Opening Keynote Address Associate Professor Te Maire Tau, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand “What a tribal economy will be and how we will build it” Dr Te Maire Tau is the Upoko (head) of Ngāi Tūāhuriri, whose home is the Tuahiwi Marae near Kaiapoi, just north of Christchurch. Dr Tau has also been […]
A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival The organisers encourage joining special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. As part of the 2018 Annual Conference, participants can submit their abstracts to Special Sessions listed below. Special Sessions are a great way to […]
The Place Dimension of Cities and Regions: Governance, Industrial Development and Sustainability The Cohesion Policy of the European Union after the Economic Crisis & Brexit: Back to National Regional Policies?: Regional Studies Journal Roundtable City Economic Evolutions The Cohesion Policy of the European Union after the Economic Crisis & Brexit: Back to National Regional Policies? […]
The Place Dimension of Cities and Regions: Governance, Industrial Development and Sustainability Plenary 1: Industry 4.0 and Implications for European Regions (Professor Lisa De Propris, University of Birmingham, UK) Plenary 2 – UK Competitiveness after Brexit (Dr. Christian Ketels, Harvard Business School, United States) Plenary 2: Cohesion Policy and the Future of Europe: Highlights from […]
Charting a Career Path: Sharing the Learning and Lessons Plenary 1 (Professor Jane Pollard, Professor of Economic Geography, Newcastle University, UK – “Academic citizenship, gender and career development.”) Plenary 1 (Dr Stuart Dawley, Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Newcastle University, UK – “Developing a career which balances research, teaching and policy engagement?”) Plenary 2 (Dr […]
Urbanisation in Latin America: Exclusion, Marginality and Conflict Coorganiser (CEDEPLAR) Sponsor (UNICAMP) Sponsor (CAPES) Sponsor (FAPESP) Coorganiser CEDEPLAR Cedeplar, Center for Regional Development and Planning of the Faculty of Economic Sciences , was created in 1967 as a supplementary body of the Federal University of Minas Gerais . It started to work from the year 1968, with the purpose of […]
Regional Polarisation and Unequal Development in CEE: Challenges for Innovative Place-based Policies CLUJ IT CLUSTER OTP Bank ( OTP Bank) Primăria municipiului Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca City Hall) CLUJ IT CLUSTER Cluj IT Cluster is a cluster management entity, built on the quadruple helix model of the IT value chain (companies, universities and research institutes, authorities and […]
Urbanisation in Latin America: Exclusion, Marginality and Conflict Opening Plenary (Professor Carlos de Mattos, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile) Special Session: Funding Regional Development (Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG), Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) and Inter-American Development Bank (BID)) Closing Plenary (Professor Silvia Gorenstein, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Opening Plenary […]
Regional Polarisation and Unequal Development in CEE: Challenges for Innovative Place-based Policies Smart Specialisation: Challenges and Opportunities for Lagging Regions Smart Specialisation: Challenges and Opportunities for Lagging Regions Session organiser(s) Cluj IT Cluster, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (prof. Stelian Brad) Special Session Speaker: Dominique Foray, Full Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the École Polytechnique […]
Fragmented Regional Worlds: Inequality and Populism in a Globalising World Keynote panel: ‘Regional Fragmentation and the Changing Political Landscapes of 2016-17’ 2016 witnessed the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump in the US. In Europe, far right parties gained ground in opinion polls. In Australia, 2017 commenced with news that […]
Fragmented Regional Worlds: Inequality and Populism in a Globalising World S1. City and Regional Deal-Making, Intergovernmental Contractual Relations and Multi-Level Governance S2. You are where you eat? What role for geography, spatial planning and regional development in the quest for healthier and more sustainable food systems S3. Organising the 21st Century City S4. Regional and […]
Urbanisation in Latin America: Exclusion, Marginality and Conflict SS1. Urbanization in the Global-South: Towards New Paradigms SS2. Urban Agriculture: Reinventing Forms of Appropriation of City & Nature SS3. Metropolitan Planning & the University : Strengthening Citizenship through Local-regional Politics SS1. Urbanization in the Global-South Towards New Paradigms Session organiser(s) Arpita Biswas, PhD Candidate, University of […]
the Great Regional Awakening: New Directions Brexit, Trump & the Dusk of Globalisation? New Directions in Economic & Financial Geography: Special FinGEO Panel Planning in the Metropolitan Century Open Access Publishing with the RSA: Quickly Reach a Wider Audience, Publish Smart Specialisation and Evolutionary Economic Geography : Essential Symbiosis in Order to Advance the Agenda? […]
the Great Regional Awakening: New Directions Plenary 1: The Growth and Diffusion of Knowhow (Professor Ricardo Hausmann, Director of Centre for International Development, Harvard University, USA) Plenary 1 (Mr Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of OECD Regional Development Policy Division, OECD, France) CURDS Plenary 2: Regional Policy from National Strategy to EU Bargaining Framework. What has […]
Changing Patterns of Territorial Policy: Smart Specialisation & Innovation in Europe The Economic Theory of Entrepreneurial Discovery (Dominique Foray, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Smart Specialisation & Regional Innovation Policies: Where have we come from, where are we now & where are we going? (Philip McCann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Taking Implementation Seriously: […]
Towards Impact and Contributions to Knowledge: PhD and First Academic Position Maximizing the Impact of your Research Outputs (Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK ) (Net)working in Interdisciplinary and International Environments: Using Learned Societies to Maximise your Research (Sally Hardy, RSA, UK) Plenary 3 (Dr. Gary Bosworth, Lincoln University, UK) Plenary 4 (Professor Joyce Liddle, Aix Marseille, […]
the Great Regional Awakening: New Directions SS1. Participatory Research & Planning SS2. New Regional Growth Paths & Entrepreneurial Discovery SS3. Poverty & Inequality in a Regional Perspective SS4. Imagine Europe SS5. Environmental Regionalism & Emerging Spaces of Environmental Governance SS6. Understanding Patterns of Psychology-related Regional Inequalities & Polarization SS7. Will Urban & Regional Leadership be […]
New Pressures on Cities and Regions Managing change in your local economy: have your views heard Interpreting long-term urban economic transformation in cities The Political Economy of Brexit External and Internal Displacement: Impacts and Lessons Learned from Resettlement Processes Book Panel – Local and Regional Development, 2nd Edition Managing change in your local economy: have […]
Regional and Urban Studies for Strategic Planning and Development ‘Imperfect markets: urban and regional aspects’ ‘Imperfect markets: urban and regional aspects’ Session organiser(s) Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (MSSE HSE), Russia (Academic advisors: Jacques-Francois Thisse and Kristian Behrens). The section covers a broad variety […]
Regional Polarisation and Unequal Development in CEE: Challenges for Innovative Place-based Policies Plenary 1 (Prof. Jennifer Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Plenary 1 (Peter Berkowitz, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission, Belgium) Plenary 2 (Prof. Dominique Foray, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Plenary 3 (Prof. Zoltán Kovács, University of Szeged, […]
New Pressures on Cities and Regions Opening Plenary Session (Ross DeVol, Milken Institute, USA) Plenary 2 (Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada) Plenary 3 (Federico Cugurullo,Trinity College Dublin, Ireland – Early Career Plenary Speaker ) Panel Session (Stephen Hilton, Bristol Futures, UK) Panel Session (Bridget Rosewell, Volterra Partners, UK) Panel Session […]
Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change SS1. Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability SS2. Working Regions: Rethinking Regional Manufacturing Policy Panel Session. Regional Collaboration for Effective Economic Development Manufacturing Strategies: IMCP Communities What Open Access Can do for You? : Special Session with RSA Editors SS1. Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability Session organiser(s) Dr. Gerd […]
Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change Plenary 1. New Manufacturing Model and Implications for Regional Development (Professor Lisa De Propris, Birmingham Business School, UK) Plenary 2. Socializing Data: Mapping Culture and Governance in the Era of Smart Cities (Professor Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA) Plenary 3. The Evolution of Knowledge Spaces: Inventors, Firms, […]
Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World Opening Plenary Session (Prof. Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) Opening Plenary Session (Prof. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in Regional Economies) […]