The general director of the Irizar Group, Imanol Rego, is the fifth president of the Basque Agency of InnovationInnobasque, after being unanimously approved by the members of the Board of Directors, gathered in extraordinary session. Rego (Donostia, 1972) takes the witness of Manuel Salaverría, who has presided over Innobasque since 2017.
The Extraordinary Board has been attended by the directors of the Basque Government of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability, Mikel Jauregi, and of Science, Universities and Innovation, Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias; The three former presidents of Innobasque, Pedro Luis Uriarte, Guillermo Ulacia and Alberto García Erauzkin, and the top responsible for the strategic areas of innovation and the socioeconomic and business sphere from Euskadi. The Innobasque Board of Directors is composed of 60 members.
After the appointment of Imanol Rego, the outgoing president, Manuel Salaverría, thanked the support of the Board during his mandate. “All, Innobasque, its more than 900 public and private partnership organizations, the Basque Ecosystem of Innovation and Basque Society in general We have worked tirelessly for innovation In Euskadi. “
Before saying goodbye, Salaverría has been addressed: “Imanol, you have a great challenge ahead. Deep and radical transitions, a geostrategically confusing world and a country, Euskadi, with enormous values and potentialities Already at the same time, with great weaknesses some of them structural. Those are going to be your environment conditions. But I have the conviction that Innobasque has talent and energy to remain the great agent of impulse of innovation in Euskadi. “
Imanol Rego is the fifth president of the Basque Agency of Innovation, he said that it is “an honor to collect the witness of Manuel Salaverría after a key stage in which the vision of innobasque has been consolidated and has been achieved through the Basque Ecosystem of Innovation that Euskadi plays in the league of the leading regions at European level“
The new president of Innobasque has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2022, at which time he was appointed General Director of the Irizar Group. Industrial engineer with a MBA in Leuven, It has also been formed in Harvard and CCL business schools in Singapore and has a wide professional career especially linked to industry, technology, mobility and foreign market.
Company and technology
Before occupying the general direction of the Irizar group, its Irizar E-Mobility subsidged and held positions of responsibility in different business areas and markets in the multinational Schneider Electric, which came from the Patricio Echeverría corporation. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Tecnalia, of the Patronage of Cidetec (Center for Applied Research and Technological Development) and the Business Advisory Council of the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra (Tecnun), which, which, which He completes his vision of the company, research and education In the Basque Country.
During the seven years of the presidency of Manuel Salaverría, the Basque Innovation Agency has established itself as a key agent of innovation in Euskadi contributing to the improvement of several of the PCTI 2030 indicators: The percentage of innovative companies has risen from 39.9% in 2020 to 46% in 2023 (+15.5%); International financing of the European Research and Innovation Framework Program has gone from 126 million euros in 2020 to 160 million in 2023 (+27%), and 82 participating companies to 102 in 2023 (+24.4%).
In the part of scientific-technological talent It has contributed to the percentage of new STEM university accesses has increased up to 30.1% (4.6% compared to the previous year), with a similar increase in the subgroup of women, (+4.1%).
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