V Employment Congress 2022

Gotzon Bernaola Ariño

General Coordinator for Business Innovation at the Basque Innovation Agency, Innobasque

Gotzon Bernaola is the General Coordinator for Business Innovation at the Basque Innovation Agency, Innobasque. His experience over the years has focused on innovation and implementing innovative governance models in collaboration with regional stakeholders. Some of the tasks he has undertaken to date include the design of public innovation plans and public innovation support tools, as well as promoting inter-institutional collaboration projects. He is currently focusing on increasing the number of innovative SMEs in the Basque Country by activating learning processes and supporting these SMEs to provide value-added solutions adapted to their challenges and/or needs and reach companies that are least in touch with the field of innovation.

Graduate in Mathematical Sciences, specialising in Probability Calculus and Statistics, Master's Degree in International Trade and Business Management from the UPV and a Master's Degree in Business Studies from the Instituto Universidad-Empresa in Madrid.