Generalitat of Catalonia

The Catalan Government’s clear and decided commitment to the development of Catalonia as a knowledge-based society and as a socially and culturally advanced society, combined with the need to create a modern and competitive economy, are clearly shown in a substantial budgetary allocation of the resources necessary to achieve the aims of the range of programmes described above. The sum total of the resources earmarked to fulfilling the Research and Innovation Plan 2005­2008 amounts to 860 million euros, representing the budgets of the Directorate General of Research of the Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society (DURSI) and the Ministry of Employment and Industry (Secretariat for Industry and Energy and the Centre for Business Innovation and Development, CIDEM); the two principal executors of the Plan.

Also, on top of this amount, the budget that the DURSI awards to the Catalan public universities, specifically to research, through the programme contract (research support programme, section 4.1.1.) should be added and which depends on the results of the universities on different indicators (six-year reports and publications, among others). It should also be borne in mind that given the fact that universities are institutions whose purpose is research, part of the teaching staff’s salary should also be taken into account (40%) and of the administrative and service staff (20%) as budget aimed at promoting research and development (Frascati Manual, OECD). According to this, a conservative estimate of the DURSI budget for university research for the 2005-2008 period is 800 million euros.

Likewise, it should be said that, as shown in table 2 in the appendix to the Plan, in addition to the DURSI and the Ministry of Employment and Industry (DTI), the other ministries of the Government of Catalonia also invest in research, development and innovation. Notable in this sense, is the Ministry of Health, which in 2003 financed research and development in biomedicine to the amount of 66 million euros (latest available data when drafting the Plan).

Despite this, these are the data for expenditure and do not appear in a specific annotation on research in the budget for each ministry; for this reason, they have not been considered in the table below. All told, investment exists and must be borne in mind, since in the creation and consolidation of research centres and infrastructures, though it is the DURSI that contributes the most money, the other ministries, with the Ministry of Health leading the way, contribute finances for the programme contracts and the upkeep of centres, facilities and infrastructures (see table 2 of the appendix). Extrapolating this expenditure for the 2005­2008 period, excluding the DURSI and the DTI, would give approximately 400 million euros. In total, bearing direct and indirect resources in mind, the PRI will represent an investment of some 2,000 million euros.

Regarding the actions included in this Plan devoted to increasing innovation in companies, resorting to additional public funding coming from the Spanish State and the European Union is also envisaged, as well as other public institutions and from the private sector. During the four years of the Plan, these additional resources have been put at some 7,832 million euros (2,400 coming from the PROFIT programmes, from the programmes of the CDTI [Spanish Centre for Industrial Technology Development], from the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes as well as other Euro­pean programmes and the remaining 5,432, from businesses and private bodies).

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PLAN 2005-2008: Budget
Summary Table
(Figures are given in thousands of euros)

PRIORITY MEASURES	RESPONSIBLE BODY	MANAGING BODY	2005	2006	2007	2008	TOTAL
Transverse Measures			132.411	153.850	173.126	189.569	648.956
Research Support Programme	DURSI/DGR	AGAUR	36.164	39.787	43.000	50.000	168.951
Research Staff Programme	DURSI/DGR	AGAUR/ ICREA	27.370	31.092	36.000	44.000	138.462
Research Centers and Infrastructures Programme	DURSI/ DGR	DURSI	40.174	52.102	61.000	60.000	213.276
Technology and Knowledge Transfer Support Programme	DTI/SIE	CIDEM	17.110	18.554	20.034	21.645	77.343
Innovation Support Programme	DTI/SIE	CIDEM	10.883	11.595	12.360	13.181	48.019
Financial Support Programme	DTI/DEiF	CIDEM/ICF/AVALIS	710	721	732	743	2.905
Complementary Measures			19.663	21.053	22.598	24.928	88.242
Mobility, Cooperation and International Programme	DURSI/DGR		3.712	4.349	5.000	6.000	19.061
Programme for Promoting and Communicating Science and Technology	DURSI/DGR	ALL	896	896	1.000	1.500	4.292
Entrepreneurial Support Programme	DTI/SIE	CIDEM	5.435	5.707	5.992	6.292	23.426
Initiatives to Foster Innovation in Government Ministries	ALL	ALL	9.400	9.870	10.364	10.882	40.515
Programme for Coordinating and Obtaining State and EU Resources	ALL	ALL	220	231	243	255	948
Priority Areas and Sectoral Strategies	DTI/SIE	SIE/CIDEM	28.500	29.925	31.421	32.992	122.839
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PLAN TOTAL			180.574	204.828	227.145	247.489	860.036

The "indirect" budget of the Ministries of the Government of Catalonia for Research and Innovation for the period 2005-2008 is:

• DURSI part of the university staff salary for R&D: 800 million euros.

• The rest of the Ministries (DURSI and DTI excluded): 400 million euros (with the Ministry of Health leading the way).

PRI budget (direct and "indirect" resources): 2,000 million euros.

AGAUR	Agency for Administration of University and Research Grants
AVALIS SGR	Catalan society for technical and financial guarantees to SMEs, entrepreneurs and independent professionals
CIDEM	Centre for Innovation and Business Development
DEiF	Ministry of Economy and Finance
DGR	Directorate General for Research
DTI	Ministry of Employment and Industry
DURSI	Ministry of Universities, Research and the Information Society
ICF	Catalan Finance Institute
ICREA	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
SIE	Secretariat for Industry and Energy