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It's not about the size, it's about the attitude. It's not about "where," it's about "how." - And with whom. Innovation is about transforming knowledge and technology into commercial opportunities: with objectives, timelines and a clear budget. This is why our goal isn't just about obtaining funding, it's about making our clients' projects commercially successful.

Innovating, we are one

In 1986, José Mª ZABALA, a chemical engineer with a PhD in Applied Natural Sciences from the University of Leuven, had an innovative idea.

From his idea, Zabala Innovation was born, a consultancy firm dedicated to the comprehensive management of grants, subsidies and R&D projects.

Three decades later, Zabala Innovation has become a company that counts over 450 professionals, 13 offices and more than 10,000 clients.

450+

Professionals

13

Offices

10,000+

Clients

35+

Years of experience

Mission

We are committed to our clients, we help them innovate in a global market, we anticipate their needs with loyalty and efficiency.

  • Companies
  • Strategic alliances
  • People

  • Companies

    We are a benchmark in the management and public financing of R&I projects. Thanks to our experience with leading companies and organisations, nobody knows the innovation ecosystems like we do: Universities, Technology and Research Centres, R&D Units, Investment Firms, Public Administrations…

  • Strategic alliances

    We promote strategic partnerships between the actors of various networks to create value. We believe there is a historic opportunity for Europe to lead the transformation towards a more social and sustainable world, with more equality, serving all people. The Sustainable Development Goals are our beacon in this journey.

  • People

    We succeed, because at Zabala Innovation, people are important. Our work offers us a way to develop as professionals and enables us to make a real difference in society.

Vision

Our roots are our culture and values, our commitment to our clients’ needs.

  • Leaders
  • Consolidation

  • Leaders

    We have become leaders and we will continue to grow sustainably, if we take care of our roots.

    To do so, we must address new challenges:

    • the increasingly globalised world and
    • the impact of new technologies on a society that demands sustainability, equality and balance with nature.

  • Consolidation

    The Zabala Innovation tree takes care of its consolidated branches. Others have emerged recently (new offices, social innovation, tenders…) and we will generate new ones (innovation strategies…).

    We know how to take care of each project; now it is up to us to take care of the ecosystem.

Values

In the future we might do something new, we might do something else, but we will do it together. Our goal is not only to obtain funding, but to make our clients’ projects commercially successful. We know that giving up is the biggest risk in the medium and long term. We also know that the 21st century is the century of cooperation and innovation.

  • Trust and cooperation
  • Innovation and integrity
  • Commitment and freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Commitment
  • Freedom and Responsibility

  • Trust and cooperation

    We trust others and deserve trust. We work as a team, contributing with ideas that benefit the company, clients and suppliers.

  • Innovation and integrity

    We encourage and manage change by taking initiatives and risks in a measured way. We acquire and share knowledge with each other. We respect and we are ethical towards clients, suppliers, society
    and the environment.

  • Commitment and freedom

    We live together in freedom, fulfilling all commitments and agreements freely entered into by the Company.

  • Responsibility

    We accept responsibility as well as the outcome and consequences of one’s actions.

  • Commitment

    We fulfil all commitments and agreements freely entered into by the Company.

  • Responsibility and freedom

    We live together in freedom, accepting responsability, as well as the outcome and consequences of one´s actions.

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A unique team

A professional team that adapts to your needs

We help our clients choose paths towards growth. With a team of more than 400 professionals – agricultural engineers, industrial engineers, IT and telecommunications specialists, physicists and chemists – including over 50 PhD holders and 12 offices in strategic locations, we work with specialised profiles that understand our clients’ businesses and speak their language fluently.

A unique team

Sustainability

At Zabala Innovation, we are committed to innovation ecosystems, and this is reflected through the actions we develop each year. We know the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create new innovative business models that enable social progress; and for that reason, we integrate the SDGs in the company, particularly with goals that are exclusively involved in business activities and their management, both in the management of our company, and in helping our clients integrate the SDGs in their strategic plans.

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Motto

Together, Innovation Works is our reason to be, because we believe that by working together we make innovation work, and that is our reason for existing.

Because innovation has a multiplier effect when it is generated through collaboration.

Because we team up too innovate, both with clients and with the rest of the agents in the innovation ecosystem.

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