On March 30th took place the 1st Spanish Innovation Index (\u00cdEI) conference in which the University Carlos III of Madrid presented the ranking of the most innovative companies from the consumers’ perspective. This work is led by professors Lola Duque and Llu\u00eds Santamar\u00eda, from INDEM, and has the collaboration of the consulting firm Neovantas. The event was chaired by Juan Jos\u00e9 Vaquero, vice-rector of Scientific Policy at UC3M; Ignacio Garc\u00eda Fenoll, general deputy director of Innovation Coordination at the Ministry of Science and Innovation; Rosa Rodr\u00edguez, dean of School of Social Sciences and Law at UC3M; Juan Manuel Garc\u00eda, director of the Department of Business Administration at UC3M and Jos\u00e9 Luis Cortina, president of Neovantas.\u00a0\u00a0Professors Llu\u00eds Santamar\u00eda and Lola Duque gave a presentation on the research behind the \u00cdEI, followed by the guest speaker, Professor Tor W. Andreassen, from the Norwegian School of Economics, who gave a talk on modern value creation taking into account the ongoing research with the partner universities of the innovation index (Hanken School of Economics in Finland, Karlstad Business School in Sweden, Aarhus Business School in Denmark, Hasselt Business School in Belgium, Gabelli School of Business -Fordham- in the United States and Queensland School of Business in Australia).The innovation awards were then granted to the most innovative companies by sector according to the Commercial Innovation Index, the most innovative companies both globally and from Spain, and an honorable mention was also awarded. To see the complete list of winners, please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/indicedeinnovacion.uc3m.es\/premios-a-la-innovacion\/?lang=enThe event closed with the panel of the winning Spanish companies in the three innovation indexes: Zara (commercial), Balay (social) and Cabify (digital). This panel was moderated by Juan de Rus, director of Neovantas and adjunct professor at UC3M, and Lola Duque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-3493","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n