Business activity in the PCUV

The Principle Survey Conclusions, referring to the year 2017, have been:

• Four sectors -'Engineering, Consulting and Consulting',' Agro-Food-Biotechnology', 'Medicine and Health' and 'Information, Computing and Telecommunications'-, concentrate practically 80% of the companies.Especialmente grow the companies dedicated to Engineering, Consulting and Advisory, which go from encompassing 19% of the total in 2015 to a 21% in 2017.
• 90% of the companies / entities are commercial companies (limited liability companies or corporations).
• 70% of companies are between 5 and 24 years old and 26% are companies of 4 years or less, which could be considered startups (according to European Startup Monitor).
• Regarding the year of incorporation of the companies to the PCUV, 50% have been installed in the innovation ecosystem of the University in the last 4 years. 18.3% corresponds to the longest-lived companies, which were installed in a period that varies between 8-10 years. It should be noted that the PCUV began its activity in 2008 with the opening of the Business Incubator.
• The average value of the figure of assets and liabilities of the companies in the year 2017 slightly exceeds one million euros (1,049,931 €). However, the high dispersion of this variable should be highlighted, with a standard deviation of almost 2 million euros, which reflects the extraordinary variety of companies present in the PCUV. The segment of companies that enter between 100,000 and 500,000 euros turns out to be the majority.
• The net amount of the turnover generated by the companies located in the Science Park -without taking into account the four largest companies with the most business volume- amounts for 2017 to 48.17 million euros.
• 84.4% of the companies have less than 10 workers (microenterprises or startups), 13% have between 10 and 50 workers (small companies) and 2.6% between 50 and 250 (medium-sized companies) . The total number of employees in the business area of ​​the PCUV amounts to 520 professionals.
• Regarding the university qualification of the people hired by the companies of the PCUV, 85.3% have higher university studies, of which 20.6% have a doctorate.
• Regarding the distribution by gender of the direct jobs generated, in the year 2017, 40% were women.
• 22.5% of the companies located in the Science Park are headed by women. This value is well above the Spanish average (13.9%) and European (14.8%), according to data from the European Startup Monitor. Most of these companies belong to the Agro-Food-Biotechnology area.
• Most of the companies installed in the PCUV, 83.8%, do not belong to any business group. Of the 10 companies that are part of a group, 6 of them have headquarters in Spain, 3 in the United States and 1 in Switzerland.
• 41.6% of companies allocate between 20 and 60% of their budget to Research, Development and Innovation.
• 44.7% of companies and entities have protected research results. Regarding the companies that protect their research results, 52% of companies have a patent and 69% have at least one registered marl or distinctive sign.
• The companies of the PCUV accumulate 127 granted patents and 155 requested patents.
• 43.8% of the companies have made scientific publications during the last 4 years.
• 81.5% of the companies have developed new products or services or have improved those existing in the last 4 years (design, services, production process, distribution, internationalization and / or sustainability).
• 41% of companies export or internationalize, that is, they declare having billed services or sales of products abroad in the last 3 years.
• 76% of companies use their website as a communication tool, followed in terms of relative weight by communication actions in fairs and congresses (61.9%), use of social networks (60.3%), marketing actions direct (44.4%) and internet advertising (42.9%). In fact, 46% of them sell their products and services through the internet.
• 34 companies (89.5%) use a social network to improve the image and projection of the company (89.5%) and to attract future clients (78.9%).
• 53.2% of the companies are interested in being contacted by investors to value new financial partners such as private investors, business angels, venture capital funds or similar.
• 25.8% of the organizations received funding from external investors in the last four years. Of these, only in 3.7% of the cases the investing partners participate actively in the day to day of the activity of the company.