Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Research. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Taiwanese company Toro chooses Barcelona as site for its European headquarters

From http://www.europapress.cat/economia/noticia-fira-taiwanesa-toro-escull-barcelona-per-installar-seva-seu-europea-atreta-per-mwcapital-20120731114842.html (in Catalan)

Taiwanese company Toro Development Limited, specialized in the development of digital wallet platforms and mWallet, will establish its new operation and R&D office in Barcelona in 2013. These offices will be located in the city's Mobile World Hub and they will directly serve the European market and also create international exchange opportunities for company employees. The company has started the selection process of 10 engineers from the Barcelona area, who will immediately travel to Taiwan to complete the training before taking their new responsabilities. Agustín Cordón, vicepresident of the Mobile World Capital’s Executive Committee, said that “Toro is undoubtedly one of the world’s leaders in NFC solutions and will play a decisive role in our mWallet program" and also that "Toro has extensive experience in the transformation of mobile devices into mobile wallets so we are very happy to have them onboard and are already looking forward to jointly develop new solutions in this field.”

Monday, November 8, 2010

Agbar is leading a boost on water and energy patents

From http://www.expansion.com/2010/11/07/empresas/energia/1289162785.html (in Spanish)

Agbar's Sostaqua R+D program is proving to be very fruitful, since 290 new patents concerning water and energy have been registered in the last 4 years. Apart from this patents, the Sostaqua program has created 1,800 new jobs, 230 prototypes and more than 600 stable collaborations between private companies and research centers. The Sostaqua project was aimed at improving the sustainability of the urban water cycle and had a budget of approximately 26 million euros, half covered by Agbar and the other half by the CDTI (Center for the Development of Industrial Technology). Apart from Agbar, the other 15 companies involved in the project have been Canaragua, Clabsa, Cementos Molins, Degremont, Dow Ibérica, Emuasa, Labaqua, Sener, Solvay, Auma, Cric, Amphos 21, Remosa, Sineria and STC.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Growth of scientific production in Catalonia

From http://premsa.gencat.cat/pres_fsvp/AppJava/notapremsavw/detall.do?id=54507 (in Catalan)

Scientific production in Catalonia has grown up to almost 15,000 documents on 2008, which represent 26.1% of the total Spanish production. For the first time Catalonia's production has overtaken that of Finland, Austria and Norway. Despite the economic crisis, investment on R&D by the Catalan government has amounted 954 million euros.

Growth of scientific production in Catalonia

From http://premsa.gencat.cat/pres_fsvp/AppJava/notapremsavw/detall.do?id=54507 (in Catalan)

Scientific production in Catalonia has grown up to almost 15,000 documents on 2008, which represent 26.1% of the total Spanish production. For the first time Catalonia's production has overtaken that of Finland, Austria and Norway. Despite the economic crisis, investment on R&D by the Catalan government has amounted 954 million euros.