Tecnalia Serbia LTD is a company based in Belgrade that is 100% in ownership of Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation (TECNALIA), a private, independent, non-profit applied research centre of international excellence. Legally a Foundation, Tecnalia is the leading private and independent research and technology organisation in Spain and one of the largest in Europe. The office in Serbia was founded in 2008 to serve as a technology acceleration unit inside the Health Department focusing on medical technologies for neurorehabilitation. It is providing consulting and research and development services in both basic and applied research, offering transference of technology and knowledge, collaboration with a range of enterprises in the application area. One of the key colaboration networks is with relevant hospitals and rehabilitation clinics which allows our RnD activities to encorporate early user involvement and validation in relevant environment, alowing for more streamlined development of technologies that can be more easily transferred to targeted indutries.
Tecnalia Serbia LTD has been providing services and expertise in a variety of research projects of TECNALIA for development of biomedical instrumentation and technologies in fields spanning from neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation in general, to biomaterials and electrochemical sensors. In most of those projects Tecnalia Serbia was involved in all the steps of the research process, from the initial idea and preparing of the project proposal, development of electronics and system components, defining the research protocol and preparing experiments, in vitro, in vivo and clinical testing of the system prototypes, data analysis and extraction of relevant results and dissemination of results. From its creation, Tecnalia Serbia was exclusively working in projects funded by a private venture capital initiative FIK which ended in 2018. Since then it was free to compete for public funding and has gained eight research grants within the H2020/HEU framework. In all of these projects Tecnalia Serbia leads the RnD efforts in systems for elecrtrophysilogical and electrochemical measurement and electrostimulation based actuation. The success of the office and the performed research during previous 15 years is also shown by the number of patents (>5) and publications (>100), coming from small but highly proficient team.
Tecnalia Serbia LTD has active research collaboration with three top Serbian Universities and four relevant hospitals and clinics. Personnel of Tecnalia Serbia LTD comprises four PhDs in Electrical Engineering, two PhD candidates awaiting their disseration defence and a nubmer of PhD students.
