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Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D.(Donostia-St. Sebastian, 15th January 1975)Email: igor.calzada@insis.ox.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0) 7887 661925More information: http://www.igorcalzada.com and http://www.basquecity.orghttp://www.insis.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-fellows/igor-calzadahttp://www.futureofcities.ox.ac.uk/people/igor-calzadaIgor Calzada is a Research Associate at the InSIS Institute for Science, Innovation and Society,University of Oxford (UK), and his research is joined to the Oxford Programme for the Future ofCities (http://www.futureofcities.ox.ac.uk). In addition to this, he holds a PostDoctoral ResearchFellow position at the Basque Foundation for Science, Ikerbasque (http://www.ikerbasque.net) andhe is currently Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the University of Mondragon Unibertsitatea(http://www.mondragon.edu) a part of the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation Group(http://www.mcc.es) based in the Basque Country, Spain.He got his PhD from University of Mondragon in Business Administration Faculty and Universityof Nevada, Reno – Center for Basque Studies (UNR-CBS)(USA). This work received a “CumLaude” distinction, which has recently been published as Towards the Basque City? ComparativeTerritorial Benchmarking by the Basque Government- Presidency and Innobasque, BasqueInnovation Agency (download here http://www.igorcalzada.com/download-here-basque-city-euskal-hiria-book-executive-summary).Nowadays, he is working on his PostDoctoral Research project and programme entitled “Future ofCity-Regions & Comparative Territorial Benchmarking” (this could be followed soon inhttp://www.basquecity.org and http://www.euskalhiria.org), which is an urban competitivenessmodel and one of the key outputs of his doctoral research that was based on the integration of foursystems: URBS, CYBER, CIVITAS and POLIS. This follows the completion of his book and PhD,a case study of the spatial and political configuration of the Basque Country into a City-Region. Hedraws on theories of territoriality and network-formation to offer a comparative analysis of theBasque Country, Dublin (Ireland) and Portland (Oregon, USA).Research Interests: • Future of City-Regions & Comparative Territorial Benchmarking • Creative/Participative/Connected/Sustainable Networked Territories • Urban Innovation (Territorial Prospective & Strategic Planning) • Smart Cities (Urban Technologies, 2.0 & Networks and Citizenship) • Social Capital/Innovation/Entrepreneurship • Local Governance, Citizen Participation & Communitarian Development • Sovereignity & IdentityCurrently, his professional milestones are: He was presented with a Research Award by the SpanishPrincess for his Research Project about Basque City (http://www.igorcalzada.com/premio-proyecto-de-investigacion-euskal-hiria-ciudad-vasca-desde-la-innovacion-social-y-la-creatividad-mayo-2008-madrid). He has been Research Associate at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University ofNevada, Reno (USA). He has worked as Director of Research & Innovation at the Vice-Ministry forLanguage Policy of the Basque Government. He has carried out research, in particular, on the 5th,6th and 7th Framework Programmes of the EU in the field of Innovation. Specifically, he hasworked for 10 years in the Mondragon Group Cooperative Corporation, working in the field ofInnovation and Creativity (http://www.thecreativesociety.org), and has worked as a Strategic andInnovation Advisor for institutions & companies.He obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He also hasan MBA from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in the University of Deusto.He graduated in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Deusto.

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