The community of research groups/actors mobilised by the IKUR Strategy is made up of actors with excellent capabilities in the strategic lines of action defined for each of the 4 priority areas.
This community of research groups/actors has been stable over time and aims to establish collaboration dynamics to accelerate its development, thereby facilitating the positioning of the Basque Country internationally and obtaining results with a greater impact.
These research groups and actors have been selected based on:
- Identifying outstanding existing capabilities in BERCs in relation to the priority areas
- Mapping excellent capabilities in universities and CRCs with respect to the lines of research that have been identified as strategic in each of the priority areas
- Identifying specific scientific, technological and business capabilities to be able to respond to the projects to be undertaken
As a result, the IKUR strategy is currently building a recognisable community of excellent research groups and actors to encourage cooperation between them, incorporating other research groups and actors so as to be able to respond to specific projects and promote the creation of value chains with an impact.
In particular, from the perspective of its objective of achieving a significant economic and social impact, the IKUR community must be capable of incorporating entities and organisations from the business and healthcare spheres into its operating dynamics to make it possible to transfer the results obtained.
Therefore, the aim is for the actors to concentrate on the activities in which they specialise within the knowledge chain from basic research to implementing their results on the market, thereby creating the optimum conditions for cooperation in which to optimise the transfer of knowledge.