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Name of the Case

BILBAOSOCIALINNOVATIONPARK

Abstract

The Social Innovation Park (SIP) is a new European infrastructure for designing and piloting new solutions to emerging social needs by transforming ideas and technologies into new businesses. It offers a full innovation journey for social entrepreneurs, from the generation of ideas to tutoring and incubating social enterprises. The SIP is structured in 4 innovation laboratories:

1. G-Lab for identifying unsatisfied social needs, a creative space to generate ideas

2. FabLab for turning ideas into tangible products

3. Social Innovation Academy for empowering social entrepreneurs with skills

4. Social Entreprise Generator and Incubator for tutoring and incubating new initiatives (e.g. SAIATU, the sustainable palliative care service)

Website

https://es.slideshare.net/GorkaEspiau2/social-innovation-park

Contacts (SIKE team)

InigoUrkidi

JavierFinez

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BILBAOSOCIALINNOVATIONPARK

Objectives

To create the first social innovation infrastructure for launching systematically new socialbusinessesinordertosolvesocialneeds

Clients, audience

Societyingeneral

SocialEntrepreneurs

Position along the SI Spiral

Allofthefollowing:

-IdentifyOpportunities&challenges-Generateideas-Develop&test-Makingthecase-Deliver&implement-Growing&scaling-Changingsystems.Well,whatwe aim to express is that the SIP is an infrastructure to identify and generateideas, develop, test, deliver and take them into the market. In that sense, the SocialInnovationParkintheplacewheretheSocialInnovationSpiralmaketakeplaceforprojectswhosemaindriveissocialinnovationandwelfaretosociety.OntheotherhandasSIPwemightseethattheprojectatthemomentisinthe“Develop&test” and “Making the case” stage since still have to shape and better gest the differentlaboratories/infrastructures/methodologies to help the different stages: G-Lab foridentifyingunsatisfiedsocialneeds,theFab-Labtoprototypethenewideaorservices,theSI

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Academy for empowering social entrepreneurs and the Social Incubator to foster newlysocialinitiativesgoingintothemarket.

Relationship with HEI(s) (High Education Insitutions)

NorelationshipswithHEIs

The original idea was commanded by DenokInn (Basque Center for Social Innovation) anentity that nowadays does not exist any more and probably, one of the causes for thedecelerationoftheSIPhasbeenthelackoflinkstootherpotentialsocialinnovationactorsin the Basque Country such as InnoBasque (Basque Agency for Innovation), IkerBasque(Basque Foundation for Science), Univesities such as Universidad de Deusto, MondragonUniversity or Basque Country University, Caritas, REAS (Network of Social and SolidaryEconomy),etc.

In fact, many of the original ideas of the SIP are now being carried out by for exampleUniversity Deusto that host a Fab lab and a Social Incubator. So, yes, although SIP hadinitiallynorelationwithHEIsithasbeenprobedthatHEIswouldhavebeenperfectpartnersonitsjourney.

Finance model and resources

SpanishGovernmentfunds6M€

8people

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Methodology

ThisismainlytheitinerarysupportedthroughthedifferentinfrastructureshostedoriginallyattheSocialInnovationPark.Itwasajourneystartingwiththesignalsandideasgenerationto inspirepotentialnewsocialbusiness,check its feasibilitythroughphysicalprototypes incasetheywouldbeneededandfinallythedevelopmentofthebusinessopportunitytobelaunchedintothemarket.

Products, results

- SocialInnovationAcademy- SocialInnovationmethodologiesadaptedforsocialentrepreneurship- SocialInnovationtechnologicalprojects- Publication,conferences,videos…

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Impact and results

- Severalnewcompanieslaunched- Collaborationagreementswithseveraltopinstitutionsaroundtheworld(MIT,LSE…)- AttractionofworldtopuniversitytoSIP(DigipenInstituteoftechnology)

Overall impact

WorldwideimpactasthefirstSocialInnovationParkinEurope.

Images

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Source:SocialInnovationParkwebpage.

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