This report has been prepared for EUROLABS project (A Comparative Analysis of Public, Semi public and Recently Privatised Research Centres), developed by a Consortium lead by University of Manchester PREST, UK; CSIC-UPC-SPRITTE Spain; Ecole des Mines, CSI, France; SISTER, Sweden and ECOTEC, UK; with support from Technopolis France & The Netherlands, CNR Italy, Atlantis Greece, Luisa Henriques, Portugal and Andrei Mougatov, AGUIDEL, France. J. R. Fernández has participated in conducting interviews in some Spanish research centres. Funding has been provided by the European Commission. The overall report can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/indicators/publications.htm ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/rtd2002/docs/ind_report_prest1.pdfEuropean Commission