Competitiveness depends more than ever on our ability to swiftly incorporate innovation into organisational structures and business models and processes, focussing particularly on green innovation linked to sustainability, and blue innovation linked to high complexity, which leads to products, services and entire industries that deliver high social and economic returns. Innovation in traditional sectors of the economy, such as commerce, tourism and logistics, is also vital. Improving our ability to innovate will be reliant on the enhancement of our enterprising ecosystems and on our capacity to transform research into knowledge transfer.
Catalunya 2022
RESET: Call to reactivate Catalonia
GOAL 5
To innovate in traditional and new sectors to reassert our status in the world
Actions
- 5.1To set up a permanent interdisciplinary panel to innovate in regulation in key areas in order to modernise Catalonia
- 5.2To review, develop and innovate in taxation, transforming it into an instrument to help achieve Catalonia's development goals
- 5.3To reform the Catalan Competition Authority to assign it the strength needed to ensure competition on markets and prosecute cases of abuse of a dominant position
- 5.4To restructure, innovate and foster the Employment Service of Catalonia to proactively deal with the industrial revolution 4.0, which entails a radical transformation of the labour market
- 5.5To incorporate green innovation into the traditional industrial fabric by producing pharmaceutical and textile products, among others, for the European market and by spearheading part of the environmentally-responsible global industry
- 5.6To devise a plan of action for the circular economy to boost business competitiveness, technological innovation and the creation of stable employment in order to enhance the environmental sustainability of a new production and consumption model
- 5.7To set up 15 urban economic promotion hubs in at least 10 towns and cities in Catalonia
- 5.8To set up the office for the digitalisation of SME commerce to provide comprehensive support for adapting to online markets
- 5.9To establish urban logistics hubs to streamline last-mile delivery and the structuring of efficient, sustainable omni-channel commerce
- 5.10To redirect the tax on stays in tourism establishments to improving the protection and recovery of the environment and Catalan heritage
- 5.11To set up a tourist guidance system that combines artificial intelligence tools with a new public/private governance model to improve the link between supply and demand
- 5.12To create a tourist innovation platform to link the experience of a well-established sector with a scarce history of innovation to other highly innovative sectors in order to improve the sector's competitiveness