We studied some of the food projects approved in the CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial) aid lines in 2016, within the category of "Biotechnology, Health Technologies and Agri-Food".
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We studied some of the food projects approved in the CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial) aid lines in 2016, within the category of "Biotechnology, Health Technologies and Agri-Food".
The Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) is a Public Business Entity, under the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, which promotes innovation and technological development of Spanish companies. It is the entity that channels applications for funding and support for R&D&I projects of Spanish companies at national and international level. Therefore, the objective of the CDTI is to contribute to the improvement of the technological level of Spanish companies through the development of the following activities:
- Technical-economic evaluation and financing of R&D projects developed by companies.
- Management and promotion of Spanish participation in international technological cooperation programmes.
- Promotion of international business technology transfer and technological innovation support services.
- Support for the creation and consolidation of technology-based companies.
The CDTI has a staff of more than 300 people, three quarters of whom are engineers and university graduates. Although the bulk of its infrastructure is located in Madrid, the Centre offers Spanish companies a strategic network of offices or representatives abroad (Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Korea, Chile, Morocco, China, India, Mexico and the USA) to support them in their international technological activities.
The Centre provides the company with its own financial aid and facilitates access to third party financial aid (bank financing from the Line for the Financing of Technological Innovation and Grants from the EU R&D Framework Programme) to carry out national and international research and development projects.
It also supports the company in the international exploitation of technologies developed by it, by offering aid for technology promotion and innovation and technology transfer projects, its external network and multilateral (Eureka and Iberoeka) and bilateral cooperation projects with Canada, Japan, China, South Korea, India and South Africa.
In 2016, the CDTI approved around 370 food projects in the "Biotechnology, Health Technologies and Agri-Food" category. Most of these projects were selected because they represent an improvement in the following areas:
- Healthy eating.
- Zero tolerance dietetics (vegetarian food, gluten-free food, food for pregnant women...).
- Sustainable production processes.
- Product quality.
- Crop and pasture protection and livestock feed supplements.
- Food preservation techniques.
We have selected some of these projects selected by the CDTI and analysed the companies that have developed them:
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