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Sector
Promotion in India - 2004
Basque Country and
India collaborate In Electronics, Computing and Telecommunications
ITSMA
has been collaborating during these years with GAIA, The Basque Country Association
of Electronic and Information Technologies, a private and professional non profit-making
institution that covers almost all companies developing electronic, computer and
telecommunications products and services in the Basque Country.
ITSMA,
is in charge of finding new Indian partners to develop joint projects with the
basque companies belonging to these fields of activity. And some times is partner
of some of the projects. At the moment GAIA has 170 associated
companies which are among the world leaders in areas such as: high voltage measurement
transformers, CAD/CAM software and regulation and control systems for machine
tools (oxygen cutting, plasma, laser, water jet and die casting machines, etc.),
the supply of electric and electronic control and generating equipment for the
wind power market, computerised solutions for protection against viruses and hackers,
etc. The Basque Country is also famous for the large number
of satellite TV signal receiving equipment manufacturers and for being the home
to the largest concentration of companies developing ERPs for SMEs using their
own technology in the whole of Europe.
The work undertaken by Basque companies
in other countries includes: | |
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Unique power sources for the particle accelerator at the
CERN laboratories (Switzerland) and the EFDA-JET experimental nuclear fusion reactor
(United Kingdom). | |
Electronic-IT systems for balancing and protecting electricity
networks. (Brazil, Mexico, France, U.K, Germany, South Africa, India, Portugal...). | |
Traffic and motorway access control systems (China…) | |
Emergency lighting and intelligent service management systems
in many different unique buildings (Switzerland, Finland, Costa Rica, Czech Republic...). | |
Interactive telephone answering systems (United Kingdom,
Germany…) | |
Multimedia tools and electronic equipment for training (Mexico,
Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, Portugal, Malaysia, China, Vietnam... ). | |
Numeric controls (Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland,
Poland, Canada...). | |
"Turnkey" automation for production lines in different
sectors (paper, iron and steel, metal processing, refineries, drawing plants,
etc.). (France, Switzerland, China, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, United States...). | |
e-government solutions for European institutions. | |
Automation software for quality control laboratories. (France,
Germany,Mexico, United States, India...) |
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Collaboration of companies from the sector with technological
centres, training centres, R&D+i units and companies from other sectors allows
for local development of the latest products and services, providing effective
tools for management and positioning in new markets and generating, supporting
and strengthening other innovative agents.
This close collaboration
also allows for the creation of excellent programmes and networks (SPORTIS - ITCs
for sports, TIERNET - electronics applied to the car industry, etc.) that provide
more appropriate sizes to compete on foreign markets, optimising their own resources. The
Sector is currently working most intensively on increasing the range of added
value in the segments of: sports (management and control, electro-medical devices,
etc.), automotive industry (modules and components for the automobile industry),
e-inclusion/e-life (products/services for the disabled and the elderly), aeronautics
(on-board electronic devices, electronic devices in control systems and in aircraft
communications), home systems (control and automation of buildings and homes),
power (control, safety, measuring and management of its distribution), transport
(positioning, management, signalling, logistics of goods and people). However,
there are also solutions for many other segments (food, banking, education, etc.). | |
