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Asesoría Industrial Zabala, S.A. has a wide experience
in assisting and advising companies in the management of RTD
and innovation activities, as well as on technology transfer
projects. It is a consolidated RTD and Innovation consultancy
firm working across Europe on these fields since year 1986.
It provides on a contract basis regular advice on RTD and
innovation management to a portfolio of 130 SMEs across Spain,
being by far the first Spanish innovation consultant in terms
of annual submission and approval of companies’ national
RTD and innovation projects before the Spanish Innovation
authorities: over 100 national RTD projects every year, from
which some 25 RTD and innovation projects come from renewable
energy companies.
During the decade from mid-eighties to mid-nineties (i.e.
until the extinction of the SPRINT network), Asesoria Industrial
Zabala was actively involved in this Technology Transfer Brokerage
Network sponsored by the former DG XIII of the European Commission
(EC contract C49). Moreover, it has planned, organised and
monitored numerous “TT Days- Technology Transfer Days”,
for the account of public innovation entities:
- January 1989. TT Days hosted by the Business and Innovation
Centre of Navarra. Spain.
- 1995 January - May. Participation in the preparation of
a Technology Transfer Days held in La Rioja (Spain) with
the support of La Rioja Innovation Agency (ADER) and the
former European sprint Programme.
- 1995 June. Contracted by the former CDTI-value Relay Centre
to provide assistance for the preparation, celebration and
follow-up of “agro-food value days” in the Spanish
regions of Navarra and La Rioja in order to validate and
exploit European Programmes technology results.
- 1999 March – 2000 November. Provision of technical
assistance to the Navarra Business Innovation Centre for
the preparation and holding of the 2nd and 3rd Co-operation
and Technology Transfer Days.
- In June 2002, the “Spanish Innovation week”
(sponsored by the Innovation Policy Unit of DG Enterprise
of the European Commission) was organised by Asesoría
Industrial Zabala: 40 European co-ordinators of FP5 Demonstration
projects from the Area of Innovation attended to this congress.
AIZabala started in 1998 its activity with Renewable Energies.
It has nowadays 7 permanent clients from the RES field (both
industries and research centres), as well as contacts with
many other European and Spanish RES industries, centres and
energy institutions and administrations. Main activities undertaken
in this field are:
- Participation as expert evaluators for several DG TREN
energy calls for proposals under FP5 and FP6.
- 1999-2002: Development of periodic External Assessments
of the progress of the project untitled “Wind Energy
Potential I” (WEP I), funded by the European Commission,
under the Ecos-Ouverture programme.
- 1999-2001: Co-ordination of a 7 partner Accompanying Measure
within the EESD FP5, untitled “Accompanying Measure
for the Integration of Renewable Energies into the Energy
Systems” (AMIREES).
- Submission of proposals, contract negotiation and management
of renewable energy research and demonstration projects
at FP4, FP5 and FP6: co-ordination and management of 14
retained projects. Additionally, submitting and managing
some Altener and EIE projects.
- Knowledge about state of the art in most RES technologies
and policies: wind, photovoltaics, biomass, biofuels and
hydrogen.
The personnel directly involved in ProRETT from Asesoría
Industrial Zabala, S.A. are:
 Juan
Cristóbal García
Engineer
He works in Asesoría Industrial Zabala S.A. since 2005.
He is consultant in Transport and in Renewable Energies. Technical
assistance to technology centres and industries on the submission
of Community and National proposals, which leads to the contract
negotiation of one of the first CENIT projects. He has previously
worked at the R&D departments at Alstom and Gamesa Eólica
being in charge of the improvement of the R&D and Project
Management processes. He is Black Belt in Six Sigma.
 Juan
Sanciñena
He is working in Asesoría Industrial Zabala, S.A. since
1997. He is consultant in Renewable Energies. Expert evaluator
for the FP6-2002-TREN-1 calls for proposals “Area Sustainable
Energy Systems. Large scale integration of Renewable Energy
Sources into energy supplies”. Technical assistance to
industries on the submission of 20 Community proposals on Energy
RTD and Demonstration, which leads to contract negotiation and
management of technical and financial reports of 14 EU funded
projects (FP4, FP5, FP6).
 Aitor Garro
Economist
He works in Asesoría Industrial Zabala S.A. since 1987.
Expert on innovation financing and innovation tax incentives
for the account of industrial companies. During all these years
he has been especially involved in the co-ordination, definition,
and submission before regional and national Innovation Authorities
of more than two hundred Innovation and RTD projects from different
industrial firms, mainly SME’s, looking for public financial
aids.
ASESORÍA INDUSTRIAL ZABALA
P° Premín de Iruña, 4-1a planta
31008 Pamplona (España)
Tel: +34 948 198000
Fax: +34 948 198448
www.aizabala.com
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