Modern science began due to some revolutionary minds such as Galileo, who added to the induction and deduction the systematic verification through planned experiments. Or Bacon and Descartes, who started materialistic science, trying to explain the vital process from their physic and chemical base. In the 19th century science entered universities and, in the 20th century, the economies of States to become one of the most powerful motors. As Edgar Morin, French sociologist and writer, believes, in the 21st century, in the globalised society, everything needs to be thought and begun again.
With innovation, creativity, with a groundbreaking message, with passion
At Biopol our values are based on what we think are some of the keys to success of a project. Innovation, trust and passion.
Innovation is creativity + rupture. Overcoming the inertia of the status quo is the process of innovation. To innovate is to challenge, to propose another way (sometimes uncomfortable) to question things. We strive to create new values and to reinvent the old ones. We offer training at all levels and scientific services. We strive to achieve talent.
Innovation is also profitability. It could be defined as “the application of new ideas, concepts, products, services and practices with the intention of becoming useful to the increment of productivity”. We try to create networks of common interests, of knowledge in order to generate wealth through the strategy of innovation. This expression, born during the current crisis, is used to designate a new public and business policy that implies the whole society in the process of creation and use of knowledge for economic development and sustainable progress.
To innovate in order to spread science. The popularization of science understood as half art, half science. Our goal, on the one hand, is to teach science, its values, its methodology. On the other hand, to encourage scientific vocations among young people.
Trust. To lose the fear of failure. According to Joaquim Vila, director of IESE’s Executive Program on Management of Innovation: “Failure is not a stigma, but the opportunity of doing it better the second time”.
Trust to learn, to build a lifelong learning system. People should be the main driving force of the transformation process of our society to innovation and knowledge.
Finally, passion for the project. Innovation depends mostly on the imaginative spirit and the creative and constant attitude of people. Passion also linked to creative teamwork. Pulling out a project that requires permanent reinvention.
At Biopol we would like to understand creativity and innovation as a “vital attitude, as a way of understanding life”.
And, at least, without a good leadership there is no innovation. Without a good leadership there is no passion, no trust. And, as a consequence, there is neither creativity nor excellence.
Taking up again Edgar Morin: we are in the modest, marginal and dispersed beginning of a new time. Nowadays, in all continents there is a creative effervescence, a lot of local initiatives for economic, social, political, cognitive, educative or ethnic regeneration. We take advantage of this conjuncture to build a new reality from the renovation and revision of present values. We strive for the newest ones which we consider or we accept through a process of meditation about this globalised world. Knowledge, which is unlimited, will contribute to improve citizen’s welfare.
