How to collaborate with us

Raise your game:Expert knowledge at the service of industry

How we can work with industry

  • Have you identified an opportunity for an innovative new product but don’t have the internal capacity within your company to develop it?
  • Are time, cost and quality important to your company?
  • Are there any technological barriers preventing greater profitability in your industrial activity?

The team of researchers and engineers at IRIS can help bring innovation for greater profitability:

  • Product innovation through research and development can help you stay ahead of your competitors and will give you that edge in the marketplace that will ultimately lead to increased market demand and sales, as well as heightened consumer satisfaction.
  • Process innovation can help to improve techniques to reduce costs and increase profit margins, save time, optimise raw material input, improve quality control and safety.

Ways that we work with industry

There are various ways in which IRIS works with industry:

  • Fee for service- a catalogue of standard testing and analytical services that can be offered by our laboratories
  • Tailored contract research- tailored research solutions to meet the specific needs of your company
  • Partnership opportunities- Do you want ongoing help to develop new technology? Are you looking for an R&D partner? We can help.

If you are interested in contracting our services or partnering with us for industrial projects, please contact Ismael Almazan: ialmazan@iris.cat

Collaboration with the research community

Partnering in cooperative research projects, whereby we can provide a high quality, reliable collaboration in FP7 Projects under the Cooperation Thematic areas of strategic interest to the company and in line with our fields of knowledge and capacity:

  • Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology
  • Information & communication technologies
  • Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies
  • Energy
  • Environment

Considering a new project?

If you are seeking a research partner for your collaborative research projects, please contact Dr. Naiara Elejalde: nelejalde@iris.cat