Welcome message from the RSA Ambassadpr to Sweden, Roman Martin
Dear friends of regional studies!
It is a pleasure to introduce myself to you as RSA Ambassador to Sweden.
Feel welcome to contact me if you are curious about regional studies in Sweden or want to get involved in RSA.
Please find below a welcome letter in Swedish.
With kind regards
Roman
Hej!
Jag heter Roman, är docent i ekonomisk geografi vid Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs Universitet och är Regional Studies Association (RSA) ambassadör för Sverige.
RSA är en förening och ett nätverk av forskare och beslutfattare med intresse för regionalforskning och är öppet för alla, oavsett din akademiska bakgrund och var i karriären du befinner dig. RSA organiserar många spännande evenemang över hela världen, från stora konferenser med hundratals deltagare till mindre seminarier och föreläsningar. RSA delar även ut forskningsbidrag och står bakom en av den mest välkända vetenskapliga tidskriften inom regionalforskning: Regional Studies.
I Sverige och inom Norden samarbetar vi genom det nordiska nätverket NoRSA. Mer information om NoRSA hittar du här: https://www.regionalstudies.org/network/norsa/
Själv har jag min akademiska bakgrund inom ekonomisk geografi och forskar om innovationsgeografi och regionalutveckling. Regionala studier har varit mitt intresse sedan början av min karriär, och RSA och dess nätverk av engagerade forskare har alltid varit en referenspunkt och en viktig inspirationskälla för mitt arbete.
Hör av dig om du vill veta mer om RSAs aktiviteter och vill delta!
Med vänlig hälsning
Roman
Upcoming Events
2023 RSA Annual Conference Special Sessions – Call for Papers
2023 RSA Annual Conference “Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places” – Ljubljana, Slovenia – 14 June 2023
The Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference 2023 #RSA23 will be our largest knowledge exchange and networking gathering in 2023. It is being held in partnership with the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. This four-day conference brings together academics and policymakers to exchange news, views and research findings from the fields of regional studies and science, regional and economic development, policy and planning. There will be representation from around 50 different global territories as we gather both established experts and early career researchers in the beautiful city of Ljubljana.
As part of the 2023 RSA Annual Conference, there will be a number of Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. The RSA Ambassador to Sweden, Roman Martin, is one of the organisers of SS33: Regional Industrial Path Development and Restructuring – Assets, Agency, and Policy
Session Description:
Economic downturns, climate change, political instabilities, and other global challenges are placing major transformative pressures on regions, which need to continuously adapt their structures and functions to remain competitive. Regional industrial restructuring has become a central concern among researchers and policy makers interested in regional development. Regional industrial restructuring is typically seen as a process by which local companies diversify into new fields, relying on a new combination of skills, knowledge and other assets accumulated in the past. While early theories have mostly considered firms and their knowledge assets, a lively academic debate has recently emerged around various drivers and mechanisms for new path development, including policy, change agency, public and private demand, institutional and innovative entrepreneurship, local and non-local knowledge linkages, and other types of firm- and system-level assets. The purpose of this special session is to advance our understanding of economic, social, and environmental transformation of regions, by focussing on assets, agency, and policy. We are interested in drivers, hinders, processes and mechanisms for regional industrial restructuring and new path development. We welcome theoretical contribution as well as empirical studies, especially, but not exclusively, from the Nordic territory.
The special session has three main objectives:
(1) to advance existing theories on regional industrial path development, with a particular focus on assets, agency, and policy,
(2) to introduce new methodological approaches to analyse and understand regional path development and structural change, and
(3) to provide empirical evidence on drivers, hinders, processes and mechanisms for regional industrial restructuring in different geographical settings.
This is an open session organised by Nordic Division of the RSA (NoRSA).
Session Organisers:
Roman Martin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Laura James, Aalborg University, Denmark
Markku Sotarauta, Tampere University, Finland
Marte Cecilie Wilhelmsen Solheim, University of Stavanger, Norway
Martin Henning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Please submit your abstract via the conference portal and indicate that you are joining the Special
Session SS33. The abstract submission deadline is 28th February 2023.
Website: https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2023-rsa-annual-special-sessions
Click here for more information on this call: RSA Annual Conference 2023 – NoRSA Special Session CfP
Click here for more information on the 2023 RSA Annual Conference “Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places” Ljubljana, Slovenia
14 June 2023.