Two main organizations:

The founding partners were Bizkaia Provincial Council, Amorebieta-Etxano and Ermua city halls, the Basque automotive cluster ACICAE, ZF Lemförder TVA, Pierburg, CIE Automotive, Amaya Telleria and Microdeco.

The AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center is a specialized global competence center whose objectives are to:• Stimulate sector knowledge.• Increase basic and applied research related to the sector.• Promote training among automotive professionals at all levels.• Encourage the creation of new businesses with high added value in the sector.• Attract innovative projects.

These organizations have relocated their R&D, training or industrial development departments to the Center. Altogether, more than 250 professionals will work in these facilities.

• 1 car builder.• 5 foreign multinationals.• 11 Basque companies.• 2 research centers.• 1 engineering firm.• 1 training center.• 1 cluster (industry group).

ACICAE is a non profit business association.

One of the first automotive cluster in europe (1993) supported by the Basque Goberment, using Porter´s methodology.

300 companies .10 .000 millons euros.75.000 people - 35.000 in the Basque Country .

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