THE BASQUE COUNTRY: BUILDING INNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES THROUGH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS

The Basque Country Technology Parks, on reaching maturity, have become a well-established reality which is moving towards a new spatial and multi-campus layout and constantly adapting the strategies, objectives and available tools to lead the innovation process. They favour the integration of communities of businesses and professionals into a space with a high science,\ntechnology and innovation content, which, linked together around the different network and communication spaces, have encouraged the development and establishment of the technology parks as new spaces of innovation.\n\nThis paper illustrates how different initiatives developed endogenously within the parks, come together in different communities which foster innovation from different perspectives. Communities which are enriched by the contributions of their participants -the workers in the parks-, workers, who give their all every day, working together towards a common goal: making the Basque Technology Parks a better space for working and living in.