The Regional Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities has identified up to 189 entities with activity and research capacity in Artificial Intelligence (AI), of which 110 are companies, 56 belong to the Andalusian knowledge system and 23 are scientific and technological infrastructures. This is the result of the report ‘Identification of Andalusian capabilities in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)’, promoted by the Junta and in which the Andalusian Technological Corporation (CTA) and the Andalusian Institute for Research in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) have participated. The Secretary General for Enterprise, Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Department of Economic Transformation, Pablo Cortés, presented the main conclusions in a virtual conference that brought together nearly 250 people.
At the conference, the Andalusian business community was encouraged to innovate and adapt Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies because it is the right time and Andalusia has the necessary capabilities according to the study and the participating experts. In addition, the event presented the success stories of Andalusian companies that develop and apply AI to different projects, such as 4i, with a voice assistant for Industry 4.0; Isotrol, with a machine learning and predictive maintenance project for renewable energy generation plants; or Ghenova, with AI applied to naval design.
During his speech, the Secretary General emphasized that “according to the data obtained, Andalusia has top level companies and researchers, and has facilities and infrastructure ready to host testing and experimentation projects for Artificial Intelligence applications for any productive sector”. He also stressed that “this report is a reference tool for the technology ecosystem because it points out where and how to use Artificial Intelligence to increase its benefits and competitive advantages”.
Map of capacities
The Andalusian map of AI capabilities shows that ICT, biotechnology and health, industry and production processes, agri-food, public administration, logistics and transport, aerospace and retail are the sectors with the greatest opportunity for the application of AI-related technologies in Andalusia. Predictive analytics, machine learning and data science are the AI areas with the highest level of implementation in Andalusian companies.
According to the conclusions of the report, the 110 companies that make up this map are committed to R&D as a lever to innovate and become more competitive in their sectors, and more than half of them have products or services in a commercial state ready to be transferred to the market, a highly significant fact for the expansion of these technologies in the Andalusian productive fabric.
In the scientific-technical field, which included universities and research groups, R&D centers, technology centers or Digital Innovation Centers (DIH), the study highlights that 93% of the entities that make up the Andalusian knowledge system have capabilities in Machine Learning or Deep Learning, two of the most promising branches of Artificial Intelligence.
