Networks Categories: Research Network

About NOIR The RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR) challenges regional studies to attend to infrastructural questions by critically unpacking how infrastructure shapes regional lives, governance, and developmental pathways. Our conceptual framing of ‘infrastructural regionalism’ focuses on those infrastructures that have relevance beyond the local. Analysing regions through infrastructure provides a novel perspective on […]

About the RSA’s Research Network on Eco-Social Policy and PRactice for Innovation and Transformation (ESPPRIT) This RSA Research Network ESPPRIT brings together researchers working in the fields of Regional Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Economic Geography, and Governance and Policy Studies to critically engage with eco-social transformations. By examining changes “from below” through social innovation […]

About the RSA Research Network on Smart Policies for Regional Innovation, Sustainability and Transitions (SPRINT) This network focuses on the smart specialisation strategy (S3) approach as an evolving method of designing place-based innovation policy. We build on three years of cooperation through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Policies for Smart Specialisation research network, as early career scholars […]

The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Transformative Regional Resilience (T2R) Regions at the age of polycrisis are faced with the dual challenge of being resilient whilst transforming. Our Research Network on Transformative Regional Resilience (T2R) will be at the forefront of developing and disseminating research on resilience and regional transformations. Economic shocks and structural […]

The RSA Research Network on Financial Geographies has operated with RSA support under the auspices of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). Since its launch in 2015, FinGeo has grown into a major global player with more than 600 members in over 50 countries spanning all continents. The Network has brought together geographers, economists, […]

Research Network summary This research network explores the conceptual, methodological, empirical, and policy dimensions of the recent shift from knowledge-intensive to “transformative knowledge regions”. By doing so, it seeks to renew the understanding of knowledge as an asset in regional development in light of on-going sustainability transitions. The network brings together scholars of the geography […]

Research Network summary This research network aims to promote research on regional development in South America, focused on knowledge flows and innovation capabilities. Knowledge capabilities are unevenly distributed within national and subnational territories in South America, a region characterized by a peripheral but significant role in the global production of knowledge. These countries have a […]

Research Network summary Emerging from a successful workshop in Rome in November 2022, this network aims to develop scholarship and policy on just transitions in response to industrial, environmental and technological change. The network proposes to go beyond current framings and develop concepts of just transition which combine twin transitions in ‘green’/environmental and digital/technological terms […]

About EdgeNet EdgeNet is the Regional Studies Association research network on peripheral places and regions (and why they matter). We advocate and amplify impactful research on, from, and for the diverse places and regions that are ‘non-core’ or on the ‘edge’ of core activities, including but not limited to: rural, peri-urban, post-industrial, de-populating, and remote […]

The EU Cohesion Policy (CP) is one of the most prominent and hotly debated of EU policies since decades, while being a fundamental reference for urban and regional policy even beyond the EU. This policy aims to support all the European regions and cities through a unique multi-level governance system and the use of a […]

The unique Regional Studies Association Research Network on Citizen Entrepreneurship (RSARNCE) will carry out critical and systematic research and development activities on the involvement of citizens, as, producers, users, innovators and environmental gatekeepers of new forms of entrepreneurial activity in urban regions.. The network’s distinctive proposition centres around an extended definition of regional entrepreneurship, based […]