Andoni Ibarra

• University of the Basque Country

The call for the development of more responsible research and innovation has increasingly permeated European Union research and development policies. Specifically, under the auspices of approaches such as “Responsible Research and Innovation” (RRI) and “Open Science”, these policies conceive of the need to make innovation dynamics radically open an...

The heuristic versatility of foresight is increasingly positioning this anticipatory instrument as a key resource to promote more responsible research and innovation practices. In a context where foresight’s multiple heuristic potential is sometimes wrapped up in a promissory rhetoric that could lead to its being taken for granted, this article und...

May 2020 marks the 25thanniversary of the death of Miguel Sánchez-Mazas, founder of Theoria - An International Journal of Theory, History and Foundations of Science and regarded as the person who brought mathematical logic to Spain. Here we present some of his biographical features, as well as a summary of his contributions, from his early work in...

La consideración de una vertiente más responsable en la investigación en ciencia y tecnología está contribuyendo a modificar críticamente nuestra imagen de la ciencia, pasando de una concepción esencialista a otra más proyectada hacia resultados e innovaciones socialmente deseables. El concepto RRI postula, además, la necesidad de mecanismos de gob...

Lo que se denomina «investigación e innovación responsables» (Responsible Research and Innovation, o RRI, de sus siglas en inglés) resulta de una progresiva transformación en la manera de entender la naturaleza de la ciencia y su relación con el resto de la sociedad (Eizagirre, 2019). El principio RRI se define sobre la base de cuatro dimensiones:...

Over the past three decades, research policy in the European Union (EU) has increasingly taken on board criteria of responsibility, while actively promoting research and development (R & D) activities. However, these initiatives need to be analysed in light of the way they coalesce with the prescriptive impulse of innovation, primarily conceived as...

This paper aims to provide the historical and conceptual bases underlying the inclusionary transition of European innovation policy, and critical analysis of the difficulties relating to the political nature of this transition. In the 50s and 60s of last century, linear innovation models operated on the basis of a clear division of roles among the...

Filosofía de la ciencia pospositivista. La reinvención de una disciplina

This article presents the experience of GAZE program for the promotion of entrepreneurial culture in higher education in Gipuzkoa-Basque Country. From a conceptual standpoint, we present a relational university model and we distinguish two dimensions of entrepreneurial culture: the sense of the initiative (basic competences for developing projects)...

In a multicultural country such as Mexico contexts do matter, more if that context could be completely modify with the introduction of transgenic maize. During 2009 we developed a workshop that allowed us to dialogue and know the different narrations of Mexican children from twenty schools across the country, about their relationship with maize. Th...

El fomento de la cultura emprendedora es un tema prioritario en la actual agenda de las políticas públicas de educación superior. El presente artículo analiza la experiencia del proyecto GAZE de fomento de la cultura emprendedora en el estudiantado de educación superior. El proyecto GAZE está basado en la gobernanza donde los usuarios finales de un...

La metateoría estructuralista concibe las teorías científicas como redes formadas por elementos teóricos que poseen la misma estructura conceptual y están interconectados por relaciones de especialización. Además, postula que gran parte de la práctica científica tiene como fin concretar el elemento básico de estas redes añadiéndoles elementos más e...

Innovation networks and knowledge clusterisation depends to a great extent on the capacity of companies to acquire and assimilate external knowledge. The capacity of business to absorb scientific knowledge is associated with the disciplinary profile of its human resources. To explore the relationship between disciplinary absorption capacity, networ...

In this paper, we present a model for analysing the innovation dynamics that are based on interactive learning. The analytic framework that supports our model is related to the concept of knowledge-absorption capacity and to the diverse forms of interactive learning (internal or external) that take place in companies during innovation processes. Ab...

This paper examines knowledge transfer in firms at the Basque Country (BC). The main purpose of this work is to show the relationship existing between the firm’s absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990) and knowledge transfer. To be able to measure the absorptive capacity, we focused on the role played by human resources in science, technolo...

This paper examines knowledge transfer in firms at the Basque Country (BC). The main purpose of this work is to show the relationship existing between the firm’s absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990) and knowledge transfer. To be able to measure the absorptive capacity, we focused on the role played by human resources in science, technolo...

In this paper some classical representational ideas of Hertz and Duhem are used to show how the di-chotomy between representation and intervention can be overcome. More precisely, scientific theories are reconstructed as complex networks of intervening representations (or representational interventions). The formal apparatus developed is applied to...

El “fisicalismo acerca de los colores” considera que los colores son propiedades físicas de los objetos. Durante más de tres siglos esa posición filosófica ha estado bloqueada por considerarse que no era científicamente seria. En este artículo se hace una lectura crítica de la vigencia de esa grave acusación para concluir que la supuesta incompatib...

RésuméDepuis l'ékpoque du Cercle de Vienne on consière l'explication en tant que tâche centrale de la philosophie analytique. Cependant il n'y a pas unanimité autour de la compréhension du concept d'explication. Dans cet article nous suggérons, tout en suivant Bachelard, de considérer une explication d'un concept en tant que sa généralisation propr...

El debate entre representacionistas y fenomenistas acerca del realismo de los qualia parece no avanzar. Este artículo defiende una solución que no es ni representacionista ni fenomenista. En contra de los representacionistas mantenemos que no todo contenido perceptual es reducible a su contenido representacional. En contra de los fenomenistas soste...

The debate between representationalists and phenomenalists on the reality of qualia has stagnated. The present article argues for a solution that is neither representationalist nor phenomenalist. Unlike the representationalists, we hold that not all perceptual content is reducible to its representational content. Against the phenomenalists, we clai...

The debate between representationalists and phenomenalists on the reality of qualia has stagnated. The present article argues for a solution that is neither representationalist nor phenomenalist. Unlike the representationalists, we hold that not all perceptual content is reducible to its representational content. Against the phenomenalists, we clai...

Science and Technology Studies (STS) generally assume that the traditional philosophy of science has nothing valuable to contribute to the question of what science might mean for humankind in the 21st century. In particular, logical empiricism is considered obsolete. But this assessment is mistaken. In contrast to received views, the logical empiri...

In this reply to Martinez's discussion of our paper "Una teoria combinatoria de las representaciones cientificas" (UTC) we argue that his criticism is informed by the uncritical acceptance of some traditional dichotomies and a rather distorted interpretation of the history of philosophy. We point out that UTC should not be characterized as a formal...

En esta réplica a la crítica que Sergio Martínez hace de nuestro artículo "Una teoría combinatoria de las representaciones científicas" (UTC) sostenemos que su posición está basada en una aceptación acrítica de algunas dicotomías tradicionales y en una interpretación algo distorsionada de la historia de la filosofía. Indicamos que el enfoque expues...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new concept of scientific representation into philosophy of science. The new concept-to be called homological or functorial representation-is a genuine generalization of the received notion of representation as a structure preserving map as it is used, for example, in the representational theory of measuremen...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new concept of scientific representation into philosophy of science. The new concept -to be called homological or functorial representation- is a genuine generalization of the received notion of representation as a structure preserving map as it is used, for example, in the representational theory of measurem...

Five years have passed since our Bibliography of Structuralism has been published in this journal (cf. Erkenntnis 30, 1989). The aim of the present bibliography is twofold: first, we list a number of titles up to 1989 which we regretfully failed to include five years ago. We gratefully acknowledge the help of many scholars who gave us respective hi...

The relationship between society and nature is clearly represented in the coevolution of maize and the Mesoamerican communities, a strong bond built million years ago due to the domestication of maize by the people and the domestication of the people by the maize. The hybridization of maize with nature and culture made unbearable the idea of thinki...