BIC Gipuzkoa is a non-profit-making Public Limited Company, founded in 1993. Its aim is to promote the self-generation of wealth and employment in Gipuzkoa through the creation of innovative businesses with capacity for growth and long-term stability and the incorporation of innovation in existing SMEs. The centre does this by means of active industrial promotion, the mobilisation of resources and the competitive added value contribution and the incorporation of innovation in existing SME.

Within the creation of the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation, BIC Gipuzkoa is an intermediate agent which facilitates and enables the Technology and Knowledge transfer processes to the market through the creation of innovative and technology based start-ups and the incorporation of innovation in SME’s Entrepreneurs assisted in 2007: 33 - since the start of the BIC: 163 Companies created with BIC support in 2007: 23 (99 jobs created) – from 2003 to 2007: 83 (640 jobs created).