Topics
CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
How best to contribute to local and regional innovation development, given the institutional and policy context, in collaboration with other companies and organisations in the region and by effectively connecting with local industry?
SUSTAINABILITY
"How to ensure sustainable growth of innovative industrial sectors based in the PTA in terms of energy efficiency, optimizing consumption, and minimizing impact?"
medioambiental?
INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION CULTURE
How to foster social capital in the form of inter- organisational relationships, collective goal orientation of members and shared trust that fosters knowledge and technology transfer?
Actors and assets
UNIVERSITY
How to improve the quality of partner universities in frontline research on industrial innovation and the role of the PTA in supporting incubators and accelerators?
How to encourage knowledge transfer mechanisms between companies, companies and universities and industrial companies in the PTA?
TALENT
How to encourage the attraction of talent by making the PTA an attractive place for workers
improving the quality of the social environment, as well as enhancing everyday social interactions,
healthy working environments, etc.?
INTERACTION
How to improve the social context, networks and interactions between actors in the PTA ecosystem (companies, universities, administrations, civil society, financial institutions and other intermediaries)?
Incentives
SUPPORT MODELS
How should support models evolve? For example, should the transition be made from Science and Technology Parks (STPs) to innovation districts or areas, where the more traditional elements of STPs (incubators, accelerators, design centers, flexible office spaces, etc.) revitalize entire neighborhoods or urban areas in decline? Should time-limited support programs be offered for new ideas and early-stage companies ?
ATTRACTION OF INVESTMENT AND FIRMS
Should they be more general or associated with corporations, financial firms, public sector? How should digitalisation reshape the ecosystem of support mechanisms, as well as the nature of enterprises and their support needs?
PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION
Should support programs be offered for training and specialization in certain fields? What smart regulation and administrative simplification should be implemented?
Smart governance
Where to evolve?
What is the industrial and technological context, structure and life-cycle stages of industry in Malaga? How should the PTA evolve to remain attractive to innovative industrial companies, research institutions, the creative class of highly mobile knowledge workers ?
ECOSYSTEM SPECIALISATION
"In what areas could the city of Málaga and the Andalusia region specialise? What would be the medium- and long-term objectives and the business models to prioritise? Should it host mature, prestigious, and independent companies, branches of established firms, consulting firms, or startups? In this case, how can mechanisms of collaboration and cohesion be created among them, considering their different characteristics?"
MEASURING RESULTS
How will the results of the PTA related to the economic, financial, social, and environmental dimensions be measured, in order to monitor trends and the evolution of the STPs over time, as well as to allow the analysis of the causalities of the results in order to assess the effectiveness of the policies? How can these results be compared with different regions and countries ?