Criteria for setting up in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra

The activity of the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra is sponsored by the Technological Plan of Navarra, and forms parts of the infrastructure that supports R&D&I in Navarra.

Therefore, to set up in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra, it is necessary for the requesting entity to prove its participation in public R&D&I programmes or develop a regular R&D&I activity at the facilities it wishes to set up in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra, so that it will have the appropriate premises, material means and research personnel or personnel engaged exclusively in innovation, linked to it.  The institutions that can set up and/or join the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra are classified into the following categories:

• Public and private universities. Research units of the centres attached to them and/or their research results transfer offices may join the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra.
• Public and private research organisations and Technological centres with own legal personality.
• R&D&I programme management organisations with public funding.
• Non-profit making institutions, with own legal personality, which have important and relevant contents for the scientific-technical community, placing them at its disposal.
• Entities with own legal personality that develop a trading activity, whenever their facilities located in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra include the development of R&D&I activities or directly support them.
  The companies forming part of the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra can be divided into four large groups:
  • Intensive R&D companies or institutions R&D Department of large companies. Innovative small and medium enterprises that could carry out their business activities in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra, providing they include R&D. Joint R&D activities, carried out by several companies within a subsectorial Research Association or other type of organisation.
  • Recently created and generated Spin-off companies, in some cases by University graduates and professors, which might be located within an entrepreneurial incubator or nursery.
  • Large, leading R&D companies, whose example could act as an incentive for other investments, providing they are willing to locate a significant part of their innovative activities in the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra.
  • Companies or institutions that provide entrepreneurial services to clients both inside and outside the Parque de la Innovación de Navarra in two fields: Technical services: related to quality control, industrial design, official approval, technology transfer, creation of technology-based enterprises, patents, etc. Other services related to entrepreneurial innovation, not necessarily in technological fields, such as advisory and consultancy services in R&D&I, Venture Capital, Seed Capital, Financial Engineering, Legal Consultations, New technologies.
• Other non-profit making institutions with own legal personality that participate in projects of the Technological Plan of Navarra or equivalent in a national or international field.