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 Outline of the presentation
1. Information and Communications
Technologies (TIC) in Spain
1. Indicators and data
2. The Spanish RTD TIC Programme
1. Programme Description
2. Programme results
3. European Dimension

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• TIC in Spain:
Indicators and data

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Country Rankings in Computer Science (#papers)
1 USA 51020 10 Netherlands 3538
2 Germany 10758 11 China 3229
3 Japan 10383 12 South Korea 2842
4 UK 10147 13 Spain 2743
5 France 7868 14 Israel 2682
6 Canada 6401 15 Russia 2461
7 Italy 6215 17 Switzerland 1988
8 Taiwan 3883 18 Sweden 1821
9 Australia 3553 20 Belgium 1611

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Country Rankings in Computer Science (#citations)
1 USA 166972 10 Israel 8924
2 UK 26948 11 Australia 6473
3 Germany 25830 12 Taiwan 5853
4 France 17792 13 Sweden 5517
5 Canada 16761 14 Spain 4819
6 Japan 14144 16 Belgium 3857
7 Italy 14083 17 India 3570
8 Switzerland 9519 19 China 3424
9 Netherlands 9005 20 Denmark 3285

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Country Rankings in Engineering (#citations)
1 USA 659587 10 Taiwan 33397
2 Japan 136776 11 Spain 33084
3 Germany 121273 12 China 32595
4 UK 38299 13 Switzerland 30867
5 France 94861 14 Russia 30260
6 Canada 25547 15 Sweden 30063
7 Italy 65910 16 India 24066
8 Australia 12157 17 Belgium 23641
9 Netherlands 37720 18 South Korea 21016

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Country Rankings in Engineering (#papers)
1 USA 175894 10 India 15330
2 Japan 55521 11 Taiwan 15298
3 UKJ 38299 12 South Korea 12533
4 Germany 37787 13 Australia 12157
5 France 27545 14 Netherlands 10376
6 Canada 25547 15 Spain 10266
7 Russia 23760 16 Sweden 7374
8 Italy 27766 17 Switzerland 7057
9 China 20886 20 Israel 6039

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

#Papers in Computer Science- Evolution

1992-1996 1993-1997 1994-1998 1995-1999 1996-2000 1997-2001 1998-2002

Citing years

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

#Citation of papers in Computer Science- Evolution

1992-1996 1993-1997 1994-1998 1995-1999 1996-2000 1997-2001 1998-2002

Citing years

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

#Papers in Engineering- Evolution

1992-1996 1993-1997 1994-1998 1995-1999 1996-2000 1997-2001 1998-2002

Citing years

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 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

#Citation of papers in Engineering- Evolution

1992-1996 1993-1997 1994-1998 1995-1999 1996-2000 1997-2001 1998-2002

Citing years

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• TIC in Spain:
Organization

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 National Programme on
TIC
Main goals:
To promote basic and applied research in the following
areas:
• Computer Science
• Communications
• Electronics
Generation of new scientific and technical knowledge
Technological innovations that allow an easy penetration of
new technologies in the everyday life, and form the basis
future economic development in Spain.

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 National Programme on
TIC
The National Programme on TIC invests more than
40 millions Euro every year:
• High quality research projects
• Special actions for specifics needs (scientific
meetings, research networks, EU proposals,
infrastructure, etc.)

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 National Programme on TIC
Funding for national programmes
(in percentaje of total ammount)
Biotechnology
Agriculture
4%
12%

Health
9%

Industrial
Others production
6%
Materials
7%

Space
4%
TIC
11%

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National Programme on TIC:
Strategic Topics on CS
•Software Engineering: Requirements
engineering, reliability,software
architectures, ...
•Software Development Tools: New
programming languages, new
computational models, ...
•Intelligent systems: Agents, soft-
computing, data mining, speech
engineering, ...

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National Programme on TIC:
Strategic Topics on CS
•Advanced Interfaces: Virtual reality, image
processing, multimodal interfaces,...
•Networked Systems: Mobile and ubicuous
computation, web based systems, web
semantics, distributed and real time
systems, ...
•High Performance Computing:
Multiprocessors, Grid computing,
simulation, ...

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 National Programme on TIC:
Stronger areas
Research is basically carried out in Universities and the Spanish
Scientific Council (CSIC)
•High Performance Computing-HPC (UPC, UPV, U. Málaga, UCM, ...)
•Programming Languages design and implementation (UPM, UPC, UPV,
U. Málaga, UCM, ...)
•Soft-computing(IIIA-CSIC, UPM, U. Granada, ...)
•Agent technologies (IIIA-CSIC, URJC,...)
•Advanced interfaces [Virtual reality, image processing, voice
recognition] (UPC, U. Zaragoza, UPM, UPV)
•Databases and Software Engineering (UPC, UPM, UPV, EHU, URJC)
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National Programme on TIC

•One call for research projects per year.

•Main results for 2002 call:
•409 proposals
•Asking for more than 58MEuro
•Around 3000 researchers involved
•Average funding per project:
12000 Euro per researcher and year

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• TIC in Spain:
Results

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 TIC 2002 Call
(Warning: snapshot of one year)

# Projects funded

Computer
Science Communication
49,5% s
30,6%

Electronics
19,9%

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 TIC 2002 Call
Funding
Computer distribution
Science
41.6% Communication
s
33.9%

Electronics
24.4%

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 TIC 2002 Call
Not funded
100% Funded

80%

60%

b
40%

20%

0%
Total Communications Electronics Computer Science

Funded a 54.5% of projects

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 TIC 2002 Call

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Otros Madrid
18% 21%

Pais Vasco
5%
Aragon
3%

Cantabria Cataluña
4% 14%

Galicia
Andalucia 4%
14% Cast-Leon
Valencia Canarias 1%
13% 3%

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 TIC 2002 Call

CSIC 5,4%

UC3M 3,6%

UCM 5,4%

UGR 5,9%

EHU 3,2%

UMA 2,7%

UPV 5,4%

UPM 11,7%

UPC 10,8%

0,0% 2,0% 4,0% 6,0% 8,0% 10,0% 12,0% 14,0%

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 TIC 2002 Call
# $
40,0%

35,0%

30,0%

25,0%

20,0%

15,0%

10,0%

5,0%

0,0%
Projects
SW Engineering
HPC
SW development Funding

Advanced Interfaces
Intelligent Systems

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• European dimension: Spanish
participation in the V Programme
Framework - IST

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 5th Programme Framework
Key Action and most relevant Spanish return Cons. Part.
areas
KA1: Systems and services for the citizens
(e-Health) 6,8% 422M 32%
KA2: New working methods and e-commerce
(e-commerce) 7,4% 348M 32%
KA3: Multimedia contents and tools
(education,human lang. tech.) 7,1% 328M 29%
KA4: Basic technologies and infraestructures
(mobile comm., software) 4,8% 832M 26%
FET 7,4% 87M 27%

6,8% 2535 M 28%

Total
Spanish contribution 7,2%

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