In February 2024, the Learned Society of Wales hosted a roundtable of experts to reflect on the similarities and differences between the Basque and Welsh innovation ecosystems.

Our objective in hosting the roundtable was to hear how things are done elsewhere to inform reflections on how Wales’s activities and structures are organised. This is not with the intention of identifying ‘best practices’ to be copied, but rather to draw some inspiration from others and consider whether there were ideas that might be appropriately adapted and applied as Wales develops its own approach.