'Smart' Rural Communities (SRC): Towards a new development model for international co-operation? Experimenting through a fieldwork action research in Colombia and Mozambique by Calzada, I

Data ecosystems for protecting european citizens' digital rights by Calzada, I, Almirall, E

“…This viewpoint paper draws on lessons learnt in previous publications available in the Sustainability (Calzada, 2018), Regions (Calzada and Cowie, 2017; Calzada, 2019), Zenodo (Calzada and Almirall, 2019), RSA Journal (Calzada, 2019), and IJIS (Calzada, 2020) journals, and ongoing and updated fieldwork about the Barcelona case study stemming from an intensive fieldwork action research that started in 2017. …”

¿Hacia una ciudad vasca? Aproximación desde la innovación social by Calzada, I

“…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. …”

Problematizing and politicizing smart city-regions: is devolution smart? by Calzada, I

“…Ultimately, this paper will present some evidence-based findings from ethnographic and strategic fieldwork research conducted from September 2015 to June 2016 in Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao.…”

Platform and data co-operatives amidst European Pandemic citizenship by Calzada, I

“…The deployment of the triangulation methodology based on action research, mixed methods, and social innovation reveals the main findings through: (i) Delphi study results, (ii) a taxonomy for platform and data co-operative cases, and ultimately, (iii) fieldwork research conducted in Glasgow, Barcelona, and Tallinn. …”

Democratising smart cities? Penta-helix multistakeholder social innovation framework by Calzada, I

“…Therefore, this article aims to unfold and operationalise multistakeholders’ policy frameworks from the social innovation perspective by suggesting the ex-novo penta-helix framework—including public, private, academia, civic society, and social entrepreneurs/activists—to extend the triple and quadruple-helix frameworks. Based on fieldwork action research conducted from February 2017 to December 2018—triangulating desk research, 75 interviews, and three validation workshops—this article applies the penta-helix framework to map out five strategic dimensions related to (i) multistakeholder helix framework and (ii) the resulting business/social models comparatively in three follower cities of the H2020-Replicate project: Essen (Germany), Lausanne (Switzerland), and Nilüfer (Turkey). …”

Replicating smart cities: the city-to-city learning programme in the replicate EC-H2020-SCC Project by Calzada, I

“…Particularly, in asking so, it focuses on the EC-H2020-SCC Replicate project by examining in depth the fieldwork action research process implemented during 2019 through a knowledge exchange webinar series with participant stakeholders from six European cities—three lighthouse cities (St. …”

Barcelona's grassroots-led urban experimentation: Deciphering the 'data commons' policy scheme by Calzada, I, Almirall, E

“…Nonetheless, as a result and continuation of previous published fieldwork research, by applying the Penta Helix framework from a social innovation perspective, this paper questions why several implementations are being consolidated while others actually show a tension between two different models: ‘platform capitalism’ vs ‘platform co-operativism’. …”

Transforming smart cities with social innovation: Penta helix multi-stakeholders framework by Calzada, I

“…</p> <p>This paper will be based on ongoing fieldwork research by presenting conclusions from some European cities and regions. …”

Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does "(smart) devolution" matter? by Calzada, I

“…This study carried out fieldwork research from January 2015 to June 2017 through several in-depth interviews with stakeholders in the three locations. …”

The future of city-regions: Comparative territorial benchmarking by Calzada, I

“…And as a consequence, can we look into comparative facts and evidence about particular territorial development strategies (hereinafter CTB is used as an abbreviation of Comparative Territorial Benchmarking) within the results of the work-inprogress empirical fieldwork in the chosen case-studies, such as Basque, Dublin, Portland, Iceland, Oresund and Liverpool/Manchester? …”

Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does “(smart) devolution” matter? by Calzada, I

“…This article compares three metropolitan (and city-regional) cases in the United Kingdom and in Spain, namely, Glasgow (Scotland), Barcelona (Catalonia) and Bilbao (Basque Country), by benchmarking their policy implementation and the tensions produced in reference to their nation-states. Fieldwork was conducted from January 2015 to June 2017 through in-depth interviews with stakeholders in the three locations. …”