An Analysis of the Spanish Science and Technology System

Abstract

The lack of common objectives is harmful to display a dynamic innovation system, where universities-firms-governments walk together in the same way to accomplish a common objective: produce high levels of innovation that aim to enhance the competitiveness of European economy. The sharing of practices, attitudes, expectations, rules and values that enable the flow and the distribution of tacit knowledge and other ways of proprietary knowledge are essential to promote an innovation system coming from Educational Institutions. In this paper we offer a diagnosis of the Spanish Science and Technology System by making use of the normalized protocol for responsible partnering proposed by EIRMA (European Industrial Research Management Association) in 2009. Afterwards we build a SWOT analysis that can be of interest to University and Innovation policy makers in Spain. We suggest the use of the same tools to analyze what is happening in other contexts in order to find best practices that will lead us improve different systems.