Universitat de Barcelona

Research and Innovation

	2008	2009	2010
Total income from research and technology transfer (thousands of euros)	76.643	108.680	81.206
Research projects*	52.882	76.715	55.887
Research projects-FBG contracts	13.663	15.129	9.642
Infrastructure	1.549	1.605	-
Other funding	10.206	9.515	11.632
UB agreements	10.142	3.750	2.390
FBG agreements	1.816	1.966	1.655
*Includes the University of Barcelona, the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), the Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and the Barcelona Science Park (PCB).
Doctoral theses presented	536	528	528
Scientific publications*	3.323	3.679	3.723
*Data gathered by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

Research activities	2008	2009	2010
Lecturers involved in R+D projects (%	54,3	62.1	69
Research grantholders	972	979	989
Consolidated research groups (Generalitat)	229	243	243
Active research projects	639	625	657
Patent applications	31	24	28
UB-specific research institutes	24	23	23
Research institutes in which the UB participates	13	13	13
Inter-university institutes	2	2	2
Documentation centres	3	3	3
Observatories	9	9	10

Barcelona Science Park (PCB)
Total area (m2)	46.000	46.000	49.378
Companies in the PCB	50	56	64
Research groups in the PCB	80	81	88

The Science and Technology Centres (SCT)
UB users (head researchers)	475	442	453
Non-UB income (millions of euros)	2.20	2.35	4.25
Value of scientific equipment (millions of euros)	37.20	40.49	41.11