March 23, 2016
This will be performed jointly with the Government of Navarra, via the public company Sodena, and the research centre Inarbe of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA). The goal is to provide the Navarran Government with in-depth knowledge with regard to competitiveness and territorial development.
The agreement signed by the president of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Ignacio Mª Echeberria; the vice-president of Economic Development of the Government of Navarra, Manu Ayerdi; and the Chancellor of the Public University of Navarra, Alfonso Carlosena, is intended to boost the economic and business competiveness of Navarra.
The three institutions will develop projects and research and technological development actions and encourage exchanges of experts and staff training.
In short, the Orkestra and Inarbe researchers will collaborate mutually and with Sodena in order to provide the Government of Navarra with in-depth knowledge with regard to competitiveness and territorial development.
Vice-president Ayerdi has stressed the importance of this collaboration, given that Orkestra and Inarbe are research centres specialised in their respective fields and that they will be able to contribute, via their collaboration with Sodena, towards Navarra “refining its strategy” and increasing its competitiveness. “The role of the Government is to facilitate and promote this participatory leadership, but we need to involve the whole of society”, he argued.
Meanwhile the president of Orkestra underlined the fact that “the agreement will serve to apply to the context of Navarra the knowledge generated by the Institute, which will permit the learning and generation of new knowledge in the field of regional competitiveness”.
The first project to be worked on is called “Competitive diagnosis of Navarra – Analysis and reflections for the definition of priorities in Navarra’s smart specialization strategy (RIS3)”. This is undertaken in the process of definition by the Government of Navarra, via Sodena, of this European system for the economic transformation of a territory, observance of which will be a prerequisite to access to EU structural funds.
Orkestra will provide its expertise in diagnosis and analysis, and a team of six researchers led by Mikel Navarro, Orkestra researcher and Professor of Economics at the University of Deusto; and Inarbe will also provide a team of researchers coordinated by the director of the Institute, Pablo Arocena.
