Technopolis first two plots have been allocated to Andalucía Emprende Foundation and LAB
Andalucía Emprende, Regional Public Foundation has booked one plot of 1343 square metres at the technopolis. They will build an Entrepreneur Development Support Centre (CADE) as a business’ incubator that will be belonging to an excellence entrepreneur schools’ network.
In the other hand, the EBT (technology based company), LAB, which is already installed at PITA Scientific Site has also showed their willing to get a plot. LAB is the first Andalucía EBT that has been profited with the Campus programme, is a company already consolidated and with a high scientific and innovative component. It is close to the university since its creation and along development. It will be the first private company having allocated a plot at PITA technology site.
LAB offers services for studies and R+D+i projects analysis in relation with food safety, products labelling, agronomic analysis, water integrated quality, air quality and bio safety and industrial health, among others.
MAIN BUILDING
Another important decision taken by the Executive Committee has been the approval of the statutes for the Urban Area to Protect that will be set up in short. The drafting of these statutes has been carefully carried out by the technical and legal PITA services, following the specifications demanded by Almería Town Council detailled in the urban planning documents and as per the experience in good practice carried out in some other similar places.
PITA chairman, Martín Soler, highlighted the technopolis urbanization works good speed and the start of the park main infrastructure building works allocated during this same meeting to UTE Jarquil-Tejera-Grucal. The whole PITA Research and Technology Transfer Centre building project work is foreseen to last 18 months, so by the end of 2011 is expected to be running.
