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Martínez García

Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC-IPP). She specializes in the economics of science and innovation.

Her research examines science-industry linkages, technology and patent markets, and research career trajectories in both the public and private sectors, as well as their impact on innovation processes.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (International Doctorate in Economic Analysis, IDEA). Before joining CSIC in 2006, she spent nearly a decade working abroad: from 1997 to 2000 as an economist at Lexecon Ltd (London and Brussels), and from 2000 to 2006 at the Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OECD) in Paris, where she was selected for the Young Professionals Programme and worked as an Economist in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.

She regularly participates in national and international expert groups and collaborates with the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, as well as with international organizations including the OECD, WIPO, the EPO, the European Commission, and EUIPO. She has served on the board of EPIP (Chair, 2021–2022), on the Executive Committee of the EU-SPRI Forum, on the Scientific Advisory Committee of OST-Hcéres, and on the Scientific and Technological Committee of FECYT. Since 2025, she has been a member of “Los 100 of COTEC".

She has published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters, and has led more than 20 research projects and contracts at the regional, national, and international levels. She currently co-leads the project INNDOC (AEI-PDI2023-149135NB-I00) and, since 2022, has been Principal Investigator of the DOC-TRACK project, funded by the European Patent Office Academic Research Programme.