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In the first quarter of the year will open the first resort facilities and in April is expected to Ben Arabi supercomputer is fully operational
The Foundation Board of the Science Park Murcia, chaired by the regional chief executive, Ramon Luis Valcarcel, today approved the installation of eight companies specializing in R + D + i in the first building of the technological infrastructure, which will employ 41 people , and is scheduled to open in the first quarter of this year.
This building will house the supercomputer Ben Arabi, which is in full swing in April.
In addition, the Foundation Board also approved to invest more than nine million euros that will serve to put other properties of the complex of the Science Park (located at the former Institute of Biochemistry, Campus de Espinardo), equipment, and to attract innovative companies.
This budget is double that of 2008, 4.6 million, which confirms the commitment of regional government proactive strategies in the field of technology and innovation that create the conditions for diversification of industrial activity value and the development of R & D.
The Minister of Universities and Research Company, Salvador Marin, said after the meeting of the board that "the Science Park, a project launched by President Valcárcel and has been working hard the regional government, is now a reality and has new high quality infrastructure that support business competitiveness. "
"In fact," said Marin, from April and will run Ben Arabi, the fourth most powerful supercomputer in Spain, which will give our companies and researchers with a tool that allows the region to have a competitive advantage in developing research and development. "
The first companies which will have headquarters in the Science Park, after being approved your application by the Board, are Thader Biotechnology, neotechnic, Composites and sun, DIS Energy Water and Environment, Molecular Sun, Luss Innovation, TDT Lab Tech Center Information Technology and Communications, and a virtual classroom Telefónica I + D, from which companies operate regional and fellows to the R & D of Telefónica.
Thus, in the first building of the Science Park will work 33 employees of these companies and eight experts from the Center for Supercomputing Ben Arabi.
Moreover, business R & D and research groups can use from home and office computing capacity of 10.7 teraflops-ten trillion operations per second, the supercomputer, which has 944 processors.
Marin said the Supercomputing Center "is meant to solve problems characterized by computation-intensive tasks, managing and interpreting large volumes of data that require exceptional speed of execution.
It has numerous fields of activities such as scientific research, biotechnology, earth sciences, finance and insurance, defense, engineering mechanics / virtual prototyping, electronic design automation or production of film and video, among others. "
Objectives for 2009
As for the objectives of the Science Park Foundation in 2009, the trustees agreed to focus the activities to develop physical infrastructure and in attracting companies to develop their activity in it.
Is expected to begin work on the Senate Park, an architectural project, won in competition for the Fernando de Retes Murcia, which includes three buildings to create a common space devoted to technology-based companies.
The works will be completed in 2010 creating a joint space of 6,000 square meters for housing and service companies.
It is also intended to define the project for the installation of the National Technology Center preserves and other food research institutes in the plot of 70,000 square meters, adjacent to the University campus, which has given the city of Molina de Segura.
In addition, the Foundation Board agreed to step up recruitment companies in the region with concrete plans R & D + i, entrepreneurs find technology-based companies and projects to attract technology companies exporting areas like USA, Germany, England and Taiwan as well as Catalonia, Madrid and Basque Country.
"The Science Park is a regional government's basic commitment intended to facilitate the incorporation of new technologies in SMEs, to encourage the establishment of R & D units in companies and sectors, and implement new opportunities for innovation, suitable for the introduction of technologically advanced, and to catalyze the relationship between science, technology and business.
It is well-Marin continued so that today we can speak of a good overall situation regarding R & D spending and, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute, the region was one of the communities most in percentage terms increased its efforts in 2007, 28.6 percent, "concluded the director.
The board of the Science Park Foundation is chaired by the regional president Ramon Luis Valcarcel, and has representation from the regional administration, municipalities of Murcia and Molina de Segura, and the Universities of Murcia and Cartagena Polytechnic.
In the picture, the President accompanied by the Minister for Universities and Research Company, Salvador Hernández Marín, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Inmaculada Garcia, the rector of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cobacho, the rector of the Polytechnic University Cartagena, Felix Faure, the Town Planning of the City of Murcia, Fernando Berberena, the secretary general of the CROEM, Clemente Garcia, Secretary of the Science Park Foundation, Encarna Muñoz and the manager, Francisco Vidal.
Source: CARM
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