{"id":2028,"date":"2019-05-26T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2023-06-09T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:08:36","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-euskadi-is-a-strong-innovator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2019\/05\/26\/basque-fact-of-the-week-euskadi-is-a-strong-innovator\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: Euskadi is a &#8220;Strong Innovator&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Historically, the Basque Country&#8217;s economy has focused on agrarian and industrial activities, the later mostly centered on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community)#Economy\">steel and shipbuilding<\/a>. However, the government of Euskadi &#8212; or the Basque Autonomous Community comprised of Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba &#8212; has invested heavily on modernization, with significant expenditures on research and development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innobasque.eus\/uploads\/attachment_files\/innobasqueinforme_web-5b1fa695c69e3.pdf\">particularly by business<\/a> &#8212; of all Autonomous Communities in Spain, Euskadi invests the greatest percentage of its gross domestic product into R&amp;D. The Basque Country has the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community)#Economy\">highest per capita income in Spain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/industry\/innovation\/facts-figures\/regional_es\">is one of the regions of Europe with the highest numbers of tertiary, or post-high school, degrees<\/a>. Its success is based on the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-spain-economy-basque\/analysis-basque-economy-has-lessons-for-spain-idUSBRE85R0K120120628\">invest in industry, not tourism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size.png?fit=474%2C464\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2029\" width=\"298\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size.png 1732w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size-1024x1002.png 1024w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size-768x752.png 768w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size-1536x1503.png 1536w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size-1200x1174.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/industry\/innovation\/facts-figures\/regional_es\">European Commission<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Euskadi is growing in scientific leadership. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikerbasque.net\/en\">Ikerbasque<\/a>, the Basque Foundation for Science, Euskadi published more than 6000 scientific papers in 2017, a 50% increase over the last 6 years. This is 6.5% of the total scientific productivity of Spain, when Euskadi has 4.7% of the population.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Science investment in Euskadi is driven by the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euskadi.eus\/gobierno-vasco\/pcti-2020\/\">Plan de Ciencia, Tecnolog\u00eda e Innovaci\u00f3n Euskadi 2020<\/a>. This plan emphasizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.eus\/en\/content\/rd-euskadi\">three strategic priorities<\/a> &#8212; energy, advanced manufacturing, and bio-sciences and health &#8212; along with four areas of opportunity &#8212; agri-food industry; territorial planning and urban regeneration; leisure, entertainment, and culture; and ecosystems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One feature of the Basque commitment to scientific R&amp;D is their network of <a href=\"http:\/\/cicnetwork.es\/#\">Cooperative Research Centers<\/a>. Centers focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicbiomagune.es\">Biomaterials<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicbiogune.es\">Biosciences<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicenergigune.com\">Energy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanogune.eu\">Nanoscience<\/a> are spread throughout Euskadi. These centers were created by the Basque Government to &#8220;create an effective framework of cooperation in strategic research areas, strengthen interdisciplinary basic and applied worldclass research in those areas and provide technology transfer to the industrial environment&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanogune.eu\/structure-and-governance\">from the NanoGUNE website<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not everything is smelling like roses. <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/industry\/innovation\/facts-figures\/regional_es\">Euskadi&#8217;s rankings have fallen over the last year<\/a>. This is maybe reflected by <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/tools-databases\/regional-innovation-monitor\/base-profile\/basque-country\">the drop in R&amp;D expenditures<\/a> in recent years. Drops in government investment were at least partially offset by increases in private spending. And Euskadi is relatively weak in <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/growth\/industry\/innovation\/facts-figures\/regional_es\">non-R&amp;D innovation and patent applications<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, the Basque Country&#8217;s economy has focused on agrarian and industrial activities, the later mostly centered on steel and shipbuilding. However, the government of Euskadi &#8212; or the Basque Autonomous Community comprised of Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba &#8212; has invested heavily on modernization, with significant expenditures on research and development, particularly by business &#8212; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,8],"tags":[1272,1348,39,1349,1350,541,942,544],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basque-fact-of-the-week","category-euskadi","tag-basque-fact-of-the-week","tag-cooperative-research-centers","tag-euskadi","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-ikerbasque","tag-nanogune","tag-research-and-development","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bfotw.infographic-regional-innovation-scoreboard-2017-full-size.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-wI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}