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      • Davide Parrilli is appointed member of the Regional Studies Association Research Committee
      • Orkestra, together with Agder Research and the University of Agder (Norway), hold a Workshop on Culture-based Rural Development Strategies
      • The European Commission will celebrate Europe 2020, Regional Innovation Strategies and future funding opportunities on the 17th April in Brussels
      • Orkestra presents the case study on Arauco, Chile in a virtual seminar on the construction of public-private alliances for economic development management
      • Orkestra offers a course on action research and territorial development, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
      • Mikel Navarro is re-elected member of the Mirror Group for Smart Specialisation at the European Commission
      • The taught stage of the Business Competitiveness and Economic Development Doctoral Programme is now over
      • The aeronautic industry emerges as the engine of the Basque Country's industry, according to a study carried out by Orkestra and Eusko Ikaskuntza
      • Registration opens for MOC course
      • Updated regional indicators for the Cluster Observatory
      • Orkestra celebrates an international workshop to move a step forward in policy evaluation as an instrument for learning and improvement
      • Orkestra analysed the Role of Research Infrastructures in Europe
      • Orkestra presents in Norway its last work about the implications of adopting different innovation modes on the economic performance of the companies
      • Jon Azua receives an award for his contribution to the field of competitiveness
      • Orkestra participates in the 2012 MOC Affiliate Faculty Workshop, held at Harvard University
      • The challenge of regional development in the current context
      • Orkestra participates in the 1st International Entrepreneurship Autumn School of the University of Evora (Portugal)
      • SHAREGUNE starts out conceived as a space to share ideas, reflections and ongoing research
      • What kind of future do we want for our territory and how can we build that future?
      • Competitiveness, strategy and regional development policy
      • Orkestra presents a report on the value chain of the Basque wind industry
      • Everything ready for a new academic year of the PhD on Business Competitiveness and Economic Development
      • Orkestra researchers travel to Arauco Province, Chile, within the framework of a project with the MIF on local economic development
      • More than 250 papers are submitted for participating in the XXXVIII Congress of Regional Studies to take place this coming November.
      • Davide Parrilli presents the paper The impact of globalization on local production systems: The case of the Basque wind energy cluster at the international workshop on renewable energy in Faro (Portugal)
      • A group of researchers from Orkestra and the University of Wolverhampton (UK) discuss how knowledge can be transferred between academia and business/society.
      • Miren Estensoro obtains her PhD degree “Cum Laude” with her thesis: “Local networks and socially innovative territories. The case of the Basque Country and the region of Goierri”.
      • Orkestra meets with representatives of the Euroemployment Project.
      • Global value chains from a regional perspective
      • Spain must focus on the service sector and coordinate increased productivity with labour costs in order to survive the crisis
      • Closing Session of the 2012 MOC Course.
      • More than 170 proposals presented to participate in the 15th TCI Annual Global Conference.
      • “The Basque Country and European Regional Strategies”. A MOC course special session by Mikel Landabaso (European Commission).
      • Orkestra and Berkeley University to participate in a project on local economic development financed by the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF).
      • Professor Björn Asheim from the University of Lund demonstrates the experience of countries like Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway as it relates to their systems of innovation and their results
      • Orkestra organizes a seminar with Agderforskning (Norway) and the ConectaDEL Program of the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund
      • IDB interested in Basque competitiveness model
      • The “Basque Case”, presented at a special session of the MOC Course
      • Davide Parrilli, Senior Researcher at Orkestra delivers an invited lecture on “Creative industries as an economic enhancement of culture” in the University of Florence’s Doctoral Program
      • Chile learns from the Basque economic development model
      • Davide Parrilli (Orkestra) and Björn Asheim (University of Lund) publish a book on the effects of interactive learning for innovation
      • “Perspectives on Industrial Transformation and Competitiveness in the Basque Region and India: Learning Experiences and Scope for Co-operation”
      • The Global Cluster Initiative Survey is back
      • Registration for the 15th Annual Global Conference of the Competitiveness Institute (TCI) is now open
      • Harvard presents a report on the competitive strategy of the Basque Country, carried out in collaboration with Orkestra
      • Orkestra's professionals are teaching classes in the Business Competitiveness and Economic Development Doctoral programme of Orkestra and Deusto Business School
      • Orkestra joins the European MOC Chapter
      • Orkestra participates in the MOC programme's annual meeting, held at Harvard University.
      • The Basque Government and Orkestra received the passing of the torch in New Zealand to host the 15th International Conference of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI).
      • The first doctoral thesis of Orkestra's Department of Territory, Innovation and Clusters is defended at the University of Deusto
      • Cluster policies can make a significant contribution to the definition of smart specialisation strategies
      • María José Aranguren serves as a member of the tribunal in the defence of a doctoral thesis presented at Mondragon University.
      • The Workshop “Clusters in global value chains: what is the role of innovation systems?” organized by Orkestra, brings together a group of 30 experts currently working on the subject.
      • Orkestra welcomes the launch of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW)
      • Orkestra contributes its expertise in a seminar organized under the framework of the EU-China Regional Policy Dialogue.
      • Análisis sobre ciencia e innovación en España, (Analysis of Science and Innovation in Spain)
      • Innovation Indicators and Benchmarking. Reflection and proposal for the Basque Country
      • Orkestra and Saiolan will collaborate to lend support to entrepreneurship
      • Orkestra offers the course Microeconomics of Competitiveness addressed to improve the competitiveness of enterprises and territories
      • Orkestra and Norway join forces to “connect” academic research with the productive fabric of the Basque Country via action research.
      • Classical and action research assessment for the assessment of clusters: the experience of the Basque Country
      • Investigadores de Orkestra presentan su trabajo sobre innovación y políticas clúster ante diversas asociaciones clúster nacionales e Internacionales e instituciones.
      • Orkestra invites the public to engage in dialogue about the future competitive challenges facing the Basque Country.
      • The “Business Competitiveness and Economic Development” PhD programme gets underway
      • Jon Mikel Zabala University of Lund visits Orkestra
      • Orkestra and CEIBS together building bridges of knowledge
      • Conference on the participative assessment of cluster policy
      • Orkestra presents the book "Innovation and Learning"
      • Presenting the research on cluster policies in Brasil
      • Orkestra on the International Marburg Conference
      • Jose Antonio Alonso participates on Orkestra's debates
      • Orkestra organised the first workshop on regional competitive business environments in Brussels
      • New publications from the European Cluster Observatory
      • Orkestra takes part in the Lucas Beltrán Seminar on Political Economy (CEU San Pablo)
      • Kieron Flanagan presented his work at Orkestra
      • Orkestra to take part in "Promoting Cluster Excellence"
      • 0rkestra becomes a meeting point for Action Research
      • Orkestra takes part in the Galdakao Business Forum
      • Debate about the role of the university in development
      • Round table on the role of the university in development
      • Orkestra cooperates with Basque Country cluster associations
      • Participation in the 5th Sophia-Antipolis Competitive Forum
      • Second session of the experimental Action Network project
      • D. Parrilli: External Examiner at the University of Sussex
      • The kick-off meeting of a European project was held in Linz
      • Researchers from Orkestra took part in the TCI Conference
      • Orkestra participates in a meeting on rural development
      • A book on Social Economy includes a chapter by Orkestra
      • E.Elgar publishes Knowledge in the Development of Economies
      • Article in the journal Environment and Planning C
      • The Norwegian Government visits the Basque Country
      • M. Larrea offered a conference about multi-level governance
      • From a technological approach to one that offers solutions
      • Insufficient linkage between research and busines needs
      • workshop: Developing skills for activating regional networks
      • Course in Madrid on “Clusters and cluster policy”
      • European cluster associations exchange experiences
      • Workshop on bases for regional development
      • Participation in a conference organized by Leartiker
      • Innovation in territorial strategy definition
      • Xabier de la Maza presented a paper at the EMAEE
      • Workshop on “Regional Complexity and Research-Action”
      • James Wilson participated in the 1st European SME week
      • Second facilitation workshop
      • Presentation of regional results of the cluster mapping
      • Pizza meeting
      • The 5th and last workshop on cluster mapping at Orkestra
      • Segundo taller para la definición de un sistema de evaluación participativa en HEGAN
      • The first workshop on creating networks was held at Orkestra
      • The 4th workshop on cluster mapping took place at Orkestra
      • Tool to represent the geographical distribution of activity
      • Orkestra visits the Research Council of Norway
      • The 3nd workshop on cluster mapping took place at Orkestra
      • El liderazgo conversacional como clave de supervivencia de redes comarcales
      • Celebrado un taller con HEGAN y el Gobierno Vasco
      • The 2nd workshop on cluster mapping took place at Orkestra
      • Workshop for New concepts in local development
      • Orkestra participated in an annual meeting in Brooklyn
      • First workshop on mapping clusters at Orkestra
      • Orkestra in the 11th Annual Global Conference of the TCI
      • Presentation of diagnoses on competitiveness
      • Seminar on Regional Policies on Innovation
      • Participation in a workshop on ‘Research Driven Clusters’
      • Technical expertise of a delegation from Maule (Chile)
      • Analysis of synergies between agencies and Basque Government
      • Orkestra and ESTE gathered nearly 100 experts with EUNIP 08
      • Researchers from Orkestra edit a book with Edward Elgar
      • Researchers from Orkestra participated in ERSA 2008 congress
      • Contrast of ideas and challenges with Clusters Associations
      • Orkestra hosted the 12th Conference on Competitiveness
      • Orkestra participará en la jornada “Sinergías entre las agencias y asociaciones cluster”
      • Cluster of Aeronautics of the Basque Country
      • Participation in the closing ceremony of the project DEPURE
      • Fourth workshop on County Diagnostics of Competitiveness
      • "High Technology, Productivity and Networks"
      • Book presentation
      • Workshops to perform county diagnostics of competitiveness
      • A territorial view of economy
      • Project to rethink the cluster assessment
      • First workshop on district diagnostics of competitiveness
      • 114 submissions for EUNIP 2008
      • The Euskal Hiria Challenge
      • Promotion of innovation from local environment
      • Fothcoming publication
      • Monitoring of Industrial Trends
      • Basque priority clusters
      • District diagnostics of competitiveness
      • Acuerdo Ezagutza Gunea
      • Congress Euskal Hiria
      • Visita de Bengt-Ake Lundvall
      • Regional Development
      • XIII Semana Europea de la Calidad
      • Sinergias con Ikerlan
      • Seminario en Garapen
      • 10 th Annual Conference of the Competitiveness Institute
      • Beyond GDP
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  • Entrepreneurship
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    • News
      • DeustoInvest takes off, within the framework of the Crecer+ platform
      • DeustoInvest is launched, a Deusto Business Alumni platform that will operate within Crecer+
      • Business Angels Crecer+ on Adegi’s entrepreneurs and investors round table
      • Orkestra participates in the 2012 RENT Annual Conference
      • Optimitive and Sealpath win the third edition of Crecer+ Venture Contest
      • VII Research Workshop based on GEM: Entrepreneurial Activity and Regional Development
      • The role of Corporate Entrepreneurship in the current Global Economic Turmoil
      • The Basque Country’s entrepreneurship rate is higher than rate of the two previous years
      • 35 business angels look for entrepreneurial projects at the 4th BAC+ Investment Forum.
      • Mecatronia receives venture capital from the Business Angels Crecer+ network
      • Doocuments participates in London Business School’s “Enterprise 100 Investment Meeting”
      • Farsens participates in the event “Entrepreneur Experience” in order to learn from the experience of Irish entrepreneurs and further its business goals
      • José Luis González Pernía, Researcher at the Entrepreneurship Department, obtains his PhD degree with the thesis “Antecedents and outcomes of export-oriented entrerpreneurship".
      • The OECD appoints Iñaki Peña coordinator of a project on entrepreneurial activity in Europe
      • Iñaki Peña is invited by the University of Panama to teach the course “Research on Firm Creation”, in its PhD program “Economics and Business Administration”
      • Eight entrepreneurial ventures compete for international expansion
      • Orkestra launches the Business Angels Crecer+ club to promote the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Basque Country.
      • The application of integrated policies, innovative entrepreneurship and the opening-up of companies and individuals are the key to maintaining the wellbeing of the Basque Country
      • 9th December 2010 - presentation of “The Spanish multinational in view of an international scenario” study
      • Orkestra- Basque Institute of Competitiveness and Sophia - Antipolois Business Angels Association sign a partnership agreement to make advances in developing the Crecer+ platform
      • Basque company wins European entrepreneur prize in France
      • International experts highlight the need to cooperate in order to face global challenges
      • Dynakin awarded by Crecer+ Venture Academy
      • Orkestra and the University of Berkeley joining forces
      • Rate of entrepreneurial activity in Basque Country for 2009
      • Roberta Rabellotti visits Orkestra
      • The MOC course brings together its alumni in the NY session
      • Orkestra consolidates as referent studying competitiveness
      • Virtualware, segundo premio en el Venture Academy de Sophia-Antipolis Business Angels
      • ‘Erasmus Mundus’ joint PhD project
      • Informe OCDE sobre Innovación en Euskadi
      • External training given during the third quarter of 2009
      • Papers presented - Orkestra (October-December 2009)
      • Harvard premia por segundo año consecutivo un proyecto realizado por alumnos de Orkestra
      • A delegation of Chinese businesspeople visit Euskadi
      • Amsterdam Univ. Press will publish the thesis by N.Irastorza
      • Orkestra visited the Sophia Antipolis technology park
      • Orkestra teaches several courses on competitiveness
      • Presentation on “Intrapreneurs Working as Entrepreneurs"
      • Basque Entrepreneurial Activity with Major Growth Potential
      • Does intensity in R&D generate start-up growth?
      • Download the GEM 2008 report from our website
      • Orkestra has joined Twitter!
      • New publication on property and control structures
      • Orkestra presented the second Report on Competitiveness
      • Impulso de la actividad emprendedora para superar la coyuntura económica negativa actual
      • Orkestra presenta la II Conferencia General de Competitividad
      • Entrepreneurship in the Basque Country is well-established
      • Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurial Capabilities
      • Orkestra and Deusto have joined the Woka Euskadi congress
      • Alan Barrel from Cambridge University visited Orkestra
      • José Luis Curbelo, new general manager of Orkestra
      • International experts contrast innovation projects
      • Statistical techniques regarding multi-level analyses
      • New research identifies emergent clusters in Euskadi
      • Contrast workshop on the 2nd Report on Competitiveness
      • Report on energy was presented in Madrid
      • Orkestra and Garapen will work together
      • Orkestra receives a number of experts from Reunion Island
      • HARVARD awards a prize to participants in the MOC Course
      • Multilevel Modeling Seminar at Orkestra
      • Ibermática and Orkestra diagnose innovation in the districts
      • MOC’s VIth meeting held in Bilbao
      • Alliance Agreement between Orkestra and Innobasque
      • Commitment to the promotion of the energy sector
      • Seminario ‘Spin-offs’ tecnológicos
      • Workshop around the role of academic research in society
      • Presentation on the Paper Cluster
      • Debate on high growth potential enterprising initiatives
      • Discussion workshop on Orkestra's research
      • Discussion workshop focused on Orkestra's projects
      • International Master in Innovation Management (Im2)
      • Start of the course "Being Competitive in/from China"
      • Closing ceremony of the course MOC (San Sebastian edition)
      • “Retos del Tejido Empresarial Guipuzcoano”
      • "Born-global firms. What exactly do they mean?"
      • The role of government in the economy to debate
      • Visit of Eduardo Frei, Former President of Chile
      • Presented the report on the enterprising potential on 2007
      • Publication of the Annual Report 2007
      • 12th International Conference on Competitiveness
      • Does the size matter?
      • Teresa Navarro-Agency ACC11Ó
      • Entrepreneurship in Finland
      • Entrepreneurial Activity in Madrid
      • Debate on "competitiveness"
      • Orkestra and Soumitra Dutta at Kursaal Congress Center
      • Presentation by Colm O Gorman
      • Paper by Iñaki Erauskin
      • Course on the competitive environment in the Chinese market
      • Manuel Flores, lecturer from Lancaster University
      • Agreement with Max Planck Institute of Economics
      • Conference by Dr. Audretsch
      • Partnership with Garapen
      • Orkestra presents its first Report on Competitiveness
      • How to request the report
      • MOC Closing Session
      • First MOC Alumni Meeting
      • Seminar I. Pena
      • GEM Report CAPV 2006
      • Universidad Autonoma NCB
      • CEIBS in Shanghái
      • Conference: Xavier Vives
      • “Dynamic Modeling”
      • Proyecto Gobierno Vasco
      • 3d GEM Conference
      • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
    • Publications
    • Líneas Estratégicas
      • Innovación e internacionalización de nuevas empresas
      • Financiación de nuevas empresas
      • 'Intrapreneurship' y 'spin-offs'
      • Demografía empresarial
      • Instituciones y capital social
  • Strategy
    • Presentation
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    • News
      • The role of market orientation on organisational innovation in Basque industrial SMEs is being studied in a doctoral thesis of the Strategy Department.
      • 11.1% of foreign investment made by Spanish multinationals is from the Basque Country
      • “A complementary management model that invests in technology, organisation and management of individuals needs to be pursued in order for Spanish companies to advance in terms of productivity”
      • Development of the model for measuring scales
      • Sull gives the keys to succeed in periods of inestability
      • McMaster World Congress (MWC)
      • Internationalization
      • 7th Annual International Conference
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    • Líneas Estratégicas
      • Globalización de la empresa vasca
      • Sofistificación de las estrategias y operativas empresariales
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  • Energy
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      • The second edition of the course “Energy and Competitiveness: gas, networks and renewables” comes to its end
      • Eloy Álvarez Pelegry participated in the presentation of the white book of Smart Cities (Libro Blanco Smart Cities), presented within the 1st National Conference on New City Models in Barakaldo
      • The students of the Energy and Competitiveness Course visit the National Renewable Energy Center
      • The Head of the Energy Department coordinates a session on the Electric Sector and its Challenges
      • The Electric Sector: Current Situation and Outlook
      • Electricity Generation Mix Workshop
      • Conference on Energy and Energy Taxation
      • Over forty professionals take part in the conference “Evaluation and comparison of methodologies on the relationship between energy, industry and employment”
      • The Chair of Energy will hold a second edition of its course “Energy and Competitiveness: Gas, Networks and Renewables”
      • Orkestra presents book on implications of reducing CO2 emissions.
      • The closing session of the course "Energy and Competitiveness: Gas, Networks and Renewable Energies" takes place in Bilbao.
      • Eloy Álvarez Pelegry, Head of Orkestra’s Energy Department, is appointed member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (Real Academia de Ingeniería) (RAI)
      • Ana Carmen Díaz, researcher at the Energy Department, is awarded a prize during the national call for PhD Thesis Awards of Banco Santander’s UCEIF Foundation
      • Eloy Álvarez Pelegry, Director of the Orkestra Department of Energy, has analysed, along with hundreds of professionals in the sector, the economic implications of energy
      • The Basque Country, future knowledge hub and reference centre for industrial development in the energy sector on a global level
      • Inauguration of the course “Energy and Competitiveness: Gas, Networks and Renewables”
      • Orkestra's Energy Department's first seminar on electric and renewable markets.
      • Alex Henney examines the evolution of the British Electric Industry in Orkestra
      • Orkestra held a conference on Unconventional Gas: Shale Gas on the Bilbao Campus of the University of Deusto.
      • Orkestra launches its first program on energy and competitiveness in the Basque Country.
      • The commitment to renewable energy sources means a change towards a viable energy model.
      • Challenges facing the energy sector book launch (01/04/2011 12:00am CRAI Library. University of Deusto, Bilbao).
      • Orkestra will create an Energy Chair of international nature
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    • Mondragon Unibertsitatea
    • BAI, Agencia de Innovación de Bizkaia
    • Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science
    • Innobasque, Agencia Vasca de la Innovación
    • Gobierno Vasco
    • SPRI, Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial
    • Diputación Foral de Álava
    • Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
    • Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
    • EUSTAT, Instituto Vasco de Estadística
    • INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadística
    • Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
    • CEIBS
    • IESE
    • INSEAD
    • Max Planck Institute of Economics
    • Universidad del País Vasco EHU-UPV
    • EUNIP: European Network on Industrial Policy
    • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
    • Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard University
    • MOC Microeconomics of Competitiveness
    • OECD
    • BCC Basque Chair of Competitiveness
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    • Universidad de Deusto
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