AEI definition
AEI is the administrative name chosen by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce (MITYC) for ‘innovative clusters’ entered into the corresponding Special Register. Order ITC/2691/2006, dated August 2nd 
, regulates the AEI bases, aid system and support measures management.
The 2007-2013 AEI Programme includes different support lines for creating and strengthening this type of group:
• Aid for producing strategic plans.
• Aid for financing coordination, management and administration structures for formed AEIs.
• Aid for preparing specific projects aimed at strengthening the innovative potential of AEI members.
• Aid for preparing joint activities or partnership projects amongst different AEIs in the different fields of business management and, specifically, innovation, technology transfer and international visibility in the selection of goods and services at businesses forming part of said AEIs.
The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce AEI Special Register
Only those groups or clusters whose strategic plans are assessed as excellent will be entered into said Register.
Registration will allow access to the types of aid for AEI set out in section four 1a and 1b in the Order ITC/2691/2006, dated August 2nd , whose announcement calls will be carried out from 2008. Said registration will in turn allow projects presented by the AEI entered and by its member companies or institutions to enjoy, where applicable, additional assessment in other aid programmes at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce or at bodies belonging to it.
AEIs ranked as excellent