The city of Manresa (73,000 inhabitants) is located in central Catalonia, Spain, at some 70Km from Barcelona. One of the cities’ key ambitions is to strengthen knowledge-based economic activity in the city, in order to modernise its industrial base and create future prosperity. Manresa is in the process of developing its ‘Parc Central’, a technology park that is to become a major focal point of the local knowledge economy. This report analysis is the local situation and develops recommendations.