In recent years, the world has undergone remarkable transformations, and after having suffered the costs of a pandemic, it is approaching a new economic recession. In addition, populations are increasingly exposed to floods, hurricanes and droughts related to the climate crisis. Although cities and regions have shown resilience and continue to play a leading role in economic interactions, they must be rethought to face future pandemics, mitigate climate damage and economic crises. These challenges are even more pressing in the context of emerging and developing countries where resilience and adaptive capacity is lower and inequality is higher.

We are pleased to present the fourth edition of the Urban and Regional Economics Workshop, hosted byUniversidad Javeriana and Banco de la República,- taking place in Bogotá, Colombia from June 28th toJune 30th. This workshop aims to understand various urban and regional phenomena and provide novel insights for policy design. It is supported by the the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).

We invite the submission of high-quality papers dealing with different topics of urban  and regional economics, from a local and global perspective. Thus, we especially welcome papers dealing with the challenges that the process of sustainable develop- ment entails, and with a focus on developing coun- tries, although papers dealing with developed coun- tries will also be considered.

We are lucky enough to put together a great set of invited speakers for this conference.

We have confirmation from Jan Brueckerner (UC Irvine), Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE) and Remi Jedwab (George Washington University). A fourth invited speaker will soon be confirmed. We will also host a policy roundtable with key policymakers in Colombia, and organize some  technical  and social visits in Bogotá.

Submission: Please submit your paper to the following email addresses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We accept the submission of extended abstracts. However, all else equal, preference will be given to completed papers.

We receive submissions until April 1st. You will be notified on April 15th whether your submis- sion has been accepted for the conference.

Registration fees: There will be a registration fee of US$ 250 for attendees and presenters (US$150 for students). All travel and accommodation expenses should be covered by each attendee. The fee includes lunch, refreshments and a farewell dinner for all participants.

Scientific Committee:

Diego Astorga (U Javeriana), David Castells-Quintana (UAB), Ana Maria Diaz (U Javeriana), Andres Giraldo (U Javeriana),

Paula Herrera-Idárraga (U Javeriana),

Javier Pérez Valbuena ( Banco de la República), Guillermo Sinisterra (U Javeriana).

PhD position at Politiecnico di Milano, Department ABC

The PhD candidate is expected to contribute to the research in the frame of the GRINS project, financed by the NRRP, in particular under the ‘Innovation - ecosystems for the circular economy’ pillar.

The project is aimed at investigating the socio-economic impact of the green and digital transition, with a particular focus on local labour market dynamics and wage inequalities across occupations, sectors and territories.

Expression of interest and request of information can be addressed to Camilla Lenzi and Andrea Caragliu (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

6th International Conference on

RETHINKING CLUSTERS 2023: THE PARADOX OF SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION: LOCAL OR GLOBAL?

 September, 28^th & 29^th, 2023 VALENCIA (SPAIN)

VALENCIA: The World’s Best City to Live by Forbes

Universitat Politècnica de València and Universitat de València, València (Spain)

The sixth edition of the international conference “Rethinking clusters” will be in-person in the sunny and Mediterranean Valencia, named the World’s Best City to Live by Forbes (in here: https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/2022/best-worst-cities-for-expats-40327).

We would like researchers’ contributions on the general topics of Innovation in Places, enhancing when possible the constructs of clusters, industrial districts and regions. Being innovation in space the leitmotiv of the Conference, we like to discuss new trends based on Sustainability, Circular Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Networks, and the importance of place for innovation and development. 

Interested contributors are invited to send an extended abstract or a full paper to the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by June 1^st, 2023.

Extended abstracts should contain a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 2500 words. Extended abstracts can contain figures, tables and/or images which are not included in the word count.

Full papers (optional) should not exceed 8000 words, inclusive of the abstract (maximum 150 words), tables, references, figure captions, endnotes. Full papers will be circulated among participants.

Members of the community that are willing to organize a Special Session within the workshop are kindly invited to send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before May, 1^st, including a description of the contents of the session and a list of the participants. The acceptance of the extended abstracts/full papers will be announced by June 24th, 2023.

Registration and fee. Registration is about 165 Euros, including the Conference, materials, Key Notes, coffee breaks, Paella show cooking (real and best!)  and Great Gala Dinner. Only the Abstracts will be published in an ISBN Conference proceedings.

Rethinking Clusters

Annual Regional Sustainable Development Conference 2023 “CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH, AND REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”

CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS

“Regional sustainable development” is an issue that attracts the interest of academic researchers, policy-makers, and other stakeholders. The Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region, the Southern Institute of Social Sciences, and the EM Normandie Business School are organizing the second edition of their conference on the nexus between “Climate Change, Green Growth, and Regional Sustainable Development” in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (Vietnam) on 17th and 18th of July 2023. The aim of the conference is to promote scientific research in the topics related to sustainable growth and its implications for regional development.

Focus topics

Papers proposed could include the following topics (not limited to):

• Climate change and Sustainable Agriculture
• Green Business and Sustainability
• Climate change, Welfare, and Mitigation measures
• Climate change and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Circular Economy and Sustainability
• R&D, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth
• Vulnerability and Resilience

Round table

A mini economic forum on “Sustainable Tourism in the Digital Age: Evidence from the Southern Region of Vietnam.”

Participants: EM Normandie Business School, Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region, experts and local agencies and managers.

Submission

Please send an extended abstracts or full manuscript through the following website:

http://aissc.org.vn/

While submitting, please specify the topic where the manuscript would be presented in case of acceptance.

Important dates

Deadline submission for full paper: April 21st, 2023 Paper notification to authors: May 29th, 2023 Registration open: May 2nd, 2023

Registration fee

The registration fee is 250 € for each participant.

Further info will be provided.

Publication opportunities

A special issue will be dedicated to the best papers of this conference. Further information will be provided.

Conference board

CASTELLANO Sylvaine, Dean of faculty, EM Normandie Business School, France HOANG Hong Hiep, Director of Institute of Social Science of the Central Region, Vietnam NGUYEN-HUU Thanh Tam, EM Normandie Business School

TRAN Minh Duc, Vice director of Institute of Social Science of the Central Region, Vietnam VU Tuan Hung, Vice director of Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Vietnam

Scientific committee

ARMANDO Papa, University of Teramo, Italy

BOURDIN Sébastien, EM Normandie Business School, France

BUI Quang Tuan, Director of Vietnam Institute of Economics, Vietnam CILLO Valentina, University of Rome 3, Italy

CONDOR Roland, EM Normandie Business School, France

DEL GIUDICE Manlio, Editor in Chief of Journal of Knowledge Management, Link Campus University, Italy

DANG Xuan Thanh, Vice director of Vietnam Academy of Social Science, Vietnam FIANO Fabio, Link Campus University, Italy

JUTEAU Solène, EM Normandie Business School, France LAMOTTE Olivier, EM Normandie Business School, France

LARÉ Amandine, Head of Economics, Territories and Sustainable Development Department, EM Normandie Business School, France

LE Quoc Hoi, Editor in Chief of Journal of Economics and Development, National Economics University, Vietnam

LE Van Cuong, Associate Editor of Journal of Public Economics Theory, CNRS, Paris School of Economics, France

LE Van Hung, Vice director of Institute of Regional Sustainable Development, Vietnam LUONG Tinh, Institute of Social Science of the Central Region, Vietnam

MAGNI Domitilla, University of Rome 3, Italy

NAM Sang-Woo, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Korea

NGUYEN Truong Son, The University of Danang - University of Economics, Vietnam NGUYEN Van Phu, Paris Nanterre University, France

PARK Jin, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Korea

PHAM Hoang Van, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, United-States PHAM Si An, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam

PHAM Thi Kim Cuong, Paris Nanterre University, France

PHAN Thi Song Thuong, Institute of Social Science of the Central Region, Vietnam RIEBER Arsène, University of Rouen Normandy, France

SINGH Sanjay Kumar, Maynooth University, Ireland

TRAN Nam Binh, University of New South Wales, Australia TRAN Thi Anh-Dao, University of Rouen Normandy, France

TRINH Thi Thu, Institute of Social Science of the Central Region, Vietnam VENKATESH V.G., EM Normandie Business School, France

VU Bang Tam, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, America WON Hee Lee, Han Kyong University, Korea

Local organization committee

DINH The Toan, Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region TAN Thi Hai Hanh, Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region

NGUYEN Hoang Yen, Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Region NGUYEN Tuan Sinh, Southern Institute of Social Sciences

TU Thi Phi Diep, Southern Institute of Social Sciences

VU Thi Hong Nhung, Southern Institute of Social Sciences DO Ly Hoai Tan, Southern Institute of Social Sciences

VU Thi Thu Thanh, Southern Institute of Social Sciences

Time and Venue

• Time: July 17th and 18th, 2023.
• Venue: Ho-Chi-Minh

1 day + 1 day trip:

• 17/7/2023: All day conference.

-     18/7/2023:

• ½ day Round table
• ½ day Trip (with additional fees).

Background and objectives

The exponential growth of ‘big data’ coupled with enhanced computational capacity and high-performance machine learning techniques provides high-potential research opportunities for the field of Regional Science. User-generated text data is of particular interest, as it often has implicit spatial information embedded within (e.g., informal place references, place relations, place opinions/emotions). These types of geo-text data (Hu, 2018) can shed new light on regional economic development, labor market dynamics, and geographies of knowledge production and knowledge relations in a way that traditional secondary data cannot. Some studies in regional studies have already used this new geo-text approach, for example, the digital footprint of interfirm linkages (Kinne and Axenbeck 2020; Abbasiharofteh, Kinne, and Krüger 2021), Twitter data and news items (Ozgun and Broekel 2021), online job vacancies (Acemoglu et al. 2020), but also digitized historical newspaper archives (Peris, Meijers, and Van Ham 2021).

Textual data offers numerous advantages. It gives us the ability to create a bottom-up classification of groups and definitions rather than relying on existing definitions. Combined with web scraping techniques, it allows for high-volume flexible yet robust analysis. But there are also challenges concerning the reproducibility of results and online-data bias; nevertheless, geo-text analysis holds great promise for regional science research and should be leveraged much more than currently.

The aim of the geo-text workshop is threefold. First, this workshop invites leading experts to deliver keynote talks on their latest research findings on the topic and showcase recent methodology development. Second, this program creates a venue where about 20 early career researchers and PhD students in regional science learn from one another and discuss future research ideas and potential collaborations. All participants will be able to present their work and receive feedback from senior scholars and their peers. We would like to also encourage the exchange of information on the skills needed to perform text analysis, and we will have technical ‘sweat’ sessions in the program. Lastly, the workshop includes a social event and other opportunities to facilitate informal knowledge exchange, discussions, and brainstorming to inspire the next generation of researchers to take the next step.

Keynote speakers and publication options

We are happy that four distinguished scholars in the field of regional sciences will attend the workshop. Besides delivering keynote talks on the recent advances, case studies, and future challenges in using geo-text data analysis, they provide valuable feedback to presenters. The invited guests are:

• Tom Brökel, University of Stavanger, Norway
• Rikard Eriksson, Umeå University, Sweden
• Martin Henning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Evert Meijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

A selected number of high-quality papers presented at the workshop will be proposed for further consideration in a special issue of an academic journal.

Submissions

We invite PhD students and early career researchers (five years between the date showing on their PhD certificate and the workshop date) to send us an extended abstract (max. 1000 words) featuring original and unpublished research on text analysis applied in geographic research, including but not limited to the following topics:

• geo-text mining -  geographies of knowledge production
• novel datasets and analytical methods  -  geographies of green transition
• regional economic development -  diffusion of clean technologies
• labor market dynamics -  knowledge relations
• regional occupation space -  place-based policy

To  allocate  enough  room  for  discussion  and  feedback,  each  presenter  has  45  minutes (including Q&A) to present his/her research.

Please send your extended abstract by 15 March to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. which includes your name and affiliation.

Important dates*

Paper submission deadline:                           15 March 2023

Acceptance notification:                                 31 March 2023

Material submission for discussants:             15 May 2023

Workshop days:                                              24-26 May 2023

* All deadlines are at 11:59 CET on the corresponding date

Workshop organization and costs

The workshop will be held in the vibrant city of Groningen, known for its rich history, charming canals, cobbled streets, and thriving cultural scene. The faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen is recognized internationally for excellence in research and teaching in spatial and regional sciences. The geo-text workshop is planned as a three-day event, organized in a workshop atmosphere with keynote talks and thematic paper sessions with PhD students and early career researchers’ presentations. The workshop includes a lightning session and a tutorial.

Participation in the workshop itself is free of charge. We booked hotel rooms for presenting participants. We cover the costs of the hotel, and the workshop includes lunches, refreshments, and two dinners. Participants need to cover other costs associated with their travel themselves. The workshop is supported by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and facilitated by the Jantina Tammes School for Digital Society, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence.