Social Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium Skool Centre Territories & Entrepreneurs Initial Ideas for a Comparative Territorial Benchmarking 23rd july 2013 Säid Business School Oxford University
This presentation was shown on the 23rd July 2013 in the Social Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium organized by Skool Centre at the Säid Business School, University of Oxford (UK). The starting point is the Mondragon case from the Social Innovation published in the Edward Elgar's International Handbook, but the main purpose is presenting some initial ideas to highlight the importance of the Territory as the main asset in order to Social Entrepreneurship can be flourished among the collaboration of the territorial agents.
Action Research for Social Entrepreneurship Education (Large Format)Spencer Arnold
This document discusses action research conducted by university students with social enterprises. It describes how Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship established the Global Social Benefit Fellowship program to provide action research opportunities for undergraduates. Through this program, students spend the summer conducting research projects with social enterprises that can help these organizations scale their impact. The document outlines how action research provides greater value than traditional internships or service learning by applying students' expertise and critical thinking skills. It also discusses how action research aligns with the Jesuit educational philosophy of the university.
AISTS MSA 2014 Research Paper - LIU NANCYNancy Liu
This document summarizes a research paper on social entrepreneurship in sports. The paper conducted interviews with founders of social enterprises using sports to create social change. The major challenge identified was lack of sustainable funding. Social entrepreneurs overcame this by building brand credibility to attract funds and spending only money raised in the previous year. The purpose was to help future social entrepreneurs understand and prepare for challenges in this field.
This document summarizes a research paper on Bethany Christian Services' Safe Families for Children program. The paper evaluates the program's place in social entrepreneurship, business model, finances, evaluation methods, scaling, and potential for transition. Safe Families for Children is considered a social entrepreneurship as it innovatively addresses family crises through temporary child placements. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, relying on grants and donations. The program measures its social impact and financial sustainability. The paper recommends additional evaluation methods and promoting Safe Families for Children and pre-/post-adoption services to reduce foster care costs.
Social entrepreneurship aims to improve societal welfare through market-based strategies. In India, social entrepreneurship is growing, with entrepreneurs addressing issues in health, energy, and other sectors. However, social entrepreneurs in India face challenges including a lack of financing sources, proper regulations, and information systems. It is important for organizations to support further development of social entrepreneurship in India.
The document provides an overview of the history and roles of civil societies in Kenya. It discusses how civil societies first emerged in the 1920s to fight colonial oppression and advocate for citizens' rights. They played a key role in Kenya's independence movement and transition to multiparty democracy. Today, civil societies address a wide range of issues like fighting disease, advocating for disabled peoples' rights, and promoting peace. However, tensions sometimes arise between civil societies and the government, which sees some as anti-government. The document also profiles one social entrepreneur working to promote employment for youth with disabilities.
This is the presentation of the talk given in Lieje (Belgium) in the EMES Network Congress 3rd July 2013, specifically as the presentation of the Chapter Mondragon case from the Social Innovation by Edward Elgar. http://www.igorcalzada.com/mondragon-case-from-the-social-innovation-chapter-accepted-to-be-part-of-the-international-handbook-of-social-innovation-by-the-edward-elgar-publishing-editors-moulaert-maccallum-mehmood-hamdouch
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This is the presentation of the talk given in Lieje (Belgium) in the EMES Network Congress 3rd July 2013, specifically as the presentation of the Chapter Mondragon case from the Social Innovation by Edward Elgar. http://www.igorcalzada.com/mondragon-case-from-the-social-innovation-chapter-accepted-to-be-part-of-the-international-handbook-of-social-innovation-by-the-edward-elgar-publishing-editors-moulaert-maccallum-mehmood-hamdouch
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Cooperative Entrepreneurship: The Case of MONDRAGON 1956-2019Jose Mari Luzarraga
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Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (print) - innovative practices for s...Christiaan Weiler
The Origin of Spaces project is a three-year collaboration between organizations in five European countries to share knowledge and explore innovative coworking practices. The project involves researching themes like multidisciplinary coworking, local partnerships, ecological transition, participatory governance, and social entrepreneurship. Partners conducted background research and interviews in their local areas to inform the creation of an online toolbox to share knowledge and skills related to sustainable coworking ecosystems.
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This document discusses methodological bases for defining and conceptualizing cluster brands. It proposes a scientific methodology to build place brands for clusters using tangible and intangible values of cluster members. The methodology involves focus groups, in-depth interviews, and surveys of cluster members to gather information democratically and involve diverse stakeholders. This process helps construct a strong place brand that explains the importance of the cluster and differentiates the location.
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"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
How will the suggested H2020 strategy based on Smart City, contribute and implement the so-called Social Innovation; while facing realistic, economic and politically-driven issues in an increasingly territorially heterogeneous EU City-Regional current context?
1. The document discusses proposals for the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR) on measures to close the innovation divide in Europe.
2. Key messages include stressing the importance of transnational collaboration between regions, bottom-up citizen engagement, and implementing the knowledge triangle of synergies between research, education, and innovation.
3. Developing attractive regional innovation ecosystems and creating challenge platforms that encourage bench-learning and bench-doing are also emphasized as ways to speed up innovation.
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Juan Francisco Delgado Morales is the President of the Community Association of Telecentres Networks. The main mission of the association is to create a network of organizations focused on establishing, promoting, and maintaining public internet access centers to advance the information society through innovative public access to information and communication technology. The association currently connects over 8,000 telecentres across Spain that provide broadband internet access and equipment to around 3.5 million active participants. The strategic objectives for 2010-2014 include becoming a national benchmark for using information and communication technology for socioeconomic transformation, promoting telecentres as spaces for social innovation, and strengthening services provided to citizens, small and medium-sized enterprises, and freelancers.
The document summarizes inclusive design projects aimed at serving the majority world. It discusses the early years of ICSID and design work at the University of Nairobi. It also summarizes the "Q Drum" and "Super MoneyMaker Pump" projects, which are low-cost water transportation and irrigation solutions developed for communities in Africa. The document emphasizes the importance of designing for affordability, cultural acceptability, and environmental sustainability when serving emerging markets and bottom of the pyramid populations.
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The document discusses the economic, social, and geopolitical crises facing Europe in the 21st century and how innovation can help address these challenges. It outlines Europe's policy responses, including strengthening core values, socioeconomic development, and large financial commitments. The document emphasizes activating and reconfiguring regional innovation ecosystems using a Triple Helix approach and smart specialization strategies to identify local competitive advantages. It argues that innovation agents must be stimulated and that knowledge institutions and businesses have untapped potential if properly supported through this process.
Citilab in Cornella de Llobregat, Spain is a case study of an open living lab located in a small-to-medium sized city. Citilab addresses five key problems in developing as a living lab: engaging local community members as innovation partners, starting an innovation program relevant to local needs, balancing innovation and learning, managing collaboration between different stakeholder groups, and developing a sustainable funding model. By taking a bottom-up, user-driven approach focused on local issues, Citilab has built a community of over 4,500 members working on projects in areas like senior services, education, arts, and museums.
Basque settlement increased in the western states of the US decades ago, particularly in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Alongside this migration phenomenon, Basque Studies programs have been emerging at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Boise State University (BSU), and California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), particularly in the humanities, including history, anthropology, linguistics, and literature. The impact of the pandemic in Basque e-Diasporic communities in California, Idaho, and Nevada, and, consequently, the deep digitalization process being undertaken at the abovementioned universities, has resulted in an increasing demand for an articulated strategy in community engagement through action research. To respond to this timely challenge, the article suggests a need for a transition towards a Social Science transdisciplinary roadmap to support Basque e-diasporic communities. Basque Studies programs have the potential to act as a transformational policy driver through their virtual connections with the Basque Country and key homeland institutions. This article explores this necessary transition through action research by acknowledging the potential for the three abovementioned US states and the Basque Country to set up a transformational e-Diaspora.
To cite this journal article:
Calzada, I. & Arranz, I. (2022), Western US Basque-American e-Diaspora: Action Research in California, Idaho, and Nevada. Societies 12(6), 153. DOI:10.3390/soc12060153.
Dr Calzada's Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence reception took place on 10th October 2022 at California State University, Bakersfield. This event contributed to launch the Institute for Basque Studies (IBS) through a renewed academic programme based on trans-disciplinarity, entrepreneurship, and digitalisation by connecting the Basque Country, Wales, and California. The Fulbright reception event presentation focused on opportunities both at the city-regional level for Central Valley as well as from e-diaspora perspective in relation to Boise and Reno's Basque Studies programme. It is up to the IBS now to implement core foundations stemming from Fulbright S-I-R's programme led by Dr Calzada as PI. An efficient coordination within the CSUB and strategic stakeholders under the supervision of the PI in Bakersfield and Kern County will be required to make this Fulbright S-I-R's foundational statement feasible and doable, which should actively endure over time. The 5th December 2022, alongside the IBS-Etxepare agreement signature, a workshop will be held by the IBS to wrap up and put into practice Fulbright SIR-IBS programme's foundational formulation from January 2023 onwards being that co-led by the PI and IBS.
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
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It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
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Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
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https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
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In light of the recent ‘tourism-phobia’, there is a need to better understand how tourism could be transformed through new business and social models. Attempts have been made, for example, to identify which experimental tourism models would align with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nonetheless, research remains scant and the policy paradigm slightly out of date. With the pervasive proliferation of tourism services provided by big tech multinationals such as AirBnB and Uber and the rapid algorithmic disruption of the so-called “sharing economy” paradigm, several European cities and regions are seeking to mitigate the negative side-effects caused by “platform capitalism” in their neighborhoods and local communities. These side-effects include gentrification, privatization of public space, inherent conflicts between visitors/tourists and residents/locals, environmental damage, and precarious working conditions, among others. Thus, this paper explores why tourism in Europe requires new business and social models to neutralise this algorithmic disruption and modify the extractivist neoliberal logic in tourism to develop new, transformative, techno-political, bottom-up, and networked strategies stemming from the city-regional realm. Against the backdrop of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU that has recently taken effect on 25 May 2018, this paper argues that a new, transformative, tourism paradigm could emerge from the European political left. The push of the city-regional resurgence beyond established nation-states could enable grassroots and institutional tourism initiatives to take the lead and coordinate a political response to achieve further sustainable, equitable, and, ultimately, democratic technological sovereignty in diverse localities through Europe. In conclusion, this paper posits city-regional, bottom-up, and networked dynamics characterised by the GDPR as an opportunity to establish a new techno-political paradigm in tourism by overcoming data and algorithmic extractivist practices.
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ABSTRACT: This article draws on the thorny topic of the Social Innovation (SI). Particularly, it revolves around the role of those social movements promoting the Basque language not only in relation to their organisational models but also to their holistic strategy to tackle inevitably digital, urban, and political challenges surfaced by the disruptions stemming from the post-COVID society.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2020), The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia as a Digital Panopticon. BAT Aldizkaria 115(2): 00-00. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35980.05763/2. [Preprint] Forthcoming. CC BY-NC 4.0
Video:
https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1444&v=lygDohSla6g&feature=emb_logo
Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/topagunea/topaldia-2020-igor-calzada-oxfordeko-unibertsitatea
General link:
https://topaldia.topagunea.eus/topaldia-2020/igor-calzada/
Over the last decades, globalisation has led to a new class of global citizens. While the access to this global citizenship is still not spread evenly, many have enjoyed the freedom to move, work, and travel with no limits. However, this cosmopolitan globalisation rhetoric of a borderless world has been drastically slowed down by Covid-19. This pandemic has introduced a new level of uncertainty in global affairs and led many to question whether citizens will be able to continue enjoying the freedom of movement once the crisis is over. To share this article: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2020), Will Covid-19 be the end of the global citizen? Apolitical. Retrieved from: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11942.27208/1.
Dr Igor Calzada participates on 26th and 27th September 2019 in Barcelona on the ‘Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State’ co-organised by the UPF (Barcelona) and SciencesPo (Paris). He presents a paper about a forthcoming publication:
Calzada, I. (2020), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. In Sami Moisio, Andrew EG Jonas, Natalie Koch, Christopher Lizotte, Juho Luukkonen and Matthew Sparke (eds), Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Forthcoming] DOI: 10.13140:RG.2.2.17301.6832/1.
Here is the reference of the paper:
Calzada, I. (2019), Emerging Citizenship Regimes and Rescaling (European) Nation-States: Algorithmic, Liquid, Metropolitan and Stateless Citizenship Ideal Types. Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State jointly co-organised by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona (UPF), Department of Political and Social Sciences & SciencesPo (Centre d’Études Européennes et de Politique Comparée)-Paris, UPF, 26-27 Sept., Barcelona (Spain).
This is a periodistic article published on September 8, 2019, in the Basque newspaper Berria, which is entirely in Basque language. The article revolves around the volatile Brexit context by giving several insights referring to the democratic dysfunctional nature of Brexit whatsoever and elaborating from an sketchy and nuanced analysis on the unequal scenarios and future prospects for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2019), Brexit: Erraietatik. Berria. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.15258.59849.
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is worsened when these algorithms are integrated into already opaque governance structures in our cities. Moreover, over the past decade, the propagation of sensors and data collection machines in so-called ‘smart cities’ by both the public and the private sectors has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership.
This is a policy report elaborated by the Basque Studies' Society to collect a wide range of opinions on the prospective nature of the Basque territory. Dr Calzada has contributed to the report in a 'Collective Authorship' fashion.
This is the report published on 25th June 2018 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group of the UK Government entitled: 'Intelligent leadership: How government strategy can unlock the potential of smart cities in the UK' to which Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford has contributed to.
Journal article published in @GlocalismJ on 'Do Digital Social Networks Foster Civilian #Participation among #Millennials? Kitchenware Revolution & #15M Democratic Regeneration cases' #Iceland & #Spain #technopolitics #democracy #socialmedia #OpenAccess http://www.glocalismjournal.net/issues/beyond-democracy-innovation-as-politics/articles/do-digital-social-networks-foster-civilian-partecipation-among-millenials-kitchenware-revolution-and-15m-democratic-regeneration-cases.kl
Territories is a new and innovative international journal that covers the evolution of theories, notions and concepts, facts and interpretations of empirical analysis related to the field of regional studies. The journal aims to publish original research from an interdisciplinary angle, which deals with the economic, socio-political, environmental and philosophical dimensions of urban and non-urban (post-national) regions. The specific goal of Territories stands on the study, debate and intellectual argument on how the global scenario provokes a new understanding, recognition and evolution of regional realities around the world, which go beyond the national concept. This journal will publish papers that engage with the economic and political conditions that have a founded impact towards regional realities, and vice versa. It is important to note that
this reverse angle is crucial to understand the global scene today. Territories represents a new agora where to bring critical perspectives that may help to understand and change the current hegemonic conditions.
Calzada, I. (2018) From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities? In Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary David Walsh (eds), Co-Designing Economies in Transition: Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 191-217. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66592-4_11.
This document provides the draft agenda for a workshop on replicating smart city solutions from the SCC1 projects in follower cities. The workshop will include sessions on the policy context of smart cities, an introduction to replication, and parallel replication workshops on low energy districts, integrated infrastructure, and urban mobility. These workshops will involve presentations from industrial and city partners, as well as discussions on overcoming barriers and the changes needed to successfully replicate smart solutions. The event aims to help follower cities learn from the successful SCC1 projects and implement similar smart city solutions.
Dr Calzada has been kindly invited by the Barcelona City Council to take part in the Board of Directors of the Barcelona City Council on 17th January 2018. His presentation has been elaborated in collaboration with ESADE Business School. The title is: 'Cities & Data: Com el Digital, #BigData & #DataScience està transformant els governs'.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is the brochure of the entire course.
Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.
The MIT Metro Lab Initiative have held another edition in which Dr Calzada will contribute to the section: Co-creating the metro discipline that will take place from 8th to 12th January 2018.
During this time, he will be part of the instructors of the theme Metropolitan Governance by addressing the specific and delicate issue of legitimacy. Dr Calzada will examine how a new political regionalism pattern claims expressed and embodied via geo-democratic practices.
Here is abstract of his presentation on 11th January 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
This document outlines the schedule and curriculum for a 10-day metropolitan leadership training program at MIT. Each day focuses on a different theme related to metropolitan areas and includes sessions led by instructors from MIT, the Metro Lab, the World Bank, and other organizations. The schedule provides details on session topics, times, locations, and instructors for presentations, workshops, field visits and discussions covering issues such as metropolitan environments, infrastructure, governance, and leadership.
This document announces a workshop on rethinking the urban commons in European city-regions. The workshop will be held in Brussels on February 12, 2018 and is the final event in a series funded by the ESRC on bridging European urban transformations from 2016-2018. The workshop aims to conceptualize the idea of the urban commons and discuss its potential for addressing challenges around austerity, social innovation, and urban governance. Speakers will explore topics like housing cooperatives, informal settlements, and social innovation initiatives as examples of the urban commons. The goal is to bring together academics, policymakers, activists, and others to reflect on and debate the future of the commons in European cities and regions.
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Social Entrepreneurship Research Colloquium Skool Centre Territories & Entrepreneurs Initial Ideas for a Comparative Territorial Benchmarking 23rd july 2013 Säid Business School Oxford University
1. Territories
&
Entrepreneurs:
Ini0al
ideas
for
a
Compara0ve
Territorial
Benchmarking
Dr.
Igor
Calzada,
Ph.D.
PostDoctoral
Research
Fellow
at
the
University
of
Oxford
(UK).
Future
of
Ci?es
FoC
Programme,
COMPAS
&
InSIS.
&
Ikerbasque,
Basque
Founda?on
for
Science.
Lecturer
&
Senior
Researcher
at
the
University
of
Mondragon
(Spain).
2013
Research
Colloquium
on
Social
Entrepreneurship
Skoll
Centre
for
Social
Entrepreneurship,
Säid
Business
School.
University
of
Oxford
(UK)
12:15-‐13:00
23rd
July
2013.
2. INDEX:
0.-‐
Bio/Background
1.-‐
Research
Ques0on:
Territories
&
Entrepreneurs:
Place
MaYers
2.-‐
Case
study:
Descrip0on
&
Interpreta0on.
Mondragon
case,
published
in
the
Interna?onal
Handbook
on
Social
Innova?on.
3.-‐
Current
PostDoc
Research:
(Work-‐In-‐Progress)
Ini?al
ideas
for
a
Compara?ve
Territorial
Benchmarking
3. hYp://about.me/icalzada
0.-‐
Bio/Background
• Sociologist
+
MBA
by
Deusto
University
• 10
years
in
Mondragon
Group
– Innova?on
field
– University:
Lecture
and
Senior
Researcher.
• Also
ins?tu?onal
and
poli?cal
arena
• PhD
in
the
west
of
USA
• Thesis:
– Comparing
Basque
Country,
Portland
(Oregon)
and
Dublin
(Ireland)
• Right
now:
Doble
affilia?on
– University
of
Oxford
(UK)
Future
of
Ci?es
Programme
– Ikerbasque,
Basque
Founda?on
for
Science
• PostDoc:
– Comparing
Oresund
(SE&DK),
Liverpool/Manchester
(UK)
and
Basque
Country.
4. 1.-‐
Research
Ques0on
Why
should
we
link
Territories
&
Entrepreneurs?
Because,
PLACE
MATTERS
5. 1.-‐
Research
Ques0on:
Overview
about
Time,
Space,
Place
and
Territory
• David
Harvey
(1990):
“Time
had
destroyed
Space”
• Daniel
Innerarity
(2013):
“An
economic
geography
of
crea7vity
is
established
that
requires
a
significant
number
of
modifica7ons
in
a
way
territories
are
governed”
• Ulrick
Beck
(2007):
“Territories
are
not
longer
‘container
spaces’”
• Anne
Lee
Saxenian
(2007):
“There
is
a
linkage
between
the
way
technology
entrepreneurs
build
regional
advantage
in
order
to
compete
in
global
markets”
• Heather
Haveman
(2013):
”As
spa7al
barriers
decline,
compe77on
expands
geographically
(space
maEers
less)
and
site
of
produc7on
becomes
more
relevant
(place
maEers
more)”
6. 2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Why
should
we
highlight
(nowadays)
the
Territory
&
Social
Entrepreneurship,
(both
together)
when
refers
to
Mondragon
case?
7. 2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
DESCRIPTION
INTERPRETATION
12. by Fran Castill
• A.-‐
The
Mondragon
coopera?ve
group,
named
officially
Mondragon:
Humanity
at
Work:
Finance-‐Industry-‐
Retail-‐Knowledge,
has
aYracted
the
interest
of
many
researchers,
both
in
the
field
of
economic
democracy
as
well
as
in
business
in
general.
• B.-‐
The
experience
launched
in
1943
with
the
founda?on
of
a
Polytechnic
School,
has
become
a
coopera?ve
network
of
more
147
coopera0ves,
structured
into
four
groups
—
industrial,
financial,
distribu0on
and
research
&
training
—
today
employing
almost
80,321
persons
with
a
turnover
of
over
14,832
million
Euros
in
2011
(Mondragon,
2012).
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Descrip0on
13. • C.-‐
In
the
industrial
area
the
percentage
of
interna?onal
sales
in
2010
amounted
to
62.5%.
• D.-‐
It
should
be
noted
that
of
the
3.594
million
Euros
in
interna?onal
sales,
2.309
million
(56.7%)
corresponded
to
exports
from
the
produc0on
plants
in
the
Basque
Country
and
the
rest
-‐1.555
million,
43.2%
-‐
corresponded
to
the
produc?on
on
in
the
foreign
subsidiaries.
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Descrip0on
14. • E.-‐
The
Mondragon
group
reflects
the
concern
of
combining
the
basic
objec?ves
of
a
business
development
in
capitalist
markets
with
the
use
of
democra?c
methods
in
its
organiza?on,
job
crea?on,
promo?on
of
its
workers
in
human
and
professional
terms
and
commitment
to
the
development
of
its
social
environment
(Erras?,
2003).
• F.-‐
The
development
of
this
experience
over
the
last
decade,
par?cularly
on
an
interna?onal
level,
has
thrown
up
ques?ons
regarding
the
viability
of
the
Mondragon
coopera0ve
model
and,
consequently,
of
the
coopera?ve
model
in
general.
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Decrip0on
15. • G.-‐
The
Mondragon
coopera?ves
have
been
construc?ng
a
wide
network
of
subsidiaries
all
over
the
world,
93
subsidiaries
and
more
than
13.000
workers
in
2010,
mainly
in
emerging
na?ons
BRIC
(13
subsidiaries
in
China,
8
in
Czech
R.,
7
in
Mexico,
6
in
Poland
and
Brazil,
etc…).
• H.-‐
The
strategy
has
involved
acquisi?on
of
businesses
and
the
cons?tu?on
of
private
capital
affiliated
companies
(Mondragon,
2011).
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Descrip0on
16. 2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Interpreta0on
Download
the
chapter
here:
hYp://www.igorcalzada.com
17. by Fran Castill
1)
During
the
last
two
decades
many
coopera?ves
belonging
to
the
Mondragon
coopera?ve
group
have
pursued
a
strategy
of
interna0onal
growth
that
had
transformed
the
original
local
coopera0ves
into
mul0na0onals
groups
with
many
affiliated
companies
all
over
the
world.
2)
The
main
issues
are
how
long
Mondragon
mul0na0onals
will
remain
key
creators
of
jobs
and
wealth
in
the
Basque
country
and
whether
or
not
the
coopera0ve
democra0c
model
will
prevail
among
its
subsidiaries.
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Interpreta0on
18. by Fran Castill
3)
Mul0na0onal
companies
and
democracy
seem
to
be
antagonis?c
terms:
mul?na?onal
refers
to
the
capacity
for
control
by
a
centralised
unit
distant
from
the
various
units
spread
over
a
number
of
countries
(hetero-‐
management),
while
the
concept
of
democracy
refers
to
the
direct
control
by
those
involved
in
the
process
(self-‐
management),
as
it
happens
in
the
coopera?ves.
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Interpreta0on
19. by Fran Castill
4)
However,
exploring
and
innova?ng
different
ways
that
exist
to
democra?se
companies,
even
mul?na?onals,
is
a
challenge
which
cannot
be
ignored
by
society
nor
by
companies
if
they
wish
to
con?nue
producing
goods
and
services
in
a
way
that
is
dis?nct
from
the
tradi?onal
capitalist
enterprises.
Seeking
produc0ve
mul0na0onal
business
models,
ones
as
democra0c
as
possible,
is
a
challenge,
above
all
for
those
democra0c
companies,
as
Mondragon
coopera0ves,
that
have
had
to
become
mul0na0onals.
2.-‐
Case
study:
Mondragon
(Basque
Country,
Spain).
Interpreta0on
20. by Fran Castill
To
sum
up:
1.-‐
The
increased
presence
of
mul?na?onal
corpora?ons
impose
a
series
of
obliga?ons
on
industrial
companies:
size
and
be
located
in
the
most
favourable
places.
2.-‐
M
has
transformed
in
the
last
decade:
Basque
Country
based-‐
produc?on
coopera?ves
è
To
a
large
mul?na?onal
group
with
coopera?ve
plants
and
mul?ple
non-‐coopera?ve
produc?on
subsidiaries
in
Eastern
Europe,
La?n
America
and
especially
China.
3.-‐
M
has
seen
the
challenge
of
interna?onal
expansion
as
a
way
to
improving
compe??veness
for
the
preserva?on
of
the
local
and
coopera?ve
employment:
3.1.-‐
Re-‐loca?ons
may
be
a
loose
of
local
jobs.
3.2.-‐
Investment
in
gradual
transforma?on
of
low
value-‐added
jobs.
4.-‐
In
spite
of
this,
re-‐loca?on
has
just
only
begun.
5.-‐
Industrial
coops
wonder:
Not
loosing
their
iden?ty,
deeply
rooted
in
the
community
and
based
on
a
democra?c
business
model.
21. by Fran Castill
Three
complimentary
approaches:
1.-‐
Objec?ve
2.-‐
Realis?c
3.-‐
Cri?cally
Construc?ve
22. 1.-‐
OBJECTIVE
approach:
• The
Mondragon
group
reflects
the
concern
of
combining
the
basic
objec7ves
of
a
business
development
in
capitalist
markets
with
the
use
of
democra?c
methods
in
its
organiza?on,
job
crea?on,
promo?on
of
its
workers
in
human
and
professional
terms
and
commitment
to
the
development
of
its
social
environment
(Erras?,
2003).
• This
strategy
has
reinforced
the
compe00ve
posi0on
of
the
companies
but
has
produced
contradic0ons
between
the
basic
objec?ves
of
a
business
organisa?on
compe?ng
in
interna?onal
markets
and
the
historical
core
principles
and
values
of
the
Mondragon
coopera?ves
(Erras?,
2003)
23. 2.-‐
REALISTIC
approach:
• We
are
not
some
paradise,
but
rather
a
family
of
co-‐opera7ve
enterprises
struggling
to
build
a
different
kind
of
life
around
a
different
way
of
working.
• Nonetheless,
given
the
performance
of
Spanish
capitalism
these
days
–
25%
unemployment,
a
broken
banking
system,
and
government-‐imposed
austerity
(as
if
there
were
no
alterna7ve
to
that
either)
–
Mondragon
seems
a
welcome
oasis
in
a
capitalist
desert.
hYp://www.guardian.co.uk/commen?sfree/2012/jun/24/alterna?ve-‐capitalism-‐mondragon
24th
June
2012
The
Guardian
24. 3.-‐
CRITICALLY
CONSTRUCTIVE
approach:
• However,
Dr
Igor
Calzada,
in
his
chapter
featured
in
the
Interna7onal
Handbook
for
Social
Innova7on
on
Mondragón,
advises
innovators
in
Spain:
• To
reflect
a
homegrown
approach
to
social
entrepreneurship
that
steers
away
from
individualist
forms
imported
from
abroad
and
to
tend
more
towards
community-‐inspired
approaches
as
that
taken
by
Mondragón
when
it
was
originally
established.
hEp://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/social-‐enterprise-‐network/2013/jan/02/spain-‐enterpreneurs-‐
economic-‐enterprise-‐coopera7ve
2nd
January
2013
The
Guardian
25. 2.-‐
Chapter:
7/7.
1.-‐
Bees
&
Trees
2.-‐
Local
Communi0es
3.-‐
Technocentric
èAnthropocentric
“Triumphalist
Talent”
èBiocentric
4.-‐
Communitarian
Social
Capital
5.-‐
IDeO
ORONA,
Innova0on
City
6.-‐
LEINN
degree
7.-‐
Challenge
26. 2.-‐
Chapter:
1/7
Key
Idea
1) Bees
&
Trees
Alliance:
Entrepreneurs
&
Companies.
• To
contextualize
the
challenges
and
issues
that
the
Territory
&
Business
Nodes
confront
in
a
globalized
world.
• Offering
the
idea
of
building-‐up
“Crea?ve
Ecosystems”
(Mulgan,
2007
&
Murray,
2010)
• We
call
it,
biocentric
approach:
cri?cal
value
of
land
and
Territory
as
primary
sources
of
Social
Innova?on.
28. 2.-‐
Chapter:
2/7
Key
Idea
2)
Back
to
the
Local
Communi0es:
• It
is
not
likely
that
JMArizmendiarrieta
(1956)
&
had
heard
of
Jane
Jacobs
(1984)
ideas
about
Local
Communi?es.
• However,
Mondragon
town
had
all
of
the
community
characteris?cs
that
Jacobs
had
established
for
an
environment
to
be
fer?le
for
Social
Innova?on,
which
is
what
ocurred.
29. 2.-‐
Chapter:
3/7
Key
Idea
3)
Technocentric
èAnthropocentric
èBiocentric
approach
of
Mondragon:
• In
the
past,
during
periods
of
growth,
a
Technocentric
approach
prevailed.
• Now,
from
the
more
holis?c
stance
of
corporate
social
iden?ty,
Mondragon
must
abandon
this
outdated
approach.
• Hence,
Social
Entrepreneurship:
– How
can
we
avoid
the
tempta?on
to
encourage
“Triumphalist
Talent”
(Anthropocentric)
at
the
University?
– How
can
we
establish
a
new
genera?on
of
Social
Entrepreneurs
according
to
the
coopera?ve
tradi?onal
synergy
with
the
Biocentric
approach,
who
can
respond
crea?vely
to
the
current
economic,
social
and
environmental
challenges?
30. 2.-‐
Chapter:
4/7
Key
Idea
4)
ê
Communitarian
Social
Capital
(CSC):
• Interna?onaliza?on
and
individualism
have
lowered
the
levels
of
Communitarian
Social
Capital
(CSC)
• Therefore,
we
must
strike
a
balance
between
encouraging
individualist
and
triumphalist
forms
of
social
entrepreneurship
with
the
need
to
structure
communi?es,
which
are
the
basis
of
the
coopera?ve.
31. 2.-‐
Chapter:
5/7
Key
Idea
5)
Case
1:
IDeO
ORONA,
Innova0on
City:
Good
current
prac?ce.
• Compa?ble
with
a
biocentric
perspec?ve
and
to
valorize
the
Territory.
• World
leader
in
eleva?on
systems.
• Stakeholders:
Companies,
University,
Entrepreneurs,
Public
Adm
and
Civic
Society.
hYp://www.orona.co.uk/en/sec?ons/we-‐are-‐orona/innova?on/orona-‐ideo-‐innova?on-‐city.php
32. 2.-‐
Chapter:
6/7
Key
Idea
6)
Case
2:
LEINN
degree.
Good
current
prac?ce.
33. 2.-‐
Chapter:
6/7
Key
Idea.
6)
Case
2:
LEINN
degree.
Good
current
prac?ce.
• Is
contribu?ng
to
the
forma?on
of
a
new
homegrown
talent
pool
of
social
entrepreneurs
which
is
consistent
with
the
vision
of
the
Mondragon
experience
and
that
will
enhance
truly
re?cular
coopera?ve
entrepreneurial
business
models.
• The
future
of
Social
Innova?on
in
Mondragon
lies
not
with
large
companies
but
with
the
networked
structures
of
social
entrepreneurs.
34. 2.-‐
Chapter:
7/7.
7)
Challenge:
• The
great
challenge
for
Social
Innova?on
research
for
the
Mondragon
case
lies
in
the
formulae,
methodologies,
case
studies
and
lessons
to
be
learned
from
the
processes
of
interna0onalizing
the
coopera0ves
that
currently
form
the
flagship
of
Mondragon.
• Thus,
we
must
explore
a
new
concept
of
Social
Entrepreneurship
in
different
emerging
industries:
entrepreneurs
with
large
glocal
networks
who
are
highly
specialized
and
prepared
to
form
or
lead
culturally
and
thema?cally
diverse
teams.
• To
sum
up:
The
real
issue
for
the
Mondragon
experience
today
is
that:
No
coopera0ve
forms
of
society
currently
ar0culate
the
new
economic
ecosystem
on
a
systema0c
basis.
35. 2.-‐
Chapter:
7/7.
1.-‐
Bees
&
Trees
2.-‐
Local
Communi0es
3.-‐
Technocentric
èAnthropocentric
“Triumphalist
Talent”
èBiocentric
4.-‐
Communitarian
Social
Capital
5.-‐
IDeO
ORONA,
Innova0on
City
6.-‐
LEINN
degree
7.-‐
Challenge
36. 3.- Current PostDoc Research:
• Aims:
1.- To design a Systemic Analytical Framework to diagnose/intervene
Territories:
Basic Research.
2.- While carrying out field work case-study research:
Applied Research.
37. 3.- Current PostDoc Research:
• Methodological phases:
Organizing the research in two complementary phases:
– The Future of the City-Regions: Basic Research.
– Comparative Territorial Benchmarking: Applied Research.
• Content’s elements:
Modelling an Analytical Systemic Framework consist of:
– 5 Systems.
– 3 Scales.
• Field work research:
Carrying out case-studies:
– Dublin, Portland and Basque.
– Oresund, Manchester/Liverpool and Basque.
49. 3.- Current PostDoc Research:
Conclusions:
1. · Territory seen as City-Region
2. · Approached from Social Innovation Analytical Systemic Framework
3. · Social Entrepreneurship is just a factor into the whole Framework;
and depends on the rest of the Territorial composition’s factors.
4. · Carried out by Action Research.
50. Thanks
for
your
alen0on
Dr
Igor
Calzada
hYp://www.igorcalzada.com
hYp://about.me/icalzada
@icalzada