International Seminar on Innovation for Territorial Competitiveness

09.00h – Welcome and introduction to the Seminar

• Enric Fossas, President, Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)

• Jordi Portabella, director de l'àrea de Recerca i Coneixement de la Fundació Bancària “la Caixa”

09.15h - Keynote: Innovation and territory (tentative)

• Soumitra Dutta, Dean and Professor of management and organizations at 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 Recommendations of Innovation Strategies for Territorial Competitiveness

Chair: Teresa Navarro, secretària tècnica de FemCAT Fundació Privada d'Empresaris

• Markku Markkula, President, Committee of Regions, European Union

• Joan Trullén, director de l’Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona

• James Wilson, Senior Researcher at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and lecturer at the Deusto Business School

• Vittorio Galletto, cap de l’àrea d’economia de l’Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona

12.30h – Presentation of the “Agenda for Innovation and Competitiveness of Catalonia 2015 – 2020” and Close

• Enric Fossas, President, Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)

13.00h - Conclusions

• Enric Fossas, president de l’Associació Catalana d'Universitats Públiques (ACUP)

• Josep González, president de PIMEC

• Ramon Adell, vicepresident de Foment

• Markku Markkula, president del Comitè de les Regions de la Unió Europea

• Claudi Alsina, secretari general del Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya de la Generalitat de Catalunya

13.30h – Lunch

Date: 19 November 2015

Venue: Palau Macaya, Obra Social de “La Caixa”

Pg. Sant Joan, 108, Barcelona. Map

Time: 09.00h – 13.30h

Simultaneous translation will be provided into English and Catalan, as applicable

In order to attend please register yourselves here