Last update date 26 May 2023
The Cluster GAIA (“Industry Association of Applied Knowledge and Technologies”) has established itself as a key actor within the industrial ecosystem of the Basque Country. Since the early 1990s, GAIA has been actively collaborating with regional public authorities, being an intermediary agent between supply and demand side and acting as an important vehicle to facilitate regional industrial transition policies. Recently, GAIA has played a major role in the development and implementation of the regional innovation strategy (EUSKADI 2030 Science, Technology and Innovation Plan - STIP). Due to the growing importance of digitisation as a key enabling technology for all clusters in the Basque Country, the cooperation between GAIA and both, regional authorities as well as other regional and also international clusters has intensified. More precisely, GAIA has opened up its digitisation services to companies from other clusters and successfully initiated strategic public-private partnerships with other clusters. This has proven to be a crucial lever to systematically implement industrial transition policies and better synchronise SME needs and transition policy measures.