In August 2008, I was invited by Ennistymon's (West of Ireland, Co. Clare) Arts and Cultural Festival 2011 as a guest speaker to give a talk about "The Power of Local". I mainly talked about two concepts that could be applied to territories such...
I have always been interested in the subtle notion of the Social Capital in our current societies. This is a bitakora reflection on Putnam's Bonding, Bridging and Linking applied to the Basque Country's more than desirable peace....
After defending my PhD dissertation, I was interviewed by the main newspapers and radio stations about the content and future research agenda of the "Basque City-Region from the Social Innovation perspective"....
Trying to connect LEINNers' (LEINN students) projects with San Francisco Bay Area reality....
As a former member of the Gipuzkoa Sarean research project funded by the Gipuzkoa Province Council and St Sebastian City Council, a group of academics from the University of Oxford, Mondragon, Deusto and so on, and non-academics, were gathered at the University of Oxford (UK)...
Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D., Lecturer & Researcher at the University of Mondragon and Associate Researcher at the Center for Basque Studies-University of Nevada, Reno (CBS-UNR) read yesterday his dissertation Thesis in Oñati titled "Towards the Basque City? Approached from the Social...
One month after departing to the USA, to start writing my dissertation in March 2008 I received some very important news: My Doctoral research project about the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria / Ciudad-Región Vasca) had been awarded. On May 28th, I received the research award...
As part of the project of Networked Gipuzkoa about "Social Capital and Competitiveness: New Perspectives", I co-authored the summary book representing the University of Mondragon in coordination with the Orkestra - University of Deusto and the University of Oxford. The title of the book is:...
From April 2010 to February 2012, I was a lecturer for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in the following subjects: Strategic Management, Innovation Management, Territories & Networks, and Information Systems....
