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Innovation for Territorial Competitiveness


09.00h – Welcome and Introduction to the Seminar

  • Enric Fossas, President, Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)
  • Jaume Giró, General Manager, “la Caixa” Foundation

09.15h - Keynote: Innovation and territory (tentative)

  • Soumitra Dutta, Dean and Professor of management and organizations in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Co-editor of the Global Innovation Index (GII)

10.00h - Coffee Break

10.30h – Roundtable: Challenges and Recomandations of Innovation Strategies for Territorial Competitivenes

Chair: Joan Trullén, Director, Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies

  • Markku Markkula, President, Committee of Regions of the European Union
  • James Wilson, Senior Researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and lecturer at the Deusto Business School
  • A representative of European business associations (tbc)

11.45 – Presentation of the “Agenda for Innovation and Competitiveness of Catalonia 2015 – 2020” and Closing

  • Enric Fossas, President, Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)
  • Joaquim Gay de Montellà, President, Foment del Treball Nacional
  • Josep González, President, PIMEC
  • M. Hble. Sr. Artur Mas, President, Generalitat de Catalunya (tbc)

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