Top International R&D players in Catalonia

Catalonia is home to ABB’S first collaborative innovation center (CIC) in Europe working on robotics, augmented reality and 3D vision technologies.

With Microsoft's R&D Hub in AI in Barcelona, the US company works in advanced software engineering areas, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, with a UX team working on products like Bing, Edge, Windows and Azure.

Amazon has based its R&D Center in Catalonia, specializing in Machine Learning and Big Data and employs 100 software scientists and engineers.

HP has based its global 3D printing and large format printing center in Catalonia. 2,300 professionals from 60 nationalities work in the world’s largest laboratory for research, development and innovation in 3D plastics and metal printing.

Ficosa/Panasonic's Viladecavalls Technology Center works as a driving force for the group's global research and powers the 14 development centers they have around the world.

Alexion, AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease group, has established a global Development Hub in Barcelona to support the creation of innovative medicines for rare diseases, forecasted to employ 100 R&D specialists.

Roche chose Catalonia to base its digital research and development center dedicated to the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of the Roche Diabetes Care digital platforms worldwide.

Home to one of Danone’s main global scientific centers, unique in having three facilities in the one location: a new product development pilot plant, a packaging design laboratory, and a ferments manufacture center.

OMRON bases its European Automation Center and R&D Center in Barcelona to develop state-of-the-art automation solutions for industry.

Intel has based its pioneering RISC-V microchip design laboratory in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with a preliminary team of 300 people.