One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
In 2009, I travelled over the Atlantic from the West of the USA, in order to give some lectures in a Master degree about the importance of creativity and innovation in our societal challenges and in some micro level organizational issues....
Shortly before the 2008 crisis, the continental European countries and regions such as the Basque Country started facing an incredible paradox: while public policies encouraged youngsters and the unemployed to run an entrepreneurial idea, politicians, civil servants and fixed employees did not favour it...
The goal was to leave the West of the USA in order to get Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the Basque Country (Spain) to teach Continuous Education Teachers gathered for a Course in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The beginning of the work trip started with being stuck in...
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
The article published in the Diario de Noticias de Gipuzkoa encourages readers to identify the different manners in society that we can identify promoting the so-called innovation mantra....
Have you ever been in an event talking and networking with 136 cups of coffee? Surprisingly, this event took place in Caceres (Extremadura, Spain) being one of the most innovative networking events that I have ever attended. 136 cups of coffee representing each person that...
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. ...
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...
