Towards city-regions? Comparing the Basque Country, Dublin and Portland case studies from the social innovation perspective

Calzada, Igor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-830X 2011. Towards city-regions? Comparing the Basque Country, Dublin and Portland case studies from the social innovation perspective. PhD Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno and University of Mondragon.

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The author aims to compare the Basque Country (Spain), Portland (Oregon) and Dublin (Ireland) in order to establish an analytical framework for a city-region. He applied action research qualitative methods and he observe social innovation processes in the three cases. He carried out interviews and fieldwork research in the West of the USA (Portland, San Francisco, Seatle, Phoenix, Idaho,...) and Europe (Dublin, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Malmö, Reykjavik,...), primarily. He directed a Congress in 2012 in collaboration with the Basque Government's Territorial Development Ministry. Thereafter, he was awarded with a Postdoctoral Fellowship by Ikerbasque, Basque Science Foundation, for three years (2012-2014) and the RSA Early Career Grant (2014-2015), to compiled a eight-cases benchmarking gathered and disseminated in www.cityregions.org.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138773

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