Proyectos de Investigación y Desarrollo

The CDTI is governed by private law in its relations with third parties. This allows it to offer companies agility and flexibility in its support services for the development of R&D business projects, the international exploitation of technologies developed by the company, and the making of offers for technological-industrial supplies to scientific and technological organizations.

Consequently, the CDTI grants the company its own economic aid and facilitates access to third party aid (subsidies from the EU R&D Framework Program, for example) to carry out national and international research and development projects.

It also provides support to the company to develop in international cooperation, for which it offers aid for innovation and technology transfer projects, its external network and multilateral cooperation projects (Eureka and Iberoeka) and bilateral cooperation projects with Canada, Japan, China, South Korea, India and South Africa.

In addition, the CDTI has been empowered as the competent body to issue binding reasoned reports on the projects to which it has granted aid in any of its lines (Royal Decree 2/2007). These documents will provide Spanish companies that have an approved project with public aid granted by the CDTI with greater legal certainty when it comes to obtaining tax deductions for the expenses incurred in the R&D activities of such projects.

Finally, the CDTI manages and supports Spanish companies in obtaining high-tech industrial contracts generated by different national and European organizations, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the European Synchrotron Facility (ESRF), Hispasat and Eumetsat.