News TECNALIA ranked third in the list of Spanish organisations that applied for the most European patents in 2020 7 April 2021 TECNALIA has a portfolio of 192 patent families (783 patents) and 13 investee companies, which create 207 direct jobs. For the fifth consecutive year, TECNALIA was once again one of the top organisations in Spain in terms of the number of applications for European patents (click here for the historical record). Specifically, TECNALIA came in in third place with 17 European patent applications, behind CSIC (72) and Amadeus (60), the same as Laboratorios Esteve (17) and Telefónica (17) and ahead of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (15), Repsol (14) and Pharma Mar (14), among others.