Prof Dr Igor Calzada is deeply grateful to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics (#SGH) for inviting him as #InvitedProfessor next week. This opportunity to engage with such a distinguished academic community is both an honor and a privilege. During his stay at SGH, I...
In 2014, Dr Calzada founded an spin-off called Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making. Here the portfolio generated in the last five years: 2014-2019....
This chapter entitled 'About Independence (with independence)' will be included in a book edition called 'The Right to Decide, Power & Sovereignty'....
During the week of 22nd to 29th September 2013, I spent the field work trip collecting data in Reykjavik (Iceland) for my postdoctoral project 'Benchmarking Future City-Regions'. Almost, a year and four months later, here is my scientific ethnographic chronicle that has been published in...
Here is the article by Dr Igor Calzada in the collection ‘Seres Urbanos/Urban Beings’ in the Planeta Futuro/Future Planet in El Pais newspaper: ‘MicroBreweries: Communitarian Entrepreneurship (or Hipsterism)?’....
This post may be the most relevant post of this site https://www.igorcalzada.com, due to what is explained in the doctoral and postdoctoral research sequence. Furthermore, the whole PostDoctoral Research project "The Future of City-Regions - Comparative Territorial Benchmarking" can be found in the website http://www.cityregions.org...
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
On the 23rd July, 2013, I presented the paper title "Territories & Entrepreneurs Benchmarking" in the Social Entrepreneurship 2013 Research Colloquium at the Skoll Centre in Oxford. Among other topics, I tried to introduce into the debate how relevant it is to consider territorial and...
From 1st to 4th July I took part in the 4th EMES Congress (Lieje, Belgium), presenting the International Handbook on Social Innovation by Edward Elgar into the Programme of the event. Attached here is the presentation of the paper I presented....
