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Xabier Barandiaran Irastorza holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Deusto. He is currently a lecturer with a Ph.D. at the University of Deusto, where he teaches at the Donostia campus. His publications mainly focus on social capital.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleAlfonso 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfonso 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.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleNatalia 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNatalia 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.
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.
Alfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Asier Lakidain. Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2568 .
AMA StyleAlfonso Unceta, Xabier Barandiaran, Asier Lakidain. Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (5):2568.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfonso Unceta; Xabier Barandiaran; Asier Lakidain. 2021. "Digitalisation of Creative Industries Fostered by Collaborative Governance: Public Innovation Labs in Gipuzkoa." Sustainability 13, no. 5: 2568.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleXabier 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXabier 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.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleAlfonso 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlfonso 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.
El proceso de globalización y sus manifiestos efectos comunicativos, culturales y políticos están afectando crucialmente a dos conceptos relativamente jóvenes en la investigación académica, en concreto, la Comunicación Política y la Cultura Política. La relación entre estos conceptos es cada vez más interdependiente pues las herramientas y los lenguajes de la Comunicación Política influyen decisivamente en la conformación de la Nueva Cultura Política y, a su vez, la actividad de la ciudadanía a través de las herramientas comunicativas digitales está condicionando la generación de contenidos y la creación de los discursos que toman cuerpo en forma de Comunicación Política. Creemos que para entender las razones de esta relación es necesario establecer, por un lado, las características de la Nueva Cultura Política y, por la otra, la manera en que las posibilidades que ofrece la tecnología transforman la generación y la transmisión de la Comunicación Política. Posiblemente lo más novedoso de esta relación es que tiene carácter bidireccional, alterando los roles clásicos del proceso comunicativo que distinguía nítidamente entre emisores y receptores. Novedad que constituye una evidencia global y se deja sentir de manera muy similar en el conjunto de las democracias representativas occidentales. Este trabajo se esfuerza en describir y analizar este escenario emergente que ha tomado cuerpo como otra de las transformaciones que están aconteciendo en las sociedades avanzadas, y en identificar algunas tendencias que, en todo caso, están sometidas al cambio vertiginoso propio de nuestro tiempo. Palabras Clave: Cultura Política, Desafección, Participación, Comunicación Política, Tecnologías Digitales, Lenguajes Comunicativos.
Xabier Barandiaran; Alfonso Unceta; Simon Peña. Comunicación Política en tiempos de Nueva Cultura Política. Revista ICONO 14. Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes 2019, 1 .
AMA StyleXabier Barandiaran, Alfonso Unceta, Simon Peña. Comunicación Política en tiempos de Nueva Cultura Política. Revista ICONO 14. Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes. 2019; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXabier Barandiaran; Alfonso Unceta; Simon Peña. 2019. "Comunicación Política en tiempos de Nueva Cultura Política." Revista ICONO 14. Revista científica de Comunicación y Tecnologías emergentes , no. : 1.
El presente artículo está orientado al análisis y descripción del programa de gobierno Etorkizuna Eraikiz implementado por la Diputación Foral de Gipzukoa. Este artículo aborda este análisis desde un ejercicio reflexivo centrado en los conceptos de gobernanza y meta-gobernanza como manifestaciones de las nuevas condiciones para el ejercicio del buen gobierno y la competitividad territoriales. Etorkizuna Eraikiz se erige como el primer paso para el establecimiento organizado de las condiciones para una nueva gobernanza del territorio más colaborativa y abierta. El objetivo de este programa es visualizar y garantizar los mecanismos necesarios para la institucionalización de un nuevo sistema de deliberación compartida con la ciudadanía y los principales agentes e instituciones territoriales de Gipuzkoa, para afrontar sus principales retos de futuro
Xabier Barandiaran. Hacia un modelo de Metagobernanza para Gipuzkoa: El caso de Etorkizuna Eraikiz. European Public & Social Innovation Review 2018, 3, 1 -12.
AMA StyleXabier Barandiaran. Hacia un modelo de Metagobernanza para Gipuzkoa: El caso de Etorkizuna Eraikiz. European Public & Social Innovation Review. 2018; 3 (1):1-12.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXabier Barandiaran. 2018. "Hacia un modelo de Metagobernanza para Gipuzkoa: El caso de Etorkizuna Eraikiz." European Public & Social Innovation Review 3, no. 1: 1-12.