On 22nd August 2011, just after arriving from a Gothenburg talk and Copenhagen Conference, I gave a Lecture Seminar about "Social Innovation? Same Questions & Different Locations" chaired by Fredrik Björk. I consider this was the first time I started considering introducing Oresund into my...
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"....
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...
Igor Calzada, Sociologist and Senior Researcher - Project Director on the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation at Mondragon University - Mik (Basque Country - Spain), is a visiting scholar at the Center during 2008 and 2009. He is conducting research for his PhD dissertation. Igor received a...
This article shows the current status of the understanding of Social Innovation as a newly leitmotif in the Basque Country's public policies....
This article tackles a difficult and always slippery term: Identity. Arousing confusion when it refers to certain sociopolitical realities, the author tries to locate it in the Social Innovation paradigm....
I was invited by the Alava Chambers of Commerce to deliver a talk in front of a younger audience in order to encourage them to be creative. Actually, what I thought right then was that maybe I had to talk to their parents. The...
The article published in the Diario de Noticias de Gipuzkoa aims to ask what do we understand when we talk about Innovation?...
In 2007 I was invited by the University of Simon Bolivar to participate in and give lectures, to conduct different Workshops and to give strategic advice on economic development and social cohesion projects. These projects had an important content related to Community Development. Specifically, project...
