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Action research environments: challenges for their initiation and sustainability
(Springer, 2024-12) Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Finnestrand, Hanne; Aranguren, Mari Jose; Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Costamagna, Pablo; Estensoro García, Miren
Building policy capacities for tackling grand social challenges exploring the boundary-spanning potential of university research in the social sciences
(Gobierno Vasco = Eusko Jaurlaritza, Departamento de Economía, Trabajo y Empleo = Ekonomia, Lan eta Enplegu Saila, 2023-02) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Magro Montero, Edurne; Wilson, James Ralph
The emergence of new approaches to regional policy, including the well-known concept of smart specialisation strategies and the need to face grand societal challenges have highlighted the importance of policy capacities among public and private stakeholders. These challenges have increased the pressure on universities and their academic staff to assume more engaged roles within their respective territories. This article explores how social sciences research can contribute to regional policy capacities for tackling social challenges. Specifically, it focuses on the institutional arrangements that universities develop to facilitate engaged research in regions, or what have been labelled «university-based boundary organisations». We suggest that they are a relevant regional instrument due to their integration of knowledge bridging and knowledge coproduction functions. The paper explores how these roles contribute to regional policy capacities through analysis of the case of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, a university-based boundary organisation in the Basque Country.
Improving the approach to conflict in action research through deliberative policy analysis: a territorial development case in the Basque Country
(Routledge, 2019-05-29) Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa
This paper focuses on how theoretical work developed in deliberative policy analysis (DPA) can contribute to action research (AR) through a better understanding of the policy world. It is based on a programme in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain) where action researchers have been collaborating with policymakers since 2009. Our paper shows how concepts like pluralism, agonism and escalation have helped to reframe the approach to conflict in action research for territorial development (ARTD). The aim of the case is not exclusively to demonstrate how this can be done at a micro level, but also to show the usefulness of further interaction between the fields of DPA and AR, based on this experience.
The institutionalisation of etorkizuna eraikiz : from conceptualisation to practice
(Leuven Unversity Press, 2023) Barandiarán Irastorza, Xabier ; Zurutuza, Sebastián; Andueza, Unai; Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa
Logrando una mayor colaboración y solidaridadentre las comunidades de investigación-acción a nivel mundial: ensayo conjunto
(Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2024) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Bradbury, Hilary; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Costamagna, Pablo; Estensoro García, Miren; Gayá, Patricia; Karlsen, James; Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Pratt, Susanne ; Rébola, Romina; Greenwood, Davydd J.
On the study and practice of regional innovation policy: the potential of interpretive policy analysis
(Routledge, 2019-01-02) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Zabala Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel
Over the past decade, the literature on innovation studies has begun to recognize the growing complexity associated with innovation policies. However, these complexities, inherent to the policy world, have often not been sufficiently recognized or considered in prescriptive studies of regional innovation policies, which may hinder the contribution being made from the research to the practice of innovation policy. The present conceptual article reflects on the relevance of analytical approaches toward capturing, and interacting with, such complexities. We discuss necessary reflections that should take place in the process of analyzing regional innovation policies so as to grasp and address their complexities in a more comprehensive and holistic manner. We specifically propose the incorporation of interpretive policy analysis, a perspective that has a long history in policy sciences even though it is not extensively developed in the literature on regional innovation studies until now.
«¿Una pedagogía para el privilegiado?»: reflexiones sobre cómo el Análisis Deliberativo de las Políticas puede ayudar a la investigación acción a transformar desde dentro
(Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2021) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa
“Pedagogy of the privileged"?: reflections on how Deliberative Policy Analysis can help action research to foster transformation from within
(Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2020) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa
Helburuetan eta oinarri epistemologikoan antzekotasuna izanagatik ere, politikak aztertzeko ikuspegi deliberatiboa (DPA, ingelesezko sigletan) eta ikerketa-ekintza (IE) elkarren arteko dialogorik gabe garatu direla esan daiteke. DPAk interpretazioan eta deliberazioan oinarritutako eta praktikara bideratutako politiken azterketa proposatzen du, politika publikoen mundu konplexua eta politikoa hobeto atzematez gain, erabilgarria eta demokrazia sustatuko duen ezagutza eta prozesuak garatzeko. Era berean, IEk eragileekin dialogoa eta ko-sortzea ezagutza sortzeko eta eraldaketa pertsonal, sozial eta politikorako bide gisa ulertzen ditu. Bi ezagutza arloen artean erlazioren bat egon den arren, duela gutxi hasi dira lotura estuagoa sortzen, politikak aztertzerakoan ikerketa-ekintzaren erabilera areagotzeko beharra nabarmendu duten akademikoen lanen bidez. Kapitulu honek bi komunitate akademikoen arteko elkarreraginean aurrera egiten jarraitu nahi du, IE eta politiken analisiaren arteko harremana aztertzeko bidea ireki duten lanetan oinarrituz eta Lurralde garapenerako ikerketa-ekintzaren ikuspegian (LGIE) norabide honetan egindako lana abiapuntutzat hartuta. Ikerketa-ekintza, hein handi batean, botere eremuetatik kanpo dauden komunitateekin garatu da. Aldiz, LGIEren ezaugarrietako bat da gobernantza instituzionalizatuetako testuingurutan eta eragile eta erabakitzaile publikoekin garatu dela. Hori dela eta, kapitulu hau (erantzungo ez den) galdera baten pean kokatzen da: ea ikerketa-ekintzak aldaketa sustatu dezakeen testuinguru horietan boterea duten eragileekin lan eginez. eragileekin lan eginez. Lehenik eta behin, kapituluak ikerketa-ekintzaren —eta zehazki LGIEren— eta politiken azterketa eraldatzailearen arteko lotura zehazten du. Ondoren, DPAk ikerketaekintzari eskaintzen dionaren inguruko gogoeta egiten da eta proposatzen du ikerketaekintzari eraldaketan laguntzeko marko eta metodologiak eman diezazkiokeela, politika publikoak garatzeko testuinguruetan egiten denean. Bereziki, DPAk politika publikoen fenomenoa ulertzeko modu jakin bat eskaintzen duela garatzen da, ikerketa-ekintza erabakitzaile publikoekin garatzen duten ikertzaileei kultura politiko autoreflexiboagoa eta demokratikoagoa eraikitzeko erabilgarri gerta dakiekeena, horrela, «pribilegiatuen pedagogia» garatzen lagunduz.
A place-based approach in collaborative governance
(Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati = The Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 2024) Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Barandiarán Irastorza, Xabier
Collaborative governance is a broad concept that includes many forms of collaborative arrangements among various actors that differ in their nature, objectives, and types of interactions. This article empirically illustrates how, despite being understudied in the literature on collaborative governance, the “place” dimension (used here to refer to territory as a collective subject) can serve as a backbone that provides a distinctive logic and dynamic, bringing about a specific collaborative governance model — one that is especially relevant in the context of collaborative initiatives by regional governments. We describe a series of necessary features for place-based dynamics to emerge. The article seeks to share a conceptual framework that distinguishes between government-centred and place-based approaches to collaborative governance which can be used as a reflective tool for facilitators of collaborative governance. The framework relies on two empirical cases employed to illustrate its application.
Policy learning in regions: the potential of co-generative research methodologies to help responsible innovation
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2020) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Karlsen, James; Larrea Aranguren, Miren
There are different ways to interpret what policy learning is. There is diversity, for instance, when it comes to who is learning, what they are learning and the result of the learning process. This chapter shares, first, some of the perspectives developed in the framework of regional innovation policies. Then it focuses on the role of researchers in the field to contribute to policy learning. When addressing the role of researchers, we depart from the opinion held by some authors that policymakers do not always have the absorptive capacity required to implement policy recommendations delivered by researchers. Subsequently we offer a hypothesis that what is hindering these processes is not only the lack of absorptive capacity by policymakers but also the taken-for-granted assumptions that linear transfer works. Linear transfer is the process through which knowledge is first generated by researchers, secondly translated into recommendations and finally implemented by policymakers. We argue that behind the low level of effectiveness of these procedures lies, as much as the requirement for capabilities by policymakers, the need for a better understanding of the policy process by researchers. We try to address this last issue in two ways. First, we propose some frameworks from policy sciences that can help complement the ones in regional innovation policy literature. Then, based on in-depth interviews with policymakers in the Basque country, we share some insights into why policymakers find recommendations from researchers hard to implement, signalling how this connection could be improved. In the concluding section, we propose some methodological features of research that could help enhance policy-learning processes.
Public innovation through governance in place-based competitiveness policymaking: the case of Bizkaia Orekan
(Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020-04-22) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Franco Rodríguez, Susana; Wilson, James Ralph
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between collaborative governance arrangements for place-based competitiveness and public innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The paper combines a conceptual discussion of the links between collaborative governance, competitiveness policy and public innovation with a case study analysis of a specific governance process that aims at adapting policy to respond to local competitiveness challenges in the Basque province of Biscay. Findings: The conceptual discussion leads to the hypothesis of a new distinction with respect to how governance relates to public innovation. Innovation can occur in governance, through governance or with governance. The analysis of the case supports this distinction. Multi-actor collaboration for competitiveness policymaking (innovation in governance) has led to policy innovation (innovation through governance). This has also promoted emerging administrative changes that could be conducive to a more innovative public sector in general (innovation with governance). These findings validate arguments posed by proponents of collaborative innovation that suggest that multi-actor collaboration is a driver for public sector innovation. Originality/value: The value of the paper rests on linking theoretically and empirically two relevant and currently popular phenomena: networked governance for place-based competitiveness policymaking and public sector innovation. The paper provides original insights from the practice of building a process for context-sensitive policymaking that can inspire practitioners with similar problems.
Research and multi-actor collaboration in territorial development policymaking: insights for an increasingly complex policy field in an increasingly complex policy world
(Universidad de Deusto, 2018-11-21) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Wilson, James Ralph; Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas; Derechos Humanos: Retos Éticos, Sociales y Políticos
The aim of this publication-based thesis is to advance knowledge in territorial development policymaking, specially looking at the role of multi-actor collaboration and the role of research in these processes. The thesis draws on policy sciences and governance studies to complement insights provided by regional development and innovation studies, in order to provide a better understanding of: the nature of the policy process, policy problems and the policy world; governance and multi-actor collaboration in policymaking for territorial development; and the functions that research can play in such processes. The conceptual work is further developed through four co-authored articles that delve on to the research-policy dynamics and on the role of governments and public organisations in multi-actor collaborative processes, both conceptually (Article 1) and empirically, analysing two cases of collaboration-based governance for territorial development in the Basque Country: Gipuzkoa Sarean – Etorkizuna Eraikiz Territorial Development Lab and Bizkaia Orekan (Articles 2, 3 and 4).
Soft resistance: balancing relationality and criticality to institutionalise action research for territorial development
(Taylor and Francis, 2018) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Larrea Aranguren, Miren
This chapter explores the dynamic between relationality and criticality in Gipuzkoa Sarean, an action research project in the Basque Country, Spain. Specifically, it delves into the relationships between action researchers and policy-makers when co-generating the processes that led to the creation of a new governance model for territorial development. The learnings discussed in the chapter identify this dynamic as soft resistance, the conflict-based and agreement-oriented relationship between the critical and the relational roles of researchers and practitioners that can institutionalise new models of governance among territorial actors.
Transformar la gobernanza para hacerla transformadora: una mirada multinivel para(re)pensar(nos) y transformar(nos)
(Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2024) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa
When collaborative development meets New Public Governance: the case of Etorkizuna Eraikiz Territorial Development Lab in Gipuzkoa
(Sinnergiak Social Innovation, 2018-11-02) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Estensoro García, Miren; Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Sisti, Eduardo
Etorkizuna Eraikiz Territorial Development Lab (TDLab) is a long-term action research process that has produced a change towards more horizontal forms of territorial development and policymaking governance in Gipuzkoa. The article analyses this experience to reflect on the role of public organisations in steering cooperative forms of territorial development. Specifically, the article suggests that cooperative forms of territorial development may need network-based public organisations; and it shows that TDLab has fostered and embodied practices framed under New Public Governance (NPG), a network-based public administration paradigm. By reflecting on how such practices were fostered in TDLab, the article also suggests a potential complementarity between New Public Governance and action research for territorial development, the research approach and change strategy developed in TDLab, as a means of better contributing to network based public organisations.

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