The second episode of “Startupeando el Futuro”, the SLGB podcast, is now available. This time, we spoke with María Márquez-Gómez, Israel Griol Barres and Óscar Morant Martínez, members of the IDEAS UPV team, who coordinate the SLGB project at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).

Recognised for its academic excellence and its leadership in international cooperation, UPV holds a central role in Strategic Leadership in Green Business: it coordinates the project. With more than 25,000 students and 5,000 staff members, UPV ranks among the European universities with the highest participation in the Erasmus+ Programme, holding strategic partnerships with over 1,000 partners across 90 countries. Within UPV, IDEAS-UPV is the ecosystem that has driven entrepreneurship since 1992, supporting students and graduates in creating more than 1,000 companies and spin-offs. Its work has been recognised by the European Commission, and it maintains partnerships such as the one it holds with the University of California, Berkeley, to develop start-up management programmes.

In this episode, we discuss what an entrepreneurial ecosystem is and why building one matters, the role international training plays in an entrepreneur’s path, and why thinking globally — bringing together the environmental, social and productive dimensions — has become essential to entrepreneurship today.

You can listen to the episode here