The Bilbao effect (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)

When a decaying industrial city in Spain’s Basque country decided in the 1990s to spend $228.3 million on a modern art museum, critics objected to squandering so much public money on something so irrelevant and exclusive. This year is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) tenth anniversary, sufficient time since its opening to evaluate the museum’s effectiveness in reactivating the city’s economy. So, have the public authorities that invested in the Guggenheim recovered their costly investment?Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, economic valuation

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in scientific journals: Asymmetries between the American art perspective and the European regional planning viewpoint.

Bilbao has gained fame with the Guggenheim Museum, even in the Academic world. Google Scholar yields 2610 outcomes for “Bilbao Guggenheim” and the number of articles published in ISI-WoK listed-journals is 93 up until today. Surprisingly, however, almost 80% of these articles have been published by foreign authors, whereas many prestigious local authors have little or almost no scientific production in the ISI listed journals. This article analyses the connexions between nationality, language and publications, and offers an explanation for the disproportion between foreign and local knowledge, which causes mistaken scientific and public opinions about the “Guggenheim-Effect”.Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Bibliometrics

GUGGENHEIM MUZEJ U BILBAO I VISOKA KUHINJA (KUHARSKO UMIJEĆE) POKRAJINE BASQUE: PRISTUP PRIJENOSU KNOW-HOW

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is becoming an important tourist attraction in the Basque Country. Additional tangible and intangible assets are also relevant to the success of the tourist industry. In this context, the aim of this article is to study Basque fine cuisine and to identify the mechanism of transmission of know-how. We should keep in mind that this territory contains one of the highest concentration of Michelin stared restaurants of Spain.Guggenheim Muzej u Bilbao postaje važna turistička atrakcija u pokrajini Basque. Dodatna materijalna te nematerijalna imovina vezana je za uspjeh turističke industrije. U tom kontekstu cilj ovog rada je da se prouči fina kuhinja pokrajine Basque i da se odredi mehanizam prenošenja know-how. Trebamo imati na umu da ova teritorija sadrži najveću koncentraciju restorana s procjenom kvalitete po Michelin sustavu u cijeloj Španjolskoj

Arts, Culture and Creativity as Drivers for Territorial Development, Innovation and Competitiveness

Notwithstanding the heterogeneity of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) sectors, all of them exhibit similar causes of market failure and face similar challenges related to the digital shift and to increasing globalisation. CCI share a common need for policy intervention to correct their market failures facing the digital and globalization challenges. This work seeks to establish a preliminary approach to the CCI’s related local/regional competitiveness and innovation policies. The general objective of the work is to develop a basic understanding of the risks and challenges (organizational, technological and institutional) of the CCI in Europe in order to be able to develop smart local and regional innovation policies for competitive CCI development and a favourable stimulation of innovative spill-over effects towards the rest of the economy. The understanding of risks and challenges is relevant for the design of effective and balanced European public policies for innovation and competitiveness in an ever-more intangible and creative economy. This work seeks to give a preliminary approach to a decisive lack of knowledge on the mechanisms of creative/cultural regional innovation policies.Funded by EUROPEAN COMMISION – CULTURE. (2012-2014) Assessing effective tools to enhance cultural participation. Project Reference: EU Culture Programme 359353-CU-1-2012. Brussels

Using Google Analytics for measuring inlinks effectiveness.

The aim of this brief communication is to develop a tracking methodology to analyse the effectiveness of inlink visits (return visit behaviour and length of sessions). In other words, how deep do inlink visitors navigate into the website? Do all inlinks perform the same? This paper addresses these questions by time series analysis of Google Analytics data, with a methodology developed by Plaza (2009). The importance of this article is not the particular website but the methodology tested to arrive at these results, an experiment that could be repeated with different websites

The Bilbao effect (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)

When a decaying industrial city in Spain’s Basque country decided in the 1990s to spend $228.3 million on a modern art museum, critics objected to squandering so much public money on something so irrelevant and exclusive. This year is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) tenth anniversary, sufficient time since its opening to evaluate the museum’s effectiveness in reactivating the city’s economy. So, have the public authorities that invested in the Guggenheim recovered their costly investment

En busca de una articulación eficiente entre matemática y geología

La motivación e interdisciplinariedad juegan un rol fundamental cuando se enseña Matemática para no matemáticos. Como iniciación al trabajo interdisciplinario, fomentamos la participación activa de los alumnos en su aprendizaje, propiciando la intervención en actividades de investigación sobre Geometría del Esfuerzo y Geometría Fractal en Sismos. El objetivo que se persiguió apunto a que el alumno alcance mayor comprensión de los contenidos, potenciando el análisis desde diferentes perspectivas, y se generen habilidades investigativas en los estudiantes de primer ano de la carrera de geología. El proceso de enseñanza transcurrió en condiciones de trabajo individual y en pequeños grupos y se incorporo a la computadora como un instrumento para la resolución de problemas. Se selecciono por su significatividad una experiencia aúlica, y se realizó una reflexión sobre la misma

Bilbao Case Study

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities. This chapter focuses on the case of Bilbao.Carnegie Mellon University: Remaking Cities Institute

Estudio de la posibilidad de sustitución de hormigones tradicionales por hormigones ecológicos fabricados con conglomerados procedentes de residuos industriales y áridos reciclados

[ES] La línea de investigación, que sigue este proyecto, en el campo de la construcción, es el reciclaje de residuos industriales y residuos procedentes de derribos. El trabajo que se presenta pretende aportar respuestas a los diferentes problemas del actual coste de la vivienda y de la contaminación, sustituyendo parcialmente el cemento por residuos industriales con hidraulicidad latente o actividad puzolánica. De esta forma se conseguiría, por una parte, reducir la producción de clínker, que es altamente contaminante; y, por otra parte, se gestionarían adecuadamente materiales residuales producidos en grandes masas a través del sector de la construcción. Además de absorber esa gran cantidad de residuos, se ahorraría el coste de gestión de los mismos.El trabajo así planteado tiene una doble vertiente, una ecológica por la reducción en la producción de clínker y la gestión de materiales residuales, y otra económica, por la reducción en el coste que supone la substitucion parcial del cemento[EN] This project aims to provide answers to some housing problems such as, cost and pollution, partially replacing cement by pozzolanic materials. On the one hand, lower clinker production (which is highly polluting) would be achieved, and; on the other hand, the construction and demolition debris, (which are produced on a large scale in the construction industry) would be managed properly. Thus, the laid out project is twofold: it goes green due to the reduction in clinker production and to the management of waste materials, and from the economic point of view, it brings down the cost thanks to the partial cement replacement.Plaza Gámez, B. (2014). Estudio de la posibilidad de sustitución de hormigones tradicionales por hormigones ecológicos fabricados con conglomerados procedentes de residuos industriales y áridos reciclados. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/44295.Archivo delegad