Ayesa places technological innovation as the accelerator of its growth strategy

The firm is committed to generative AI, cybersecurity and Digital Impact solutions as strategic technologies and places quantum computing as the fourth element that will shake up its R&D&I.

By 2025, the innovation budget will grow to between 4% and 5% of total revenues

13 December 2024. Ayesa, a global provider of technology and engineering services, has positioned technological innovation as a driver of competitiveness, differentiation and sustainable growth. The Innovation team, led by Juan de Dios Hermosín, has set itself the goal of injecting added value in all the markets in which it operates, including energy and utilities, the public sector and healthcare. These sectors expect double-digit growth by 2025.

Ayesa has been investing in these fields for more than ten years, mainly through its participation in the European programmes H2020 and Horizon Europe. This has made Ayesa a leader today in smart energy grid solutions with advanced management of renewable assets (stabilisation, generation and storage), energy efficiency in the iron and steel industry, the interconnection of data spaces at European level in a secure and transparent way in healthcare environments or administrative permits for the execution of large civil infrastructures.

The strategic technologies on which this added value is leveraged are cybersecurity, data and AI -with a special focus on generative AI-, and those that form part of the area known as Digital Impact, which includes advanced Cloud architectures, Low-No Code technologies, Super Apps and assisted software development.

In addition, Ayesa has introduced quantum computing as the ‘fourth element’, as it already redraws the technological landscape and is enhancing the capabilities of other technologies. The firm, which began exploring this area four years ago, believes that now is the time to apply practical solutions. It has already developed several use cases for clients such as ONCE, Iberdrola and Mercedes Benz, to solve problems that were hitherto unfeasible with conventional computing.

The strategic innovation plan is also supported by the Technology Observatory, whose mission is to identify and prioritise emerging trends and which works in collaboration with national and international R&D&I ecosystems as well as with leading research firms worldwide.

Currently, Ayesa’s innovation team is made up of 60 researchers dedicated exclusively to innovation projects and more than 500 professionals from different areas involved in the implementation of these solutions.

The firm is involved in around 30 innovation projects aligned with its strategic technologies. These are divided into co-financed initiatives, focused on long-term research with low TRLs (Technology Readiness Levels); and accelerators, self-financed and of short duration (less than a year), which become key tools to accompany our clients in their challenges.

In terms of investment, it plans to increase its innovation budget by 2025, reaching a target of between 4% and 5% of its annual revenues. This growth is possible thanks to access to European and national funds, with a clear commitment to the Horizon Europe programme.

In this sense, Juan de Dios Hermosín, Ayesa’s Innovation Director, highlights the need for ‘a stable regulatory framework in the field of national programmes, and with funding levels similar to European ones, in order to achieve good long-term planning’.

‘The strategic innovation plan not only seeks to accompany the fulfilment of the company’s strategic corporate and growth objectives, but also to prepare Ayesa to lead in a world where technology is changing at breakneck speed,’ concludes Hermosín.