Agency for Innovation and Development of Andalusia

IDEA Agency is the development agency's regional government of Andalucia, as well as a specialized instrument mainly in the promotion of innovation in the Andalusian society.

To do this, Agency is making a great effort in the work of Andalusian business support: from management and incentives to companies, management of projects and programs of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Job, as well as the construction of industrial and technological infrastructure.

Main areas of activity

• Funding and Business Development, which brings together in a single unit all grants and funding programs to businesses.
• Spaces of Innovation and Strategic Sectors oriented infrastructure provision and productive spaces as well as the revitalization of these areas linking to the sector / cluster in Andalusia.
• Attracting Investment and Advanced Services will be responsible for designing and delivering the services that the Agency makes available to entrepreneurs and business, with a focus on full service investment attraction in Andalusia.

Support programmes from IDEA Agency

• Business startup and entrepreneurial initiatives
• Company modernisation
• Company restructuring
• R&D and innovation
• Environmental and social sustainability
• Internationalisation
• Firm cooperation
• Business services

Main activities:

• Grants and funding to companies
• Helps start-ups
• Co-operation and technology transfer
• Information and advice in R + D + i
• Patents, Trademarks and industrial property
• Attracting investment
• Technology Watch
• It provides the Andalusian business a set of productive (both land and buildings) in order to facilitate access to advanced resources existing in Andalusia.