GREA
Innovació Concurrent was founded in 1999 as a union of some academics within
the Mechanical Engineering degree, at the University of Lleida. From its
beginning it was born as a multidisciplinary group, and today its research
topics include Energy Engineering, Machinery Design & Optimization and
Industrial Automation & Control.
One of the main objectives of GREA is to contribute to increase the
competitiveness of enterprises, through the collaboration in the development of
new products and with technological assessment. Another objective of the group
is to give an answer to the needs of specialized training and by continuous
training oriented to companies. The group collaborates with a big variety of
companies, from local SME to multinationals, doing R+D+I or developing new
products, in punctual or continuous collaborations. Innovation support tasks,
technology transfer, and collaboration in calls of financed projects are
offered.
This wide group of expertises and the collaboration with other national and international research centres allows the integration of different technologies and topics to offer specialized or integral services of development and innovation to different industry sectors. TECNIO is the network created by ACC1Ó that brings together Catalan expert agents in Technology Transfer. ACC1Ó is the Agency for innovation and the internationalization of Catalan companies and is attached to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Enterprise of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The goal of TECNIO is to facilitate Catalan businesses the access to differential R&D and technology to enhance their competitiveness and their international success. TECNIO members respond to the demands of technology companies quickly and efficiently, so they can be incorporated to their products and services.