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The Basque region is the proposed setting for the world’s first ‘social Silicon Valley’. Alison Benjamin meets two Spaniards intent on creating a post-industrial revolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High in the hills of Spain’s Basque region, an experiment is taking place that could determine how we tackle social problems in the future. At a time when governments, economists and businesspeople are desperately looking for new solutions to deliver us from a recession and meet pressing social needs, Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez Isoird and Inigo Urkidi think they have the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their new social firm, Business Innovation Brokers (BIB), is creating what they claim will be the world’s first industrial park for social enterprises and co-operatives. It hopes to attract to the campus-style park new start-up social businesses, alongside non-governmental organisations, foundations and institutions from around the world that promote and support social enterprise. A school of social innovation will provide a research and development function for the park’s occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Think of a social Silicon Valley,” Fern\u00e1ndez Isoird says. “We want to attract and nurture new talent that will develop models, methods and tools for social innovation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the Guardian article,\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Basque region is the proposed setting for the world’s first ‘social Silicon Valley’. Alison Benjamin meets two Spaniards intent on creating a post-industrial revolution High in the hills of Spain’s Basque region, an experiment is taking place that could determine how we tackle social problems in the future. 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