23 Apr IdentitateaK
This article tackles a difficult and always slippery term: Identity. Arousing confusion when it refers to certain sociopolitical realities, the author tries to locate it in the Social Innovation paradigm....
30 Jan ¿Sobresalientes nórdicos y suspensos vascos?
According to the PISA ranking for education, Nordic countries are the top leaders. Specifically, Finland is very well known for its good results as a country, attracking the attention as the best-in-class in education. The article tries to compare why Finland is becoming the world...
03 Oct Creative City // Ciudades Creativas > Plan Estratégico San Sebastian-Donostia
Between 2000-2010, on the one hand Richard Florida contributed to spread the word on Creative Class, but on the other hand, Charles Landry branded the term Creative City. Here my hometown St. Sebastian brands itself as Creative. ...
16 Jun Direction, Coordination & Author of the Summer School 2007 Creative Capital // Escuela de Verano Capital Creativo 2007: Construyendo la Sociedad Creativa Actual
After three years Summer School trilogy, starting with The Future of Work in 2005; continuing with The Creative Capital in 2006; and ending with the Creative Society in 2007; I gathered the field work information to start writing my dissertation while comparing with Dublin (in...
14 Jun Coordinator & Author of the DVD Creative Capital + Director of the Creative Society 2007 Summer School // Escuela de Verano Capital Creativo 2007
On 7th June 2007, Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz), Joxean Muñoz (TBK), Imanol Agote (DFG) and myself, presented the DVD Creative Society 2006 as the result of the 2006 Summer School about Creative Capital. At this event, we presented the new edition for 2007 that will be...
16 Sep Director of the Creative Capital Summer School 2006 // Escuela de Verano Capital Creativo 2006
Within three days, discussions highlighted: socioeconomics of creativity, the impact of postindustrial and networked upcoming society, the changes in the labor market, the role of the creative industries related to other sectors, the hybridization processes taking place in different international territories, the new business experiences...
18 Jul Innovación y Capital Creativo en la Euskal Hiria
After directing the Summer School Creative Capital in 2006, I wrote this dissemination media article titled "Innovation and Creative Capital in the Basque City-Region" to summarize some conclusions of the event in the main 4 newspapers: El Diario Vasco, Diario Noticias de Gipuzkoa, Berria and...
17 Apr Cultura, Conocimiento, Gestión e Innovación: Las Clases Creativas en la Euskal Hiria > Ekonomiaz, Revista Vasca de Economía, Euskonews y Congreso de Eusko Ikaskuntza
This article was written in 2005 and aimed to apply to the so-called "Creative Class" concept suggested by Richard Florida to the Basque Regional Government's Culture Strategic Planning. Generally speaking, when we refer to a new setting of the cultural planning, it seems that modern and traditional culture clash. The authors highlight the dynamic and complex nature of the Strategic Territorial Planning arguing that Communities and Entrepreneurship should be taken into account for this macro strategic design. The article was published in 2005 in the Revista Vasca de Economía del Gobierno Vasco, Ekonomiaz and in Euskonews and was presented also as a paper with the same title in the Congress of the Basque Studies Society. --- Part I Part II