Sharing and Collaborative Economy : Future Scenarios, Technology, Creativity and Social Innovation

Enric Bas is Professor of Social Change and Communication, and Participatory Foresight and Social Innovation, at the School of Economics of the University of Alicante (Spain) and Director of FUTURLAB-Creative Futures at the University of Alicante (UA). He currently is a Guest Visiting Scholar at the German cluster of excellence ´CLICCS- Climate, Climatic Change and Society´ led by UHH-University of Hamburg (Germany) and Max Planck Institute, as well as many other academic and research institutions worldwide. Further, Bas is an Editorial Board Member of multiple scientific journals and book series, a former Executive Board member of the WFSF-World Futures Studies Federation (2000-2005), and the European Futurists Conference Lucerne-Switzerland (2005-2012). He is a member of Techcast-Global (GWU) since the early 2000s, and the ´SFRI-Strategic Foresight for Research and Innovation´ experts' group of the European Commission; currently he is working as an expert in FoD (Foresighton Demand) projects for the European Union. Bas is interested in exploring the future, understanding complexity, implementing creativity, and stimulating proactivity; either for/with organizations (either business-oriented, public, or NGOs) and/or individuals (mainly young and elder people).