By 2020, the Basque Government has aligned the Basque R & D strategy with EU legislation. In the past few weeks we have made known the nervousness of our research centres, now it is up to companies. In two words: The call of Gaitek 2015 has meant a hardening of conditions and less money for companies conducting research in the CAV.

In 2014, 1,400 projects were submitted, of which 800 will receive some form of funding, according to the resolution adopted in February 2015. We have known the amount of funding last year and, therefore, once the projects have been completed. It is good to implement measures to control public money, but the administration should also be a leader in innovation and management; this year companies have been asked to tighten their belts and it seems that the administration has not foreseen anything new, at least in public. Nervousness and indignation have spread in companies. And that's not right for research.