The aim of this section is to offer a series of indicators that allow us to view, evaluate and pursue the state-of-the-art concerning the research and innovation system of the Community of Madrid (CM). The CM hosts the greatest concentration of resources and agents involved in the processes of generating and disseminating scientific and technological knowledge.

The indicators are the result of three research projects intended to develop the tools needed to collect and analyse data concerning the following aspects:

Structure of institutions and agents involved in research and innovation system

Knowledge generating activities developed by agents, resource assignment to these activities, interactions between them, and the ways in which innovation is disseminated and appropriated

Intellectual capital and knowledge management in universities and public research centres

Results of these activities and the efficiency in achieving them with particular emphasis on scientific and technological out put assessed by the scientific publications gathered from the main national and international databases.