Across Boundaries: european cooperative societies. Study cases
The aim to achieve �in 2003� the single market also for the European
cooperative societies was one of the major objectives of the EC Regulation
concerning the status of the Societas Cooperativa Europeae (SCE). Seven
years later there seems to be little practical experiences. This paper is focused
in the analysis of experiences in the Basque Country, especially on
Ethical Banking and the Project developed known as Fiare, which would be the first European scope credit cooperative. The study of this case has
just emerged some questions about the real difficulties for extending this
kind of European collaboration: some of them with legal basis but others
probably with cultural basis.
The Value of a Meta Perspective in Social Innovation
Collective Awareness Platforms (CAP) have been promoted as an enabler of social innovation. A CAP supports the collection of data (quantitative and qualitative, and using all the technical possibil ...
The development of biological systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.