Meeting point for public and private interests and for public and private financing:

• Involving private initiatives together with public ones from the beginning.
• With the participation of all social agents – private companies, universities, public research centres, researchers, administrators and citizens – working together in the generation of knowledge.
• Led by the Autonomous Community of Madrid:
  
  • Which administers the funds approved for the Fourth Regional Scientific Research and Technological Innovation Plan (PRICIT).
  • With the participation of all the regional government departments.
• With professional and efficient management.
• That will help attract to Madrid and recruit scientists of international prestige.
• Liberal, non-interventionist policy.

In principle, in research, heads are more important than means. (Severo Ochoa)