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...
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"....
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...
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....
It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...
Being promoted from the Basque Government's Linguistic Policy Vice-Ministry, the direction that I coordinated for at least one and a half years fostered one research project that was titled: Social Networks and Basque 2.0 in the European Scope. The project aimed to identify the profile...
This article is a forward looking view in the field of the Basque language enhancement. More particularly, this is the Strategic Framework called Basque 2.0 that I outlined and tried to apply in my two-years policy making and advising contribution as the Director of the...
