We are witnessing a contradictory dynamic today. Technological and scientific advances increasingly demand a capacity for collaboration, both horizontally, between different sectors, disciplines and disciplines, and horizontally, between different sectors, disciplines and disciplines. stakeholders; The institutional environment, however, especially in the wake of the identity crisis in Western countries, promotes fragmentation, polarisation and isolation. However, the institutional environment, especially in the wake of the identity crisis in Western countries, promotes fragmentation, polarisation and isolation.
At other times in history, if institutions did not help to scale up innovation breakthroughs, the risk of general stagnation increased. However, the main hallmark of the New Order we are heading towards is not necessarily that, but the increasing decoupling, at the strategic level, between the public and private sectors.
This INTEC 2025 Report is intended as a roadmap for those who want to transform society with an inclusive vision, for the benefit of citizens in this time of turmoil. The transformative effect of the new cycle of artificial intelligence (AI) and advances in new materials, healthcare, geospatial technologies or smart grids, all of which are addressed in this work, can only come about if we act with an ecosystem vision, integrating all actors in the value chain.
The deployment of AI takes the task of uniting society through employment to a new dimension. One of the first questions raised by the new cycle of generative technologies is precisely how to determine the advantages of being a person versus a machine. Every industry, bank, construction company, institution, hospital, university, NGO, retail chain and even transport service is going to have to decide which tasks to assign to people and which to artificial systems, and it must do so with an urgency never seen before.
As technology is employed, a new sense of trust and transparency will also have to be fostered, because AI will interact on our behalf, but independently of us.
The ability to collaborate will mark the boundary between winners and losers in this new context. Secure ecosystems that ensure the integrity and value of information, autonomous supply chains that process billions of predictions per day, adaptive, where it is difficult to distinguish between the activity and the activity that is not being processed, will be key. online and physics, where the parts are interconnected, without friction. This involves reimagining the entire system, something never done before on this scale.
The INTEC 2025 report looks in depth at the development potential of 10 key technological areas, in which Spain can still position itself as a leader, because they are at an emerging stage and the barriers to entry are not yet high.