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Professor of the Department of Industrial Organisation at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, PhD in Industrial Engineering and Msc in Innovation Management by AENOR.

His teaching activity focuses on the area of innovative management of organizations and quantitative methods. He has developed his academic and research career at the Bilbao School of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. Her main research interest focuses on innovation management, a line of research in which he has been working for 20 years. He is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals in the field of management, integration of management systems, innovation and technology.

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Rosa María Río-Belver has a PhD in Engineering, specializing in Industrial Engineering, MSc in Environmental Sciences and Technology and Msc in Management of Innovation by AENOR .

She is a University professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU; teaching subjects such as Operations Research, Industrial and Technological Politics and Competitiveness-Innovation. Her main research interests are focused on innovation management, competitive intelligence, technology maps, emerging technologies, tech mining, knowledge engineering, and foresight. She is the author of numerous papers and is involved in national and European projects.

Dr. Garechana currently serves at the Business Management department of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research interests include innovation management, the science and technology indicators, text mining tools and scientific evaluation systems. He is a member of the TFM Research Group, and has authored several papers on the topic of science and technology characterization.

Engineer in Industrial Management by the Engineering School of Bilbao (UPV/EHU) and PhD by the University of the Basque Country.

She is a lecturer and researcher in the Engineering School of Bilbao. Her teaching activity focuses on the area of competitiveness and business innovation, and the design and management of production systems. Her research activity includes the following areas: management of innovation and new production models, entrepreneurship, as well as the application of different methods ranging from scientometrics to text mining.

Ingeniero Civil por la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Magister en Ciencias y Técnicas del Agua y Medio Ambiente por la Universidad de Cantabria y Doctor Ingeniero Industrial (programa: Ingeniería Ambiental) por la UPV/EHU.

1 sexenio de investigación .Participado en 5 proyectos de investigación financiados por diversos organismos. 12 publicaciones en revistas científicas indexadas. 32 contribuciones a congresos nacionales e internacionales. 4 participaciones invitado como ponente en países diferentes.

Izaskun Alvarez-Meaza has a PhD in Engineering, specializing in Industrial Engineering. After four years in a Technological Center he is currently working as lecturer in the University of the Basque Country; teaching subjects such as Operations Research and Statistics. Her main research interests are focused on knowledge management, sustainability, technology maps, emerging technologies and tech mining.

Itziar Martínez de Alegría is Graduated in Business Administration and Economic Sciences by the Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales (Sarriko) of the University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU). She as a PhD in Economics in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao (ETSIB) of the UPV/EHU and has a Master in European Studies by the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and the University of Deusto (Spain). From the year 2000 she has worked as Professor Assistant at the ETSIB in the areas of Economics and Business Management. She has written a wide number of articles, book chapters and other publications in the areas of Energy, Climate Change Policy and Sustainable Development. She has also been a speaker in different International and National Congress related with the aforesaid areas. From the year 2008 she is Coordinator of the Economy and Energy Areas of the Energy Working Group at the International Studies Chair (Cátedra de Estudios Internacionales (UPV/EHU)), as well as usual invited speaker at the Conference on Energy and Climate Change (Spain) organized by the cited Chair.

Ph.D. in Economics by the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU) and Tenured Lecturer in the same university. From the beginning of his academic career, in 1998, he has combined teaching and research tasks with knowledge transfer towards companies and public administrations. His research work has been almost exclusively empirical and quantitative in approach. He is interested in different aspects of social and economic reality, from social policy and the Welfare State, to management of Higher Education Institutions and university-business relations. He has collaborated with several regional statistical institutes in a long-term basis, as well as with other public and private institutions. Most of his collaborations have consisted in the elaboration of statistical information and its analysis. In particular, he has worked in the design and elaboration of several official statistics.

Naiara Pikatza has a Degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Economics and Business (UPV/EHU), Master's Degree in Research Models in Social Sciences and Master's Degree in Training of Teachers. She is currently doing her doctorate at the UPV/EHU.

With experience in financial management and consultancy, she currently works as a teacher and researcher at the UPV/EHU. Her teaching activity focuses on the area of economics, business organization and health and safety at work. Her research activity includes the following areas: knowledge management, analysis of innovation models, and evaluation of the social impact on companies, through the application of different methods ranging from scientometrics to text mining.