Within the Innovation Systems framework, Technological Centres are a key development element. An analysis of those Centres follows a description of its activities and characteristics, as well as their relationships with other System agents. Centres' responsibles have thinked about fourteen variables (related to the territorial development), and, as a consequence, three factors have been identified. These factors could be related to a better tecnological centre development. At last, the interfaces and technological culture' weaknesses are analyzed, in order to build a set of efficient levers of science and industry links.

The authors show the Andalusian technology transfer, aimed to gather University and firms. A set of efficient interface tools has been developed. The coordination of those tools, and the synergies arising, shape an excellent innovation fostering tool.

"Technological Leganés" is a Scientific, Technological and Tertiary Park. It is a place to interact, fostering the mutual knowledge and the ideas, experiencies, and capabilities' diffusion. The actors are the scientific and the business communities, looking for the implementation of research towards a productive utilization. This implementation yields benefits for the society as a whole.

Three years ago, TECNALIA Technological Corporation was established by AZTI, ESI, INASMET and ROBOTIKER Technological Centres. Another centre, LEIA, has presented its candidature to the partners body. TECNALIA has the same mission of its partners, this is, to boost the social and economic development of their communities through technological innovation and applied research. TECNALIA shows an additional advantage aimed to that goal: its enhanced capability to act, derived from a larger size and a better industrial position.

Description and analysis of the main characteristics of the European Commission document Building our Common Future... (Brussels, 10.2.2004, COM(2004) 101 final), which includes some relevant ideas about the European research policy related to the 7th Framework Programme.

Project Management deals with scope, quality, time, and cost to attain a satisfactory solution for the involved agents. The European projects case has some special characteristics, as the management areas, the legal and financial aspects, the results exploitation and diffusion, and the technology transfer.