It is a non-profit Institute created in with the aim of promoting research and developing postgraduate programs in diverse technological fields through participation in projects funded by the industry and administrations.
The applied research at IIT is project oriented and results in doctoral dissertations and scientific publications, technical reports, and software products and applications. It also provides specialized training in Master and PhD programs and in-house courses. IIT is completely self-financed through externally funded research activities, creating a strong nexus to the Industry and Administrations; it responds thus to a clear social demand.
IIT has proven that a project-based research is sustainable and that this applied research allows self-financing the IIT. IIT has a strong presence in international organizations and associations. IIT was created on March 6, As indicated in the minutes of the meeting of the Governing Board, the core initial investigators formed the group dedicated to the area of energy in the late Technological Institute for Postgraduates ITP.
The ITP project emerged in to bring to Spain the academic-business collaboration structure from the American postgraduate. He sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in Boston about 40 graduates in engineering and applied sciences to study and research in that institution and bring to Spain its innovative spirit and quality of research, to make them serve a thriving industry Postgraduates Institute of Technology.
The group completed their training, but did not finish their final purpose, as Spain in the 70's and 80's was focused on political change and lacked public instruments to support research. He had innovated in his subject, Projects for Power System Specialty, and had some emerging research projects with ITP in collaboration with his students.
