Currently involved in action research about business transformation and leadership development for creating new business opportunities. Both, at the entrepreneurial firm level and policy making processes to face societal Grand Challenges and technology based innovations involving social transformation. Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry, currently he is with TECNALIA Research & Innovation, in the Transformation & Emergent Businesses Division. He has authored four books, more than forty articles and papers in international and national technical magazines about innovation leadership, business and quality management. He created in 2007 the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy (JIIP, http://joint-institute.eu/), with counterparts of VTT, TNO and Joanneum Research. He also acted as head coach of Team Academy in Euskadi (2006-2013), creating team entrepreneurs in Science and Technology environments.Specialties: Innovation Systems, Change Management, Leadership Development and Coaching, Organizational Learning, Technology Management, Entrepreneurship.