The CDTI Innovation deploys its comprehensive portfolio of public support and financing instruments to transfer the science of the Spanish ecosystem to the market in 2026

The CDTI Innovation, the state innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, participates in Transfer 2026 with an agenda designed to convey a specific message to the ecosystem: transfer is the mechanism that converts knowledge into competitiveness, sustainability and lever of sovereignty and strategic autonomy. In a global context marked by European industrial reconfiguration or geopolitical inertia and the need to advance strategic autonomy, the CDTI Innovation is the public agent that mobilizes, drives and stimulates business innovation, connecting science, market and investment. Spain needs the transfer to happen more and better and, for this, the public action of the CDTI Innovation is essential, with capacity for mobilization, full-cycle vision and adapted financial tools. That is the proposal that the CDTI Innovation is taking to Malaga: to convert knowledge into competitive and sustainable growth, aligned with technological sovereignty and security, and connected with international markets through support for the internationalization of Spanish business R&D.

The participation of the CDTI in Transfer focuses on the public commitment to make available to companies, startups, technology centers and intermediate actors a “complete itinerary” of instruments capable of accompanying each phase of the innovation value chain by combining grants, partially repayable loans with subsidy equivalent tranche, innovative public purchase or capitalization via venture capital investment, as well as support for the internationalization of Spanish R&D. This comprehensive approach has already been reflected at the end of 2025, having placed its global allocation at more than 2.2 billion euros between competitive calls for grants, direct spending and other financial tools aimed at bringing R&D results to the market.

The CDTI Innovation in Transfer

Yesterday, Tuesday, February 24, José Moisés Martín Carretero, general director of the CDTI, addressed the role of public investment as a lever to move frontier science towards industry and market. The transfer in deep technologies, with high capital intensity and long cycles, requires specific tools to reduce risk, attract co-investment and accelerate scaling, a financial architecture that CDTI Innovation has strengthened in recent months through its mix of instruments.

That same day, the CDTI Innovation intervened in a specific session on the PERTE for Avant-Garde Health, oriented to its instruments of support for biomaterials and biomanufacturing, fields in which the transfer is specifically relevant by connecting biomedical research, industrial capacities, regulatory validation and market in a chain in which the “valley of death” is usually deeper. The objective of the action of the CDTI Innovation in the field of this PERTE is that the innovation translates into tangible, demonstrable and scalable solutions, with economic and social impact.

Today, Wednesday 25, a substantial part of the strategic message of the CDTI Innovation is concentrated. In particular, it relates to technological sovereignty, strategic autonomy and security as guiding criteria, with a transversal especially highlighted in Transfer: the dual technologies, in which CDTI Innovation has been operating for decades as part of its action to promote business R&D. In 2025, this cross-cutting of dual-use technologies has been explicitly reinforced with specific endowments (Neotec, Misiones, Cervera) and an agenda that integrates synergies between civil and defense applications, reducing development times and costs and promoting our own industrial capabilities. In this line, the CEO of CDTI Innovation presents a keynote intervention focused on defense and deep tech. The day also incorporates other specific sessions on dual technologies, with the participation of the technical team of the CDTI in different spaces of Transfer.

It also dedicates, with the intervention of Juan Antonio Tébar, Director of Innovation Policy, a specific space to collaboration, between companies, technology centers, universities and administrations, as a backbone: the transfer at country level is based on alliances capable of transforming research into industrializable and competitive solutions. Within the framework of the CDTI, the consortium model is approached from a governance criterion, since collaboration allows to add capacities, integrate value chain, reduce risk and ensure that R&D results are connected with real demand, markets and deployments.

For its part, the transfer based on early demand is also supported by real-world validation instruments. The CDTI Innovation, as a pioneering public entity in the implementation in Spain of Innovative Public Procurement (CPI), will intervene in a dedicated session in which it will value the CPI as a cutting-edge public policy that allows administrations to acquire R&D, prototypes and demonstrators, generating early traction and reducing adoption uncertainty.

Finally, the CDTI Innovation also deploys in Transfer one of its key dimensions, the capitalization of innovation. Through Innvierte, the CDTI Innovation promotes public-private co-investment and funds so that knowledge is translated into the creation and growth of innovative companies, especially in verticals such as biotechnology, AI, climate tech or new space. In the strictly deep-tech and transfer field, the CDTI Innovation acts through its instrument Innvierte Deep-Tech & Tech Transfer, promoted and managed together with the European Investment Fund and endowed with 353 million euros, which specifically aims to strengthen the transfer link and university and technological spin-offs through funds participated by the CDTI.

The CDTI Innovation will also have an exhibition space during the three days of Transfer, in which the technical team will be available to guide and advise companies, entrepreneurs, universities, knowledge centers and other agents of the ecosystem on the different ways of public support for R&D and innovation, resolve doubts about calls and requirements and help identify the most appropriate instrument depending on the degree of maturity of each project.
 

CDTI Innovation

The Center for Technological Development and Innovation, CDTI E.P.E. It is the innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, whose objective is the promotion of technological innovation in the business environment. The mission of the CDTI is to ensure that the Spanish business fabric generates and transforms scientific and technical knowledge into globally competitive, sustainable and inclusive growth. In 2024, within the framework of a new strategic plan, the CDTI provided more than 2.3 billion euros of support to Spanish companies and startups.

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