Improving knowledge transfer and collaboration between science and business in Spain
This study provides an in-depth assessment of Spain’s innovation system and the current
state of knowledge transfer and collaboration. It identifies five priority areas for
reform and long-term investment that should provide the basis of a new Roadmap. These
include granting greater operational autonomy to universities and public research
organisations in return for accountability on outcomes, putting in place a better
integrated system of incentives that takes both individuals and organisations into
account, and ensuring sustained investment in core capabilities to connect science
and business. To put these reforms in motion and sustain them over time, a new type
of covenant between science and society is needed in Spain today. This should be based
on a ‘new deal’ between actors in the science and innovation system and society at
large, committing to place the pursuit of concrete social benefits in return for more
stable and predictable support.
Published on December 16, 2021Also available in: Spanish
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