The Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities has identified up to 189 entities with activity and research capacity in Artificial Intelligence (AI), of which 110 are companies, 56 belong to the Andalusian knowledge system and 23 are scientific and technological infrastructures . This follows from the report 'Identification of Andalusian capabilities in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)', promoted by the Board and in which the Technological Corporation of Andalusia and the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence have participated ( DaSCI).
According to the study, Andalusia has top-level companies and researchers, and has facilities and infrastructures prepared to host testing and experimentation projects for Artificial Intelligence applications for any productive sector. In addition, the report is a reference instrument for the technological ecosystem because it indicates where and how to use said technology to increase its benefits and competitive advantages.
The Andalusian map of AI capabilities indicates that ICT, biotechnology and health, industry and production processes, agri-food, public administration, logistics and transport, the aerospace segment or retail are the sectors that present the greatest opportunity for application of technologies related to Artificial Intelligence in Andalusia. Predictive analysis, machine learning and data science are the areas of AI with the highest level of implementation in Andalusian companies.
According to the report's conclusions, the 110 companies that make up this map are committed to R&D as a lever to innovate and be more competitive in their sectors, and more than half have commercial products or services ready to be transferred to the market, a highly significant data for the expansion of these technologies in the Andalusian productive fabric.
In the scientific-technical field, which includes universities and research groups, R&D centers, technology centers or Digital Innovation Centers (DIH), the study highlights that 93% of the entities that make up the Andalusian system of knowledge has capabilities in 'Machine Learning' or 'Deep Learning', two of the most promising branches of Artificial Intelligence.
Regarding scientific and technological infrastructures, which play an important role in the development and promotion of AI, the report indicates that they are available in all Andalusian provinces and in nine Andalusian public universities.
The analysis also diversifies its focus and identifies the main trends that are determining the growth of this technology, present and future market opportunities and others such as public and private funding sources, of special interest to entities that carry out construction projects. R+D+i in this field.
The Ministry of Economic Transformation considers AI as a transversal policy that promotes, together with the digital transformation of the Andalusian productive fabric, the promotion of advanced telecommunications, support for startups or the intelligent development of cities and territories, in all productive sectors. .
It is a key technology for an Andalusian ICT sector that, during the second quarter, obtained a year-on-year growth in employment of 12.9%, having far exceeded the volume of employment in the pre-crisis years.
The report 'Identification of Andalusian capabilities in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)' is now available on the Andalucía Conectada platform: https://observatorio.andaluciaconectada.es/publicaciones/informe-de-las-capacity-andaluzas -in-artificial-intelligence-ai/.