A year-opening with financial muscle for innovation
The CDTI has released the results of several key calls for proposals that mobilize a significant amount of public resources toward business and technological innovation. Among them are three major lines that, together, shape the system’s priorities at the start of this year.
On one hand, Science and Innovation Missions 2025, with 139 million euros allocated to 35 large-scale projects aimed at the country’s strategic challenges. These are flagship initiatives, with a high level of collaboration and a clear focus on medium and long-term impact.
Strengthening the country’s technological infrastructure
To this commitment is added the Cervera Centers of Technological Excellence call, which allocates 70 million euros to 13 interregional projects. The objective is to strengthen the network of technological centers, improve their specialization, and increase their capacity to transfer knowledge and technology to the business fabric.
This structural reinforcement is key to ensuring that innovation does not depend solely on isolated projects, but on stable capabilities distributed throughout the territory.
A direct boost for technological SMEs
The third major line is NEOTEC, with 40 million euros allocated to some 130 technological SMEs. This call remains one of the primary levers for supporting young technology-based companies, facilitating their growth, and accelerating the arrival of new solutions to the market.
Taken together, these three lines demonstrate a balanced strategy: large-scale flagship projects, the strengthening of infrastructures, and direct support for technological entrepreneurship.
The key moment to activate transfer
Beyond the figures, these types of resolutions always mark a critical moment in the ecosystem. It is now when:
- companies begin to seek technological partners,
- research centers and universities activate new collaborations,
- “and innovation and transfer agents guide the flow of these funds into specific projects.
Experience shows that the real impact of these calls depends less on the economic volume and more on how they are managed, connected, and translated into applied innovation.
