The map of the Spanish system of instruments of knowledge transfer and valorisation offers the first consolidated and comparable image of the set of public instruments of knowledge transfer in force in Spain, integrating in a single reading the state and regional scope. Based on an original database that gathers 338 instruments—46 state and 292 regional—the analysis does not limit itself to accounting for expenditure, but classifies each instrument by what it does: the phase of the transfer process on which it operates, the type of beneficiary to which it is directed, the reading of the problem it incorporates, the priorities towards which it is oriented and its orientation to the supply or demand of knowledge.
This exercise is, in this sense, pioneering. Until now, there was no mapping that integrated into the same reading the transfer instruments of the state and the autonomous level under a common functional taxonomy. Its novelty lies not only in gathering scattered information, but in the perspective with which it examines it: instead of inventorying the instruments by their administrative name or by the program on which they depend, it classifies them by what they actually do, which allows reading the system from angles that the purely budgetary view does not reach. The purpose is to offer that integrated image as a tool at the service of the improvement of the system, with a deliberately descriptive rather than prescriptive approach.
