RPIA Aragn first achievements:

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RPIA Aragón - first achievements
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• Sectoral Platforms
• Strategic Research Structures

17 18 May 2004 Uppsala - Sweden
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Aragón View
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- Aragón, with an area of 47.669 km² and
1.200.000 inhabitants (25 inhab/km²) includes
three provinces Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel. -
95 of the Aragonese region is a fragile and few
structured zone (a rural area), and the rest 5,
includes Zaragoza metropolitan area and its
industrial surroundings.
ARAGÓN
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Instituto Tecnológico de AragónManagement
organism
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The Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón is a
technology RD centre whose main objective is to
promote the technological capacity of the local
industry. This support comprises a wide variety
of tasks, such as identification and support of
the innovation necessities, technology and
innovation management, exploitation of
technological resources, etc.

• The technical areas are
• Agro-alimentary and Biotechnology.
• Electronics and New Technologies
• Mechanics and New Materials
• Technological Consultancy
• Technical Services of calibration
• Training

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Framework of Sectoral Platforms
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Innovation
e-EuropaRegio
PLASEC. Setting up of sectoral platforms of
innovation support.
COOPERA. Co-operation among the SI agents,
through projects of technological development and
innovation in SMEs
LABORA. Approach of the NICT in the business
sector and in the Aragonese society

• REDES.
• Exchange of innovative good practices

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PLASEC Measure
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Kindness of the cooperation in the enterprises
relations
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• The co-operation between companies (specially
  between SMEs) represents a key factor in
  competitiveness with the global economy.
• It facilitates the presence and visibility in the
  global market of the companies that decides to
  cooperate.
• It allows to accede to new opportunities and new
  challenges difficult to reach in individual form.
• All the companies that participate in a
  cooperation obtains benefits from it.

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PLASEC, a measure to take advantage of
cooperation kindness
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• And to facilitate the co-operation in Aragon by
  means of the creation of Sectoral Platforms
• To spread the innovation and cooperation culture
  between the sectors of activity of the
  participant companies.
• To spread the cooperation such as interrelation
  mechanisms that go beyond the strictly mercantile
  relations of subordination and that allow to
  performances and behaviors "win-win".
• To combine capacities and competitions to
  position itself in segments of greater added
  value within the value chain.
• To respond to challenges that need the
  concurrence of several companies.
• To design, to define and to implant shared
  strategies of innovation.
• To define stable mechanisms of cooperation in
  order to improve the competitiveness of the
  companies of the Platforms.

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PLASEC Measure
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• Content
• Setting up of sectoral platforms of innovation
  support.
• Description
• A Sectoral Platforms is a group of companies from
  the same sector of activity, or present in the
  same supply chain, or with common interests, that
  articulates stable mechanisms of cooperation in
  order to improve its competitive capacity.

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Sectoral Platforms
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• Objective
• To Improve competitiveness of the companies
  through cooperation and establishment of an
  agreement about the following issues
• the challenges companies have to cope with
  related to innovation matters
• the objectives and strategies to get these
  challenges
• the priority actions to be developed by
• the companies participating
• the association of these companies

Leader Company
Company
Company
Sectoral Platform
Company
Company
2 years
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Keys
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• Group of Companies

Same value chain
Same sector of activities
From
Common geographical or social context
Common interests and Innovation necessities
With
Stable mechanisms of Long Term co-operation
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Development of PLASEC
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• Identification of possible Sectoral Platforms.
  (Leaders and companies).
• Definition of cooperation lines between the
  companies.
• Animation in proposals presentation to PLASEC
  Call.

• Evaluation of proposals received in an
  interactive process between ITA and Sectoral
  Platforms.
• Financing of the best proposals.

PHASE III ACCOMPANYING
PHASE I ANIMATION
PHASE II EVALUATION

• Agreement between ITA and each Sectoral
• Platform with the commitment of fulfillment
• of the objectives and collaboration.
• Individualized accompanying plan for each
  Platform,
• according to the particular necessities.

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Figures
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Entrepreneurial Organizations, Big Enterprises,
Universities, Foundations, ...
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On going Platforms
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VITEMAR is a technological and environmental
monitoring platform headed by the Aragonese
Association of Metal Processing Companies and
with the participation of 13 companies. The
objective of VITEMAR is to prepare and equip the
sector to be able to face the increasing
environmental demands. ARCODI Eight companies
specialized in digital communication have joined
force to promote the international
commercialisation of their technology. TECNOVATIO
N This platform, led by APTICE (the Association
for the Promotion of Electronic Commerce) looks
to provide new technological solutions for small
and medium - sized Aragonese companies. EURO-MARK
ET The multinational BSH BALAY is promoting the
development of one group of its suppliers in
Zaragoza so as to be in a position to supply the
BSH group as a whole.
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On going Platforms
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E-METALCOM led by the Federation of Iron and
Steel Companies of Zaragoza, looks to develop the
e-commerce possibilities of a wide range of iron
and steel sector companies. In the beginning, 12
companies are involved in the Platform. CENTROPYM
E.BIZ is a platform whose aim is to create a
market place virtual business centre in order
to speed up the way small and medium-size
companies do business. It is headed by CEPYME
Aragón. GESTINZA is a platform which groups
together companies from various sectors of
activity to improved innovation management
systems in Aragonese companies. CIALCA the
platform has been set up to promote innovation,
research and technological development in the
food and agriculture area, headed by the
Calamocha Development, Construction and Promotion
Society. ARIME TERUEL has brought together five
Teruel-based companies from the dry grains and
non-energy mineral extraction sectors and it
seeks to improve competitiveness through
co-operation.
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Resume
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Future
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SECTORAL PLATFORMS
IN THE LONG TERM
CLUSTERS
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COOPERA Measure
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Strategic Research Structures
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• Contents
• To implement cooperation channels among the
  scientific-technological actors in order to
  improve the excellence in Aragón. As a result of
  cooperation, vanguard positions in different
  sectors will be strengthened and the Aragonese
  industries necessities and new challenges will be
  efficiently solved.
• Description
• A Strategic Research Structure is formed by a
  group of researchers who establish an
  identifiable cooperation relationship in the mid
  term and with a development or research line
  characterised by a high innovative and strategic
  component for Aragón.

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Strategic Research Structures
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• Objectives
• To develop innovative and strategic research
  lines in Aragón.
• To promote participation of the
  scientific-technological actors in Aragón in
  national and international networks of
  excellence.
• Main features
• Participation of at least one scientific-technolog
  ical actor together with one or more RD
  departments of SMEs.
• The research lines to be developed must fulfil
  the specific necessities of one or more business
  sectors.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Optical Communications Working Group (I)
• It comprises the participation of Fibercom as
  well as the Applied Physics Department and
  Electronics and Communications Department of the
  University of Zaragoza (members of I3A).
• This working group aims at developing a stable
  cooperation frame in the optical fiber and
  communications field.
• The main research lines are
• DWDM systems. Development of measurement
  procedures for optical communication networks
  with dense wavelength division multiplexing
  (DWDM). The DWDM systems are the most advanced
  solution for high transmission communications.
• Non-linear effects on fiber. Development and
  exploitation of BOSA, a metering unit for
  high-resolution optical spectrum.
• Linear sensors. Research of the applications of
  optical fibers such as sensors distributed in
  length.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Optical Communications Working Group (II)
• Activities to highlight
• Implementation of the pre-industrial phase for
  the development of BOSA, whose first prototype
  was submitted in February 2004 in the Optical
  Fiber Conference in Los Angeles. This prototype
  will be available in the market at the end of the
  present year.
• Creation of a web page with information on ETCO,
  www.etco-co.com.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Food quality and safety. Development of new
  diagnostic tests (I)
• Members
• Zeu-Inmunotec.
• Food Technology Department. Food Technology and
  Microbiology Group. Faculty of Veterinary.
  University of Zaragoza.
• Food Technology Department. Biochemistry and Food
  Analysis Group. Faculty of Veterinary. University
  of Zaragoza.
• Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Department. Animal Immunity and Food Quality
  Group. Faculty of Sciences. University of
  Zaragoza.
• Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Department. Group of Cyanobacteria and Chemistry
  of Proteins and Peptides. Faculty of Sciences.
  University of Zaragoza.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Food quality and safety. Development of new
  diagnostic tests (II)
• The objective of this research structure is to
  develop new analytical tools to guarantee food
  quality and safety.
• The research lines are focused on the development
  of new diagnostic tests for
• Detection of antibiotics and wastes in food.
• Identification of food allergens.
• Detection of pathogens and toxins in water.
  Development of legionella and cyanotoxins tests.
• Evaluation of the quality of milk.
• Activities to highlight
• A technical day was celebrated in December 2003
  with the participation of fifty researchers in
  this sector.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Industrial virtual reality (I)
• Members
• Group of Advanced Graphic Computing. Department
  of Informatics and Systems Engineering of the
  Polytechnics School. University of Zazagoza.
• Department of Software Technologies and
  Multimedia Systems of the Technological Institute
  of Aragón.
• With the collaboration of the following
  companies
• Construcciones Auxiliares de Ferrocarril, CAF.
• Tecnoluz, Ensayos y Calibraciones.
• Formación y Tecnología, Fortec.
• Going Investment.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Industrial virtual reality (II)
• Description
• Development of systems, applications and tools of
  virtual reality and enlarged reality for
  industrial processes.
• Activities to highlight
• Technology prospective about virtual and enlarged
  reality.
• Agreement between ITA and the University of
  Zaragoza for the installation of VR in the
  technology park WALCA (interactive CAVE) for the
  development of lighting and visualization
  projects.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Aragonese traditional ceramic (I)
• Members
• Laboratory of Materials Processing by Laser of
  the Institute of Materials Sciences of Aragón,
  CSIC.
• Group of Applied Inorganic Chemistry of ICMA,
  CSIC.
• Department of Analytical Chemistry of Sciences
  Faculty. University of Zaragoza.
• Ceramics School Workshop of Muel.
• Gres Aragón.
• Description
• The structure deals with the application of laser
  technology on the Aragonese traditional ceramic
  with the objective of improving production and
  competitiveness of the artisans in Aragón.

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Strategic Research Structures Developed
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• Aragonese traditional ceramic (II)
• Research lines
• Development of new processes of digital engraving
  and titling on ceramic tiles.
• Analysis of the surface composition of metallic
  reflection in order to recover the way this
  decoration is produced in the Aragonese ceramic
  workshops.
• Development of new composites used in the
  production of metallic surfaces.
• Activities to highlight
• Titling of 2.000 streets in villages of Zaragoza
  province.

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