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INDUSTRIAL POLICY AWARDS

2024

Master’s Dissertations (TFM)

Active Exploration in Search and Rescue Environments Using a Quadruped Robot

📄 Author: Jorge García Samartín
🎓 Supervisors: Antonio Barrientos Cruz (ETSII-UPM) and Chrystian M. Cruz Ulloa (ETSII-UPM).

This work presents the development of a robotic system capable of autonomously carrying out intelligent and efficient exploration of unknown and potentially dangerous environments. Much as a human would, it does not scan the area along a predetermined route, but instead prioritises the regions of greatest interest for the search.

2025

Undergraduate Dissertations (TFG)

Analysis and Evolution of the Industrial Sector in Spain

📄 Author: Pablo Infantes
🎓 Supervisor: Isabel Ortiz Marcos (ETSII-UPM).

The work addresses, with rigour and depth, one of the most relevant issues for our country’s economic future: the strategic role of industry in a changing global context.

2025

Master’s Dissertations (TFM)

Alliance for Heat Decarbonisation

📄 Author: Isabel Fanjul Campos
🎓 Supervisor: Javier Mazorra Aguiar (ETSII-UPM).

The work stands out for its contribution of knowledge to the design of public policies and business strategies in line with the new Industry and Strategic Autonomy Act, the Industrial Decarbonisation PERTE and the Clean Industrial Deal. 

2025

Master’s Dissertations (TFM)

A Study of the Mediating Effect of Digital Capabilities on the Relationship between Different Digital Technologies and the Adoption of Circular Economy Practices Using PLS-SEM

📄 Author: Walid Allay Bakhtaoui
🎓 Supervisors: Alberto Urueña López (ETSII-UPM) and Alessandra Neri (POLIMI).

The work offers two findings of interest for industrial policy. Digital technologies are a driver of the transition towards a circular production model. The success of this transformation depends critically on the mediating role of the organisation’s dynamic capabilities. It also found significant differences when segmenting the data by company size, revealing that smaller companies do not manage to boost the adoption of circular economy practices through the development of their dynamic capabilities, a key factor for future business support strategies.

2025

Doctoral Theses

Unfolding industrial ecosystems: Conceptualisation and analysis from a strategic niche management perspective

📄 Author: Ebru Susur
🎓 Supervisor: Antonio Hidalgo Nuchera (ETSII-UPM).  

The research makes an original and rigorous contribution at the intersection of industrial ecology, innovation and sustainability transitions. Through a robust methodological design combining a systematic literature review, multiple case studies and field research in Italy and Spain, the author develops novel conceptual frameworks to analyse the emergence and evolution of sustainable industrial ecosystems.

2025

Doctoral Theses

High Power Bidirectional Wireless Electric Vehicle Chargers: Advanced Topology Solutions and Control Strategies

📄 Author: Nikola Mirković
🎓 Supervisor: Miroslav Vasić (ETSII-UPM).

The research focuses on the development of high-power bidirectional wireless chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). Its main objective is to advance more efficient and versatile charging technologies that encourage the widespread adoption of electric mobility and help reduce transport-related CO₂ emissions. Drawing on the results obtained during its implementation, the thesis presents high-impact advances in wireless electric vehicle charging through original contributions in design, topology, control and experimental validation.
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