CADIC RTD Performer
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(UPC) 
Founded in 1971, the UPC is a public institution of higher education and research, specializing in the fields of architecture, science and engineering. UPC's Technology Transfer Center is a substantial R&D contributor to Catalonia's industrial sector.
UPC has about 38,000 students, of which 9,300 are from Masters (58) and Doctoral programs (47) in 10 campuses and regional schools. It has 4 Research institutes and 194 Research groups and centers. Currently, it is working in over 250 research areas and has more than 1800 agreements and research projects in progress
Role In CADIC
Leads WP1: CADIC Framework.
Major responsibility for:
– State of the Art on international cluster management, IC & Benchmark approaches and European SME requirements
– Development of CADIC offline services
– Support CADIC clusters’ building & development Spain/Portugal
UPC CADIC project team
Prof. Dr. Francesc Solé : Director; Evaluation; Offline services; Steering Committee
Blanca Martins: Integration of approaches on cluster building/development; Country coach Cadic-Spain and Portugal; development offline services
Marta Mas: Development of offline services; Project manager
Jasmina Berbegal: Evaluation CADIC SME clusters Spain/Portugal; contributor to CADIC Framework development
José Viedma: Contributor to IC benchmarking methods on SME/cluster’s dimension
Daniel Serret: Junior researcher; overall support to UPC’s responsibility tasks
