On October 28th at 11 a.m., the side event of the UPV Innovation Forum will be held in a hybrid format at the Polytechnic City of Innovation with the live podcast produced by El Orden Mundial. The session will continue with an elite round table in the national scientific field that will discuss the course of the geopolitics of research.
We are all seeing how the geopolitical situation is changing in the world. It came from before, with the rise of China, but in a year we have seen a crazy President Trump who is changing everything and we are returning to a dynamic of blocs that we thought was overcome. Research is also being affected. Today, Europe is more concerned about technological sovereignty than its lower rate of converting research into innovation. There is increasing concern about who we share knowledge with, and we are seeing more vetoes on relationships with researchers depending on which countries they are from. The demand for research in defense is visibly growing, an opaque and expensive sector almost by definition, far from the culture of knowledge dissemination of the academy and the involvement assumed by researchers to address social, environmental or business competitiveness challenges.
UPV Innovation understands that promoting public debate on this issue responds to its objective of fostering a culture of innovation. And asking what and for whom to research and innovate are questions that a university that wants to be useful to society has to consider.
The dynamics of this Side Event of the UPV Innovation Forum consists of two parts. On the one hand, a podcast recorded live from the series “No es el fin del Mundo”, produced by
PROGRAM. Tuesday, October 28, 2025
11:00 a.m. | Live Podcast of the series “No es el fin del mundo”
Team of El Orden Mundial (EOM)
12:30 p.m. | Round Table. Implications in research of the new geopolitical scenario
- Teresa Riesgo, Secretary General of Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
- Mª Ángeles Serrano, General Secretary of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE).
- Raquel Saiz, Head of Incidence and Impact of the COTEC Foundation for Innovation.
- Javier Quesada, Research Professor at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research and Executive President of the Jaume I Awards Foundation
Moderated by: Fernando, Arancón. Director of El Orden Mundial (EOM)
2:00 p.m. | Conclusions
- Salvador Coll. Vice-Rector of Innovation and Transfer
Registrations
You can register attendance to the event (in person or streaming) at the following link:
UPV Innovation Forum 2025
The UPV Innovation Forum is the benchmark meeting between researchers, entrepreneurs, and R agents of the innovative ecosystem of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).
This forum deploys during 2025 a series of events that promote the exchange of successful experiences in R and transfer and raises the next challenges of science and innovation with the UPV seal.
The live podcast and round table held at the Polytechnic City of Innovation the “New Geopolitics of Research” is configured as an additional event and the fourth of a series of conferences scheduled in the UPV Innovation Forum of this year.
