Universitat de Barcelona

Research and Innovation

	2009	2010	2011
Total income from research and technology transfer (thousands of euros)	108.680	81.206	76.339
Research projects*	76.715	55.887	52.107
Research projects-FBG contracts	15.129	9.642	6.850
Infrastructure	1.605	-	1.659
Other funding	9.515	11.632	11.217
UB agreements	3.750	2.390	2.503
FBG agreements	1.966	1.655	2.002
*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	528	528	593
Scientific publications*	3.679	3.723	4.068
*Data gathered by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

Research activities	2009	2010	2011
Lecturers involved in R+D projects (%	62.1	69	75.5
Research grantholders	979	979	907
Consolidated research groups (Generalitat)	243	243	243
Active research projects	625	657	720
Patent applications	24	28	18
UB-specific research institutes	23	23	24
Research institutes in which the UB participates	13	13	7
Inter-university institutes	2	2	2
Documentation centres	3	3	3
Observatories	9	10	10

Barcelona Science Park (PCB)
Total area (m2)	46.000	49.378
Companies in the PCB	56	64	83
Research groups in the PCB	81	88	84

The Science and Technology Centres (SCT)
UB users (head researchers)	442	453	453
Non-UB income (millions of euros)	2.35	4.25	4.848
Value of scientific equipment (millions of euros)	40.49	41.11	41.11