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Public policy and institutions Lab
Governance to ensure competitiveness and citizens’ well being
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Our research
Business competitiveness and citizens’ well being are heavily dependent on the territorial environment in which both people and firms are located. This environment is supported by institutions, public policies and systemic relationships that are found and boosted in the territory. Moving forward with territorial competitiveness is therefore a group task that must be assumed and shared by each agent that forms part of this environment.
The Public Policy and Institutions Lab focuses on the system formed by actors and the governance relationships that underscore group strategies promoted to reach sustainable territorial competitiveness. The lab conducts research and work with other system actors to analyse and improve institutions, governance and public policies.
It has specifically worked on clusters, innovation systems, Smart Specialisation Strategies (ris3), infrastructures, human capital and skills. Analysis and assessment of public policies in these areas are particularly important, as well as trying out policies oriented to guarantee territorial competitiveness.
The research in this lab is carried out under the parameters that Orkestra calls transforming research. The lab works in constant cooperation and dialogue with researchers from other Spanish and international research centres together with the territorial agents they consider key to the process. In summary, these are: firms, policy makers at different public administration levels, cluster associations, universities, technology centres, development agents and vocational training centres.
Research activity and projects
Previous projects
- Enraizando Alava
- RIS3 Alive
- Vocational Training and Smart Specialisation in Spanish Regions
- Manumix
- Clusters3
- AS-FABRIK
Featured publication:
"Bilbao Alliance for smart specialisation in advanced services towards the digital transformation of the industry" - Download PDF
Featured publications and news
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Scientific Articles
La resiliencia ante grandes retos sociales: una aproximación desde las políticas regionales de innovación
2020
Edurne Magro
Boletín de Estudios Económicos, Vol. LXXV - Nº 231, p.p.571-592 -
Doctoral Theses
Sources of innovation in firms from an emerging economy: The case of Mexico
2021
Francisco Carrillo-Carrillo
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Books
Learning from similar regions: how to benchmark innovation systems beyond rankings
2020
Susana Franco, Carlo Gianelle, Alexander Kleibrink and Asier Murciego -
Scientific Articles
Public innovation through governance in place-based competitiveness policymaking. The case of Bizkaia Orekan
2020
Ainhoa Arrona, Susana Franco and James R. Wilson
Competitiveness Review, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 119-136 -
Scientific Articles
The integration of the Basque machine tool cluster into GVCs
2020
Zubiaurre, A., Sisti, E. and Retegi, J.
Competitiveness Review, Vol. 30 No. 4, pp. 471-484 -
Observatorio de la Formación Profesional en España. Informe 2020. Resumen y conclusiones
2020
Juan Pablo Gamboa (dir.), Mónica Moso (dir.), Mikel Albizu, Ainhoa Lafuente, Antonio Mondaca, Asier Murciego, Mikel Navarro, Etorne Ugalde
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