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Alfonso Unceta
Sociology 2 Department, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Sustainability
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In the last two decades, social innovation (SI) and social entrepreneurship (SE) have gained relevance and interest within the framework of academia at international level. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are key players in promoting innovation and social entrepreneurship initiatives that respond to multifaceted challenges. They support strategies on the basis of the strengthening of participation, collaboration, and cooperation with society and its local communities. However, the approach of Latin American universities to SI and SE has been very uneven in the way they have understood them, integrated them into academic programmes, and transferred knowledge to society. On the basis of the experience of the Students4Change project, we sought to understand the role of Latin American HEIs in promoting social innovations by analysing the experiences of 10 participating universities to formalise a pedagogical programme on SI and SE in their institutions. The results suggest that there is still a need to formalise an academic syllabus that is specifically designed to promote social innovations and to train universities in this endeavour. This paper contributes to the identification of the main levers of change, strengths, and challenges that Latin American universities face to institutionalise SI and SE in their contexts.

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Alfonso Unceta; Igone Guerra; Xabier Barandiaran. Integrating Social Innovation into the Curriculum of Higher Education Institutions in Latin America: Insights from the Students4Change Project. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5378 .

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Alfonso Unceta, Igone Guerra, Xabier Barandiaran. Integrating Social Innovation into the Curriculum of Higher Education Institutions in Latin America: Insights from the Students4Change Project. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5378.

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Alfonso Unceta; Igone Guerra; Xabier Barandiaran. 2021. "Integrating Social Innovation into the Curriculum of Higher Education Institutions in Latin America: Insights from the Students4Change Project." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5378.

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Published: 02 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Europe has gradually consolidated its integration of the gender dimension in the field of research and innovation. Institutional structures have shown that the development of gender diversity policies have improved the conditions of equality between women and men. However, the representation of women in the workforce is still an everyday and universal concern. This article analyses the position of women in academic research. For this purpose, the evolution of the participation of women in research and innovation projects in the context of higher education is observed, taking the University of the Basque Country, Spain, as a case study. In order to evaluate the situation of women in research and innovation projects, the authors analyse a database with 75,864 records of projects collected between 2007 and 2018. The analysis confirms that a more balanced participation has been achieved between women and men in research and innovation teams and in project management structures. However, it also shows that gender diversity should continue to be a priority, in addition to its integration in science and technology financing programmes. Knowing this reality can be useful to promote the intensive development of public policies and to contribute towards the effort to improve the statistics of women’s participation in science.

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Natalia Restrepo; Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran. Gender Diversity in Research and Innovation Projects: The Proportion of Women in the Context of Higher Education. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5111 .

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Natalia Restrepo, Alfonso Unceta, Xabier Barandiaran. Gender Diversity in Research and Innovation Projects: The Proportion of Women in the Context of Higher Education. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5111.

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Natalia Restrepo; Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran. 2021. "Gender Diversity in Research and Innovation Projects: The Proportion of Women in the Context of Higher Education." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5111.

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Published: 27 February 2021 in Sustainability
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This article analyses the promotion of digitalisation in the creative economy through collaborative governance in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). In order to understand this initiative, two public innovation labs located in San Sebastian that influence audiovisual production in Basque and digital gastronomy, respectively, are used as case studies: 2deo–Basque Language Audiovisual Lab and LABe–Digital Gastronomy Lab. Based on sectoral contexts of fragmentation, public and private efforts to consolidate synergies and accelerate processes for the coordination of value chains, attraction of talent, experimentation, and innovation. The analysis has relied on qualitative methodologies, consisting of interviews with key actors and desk research. The results show the implications of a sub-regional collaborative governance model as a means to contribute to a regional Smart Specialisation Strategy. Although the initiative faces a consolidation process, public innovation labs in Gipuzkoa foster sectoral articulation and digitalisation in gastronomy and audiovisual production in the Basque language. Additionally, the acceleration of innovation and the involvement of quadruple helix agents in management tasks have been explored.

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Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Asier Lakidain. Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2568 .

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Alfonso Unceta, Xabier Barandiaran, Asier Lakidain. Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2568.

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Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Asier Lakidain. 2021. "Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2568.

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Published: 17 March 2020 in Economies
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The cultural and creative industries (e.g., digital/audiovisual content, publishing and print media, etc.) constitute an emerging business sector focused on aligning cultural and creative production with profitability and market criteria that encompasses a diverse range of entities, generates employment, boosts GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and drives innovation. This paper analyses the impact of the cultural and creative industries on the economy of the Basque Country and provides information concerning the number of companies present in this sector, their legal structures, annual turnovers, size in terms of the number of people they employ and relative ability to secure public funding for entrepreneurial support and creative projects. Our findings indicate that businesses of this nature in the Basque Country form an ecosystem similar to an archipelago in which companies with a strong entrepreneurial focus, high annual turnovers and a national and international clientele coexist alongside smaller, less profit-oriented organisations devoted to regional cultural development.

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Xabier Barandiaran-Irastorza; Simón Peña-Fernández; Alfonso Unceta-Satrústegui. The Archipelago of Cultural and Creative Industries: A Case Study of the Basque Country. Economies 2020, 8, 21 .

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Xabier Barandiaran-Irastorza, Simón Peña-Fernández, Alfonso Unceta-Satrústegui. The Archipelago of Cultural and Creative Industries: A Case Study of the Basque Country. Economies. 2020; 8 (1):21.

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Xabier Barandiaran-Irastorza; Simón Peña-Fernández; Alfonso Unceta-Satrústegui. 2020. "The Archipelago of Cultural and Creative Industries: A Case Study of the Basque Country." Economies 8, no. 1: 21.

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Published: 02 November 2019 in Sustainability
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Public sector innovation labs have gained increasing importance as one of the material expressions of public sector innovation and collaborative governance to address complex societal problems. In the current international context, there are various experiences, interpretations, and applications of this concept with similarities and differences but all of them are based fundamentally on the establishment of new forms of participation and collaboration between governments and civil society. This paper aims to examine, through a case study, how policy innovation labs could play a prominent role in promoting decision-making at the local level in order to create a more sustainable public sector. To do this, this article focuses on an analysis of the “Gipuzkoa Lab”, a public innovation lab developed in the Gipuzkoa region located in the Basque Country, Spain, in order to confront future socio-economic challenges via an open participatory approach. An analysis of a pilot project to address worker participation, developed within this participatory process, indicates that these collaborative spaces have important implications for the formulation of public policies and can change public actions, yielding benefits and engaging citizens, workers, private companies and academics. This paper provides a contemporary approach to understanding good practice in collaborative governance and a novel process for facilitating the balance between the state and civil society, and between public functions and the private sphere, for decision-making. In particular, this case study may be of interest to international practitioners and researchers to introduce the increasingly popular concept of public sector innovation labs into debates of citizen participation and decision-making.

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Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Natalia Restrepo. The Role of Public Innovation Labs in Collaborative Governance—The Case of the Gipuzkoa Lab in the Basque Country, Spain. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6103 .

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Alfonso Unceta, Xabier Barandiaran, Natalia Restrepo. The Role of Public Innovation Labs in Collaborative Governance—The Case of the Gipuzkoa Lab in the Basque Country, Spain. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (21):6103.

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Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Natalia Restrepo. 2019. "The Role of Public Innovation Labs in Collaborative Governance—The Case of the Gipuzkoa Lab in the Basque Country, Spain." Sustainability 11, no. 21: 6103.

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Published: 30 October 2016 in European Journal of Workplace Innovation
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The importance of Workplace Innovation to improve competitiveness and employability strategies in the Basque Country has been a key ingredient of policy discussions in this region. This paper is focused on the analysis of the context and current state of workplace innovation and productivity skills in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country-Spain).The action-research study was conducted in 2015 (different economic sectors and organizations of the area) with the funding and support of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (Department for Economic Promotion) and the European Social Fund co-financing. The project was included as a specific case study of the workforce and workplace conditions of territorial organisations through the identification of the drivers and barriers of workplace innovation practices in 496 SME’s.The aim of this investigation is to build a new model of economic and social development that looks to understand the diverse and complex workplace environment of an important part of the Basque Country’s work organisations and companies.The evaluation of their practical learning activities, management as intervention, work organization, and worker participation, and their influence in the employment skills of their workers, is a crucial part of this research.This article takes a close look to these organizations, through a detailed analysis of their main changing processes in their workforce skills, their organizational knowledge and their economic and competitive performance.

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Egoitz Pomares; Alvaro Luna; Alfonso Unceta. Patterns of workplace innovation in the Basque Country: Challenges and lessons from Gipuzkoa. European Journal of Workplace Innovation 2016, 2, 1 .

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Egoitz Pomares, Alvaro Luna, Alfonso Unceta. Patterns of workplace innovation in the Basque Country: Challenges and lessons from Gipuzkoa. European Journal of Workplace Innovation. 2016; 2 (2):1.

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Egoitz Pomares; Alvaro Luna; Alfonso Unceta. 2016. "Patterns of workplace innovation in the Basque Country: Challenges and lessons from Gipuzkoa." European Journal of Workplace Innovation 2, no. 2: 1.

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Published: 01 January 2013 in Knowledge Management: An International Journal
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Karim Gherab-Martin; Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. Open Innovation and Distributed Knowledge: An Analysis of their Characteristics and Prosumers’ Motives. Knowledge Management: An International Journal 2013, 12, 57 -69.

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Karim Gherab-Martin, Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. Open Innovation and Distributed Knowledge: An Analysis of their Characteristics and Prosumers’ Motives. Knowledge Management: An International Journal. 2013; 12 (1):57-69.

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Karim Gherab-Martin; Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. 2013. "Open Innovation and Distributed Knowledge: An Analysis of their Characteristics and Prosumers’ Motives." Knowledge Management: An International Journal 12, no. 1: 57-69.

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Published: 01 January 2013 in The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities
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Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. Education for Inclusion: The Case of the Basque Country (Spain). The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities 2013, 19, 47 -63.

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Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. Education for Inclusion: The Case of the Basque Country (Spain). The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities. 2013; 19 (1):47-63.

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Alfonso Unceta Satrustegui. 2013. "Education for Inclusion: The Case of the Basque Country (Spain)." The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities 19, no. 1: 47-63.

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Published: 30 December 2011 in Arbor
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Alfonso Unceta Satrústegui. La educación superior en tránsito: ¿Es Bolonia la ruta idónea para la innovación? Arbor 2011, 187, 1119 -1131.

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Alfonso Unceta Satrústegui. La educación superior en tránsito: ¿Es Bolonia la ruta idónea para la innovación? Arbor. 2011; 187 (752):1119-1131.

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Alfonso Unceta Satrústegui. 2011. "La educación superior en tránsito: ¿Es Bolonia la ruta idónea para la innovación?" Arbor 187, no. 752: 1119-1131.