Plenary Session [1] “Why Places Matter”
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Why places matter: The geography of discontent and the revenge of the places that don’t matter
Charles Wessner, Georgetown University, United States
Smart Specialization in the U.S: Growing New York’s Nano-Cluster
Plenary Session [2] “Moving to Smart Specialisation 2.0”
Peter Berkowitz, European Commission, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, Belgium
EU Budget for the future. Moving to smart specialization 2.0
Slavo Radosevic, University College London, United Kingdom
Towards Smart specialisation 2.0: challenges for less developed and low institutional capacity regions
Plenary Session [3] “Places, Networks and Value Chains”
Henry Wai-chung Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Global Production Networks and Regional Development: Implications for Smart Specialisation
Simona Iammarino, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Globalisation through FDI and regional development policy
Caroline Paunov, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, France
The Impact of the Digital Transformation on the Geography of Innovation
Science for Policy Roundtable: Take-ups for EU Policies
Katerina Sereti, European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Hungary
Making innovation happen!