The role of creative social capital in regional innovation systems: creative social capital and its institutionalisation process

In the literature on regional innovation systems, one strand of study has identified a number of gaps that limit the efficiency and effectiveness of regional innovation systems, including so-called “managerial gaps,” “structural holes,” “innovation gaps,” and “valleys of death.” Our project aims to demonstrate how social capital, in a creative tension that balances bonding and bridging elements, may contribute to reducing these specific gaps identified in the regional innovation systems literature. This perspective is analyzed within a particular context: the Mondragon Cooperative Group in the Basque Country