Recommendations to improve processes of knowledge and technology transfer to companies. 2005 Report. This document aims to provide a joint assessment by the different actors in the Spanish Science and Technology System on the process of transfer of knowledge and technology. The report presents an objective analysis of the deficiencies of our transfer system, and issues proposals for improvement, both of aspects due to the administration itself and those due to fundamental agents of the system: companies, universities, technological and research centres, public research bodies, and the various interface structures.

ENCYT is the framework of widely shared general objectives and principles from which future national and regional R&D Plans must be prepared. The initiative of preparing this strategy comes as a result of the experience of successive National Plans developed to date and the results of the INGENIO 2010 initiative, which was an important boost for science and technology in Spain.

The 6th National Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation Plan for the 2008-2011 period has a structure based on four areas directly related to the general objectives and linked to instrumental programmes that pursue concrete and specific objectives: generation of knowledge and capabilities area; R&D cooperation development area; sectorial technological innovation and development area and strategic actions area.

FECYT has drafted this document, which reflects relevant aspects which play a part in the management of research data in scientific repositories, including definition, typology, players involved, examples of good management practices as well as a general panorama of the situation in Spain.

The purpose of the PITEC project (Technological Innovation Panel) is to create a representation of the situation and evolution of innovative companies in Spain in addition to detecting opportunities and necessities in the field of innovation. The PITEC Project started in 2004 as a result of collaboration efforts between FECYT and the COTEC Foundation along with advice from a group of researchers representing different universities. The purpose of PITEC is to become a statistical reference tool for the analysis of R&D&I activity development in businesses at the national level. This will allow for the study of important aspects such as the impact that innovation has on productivity, the distribution of internal and external R&D&I, costs, etc.