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Regional Governance, Industrial Restructuring and Sustainable Development Reconsidering Smart Specialization Policy (Professor Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Geographies of Creative Destruction (Professor David Rigby, UCLA, USA) Discussant (Dr. Julie Tian Miao, University of Glasgow, UK) Territory, Politics, Governance Annual Lecture: Climate Change Politics and the Urban Contexts of Messy Governmentalities (Professor Vanesa Castan Broto, […]

Novel Approaches to Sustainable and Inclusive Development 2018 RSA Europe’s Socio-Spatial Dynamics Summer College, Cagliari, Sardinia (Emanuela Marrocu, CRENoS, Università di Cagliari, Italy ) (Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics, UK) (Alessandro Plaisant, Universita di Sassari, Italy ) (David Bailey, Aston University, UK ) (Stefano Usai, CRENoS, Università di Cagliari, Italy ) (Dieter F. Kogler, […]

New Horizons for Cities and Regions in a Changing World Opening Plenary (Professor Vanessa Watson, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa) Industrial Policy in the UK’s North-South Divide (Professor Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge, UK) Brexit Coincided with Peak UK Economic Inequality – Causes and Effect? (Professor Danny Dorling, University of […]

Strategies for Career Success: Networking, Publishing and Funding Top 10 career building tips (Adam Tickell, Vice Chancellor, University of Sussex, UK) Applying for research funding: what support is available? (Anett Kiss, Research Development Officer, University of Sussex, UK ) Engaging with the UK research funding landscape: Harnessing postgraduate and early career opportunities (Professor Gordon Harold, […]

2018 SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development Plenary (Dr Elisabetta Marinelli, Scientific Officer at the European Commission, Spain) Plenary (Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics, UK) Plenary (Caroline Paunov, Senior Economist and Head of Secretariat, OECD, France) Plenary (Charles W. Wessner, Professor, Global Innovation Policy Georgetown University, USA ) […]

Regional Governance, Industrial Restructuring and Sustainable Development The organisers encourage joining special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. As part of the 2018 Global Conference on China, participants can submit their abstracts to Special Sessions listed below. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular […]

Pushing Regions beyond their Borders   Urban and Regional Horizons Plenary Panel – Pushing Regional Studies beyond its Borders? The aim of this panel is to facilitate discussion and stimulate debate around the current state of urban and regional research, and how this is sitting in the face of the big global challenges – globalisation, […]

Urban and Rural Wellbeing, First Nations Economies and Global Value Chains for Regional Sustainability Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities Session organiser(s) Stefanie Dühr, University of South Australia, Australia: Stefanie.Duehr@unisa.edu.au Melissa Nursey-Bray, University of Adelaide, Australia: Melissa.Nursey-Bray@adelaide.edu.au The UN’s sustainable development goals and the global agenda on climate protection have prompted many countries to review their […]

2019 Annual Conference Special Sessions – Pushing Regions beyond their Borders The organisers encourage joining special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. As part of the 2019 Annual Conference, participants can submit their abstracts to Special Sessions listed below. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight […]

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: […]