i2CAT Foundation

The i2CAT Foundation

The i2CAT Foundation is a center of research and innovation, which focuses its activities on the development of the future Internet, which aims to meet the following objectives:

• To promote and foster technological development in Catalonia. This development should be experimental and investigative in spirit.
• To promote advanced research into networks and broadband applications and to foster the use of these in Catalan society.
• To develop Internet technologies in Catalonia, particularly in terms of applications, services and advanced research in network technologies.
• To set up platforms for collaboration between the private sector and university research bodies.
• To promote collaboration with organisations and institutions that have similar aims.
• To set up collaboration networks with other, similar national and international research projects.
• To participate in European research projects.

The key of the model i2CAT consists in the collaboration among the Administration, the entrepreneurial sector and the academic world, establishing a Triple Helix's (Loet Leydesdorff) innovation model in the field of the Information and Communication Technologies.