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Working on Bizkaia Orekan opens doors for SMEs

08 June 2018

“The scope and scale of the project provide local development agencies with greater legitimacy to approach firms in their territories in order to better understand their problems”, pointed out James Wilson, senior researcher and coordinator of the Orkestra team working on Bizkaia Orekan.

How is it possible to face the generational change?

27 June 2018

Blog Bizkaia Orekan: An Experiment in Place-Based Competitiveness Policy

Details: 08 June 2018; James Wilson

“We share the challenge of developing an area of research on what social well-being and inclusion are"

01 june 2018

Taxes on robots: how does this affect competitiveness?

29 May 2018

We have a better understanding of SMEs' need for collaboration

23 May 2018

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Projects

Crecer+

The only open investment network of a general nature in the Basque Country that can obtain the funding required for start-ups in the local area and other regions. It is formed by over 40 private investors.

Bilbao Next Lab

Bilbao Next Lab is the action research (henceforth AR) laboratory of Bilbao’s smart specialisation strategy. Its goal has been to facilitate, the economic transformation of the city.

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Training

MUCI

Deusto Business School Master’s degree in Competitiveness and Innovation. This advanced training to lead organisations and make them competitive is taught exclusively in English.

Personalised Training and Study Trips

This programme is suitable for candidates wishing to develop skills in the fields of study offered by the Institute. The academic-research team adapts course content and methodology to meet the participants’ needs.

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#Beyondcompetitiveness

Bizkaia Orekan: An Experiment in Place-Based Competitiveness Policy

Academic literature is very clear that place matters for policy. The same policies...

What can we learn about monitoring Smart Specialisation Strategies?

Monitoring and evaluation in the policy arena...

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Publications

The Basque Country Competitiveness Report 2017

The Competitiveness Report 2017 analyzes the evolution of the region's main competitiveness challenges during the last decade.

Implementing RIS3: The Case of the Basque Country

This report gets into the heart of the processes that are underway in the Basque Country as it seeks to move from the design to the implementation of its RIS3.

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