On 15 January 2015, the Ministry of Economy and Industry announced the opening of the Challenges for Collaboration programme before the end of the month. This programme is the former Innpacto, whose objective is to finance experimental development projects carried out in collaboration between public and private research centres and companies in order to promote research aimed at solving society's challenges through the development of new products and services.
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Fast track to innovation (Fti-Pilot): launch of the 2015 programme
The call is open for the 6th H2020 challenge, fTI-Pilot, which aims to support the European economy by offering grants to innovative companies and organisations to enable them to bring innovative ideas to the market. It is the only challenge that is open to proposals in any area of technology or application.
Investment opportunities in Spain: IT
The IT investment sector remains the most active sector in terms of deals. But there are aspects that are changing: new segments, other types of investors, etc.
Europe's cloud computing receives 30% more investment each year
Investors have seen European cloud computing companies as a source of opportunity. As a result, investment rounds are growing by 30% each year and since 2009 they have established themselves as one of the preferred sectors for investment.
The role of corporations as investors in Startups
In 2014 it was time for Corporations to take a leading role in innovation investment. Moves are coming from the US for Corporations to bring their strategic input to the fore as an advantage over Venture Capital.
Emprendetur Internationalisation
The call for applications for the Emprendetur international programme opens on 9 January for companies operating in the tourism sector whose exports do not exceed 40% of their turnover at the time of application.
Good prospects for venture capital in Spain in 2015
KPMG's prospective report on private equity in Spain, based on a survey completed by 129 executives from 113 private equity firms, shows signs of optimism, reinforced by the good results obtained in 2014.
M&A news in Latin America
2014 has been a good year for M&A in Latin America, with our analysis highlighting the growth of activity in Colombia and Brazil.
Investment analysis of the advanced manufacturing sector
Starting in 2009, the manufacturing technologies sector, which enables time- and cost-saving manufacturing, attracted many investors. A total of 790 rounds and an amount of $7.236M has been raised in the sector to date. In the following we will take a look at...
H2020 calls in Bioeconomy
Next February, the H2020 calls will close under the second societal challenge: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine and Maritime Research and Bioeconomy. Its objective is to ensure a sufficient supply of safe and high quality food and other bio-products through the development of productive and efficient primary production systems.
Mergers and acquisitions analysis in October 2014
Las fusiones y fusiones y adquisiciones en nuestro país siguen creciendo llegando en Octubre a una cifra de 110 operaciones por un importe de €14868M. Esto supone un incremento del 5,77% en el número de operaciones y del 92,72% en el capital movilizado respecto al...
Mexican investors are interested in Spain
This year 2014 the number of mergers and acquisitions in Mexico has grown considerably thanks to the reforms carried out by the Mexican government. In addition, Spain is playing a leading role, having carried out 3 acquisitions of Mexican companies and 5 sales of Spanish companies to Mexico in the last quarter of 2013.