IK4 Research
Alliance
The purpose of IK4 Research Alliance is the generation, collection and transfer of scientific and technological knowledge to improve the competitiveness of companies and the progress of society.
IK4 is consolidated as a private and independent technological Alliance, a referent in the Basque System of Innovation, as well as in the European technological environment, integrated by the technological centres AZTERLAN, CEIT, CIDETEC, GAIKER, IDEKO, IKERLAN, LORTEK, TEKNIKER and VICOMTech.
Since our creation in 2005, we have been an Alliance of sovereign technological centres, joined with the purpose of bringing value to society and to reach critical mass in key investigation applied and derived towards the industrial fabric, for the purpose of collaborating with the provision of tools that allow it to increase its competitiveness.
We are an Alliance that aims at generation, acquisition and transference of knowledge in key own technology, and in those technological fields demanded by the company and by society itself.

Some figures 2016
Total income
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Companies
55,75 %
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Basque
Government23,65 %
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GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT4,38 %
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EUROPEAN
UNION15,54 %
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Regional
governments0,69 %
TECHNOLOGICAL CENTRES
COMPANIES AND ENTITIES IN GOVERNMENT BODIES
Offices
Professionals
Doctors