This document outlines a presentation by Dr. Igor Calzada on overlapping realities of Basque city-regions, smart cities, and urban entrepreneurship. The presentation discusses Calzada's research on these topics, including his published works on Basque smart city strategies, unplugging the smart city, and experimental cities. References are provided for over a dozen of Calzada's publications on smart cities, urban transformations, and city-regional innovation strategies.

1. Amidst Illusions, Utopia and Dreams:
Overlapping Reali9es
of the Basque City-Region (Euskal Hiria),
Smart Ci9es
&
Urban Entrepreneurship
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow, Future of Ci7es & Urban Transforma7ons, University of Oxford
Lecturer, Ins7tute for Future Ci7es, University of Strathclyde
Associate Fellow, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
#MUGAKBienal
10:30-11:15
9th November 2017 / 2017ko Azaroaren 9a / 9 de Noviembre del 2017

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5. Satyam, A. & Calzada, I.
(2016),
The Smart City
Transforma1ons. The
Revolu1on of the 21st
Century.
Bloomsbury Academic
and Professional
Publishing. [In Print]

6. hZps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Igor_Calzada

7. Calzada, I. (2016), Basque Smart City-Regional Strategy in the H2020 European Context / Estrategia Vasca de Territorio
Inteligente en el Contexto Europeo Horizonte 2020 – HERRISMARTIK commissioned by EUDEL (Basque Municipali7es’
Associa7on), LKS Consultancy and the Basque Regional Government, Entrepreneurship, Innova7on and Informa7on Society
Department. Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making. ISBN: 978-84-946385-1-0.

8. REFERENCES
• Calzada, I. (2016), Basque Smart City-Regional Strategy in the H2020 European Context / Estrategia Vasca de Territorio Inteligente en el Contexto Europeo
Horizonte 2020 – HERRISMARTIK commissioned by eudel (Basque Municipali7es’ Associa7on), LKS Consultancy and the Basque Regional Government,
Entreneurship, Innova7on and Informa7on Society Department. Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making. ISBN:
978-84-946385-1-0.
• Calzada, I. & Cobo, C. (2015), Unplugging: Deconstruc7ng the Smart City, Journal of Urban Technology 22(1): 23-43. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.971535.
• Calzada, I. & Cowie, P. (2017), Beyond Data-Driven Smart City-Regions? Rethinking Stakeholder-Helixes Strategies. Regions 308. (ISSN: 1367-3882).[In
Print]
• Calzada, I. (2017), Problema7zing and Poli7cizing Smart City-Regions: Is Devolu7on ‘Smart’?, Territorio Journal, Special Issue ‘From Smart City to Smart
Region. Meanings, Governance, Policies and Projects’. (ISSN: 1825-8689) [In Print]
• Calzada, I. (2017), Metropolitan and City-Regional Poli7cs in the Urban Age: Why Does (Smart) Devolu7on MaZer? Palgrave Communica1ons in Special
Issue ‘Poli7cs of the Urban Age‘. [In Print]
• Calzada, I. (2017), Metropolitan and Post-na7onal Urbanity Beyond (Pluri)Na7on(al)-States in the EU: Benchmarking Scotland, Catalonia and the Basque
Country, Journal on Ethnopoli1cs and Minority Issues in Europe 13(1): 51-78 (ISSN: 1617-5247).
• Calzada, I. (2017) From Smart Ci7es to Experimental Ci7es? In Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary David Walsh (eds), Co-Designing Economies in
Transi1on: Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contempla1ve Social Sciences. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [In Print]
• Satyam, A. & Calzada, I. (2017), The Smart City Transforma1ons: The Revolu1on of the 21st Century. Bloomsbury Academic and Professional Publishing:
New Delhi.
• Calzada, I. (2017), The Techno-Poli7cs of Data and Smart Devolu7on in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao.
Systems Journal (ISSN 2079-8954), Special Issue ‘Smart Ci7es and Regions as Systems of Innova7on’ 5(1): 18. DOI: 10.3390/systems5010018
• Calzada, I. (2016), (Un)Plugging Smart Ci7es with Urban Transforma7ons: Towards Mul7stakeholder City-Regional Complex Urbanity?, URBS, Revista de
Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales Journal 6(2): 25-45. < Accessed on 10th November 2016 hZp://www2.ual.es/urbs/index.php/urbs/ar7cle/view/
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• Keith, M. & Calzada, I. (2017), European Urban Living Labs As Experimental City-to-City Learning PlaWorms, Urban Transforma7ons ESRC report on 13th
February 2017 Workshop en7tled ‘Experimen7ng with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) Beyond Smart City-Regions’. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20968.47361.
• Keith, M. & Calzada, I. (2016), European Smart Ci1zens as Decision Makers Rather Thank Data Providers, Urban Transforma7ons ESRC report on 14th
November 2016 Workshop en7tled ‘(Un)Plugging Data in Smart City-Regions‘. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11175.14240.
• Calzada, I. (2011a), Towards the Basque City-Region: Compara1ve Territorial Benchmarking from the Social Innova1on. Portland & Dublin case studies.
Zamudio: Innova7on Basque Agency, Innobasque, 2011. Depósito Legal: BI-3114/2011. CC 3.0. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22360.08960.
• Calzada, I. (2011b), ¿Hacia una Ciudad Vasca? Aproximación desde la Innovación Social. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno
Vasco. ISBN: 978-84-457-3180-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20682.36801.
• Calzada, I. & Arranz, A. (2017),
Translocal Strategies for Experimen1ng with Smart Tourism Labs in Zumaia: The Case of the Basque Coast Geopark, Basque Country (Spain), paper
accepted and published in the Proceedings in the 1st UNWTO World Conference on Smart Des7na7ons, Murcia (Spain).

9. Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
Urban Transforma9ons & Future of Ci9es
University of Oxford
@icalzada
www.igorcalzada.com
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
Skype: icalzada
Eskerrik asko
Thanks for your aWen9on
Gracias