1. Basque Scial Innovation. A collective enterprise. Six and the City Summer School. Singapore 15/17 2010.

2. This is the story of an small region that only 30 years ago had to face the end of a cruel dictatorship, a deep economic crisis, the highest unemployment figures in Europe and a violent conflict. 3. This transformation was possible due to truly disruptive social innovation. Multinational companies left but local family businness reinvented themselves, investing in technology and collaborating with each other. 4. Today, the Basque region ranks 4th in the UN Human Development Index (GDP+literacy+life expectancy). 5. This is the homeland of the worlds biggest industrial cooperative corporation (MCC), the 7th largest bank (BBVA) and two of the leading renewal companies: Iberdrola and Gamesa.Basque Social Innovation. 6. Social Innovation in the Basque region means large scale projects, industrial production and cooperativism. The difference with other social innovation hubs focuses on the volume and the industrial approach. 7. NGOs owning banks?The new key players are family businesses, local governments, industrial cooperatives, NGOs and even banks. 8. DenokInn, the next step towards comprehensive innovation. 9. The new route towards social innovation:1.- Identify large scale projects. 2.- Rapid prototyping . 3.- Training. 4.- Incubator. 4.- Expeditionary marketing. 5.- Social Club of Angels. 10. New challenges: Hiriko and the Social Innovation Park. 11. Eskerrik asko