On 7th July, Dr Calzada will deliver a seminar on Social Entrepreneurship at 4pm in the room 317 of the New Academic Building at the Goldsmiths, University of London, ICCE Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship department. He will give a paper regarding Social Innovation lessons from the renowned Mondragon Cooperative experience while addressing some necessary key ideas in order to put into practice what the author called as TransLoKal Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy-Making.

1. Lessons from the Mondragon Co-operatives >
for a
> TransLoKal Academic Entrepreneurship
Dr Igor Calzada MBA
PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK).
Future of Cities FoC Programme - COMPAS
&
Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.
Lecturer & Senior Researcher at the University of Mondragon (Basque Country - Spain).
Goldsmiths, University of London (England)
MA Master in Social Entrepreneurship
16:00-17:30
London (England), 7th July 2014

2. www.igorcalzada.com/about0.- Bio/Background
• Sociologist + MBA by University of Deusto
• More than 10 years in the Mondragon Group
– Innovation field
– University: Lecture and Senior Researcher. LEINN degree.
• Also institutional and political arena
• PhD in the west of USA
• Thesis:
– Comparing Basque Country, Portland (Oregon) and Dublin (Ireland)
• Right now: Doble affiliation
– University of Oxford (UK) Future of Cities Programme
– Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science
• PostDoc:
– www.cityregions.org > Comparative Study of 8 Regions.
– www.postindependence.org: BOOK published.

3. 1.- Description of Mondragon

4. 1.- Description of Mondragon
www.postindependence.org

5. 1.- Description of Mondragon

6. 1.- Description of Mondragon

7. 1.- Description of Mondragon

8. 1.- Description of Mondragon

9. Type Worker cooperative federation
Founded 1956
Founder(s) José María Arizmendiarrieta
Headquarters Mondragón, Basque Country, Spain
Area served International
Key people Txema Gisasola (Chairman)
Revenue 14,832 million € (2011)[1]
Employees 80,321 (2012)
Divisions Finance, Industry, Retail, Knowledge
Website www.mondragon-corporation.com
1.- Description of Mondragon

10. 1.- Description of Mondragon
Provided by MCC International Operations on 4th July 2014:
• 122 productive plants over 36 countries
• 9 corporate offices
• International Sales 3.411 Mill €. 6.7% more than in 2012
• International Sales/Total Sales in Manufacturing 71% (3.4% more than in 2012)
• Global employees: 10.925
via @jugartea

11. 1.- Description of Mondragon
Via @enMONDRAGON

12. Download the chapter here at www.igorcalzada.com
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation
http://url.ie/t6ng

13. Three complimentary approaches:
1.- Objective
2.- Realistic
3.- Critically Constructive
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation

14. OBJECTIVE approach:
• The Mondragon group reflects the concern of combining the basic
objectives of a business development in capitalist markets with
the use of democratic methods in its organization, job creation,
promotion of its workers in human and professional terms and
commitment to the development of its social environment
(Errasti, 2003).
• This strategy has reinforced the competitive position of the
companies but has produced contradictions between the basic
objectives of a business organisation competing in international
markets and the historical core principles and values of the
Mondragon cooperatives (Errasti, 2003)
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation

15. REALISTIC approach:
• We are not some paradise, but rather a family of co-operative
enterprises struggling to build a different kind of life around a
different way of working.
• Nonetheless, given the performance of Spanish capitalism these
days – 25% unemployment, a broken banking system, and
government-imposed austerity (as if there were no alternative to
that either) – Mondragon seems a welcome oasis in a capitalist
desert.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/alternative-capitalism-mondragon
24th June 2012 The Guardian
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation

16. CRITICALLY CONSTRUCTIVE approach:
• However, Dr Igor Calzada, in his chapter featured in the
International Handbook for Social Innovation on Mondragón,
advises innovators in Spain:
• To reflect a homegrown approach to social entrepreneurship that
steers away from individualist forms imported from abroad and to
tend more towards community-inspired approaches as that taken
by Mondragón when it was originally established.
http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2013/jan/02/spain-enterpreneurs-
economic-enterprise-cooperative
2nd January 2013 The Guardian
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation

17. Mondragon case chapter:
International Handbook on Social Innovation by Edward Elgar
SUMMARY in 7 key-ideas:
1.- The metaphor: Bees & Trees
2.- Local Communities
3.- Technocentric Anthropocentric “Triumphalist Talent” Biocentric
4.- Communitarian Social Capital
5.- IDeO ORONA, Innovation City
6.- LEINN degree
7.- Challenge
2.- Interpretation from the Social Innovation

18. 3.- Final Remarks: A Decalogue.
From Social Entrepreneurship
>
To TransLoKal Academic Entrepreneurship
For Policy-Making

19. 3.- Final Remarks: A Decalogue.

20. 3.- Final Remarks: A Decalogue.
www.translokal.com
1.- Local Identity (Basque), yet TRANSLOKAL
2.- BIDIRECTIONAL INTERNATIONALIZATION
3.- SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: with/for stakeholders. How?
4.- PEOPLE first approach > ORGANIZATIONS
5.- ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Real impact on society
6.- PRACTICALITY: Action Research
7.- CRITICAL & COMMITED: Social Innovation
8.- INTERDISCIPLINARY: Knowledge support > mirages
9.- POLICY-MAKING: Transfer
10.- TRANSFER: Bridging with the International Community.

21. Thanks for your attention
Dr Igor Calzada MBA
http://www.igorcalzada.com/about
@icalzada