of the regional production fabric. 

We contribute to the creation of an economy based on knowledge, sustainability centred and focused on valuing the Canary resources.

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