Social Innovation Incubator

Cost of innovation A company effort 16.171.000 € technological innovation spends. This amount of money represent a decrease of 8.3% over 2009. 2.1% impact on business. In 2010 reached 2.1% of the business of companies with 10 or more employees based on technological innovation expenditure.

madrid

catalonia

basque

37.0%

22.5%

9.0%

“The need to innovate is growing stronger as innovation comes closer to being the sole means to survive and prosper in highly competitive and globalized economies” Notes de Prensa. (2011). Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica .David & Foray (2002). Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society.

IaaC

MAA_01

2012-2013

Social Innovation Incubator / IAAC

Published on Jul 3, 2013

open collective

About

Located 600 meters from the Mediterranean Sea, the Social Innovation Incubator responds to the context. It focuses on helping to fight the unemployment crisis of Barcelona and uses the salinity of the Sea as an energetic tool to develop a project that generates opportunities and innovation. It is based on innovation as the transition to the new economic model where technology, communication and energy merge. It performs through an educational path and is set in a revolutionary environment to give people a platform to innovate and create job opportunities. In order to promote innovation, the building and its processes reflect it. The program is based on a Learning Methodology that provides tools and knowledge for innovating through multidisciplinary strategies in fast track education. The building is generated around the learning path by aggregation. The fractal growth of the structure demands lightness: the main frames are made of cardboard tubes and the stronger modules lay at the

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