CTTC offers flexible collaboration formats with partners, including joint ventures, shared labs, and licensing based on sharing risks, costs and benefits. These wide range of alliances include
collaborative efforts such as the initiation of joint ventures, establishment of joint labs, co-development of open-source code, and licensing agreements. Specific examples include:
We offer our facilities, labs, and expertise for partners to integrate CTTC-developed technologies into their ventures. We are also committed to attracting Venture Capital investment and building upon CTTC’s company creation plan and on the systematic identification of invention and innovation results with market potential for the creation of spin-offs and start-ups.
CTTC has created two spin-offs:
Geokinesia, created in 2020, leverages CTTC’s inSAR technology for land and structure deformation detection, with particular impact on mining and civil engineering.
WaveMasters, created in 2025, is a deep-tech company focused on commercializing innovative technologies developed at CTTC to improve the robustness and performance of satellite-based positioning systems, especially in challenging environments. Its portfolio includes a compact dual-antenna module designed to mitigate GNSS jamming threats, as well as high-performance, modular RF front-ends enabling real-time multi-band and multi-constellation reception for next-generation software-defined receivers.
This mechanism fosters CTTC collaboration with an industrial partner, sharing actions, risks, costs, and benefits, with the objective to develop or exploit certain technology. A successul example is the development of testing equipment for mobile communications.
Integrate specialized equipment, resources, and expertise into CTTC’s infrastructure for long-term R&D collaborations with industrial partners.
Specific examples are the:
- Hispasat Lab by CTTC an innovation laboratory dedicated to the development, validation, and testing of advanced satellite connectivity technologies.
- Telefónica TID-CTTC JRU which focuses on network segment interoperability research and evaluation.
Allow a third party to commercially exploit the technology developed by the CTTC (patent cession or software/IP blocks licencing). Examples of granted licenses are:
- the use of source/binary coding for MIMO-OFDM transceivers,
- the use of a software that enables the validation of new trajectory determination algorithms for navigation purposes.
CTTC’s network management and SDN controller expertise lead task forces and contribute to open-source standards bodies like ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM), focusing on 5G, and ETSI TeraFlow SDN Task Force.
Our infrastructure supports joint demostrations to develop secure cloud-native SDN controllers and tackle large-scale network slicing challenges in advanced 5G and 6G networks, empowering CSPs in transitioning from early-stage to commercial deployments.
Are integral tools for R&D and partnerships. For instance, 5G-LENA, a GPLv2 New Radio networ simulator compatible with ns-3 plays a significant role in networ design for industrial partners, offering modelling, design, development, field trials and testing services following 3GPP standards.