Secpho

About

Secpho is a technological innovation cluster, that was founded in 2009 in Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain. The cluster brings together more than 120 members, consisting of companies, innovation centers and research groups in the photonics and optics sector, experts in deep tech in Spain, who firmly believe in collaboration. Secpho is focused on promoting technological innovation through the application of photonic technologies or technologies based on light, to all types of sectors of our economy. The cluster mission is to facilitate and improve the competitiveness of the Spanish Optics and Photonics sector by reaching major growth and profitability. Secpho’s main objectives are:

• To generate business opportunities for companies
• To provide technology centres and research groups with access to projects
• To foster innovation in the field of deep tech, mainly photonic and optic technologies.

Secpho will collaborate within the CARLA project by creating a common methodology regarding the matchmaking activities during the events in order to promote the co-creation of the definition of requirements from each group of interest.

Secpho has several years of experience in fostering innovation in different transversal sectors, with SMEs as the main actors. This experience was gathered through organization of cross-sectorial innovation workshops nationally and internationally with market-oriented clusters like: railway, food packaging, olive oil, wine cork, wine industry, rubber industry, automotive, agricultural machinery, aerospace, healthcare and others.

An original methodology of secpho Innovation Workshops helps to create new consortia for national and European funding programs for new product development.

Within CARLA project, Secpho will use its network of industrial contacts and the experience in the management of networking workshops to attract the companies and extract useful information about their needs related with new talent.