Barcelona, April 27, 2023.
The GPAINNOVA technological platform celebrated the 10th anniversary of its foundation last Monday with a day dedicated to industrial innovation. The event, which took place at its headquarters in Barcelona, brought together around 150 companies and professionals
Intervention by Lluís Juncà and Pau Sarsanedas The event included Lluís Juncà, General Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Juncà underlined the importance of projects such as GPAINNOVA in Catalonia, where a record number of 2,022 startups has been reached and a growth of 70% in five years. Of the business group, he highlighted its “innovative character”, its size and the fact that it 2has sustainability very much in mind”. Pau Sarsanedas, CEO and co-founder of GPAINNOVA, positively assessed the company’s trajectory and emphasized that it has become strategic for the “We founded GPAINNOVA to change the world,” he stated, adding that the group made projects possible in record time, such as when it created a respirator during the pandemic2 and that “the key is to have a heterogeneous and transversal team, capable of of developing highly complex and impactful solutions.2 Challenges of industry 4.0 and 5.0 Sarsanedas gave way to a four-way debate on industrial innovation moderated by Joan Ras, SDLI partner.One of the speakers, Esade professor Esteve Almirall, referred to to the need to rethink business models: “Before, it was enough to exploit competitive advantage, but companies need to be increasingly disruptive, more radical.” For her part, Anna Casals, CELSA Group’s Innovation Director for Spain and France, stressed that the steel sector has traditionally been “little disruptive in product”, but that deep tech was helping organizations to be more efficient. To the question about the degree of implementation of Industry 4.0 —which includes artificial intelligence , the Internet of Things (IoT), nanotechnology, and advanced robotics—experts noted that the implementation process was accelerating. “We have spent a lot of time thinking and rethinking the why: what is the data for? What is digitization for?” said Diego Fernández, CEO of Gellify Iberia, who concluded that process change in the industry “does not it can be done from one day to the next”. In relation to Industry 5.0 —focused on collaboration between machines and people to improve efficiency and productivity—, Carles Puente, co-founder of Fractus, appealed to a “new sensibility”, both for Part of the companies as well as the new generations of professionals, whom he considers capable of innovating “with fewer barriers and less complexities”. The GPAINNOVA 10-year program also offered demonstrations of DryLyte dry electropolishing technology and four workshops In charge of the deep tech cluster Secpho. About GPAINNOVA GPAINNOVA is a group of technology companies founded in Barcelona in 2013, with offices in Sunrise, Hong-Kong and Shenzhen (China). It is specialized in finishing metal surfaces, with the DLyte and MURUA brands; marine robotics, with SEABOTS; power electronics, with POWER INNOTECH, and medical devices, with GPAMEDICAL. The group has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the 1,000 fastest growing European companies for the fourth consecutive year.
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