TECNALIA is the largest centre of applied research and technological development in Spain, a benchmark in Europe and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance. We collaborate with companies and institutions to improve their competitiveness, people's quality of life and achieve sustainable growth. We do it thanks to a team of more than 1,500 people (44% women – 56% men) who are passionate about technology and committed to building a better society. Our main scopes of action are: smart manufacturing, digital transformation, energy transition, sustainable mobility, health and food, urban ecosystem and circular economy.

Our mission is to transform technological research into prosperity; TECNALIA's research has a real impact on society and generates benefits in the form of quality of life and progress. And we work with the purpose of building a better world through technological research and innovation. TECNALIA’s research has a real impact on society and provides specific solutions to the major global challenges.

Its revenue in 2023 amounted to 137 million euros, 47% in revenue from activity with companies. In terms of impact, for every Euro invested by a company in R&D with TECNALIA, an average turnover increase of €13.6 is obtained.
In 2023, the Sale of Industrial Property Rights section recorded 7,2 million euros in income, with a portfolio of 741 patents. It took part in 17 start-up deeptech with a capital attracted of 6,5 million euros. They generated a total of 104 jobs and a turnover of 9.6 million euros. TECNALIA is the fourth private Spanish organisation in European patent applications. In Europe, TECNALIA has consolidated its position as the first private organisation in Spain in project contracting, participation and leadership under the European Commission's HORIZON EUROPE programme, in partnership with over 100 Spanish companies.

Companies need multi-sector and multi-technology responses that are impossible to satisfy without the hybridization of technologies. TECNALIA has a multidisciplinary team and a network of strategic alliances at an international level to anticipate current and future needs among others:

• Advanced joining solutions (electron beam welding, brazing, friction welding, disimilar materials joining …).
• Surface engineering (PVD, sol-gel, Thin and Thick films, electrodeposition, ionic nitruration, plasma assisted treatments,….).
• Thermal spraying.
• Materials and Mock-Ups Characterization (mechanical testing, pressure testing, chemical and metallographic analysis, determination of TCC -Thermal Contact Conductance-, He leak tests, …..)
• Prototipes manufacturing.
• Validation of prototypes for ITER (Electrical Feedthroughs, Optical Feedthrough, Diagnostic Shield Modules (DSMs)…)
• Remote handling. Robotics.
• Pd based membranes for tritium recovery.
• Carbon Molecular sieve membranes for gas separation (Hydrogen, Helium, etc).
• Polymeric membranes for coolant gases recovery.
• Diamond based quantum chips: material growing, doping, characterization, functionalization.
• Cybersecurity.