Doctoral Program in Business and Territorial Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability

Adapted to the regulations set out in Royal Decree 99/2011, it enables students to embark on a professional career as a researcher in universities, technology centres and private or public research centres. The program comes within the framework of the Campus of International Excellence Aristos Campus Mundus 2015, whose initiative is the result of the strategic aggregation of three universities of social initiative (the University of Deusto, the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and the Universitat Ramon Llull) and which is also born with an advanced strategic cooperation agreement with Georgetown University, Boston College and Fordham University.

We need research to find and develop the solutions that our world needs.

The program, taught in English, provides an in-depth study of the different factors that affect the competitiveness and sustainability of companies and territories, in order to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, special emphasis is placed on innovation as a critical factor of competitiveness and on sustainability as a key element to preserve in order to guarantee the well-being of future generations. With these thematic axes, the program provides a solid and rigorous training in research methodology to enable researchers to generate solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. You can study this program with the International Mention or under the Industrial Doctorate modality. Possibility of pre-doctoral contracts.