Gotzon Bernaola is Director of Public Innovation at Innobasque - Basque Innovation Agency, trying to address and give a comprehensive and structured response to the challenges facing Basque society, in order to consolidate a leading position in the field of innovation among European regions.
He is convinced that public innovation and new models of governance should be oriented towards the creation of spaces and environments for the meeting of agents concerned with change, incorporating different visions of the territory into innovation processes.

Commitment to develop an innovation ecosystem where social processes that occur outside the business or economic context are an important axis of development, and also believes that from the innovation must be activated all the capabilities of our territory and that all people, regardless of our age, gender or origin, we can be agents of transformation overcoming situations of confrontation and isolation

Currently deals with issues related to innovation in public policies, the connection of people, organizations and institutions, and the promotion of a governance model based on participation, public-private collaboration, partnerships with all agents social and economic objectives with shared objectives and in order to achieve the commitment of Basque citizens