Thursday 15th November
10.25-12.25 Financing Urban and Regional Futures
- Andy Pike: Financialising City Statecraft
- Martin Sokol: Regional Studies and the Flows of Finance: Building a ‘Financial Chains’ Perspective
- Adam Drobniak: Hybridization of Regional and Urban Development – Reflections on Changing Patterns of Contemporary Development
- Olga Mrinska: Revitalising Ukrainian Cities through Mobilising Communities
10.25-12.25 Economic Clustering: New Trends, New Impacts
- Emily Wise: Evidencing the Benefits of Cluster Programmes – Towards a Framework of Effects
- Gerald Holtham: Identifying and Measuring Agglomeration Effects
- Anu Manickam: Developing New Vocabulary for Collective Place-making in Changing Worlds
10.25-12.25 Global Investment Flows, Global Value Chains and Global Connectivity: Their Geography and Spatial Impacts I
- Yihan Wang: Economic Complexity, Value Chain Networks and Québec’s Global Competitiveness
- Mara Giua: FDI Inflows and Impact in European Regions: What Role for Investment promotion Agencies?
- Ellen Hughes: “I Knew Something about the City”: Designers’ Migration into Bristol 1975-1985
- Dávid Fekete: Impacts of a Multinational Company on the City Development
- Giacomo Damioli: The ERA of International R&D Investments
10.25-12.25 EU Policy, Brexit Geographies: What does the Future Hold?
- Micheál Collins: On the Front-line: Exploring the Implications of Brexit for Citizens in Ireland’s Border Region
- Leslie Budd: Can the Space Economy Transform Europe’s Regions?
- Franziska Sielker: Territoriality and Spatiality – Two Paramount Concepts in Furthering European Integration Theory
- Marco Percoco: Comparative Case Studies and the Transportability of Policy Outcomes Across the Space
10.25-12.25 New Horizons for Rural and Peripheral Regions
- Tobias Federwisch: Innovations in Rural Municipalities: Dynamics and Challenges of Creative Community Development
- Sebastian Imhof: Shared Autonomous Vehicles and their Contribution to Improve Rural Public Transport
- Mariske can Aswegen: The Role of Innovation and Knowledge Networks on Regional Resilience in the Peripheral Region
- Robert Pollack: Energy Transitions and the Creation of New Industries in Lagging Regions
10.25-12.25 The Role of Universities and Other Institutions in Shaping Places and their Futures
- Bianca Radu: The Influence of Collaborative Emergency Management on the Community Resilience in the case of Emergency Situations
- Jussara Bauermann: Social Architecture: Collaborative Practice as a Tool to Promote Local Development and Responsibility
- Terry Clower: Amenities Based Economic Development: The Role of Public Park Systems in Local Economic Development
- Tim Dixon: Using Urban Foresight Techniques in City Visioning: Lessons from the Reading 2050 Vision
10.25-12.25 Planning Regional Futures Panel Session Regional Studies Journal Special Issue
- John Harrison, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Daniel Galland: Planning Regional Futures
- Lauren Andres: Planning Regional Futures Session
- Vanessa Watson: Regional Studies Panel
10.25-12.25 Energy Transitions, Environmental Sustainability and Designing Urban and Regional Futures
- Camilla Chlebna: The Role of Stabilisation for Regional Transitions
- Ida Grundel: Regional Policy Mobilities: Shaping and Reshaping Bioeconomies in Värmland and Västerbotten
- Zsolt Radics: Attitude Differences between Prominence and Inhabitants Concerning Renewable Energy Issues in Northeast Hungary
- Csaba Patkós: Climate and Energy Governance Perspectives from a Municipal Point of View in Hungary
- Tekla Sebestyén Szép: Regional Disparities in the Hungarian Urban Energy Consumption
13.25-15.25 Spatial Development, Territorial and Regional Futures
- Ernst Drewes: Towards a Regional Corridor Model (RCM)
- Valeria Fedeli: Society, Space and Institutions to the Test of the Great Changes of the Global Economy: Future Research Concerns, Challenges and Implications for Cities and Regions
- Angel Manzanares Gutierrez: Techniques of Analysis Applied to Local Labor Markets
- Cezary Kowalczyk: Map of Dynamics of Changes of Cities and Neighbouring Communes
13.25-15.25 Smart Urban Futures
- Dimitra Chondrogianni: A Process-centric Approach for System-of-Systems Integration in Smart Cities
- Korneliusz Pylak: Refining Smart Specialisation Strategies in Less Developed Regions: Lessons from History
13.25-15.25 Global Investment Flows, Global Value Chains and Global Connectivity: Their Geography and Spatial Impacts II
- Riccardo Crescenzi: The Internationalisation of R&D: Internal and External Drivers of Location Decisions across the Globe
- Jessie Poon: Financial Intermediaries, Social Power and Offshore Finance
- Giancarlo Cotella: European Spatial Strategies and Chinese Geopolitical Initiatives. The Potential Spatial Impacts of Chinese Economic Intervention in the Balkan Peninsula
- Stefano Usai: Italian Firms’ Trade Patterns: A First Look at International and Interregional Trade Decisions
13.25-15.25 European Cohesion Policy and the Future of European Regional Policy
- Vassilis Monastiriotis: Cohesion Policy Effects on Investment at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin
- Sylwia Borkowska-Waszak: Integrated Territorial Investments in Poland: Empowering Local Actors in the EU Cohesion Policy
- Mihail Eva: The Importance of Transport Infrastructure Investments in EU’s Low-income Regions: Empirical Evidences from Romanian Regions
- Mikolaj Herbst: Poland’s Local Investment in Human Capital within the Cohesion Policy. Confronting the Goals with the Outcome
13.25-15.25 Urban Futures – Policy, Actors, Disclosure
- Sarah Ayres: How can City Leaders Promote Public Value through Soft Metagovernance?
- Arnoud Lagendijk: Dissecting the Urban(ized) Binoculars. From Deconstructing to Reconstructing and Realizing Urban Futures
- Cristian Gherhes: Localism is an Illusion (of power): Divergences and Tensions in the UK Multi-scalar Governance System
- Kees Terlouw: Legitimising Identity Discourses and Metropolitan Networks: Between Urban Competitiveness and Territorial Protection
13.25-15.25 Universities, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Meeting Original Expectations? I
- Shiri Breznitz: Fostering the Growth of Student Start-ups from University Accelerators: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective
- Fumi Kitagawa: Graduate Start-ups in the Regional Contexts-policy Fad or Hidden Driver?
- Feketene Czako Katalin: Applying Grounded Theory Concept in Analysis of University – Firm Linkages
- Sandra Ewohime: The Role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Providing Knowledge Workers for the Future Development of the Regional Economies: A Review
13.25-15.25 Planning Regional Futures I Regional Studies Journal Special Issue
- Simin Davoudi: Regional Imaginaries
- Valeria Lingua: Envisioning Regional Futures: An Interactive Governance Perspective for Regional Spatial Planning
- Eva Purkarthofer: Macro-regional and Mega-regional Cooperation: New Forms of Soft Planning and Spatial Governance in Europe and the United States
- Alan Mace: Reconciling Corridor Regions and Concentric Green Belt Policy
- Aksel Erksoy: Adapting a Systems Perspective for Planning Futures: Approaching Flood Resilience in Texas and Accra
Friday 16th November
09.00-11.00 New Horizons in Urban and Regional Governance
- Brita Hermelin: Decentralisation of Growth Policy to the Local Scale. Empirical Study of Cities and Towns in Sweden about their Strategic Planning Initiatives and Collaborative Governance
- Rafał Gajewski: Conceptualization of the Multi-level Governance Structures and Policies. The Example of Polish Regions
09.00-11.00 Migration Flows and the Integration of Migrants into Cities and Regions
- Amjad Naveed: Social Inclusion from Migrants and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis on European Cities
- Robert Compton: Migration and Integration as South Africa’s Regional Challenge
- Das Steyn: A Third Afrikaner Migration: Plans for Survival of a People
- Jaehyun Jung: Empirical Analysis of Mobility of High-educated Workers
- Yoann Morin: Agglomeration Externalities and Offer or On-the-job Training: Evidence from France
09.00-11.00 Technological Changes, Innovation and its Implications for Cities and Regions I
- Thomas Kemeny: Disruptive Innovation and Inequality: A Long-run View
- Roel Rutten: Openness Values and Regional Innovation
- Arnault Morisson: Enablers of Structural Change: The Role of Entrepreneurial Region during Technological Transition
- Martin Henning: Evolutionary Dynamics of Local Economic Structures after the Second Industrial Revolution. Industry Paths in Swedish Cities 1900-1965
- Rong Feng: How China Fits in Globalisation: Insight from the Global Violin Industry
09.00-11.00 Evaluating Urban and Regional Futures: Policy Impacts, Strategy Evaluation
- Mark Dean: Evaluating the Efficacy of Policymaking for Tonsley as a Hub of a High-tech Regional Innovation System in Adelaide, South Australia
- Andrew Beer: Big Data, New Technologies and Advancing Urban and Regional Development Strategies
- Marijana Sumpor: Regional and Spatial Development Planning: Why are we not Talking about the same thing?
- Henrik Halkier: Stress-testing Local Food Networks as an Instrument of Local and Regional Development – The Case of Denmark
- Thomas Skuzinski: The Role of Local Governments in Shaping Regional Governance: Reconsidering the Measurement of Local Autonomy
09.00-11.00 Industry 4.0 and the Future Shape of Innovation, Industrial Development and Strategy
- Emil Evenhuis: Cluster Renaissance in Industrial Regions? The Changing Geography of Advanced Manufacturing in Britain
- Jonas Glaesser: Spatial Effects of Digital Transformation, An Analysis on the Example on an Automotive R&D Network
- Dimitri Corpakis: Challenges for Regional Policy in the age of Globalising Technologies: Reflections of a Policy Maker
- Lucir Reinaldo Alves: Industry 4.0 as an Alternative of Competitiveness of the main Clusters of Western Parana State, Brazil
09.00-11.00 Universities, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: Meeting Original Expectations? II
- Paul Vallance: HEIs and the Entrepreneurial Development Process: Learning Organisations in Learning Regions?
- Maria da Conceição Rego: What does it Mean to be Central in the Periphery and Periphery in the Centre? The Cases of the Universities of Évora, Campinas and Brasilia
09.00-11.00 Planning Regional Futures II
- John Bryson: Planning for Regional Futures in the Global South: Shifting Siloed Approach to Place-based Integrated Planning in Africa
- Sebastian Fastenrath: Planning for Urban Resilience through Governance Experimentation? A Framework for Analyzing Urban Resilience Actions
- Haozhi Pan: Understanding Heterogenous Spatial Externalities as a Missing Link between Land-use Planning and Urban Economic Futures
- Ian Gordon: Towards a Sustainable, Negotiated Mode of Strategic Regional Planning: A Political Economy Perspective
09.00-11.00 Are Cities Dense Enough?
- Nicola Pontarollo: The Determinants of Population Growth in European Regions
- Chris Jacobs Crisioni: Urban Density Change: A European Perspective
- Eric Koomen: Spatial Analysis of Residential Development Processes: Uncovering the Dutch Densification Potential
- Katarzyna Baranczuk: Planned Touristification: Waterfront Areas Development in the City of Gdańsk
- Jinwoo Dong: The Relationship between Task-biased Technical Change and Inequality of Labor Market across Regions
13.10-15.10 New Horizons in UK Urban and Regional Governance
- Danny MacKinnon: Making Sense of the Northern Powerhouse
- David Clelland: The Uneven Governance of Regional Economic Development in Scotland
- Carina Schneider: From Decentralisation to Divergence? A Review of the Economic Strategies of Six English City Regions
- Gill Bentley: Power up or Power Down? The Role of LEOs in Delivering Governance of Sub-national Economic Development and Policy in the UK in a Post Brexit World
13.10-15.10 Regional Economic Development Futures: Convergences and Divergences
- Annum Rafique: Convergence in Cost Efficiency of Dairy Farms in the UK
- Pei Sze Chow: Sustaining a Regional Screen Ecosystem in a Small Nation: Aarhus and the West Danish Region
13.10-15.10 Technological Changes, Innovation and its Implications for Cities and Regions II
- Christopher McInnes: Europe’s Innovation Voucher Schemes: What Makes them Successful and for whom?
- Don Webber: Does Productivity Vary with Accessibility? A Firm-level Analysis
- Takashi Yamamoto: Business-friendly Ecosystem as an Element of Economically Resilient Cities
13.10-15.10 New Horizons, Old Problems: Costs, Cuts and Exclusions
- Neil Lee: The Psychological Cost of Local Economic Decline: Evidence from NHS Antidepressant Prescriptions
- Carlos Ferreira: Human and Social Capital in Local Economic Development
- Mia Gray: The Depths of the Cuts: The Uneven Geography of Local Government Austerity
- Annie Tubadji: Lillies of Bristol: Welfare Costs for being a Great Woman
13.10-15.10 Determining Regional Futures: Place, Politics and Strategy
- Xabier Gainza: The Electoral Bias: Distributive Politics and Local Development in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia
- Salla Jokela: “Actions not Word”: Helsinki’s City Brand as a Tool of Urban Transformation
- Aoki Masakazu: Is a Collaborative Strategy among Municipalities in Japan Truly Strategic?: A Case Study of Collaborative Core CityRegion (CCCR)
- Andrea Hübner: Places Specialized and Spatialized
13.10-15.10 New Horizons in Planning
- Alan Townsend: England’s Main (Sub-) Regional Planning: The Patchy Inheritance of Local Industrial Strategies
- Lauren Andres: Idealism and Resistance in Spatial Planning: Questioning the New Horizons of Planning Education
13.10-15.10 RSA Policy Expo: HEIs in Regional Development
13.10-15.10 Suburban Futures
- Andrea Berndgen-Kaiser: Housing Stock Maintenance and Building Land Designation – Results of a Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys of German Municipalities
- Clemens Deilmann: The Future of Single-family House in Peripheral Suburban Areas – Scenario-process in a Interdisciplinary Research Project
- Jesper Ole Jensen: Strategic Approaches to Vacant Houses in Denmark
- Bernadette Hanlon: The Uneven Geography of Foreclosure and Housing Market Recovery in the Cleveland Suburbs
- Andriana Mihaela Soaita: The Diverse Economies of Housing: Patterns of Inequality in Romanian Suburbia
- Donatas Burneika: Spatial Differences of Economic Wellbeing in Lithuania. Are Peripheral Regions always Losers?
Brexit Survey
- Alex de Ruyter: Brexit Survey