The Instituto Andaluz de Tecnología (IAT, Andalusian Institute of Technology) is a Technological Centre of Engineering and Innovation Management established as a non-profit private foundation, recognized as being of public interest. IAT acts under strictly professional criteria, providing Knowledge Intensive Services and developing its own technology.

IAT generates its own technology through Research, Development and Innovation processes, and will also provide Knowledge-Intensive Services, in order to become a reference among other Technological Centres in Engineering and Knowledge Management at a worldwide level. It aims to meet the needs and expectations of its Interest Groups: employers, clients, people from the organization, stakeholders and the social environment.