This is the opening keynote presentation by Dr Calzada in Bilbao in the Nordic Basque Forum that took place on 19th October 2017. He has presented a framework to link Basque Country and Nordic countries and regions' projects and initiatives from the smart city, city-region and social innovation perspective.
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Nordic Basque Forum Keynote in Bilbao 19th October 2017
1. Basque & Nordic
Smart City-Regional Connections
From the Social Innovation
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
Lecturer & Research Fellow, Future of Cities & Urban Transformations, University of Oxford
Lecturer, Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde
Associate Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
#NordicBasque
Bilbao, 2017ko Urriaren 19a
9. By @bilbaometropoli
By @CitiesOxford
By @ifuturecities By @bristolisopen
//Bilbao//
CORPORATE
-in-transition
//Barcelona//
ANTI-
CORPORATE
-uncertain
By @SmartCityExpo
//Bristol//
OPEN
INNOVATION
-alternative
//Glasgow//
URBAN
GOVERNANCE
-transformative
53. map by @icalzada
Map by @icalzada
ORESUND CITIES-region
1. Malmö & Copenhagen strong collaboraYon
2. 1 of Europe’s today most aDracYve and dynamic regions
3. 3.8M inhabitants: 2.6M in Zealand (DK) & 1.2M in Skane (SE)
4. Malmö 3rd most innovaYve city in the world based on number of patents filed &
the 3rd most populated city in Sweden.
5. 2000: Oresund Bridge.
6. Could we say that due to the construc6on of the Oresund Bridge, a City-Regional
promo6on emerged?
7. “The Oresund City-Region is regarded as simple, imagined as similar to an organic
process and possible to fulfil through an almost causal formula: “BeAer
infrastructure, communicaBons and transportaBon that turns into higher mobility
and interacBon. This is how the regional integraBon is happening” (Richard Ek,
2003)