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Catalonia is a country with a clear industrial and international vocation and a long tradition inbusiness. These two features helped the country to lead the industrial revolution in southern Europeand to shape an industrial economy characterised by its innovativeness and openness to newtechnologies.We wish to consolidate and expand this industrial base by committing ourselves yet further toopening up our economy and encouraging the talent and creativity that has yielded a diversifiedbusiness fabric and our own system of excellence in research. These are all elements that foster anenvironment of harmonious coexistence for multinationals, local companies, consolidated industrieswith international leadership and emerging technological sectors.One such sector is the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. In recent years,the ICT industry has become one of the main driving forces of social progress. Its developmenthas had a key impact on world economic growth and on the transformation of societies, and hasexerted growing influence on the lives of individuals and of companies.This publication contains information about 60 companies and technology centres that are takingpart at the Mobile World Congress with the support of the Government of Catalonia. It includes theprofile of the Catalan companies that will be present in other areas of the fair, those in the SpanishPavilion, and companies taking part with their own stand.The companies and technology centres that appear in this catalogue are a very good example ofbusinesses – very often SMEs – with a high level of talent, knowledge and capacity for leadershipand for generating added value.4