Ramon Maspons

AQuAS - Departament de Salut - Generalitat de Catalunya

MSc in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Executive Master in Public Administration. Master of Science in Environmental Management. He holds a Diploma of Advances Studies in innovation and research management. Chief Health Innovation Strategist at Ministry of Health, Government of Catalonia. Chief Innovation Officer at Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS). Among his activities in the last twenty years he has been leading innovation procurement and value-based purchasing programs and projects at national and international cross-border levels. Ramon has experience in hospital and medical innovation and in international funded research projects, mainly EU projects. Member of Europen Working Group for the „Harmonisation of clinical trial criteria & methodologies in Europe for the evaluation of digital health medical devices (DiHA)”

He has hold positions as Strategic Projects Unit Director of Biocat, as Strategic Planning Director of Granollers City Council for 6 years, and as Director of IALE Tecnologia, a spin-off company of Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC) for 10 years.

He is a guest lecturer at several educational centres and universities, workshops and symposia of mission- oriented innovation policies and mission-oriented public procurement and reimbursement. Ramon has several international awards and recognitions related to innovation, the adoption of innovation or innovative procurement and reimbursement processes