partly determined by how their business models interact with the environment to produce offerings with added value. This … chapter contributes to the reflection on Catalonia's competitiveness by using the business model concept to highlight the need … to adapt business models to new realities in the Catalan environment. Catalan firms have made little effort to …

look at a key ingredient of this driver for Catalonia: the link between science and business. We argue that the Catalan … innovation system faces three important challenges in order to better connect science to business: 1) the need for a sufficient … science and business, i.e., science needs different channels to connect with business and requires coordinated efforts between …