The European Parliament has declared 2009 the European year of creativity and innovation.
We read in Wikipedia that creativity is a mental and social process involving new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Marilyn Higgins (2000) combines innovation and creativity to define it as "the ability to repackage or combine knowledge in a new way which is of some practical use or adds value". Since the Knowledge Society determines the future of companies and success by its ability to convert their most precious resource, the intellectual capital, into an advantage, we will do our creative bit to improve the citizens’ quality of life… (continue)
At Biopol we share the scientific culture through dissemination, closeness to clinical research, patients and companies, and through specialization within our Health Park. At Biopol Health Sciences and Technology Park, we have specialists in cancer epigenetics, transplantation, tissue engineering and robotics, neurology and anti-infectives.
We intend to use creativity to improve quality of life by creating an urban and environmental setting of quality, and to attract scientific talent through services such as residences for researchers.
We promote innovation as a means for sustainable development, introducing biosustainability both in the new buildings of the Science Park, and through the generation and use of renewable energy and the promotion of sustainable consumption habits. And, finally, if we take into account that knowledge is a constantly growing process that never was nor ever could be definitive, as recognized for the first time during the scientific revolution of the XVI and XVII centuries, perhaps it would be interesting to renew the culture by focusing towards the world of ideas.
The great scientific revolution of the Renaissance began when Kepler and Galileo defended the heliocentric hypothesis that replaced the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model that had dominated the scientific knowledge since antiquity. The reasons for this revolution, which involved a paradigm shift, were, firstly, the old system, which was becoming increasingly inadequate to explain the facts. Secondly, the recovery of Pythagorean and Platonic thought that posed the dialectic between the existence of the ideas and the world of the senses, dialectic that emerged strongly during the Renaissance.
As in the scientific revolution, a time when the idea that scientific progress contributed to significantly improve material and moral conditions, once again we look to the Greco-Roman classics. The aim of our biocluster is to become primus inter pares breaking the moulds. We believe that keeping distance from our own routines, from what is known and from stereotypes, as proposed by basque philosopher Daniel Innerarity, being able not to content ourselves with what has been acquired, we will be able to bridge socio-economic needs and science.
From Biopol we propose to return to the classics, to promote the agora as a meeting point, tecné and logos as an intellectual process through study and science and, in order to create empathy, we meet at the stoa.
This approach to the past, projected towards the future, is the means that allows a greater recognition of the present.
