OECD SPATIAL PRODUCTIVITY LAB 5^th MEETING

Spatial productivity for regional and local development

The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab (SPL) The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab (SPL) is a dedicated research laboratory that works with local and global partners to improve our understanding of the spatial dimension of productivity growth, the relevance of links between different types of areas and how regional policy can facilitate productivity growth, creation of better jobs and increased well-being. The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab at the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development is an integral part of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities. The mission of the Trento Centre is to build capacities for local development in OECD member and non-member countries, working directly with policy makers at all levels of government. Focus of this meeting The 5th SPL meeting is intended to bring together academics, policy-makers and practitioners to discuss the ways of enchancing aggregate productivity growth while decreasing subnational inequalities in productivity performance. The agenda includes several presentations by researchers with different backgrounds and will offer plentiful opportunities for interactions and discussions. The meeting will start with a comprehensive overview of the literature, which identifies spatial and aspatial (those based on the firm- and industry-level research) productivity determinants and will demonstrate how the latter group is also linked to the underlying spatial dimension. After this introduction, the invited speakers will look at specific mechanisms and processes related to geographical variations in productivity, such as agglomerations, Global Value Chains, migration, innovation networks and sorting of businesses and individuals across space. The meeting will conclude with reflections on policy implications of the current research and the ways forward. Participation The event is  open to experts, civil society and all interested parties upon registration.
		Materials & Information Draft Agenda Registration To register, please fill in this online form by 1 October 2019 23:59 CET. Venue OECD Venice Office c/o Fondazione di Venezia Dorsoduro 3488/U 30123 Venice, Italy  OECD Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on Tackling with societal, technological and climate changes in peripheral territories

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, peripheral regions have become an essential objective of regional science. Those territories can be understood as the outer peripheries, especially in the European Union, where the migratory pressure is quite evident. And as the so-called inner peripheries, where depopulation is a challenge that calls into question the survival of some of these regions. 

Regional science should be considered as a point of confluence of multiple approaches, and it is usual to interpret the evolution of regions in terms of economic development, placing the economy at the core of territorial policy decisions. However, it is necessary to introduce other approaches to territorial development. As such, issues such as demographic change and depopulation risk have been incorporated in European structural and investment funds of Agenda 2021-2027. 

The aim should be to generate opportunities in peripheral areas and reduce the gap between regions, guaranteeing the differential elements of both. Regional science must provide compatible and respectful solutions with the use of endogenous resources of all type of regions.

The proper platform for presenting scientific novelty and the policy relevance of the proposed papers will be the XLV International Conference on Regional Science: "Tackling with societal, technological and climate changes in peripheral territories " (20-22, November 2019, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain).

A special issue of the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice will publish selected papers presented at the conference, under the same theme. Both empirical and theoretical papers will be considered. Submissions should be made using the journal's online submission portal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802), and the deadline is January 31, 2020.

The coordinators of special issue are:

Vicente Budi Orduña (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Emili Tortosa Ausina  (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Luisa Alamá Sabater (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

CALL for Special Issue 2019: CROSS BORDER COOPERATION AND PERIPHERAL AREAS IN EUROPE

Journal: Eastern Journal for European Studies (EJES),  http://ejes.uaic.ro/

Guest editor: Tomás Lopes Cavalheiro Ponce Dentinho (University of the Azores,  Centro de Estudos de Economia Aplicada do Atlântico, Portugal) 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• The proposals for this special issue (max. 500 words) should be submitted by e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  (with the mention: Special Issue on CBC_Border regions), by October 30^th, 2019.
• The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by November 30^th, 2019.
• The deadline for paper submission is February 28^th, 2020; however, early submissions are welcome.
• The contributors are required to follow the authors’ guidelines, available at: http://ejes.uaic.ro/author_guidelines.htm

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC:

Cross border cooperation (CBC) is a key element at least for two EU’ policies: Cohesion Policy and Neighbourhood Policy, but also having a wider spectrum of linkages with other sectors of the European integration: internal market, transport and communication, justice and home affairs, culture and education, environment and sustainable development.

By addressing these specific challenges of the border regions (internal or external), the CBC could transform the periphery into “new centre”, offering more visibility for territories affected by peripheral conditions, the barriers could be shaped into new development opportunities in order to increase tolerance and strength democracy, CBC could also reduce the internal EU’ territorial disparities, could promote the stability and the security at the external borders of the EU.

This special issue on Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Europe aims to collect a set of studies on:

• the CBC potential to respond to some of key challenges for border regions (frequently, most border regions are characterised by peripheral conditions: trade specialisation in low and medium tech industries, intensive in resources and labour force, low accessibility and connectivity, institutional fragility and poor governance, weak quality of social capital, reduced capacity to attract investments and human capital, to generate economies of scale or economic agglomeration advantages as sources of competitiveness, growth and sustainable development;
• the efficiency and the effectiveness of the EU’ programs for cross-border cooperation;
• the CBC capacity to diminish the border effects at the external frontiers of the EU;
• the Euro-regions functionality;
• good practices in CBC programming or national policies related to the border regions and cross-border cooperation;
• the impact of the European integration process on the border barriers;
• the role of the cross-border cooperation on the core-periphery dynamics;
• CBC and the border regions’ resilience;
• Cross border cooperation, economic integration, regional convergence.

By this special issue, we intend to contribute to a better understanding of the CBC programs, processes, activities, linkages with the various sectors and policies of the EU, with high relevance for evidence-based policymaking.  

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on New Landscape of Data and Sustainable Development in Asia

Data analysis plays a key role in shaping, designing, and evaluating regional policies that target sustainable development. Recent advances in information technology have contributed to a new landscape of unconventional data—mobile phones usage, online commercial transactions, social media, and biometrics—that are available in a multitude of formats, volumes, and spatial dimensions, with various degree of veracity and velocity, all with largely untapped potential. While the emergence of new data offers real-time insights from different perspectives for planning and policy analysis, it may require a different approach to extract previously unavailable information and use it to promote sustainability. The new analytical approaches and sources of data at the same time raise new security challenges, privacy concerns, and equity issues. Examining the pros and cons of the data revolution in the search for answers to previously unattainable research questions is thus of interest not only to academia but also to practitioners and policymakers.

The aim and scope of RSPP is to serve as a platform to address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. The specific objective of this Special Issue is to promote discussions regarding the new landscape of data and its implications for sustainability. The Special Issue focuses particularly on Asia, where many cities, regions, and countries today are struggling to cope with the lack of infrastructure, climate change, rapid urbanization, land degradation, unstable political environments, deprivation, and the growing divide between those who have and do not have access to information. We invite papers that make use of new data sources and analysis to address challenges to sustainable development, broadly defined. We are interested in applied studies using regional science modes of analysis or other closely-related multidisciplinary approaches, as well as technical studies with implications for sustainability.

The Special Issue will be guest-edited by Yuri Mansury (Illinois Institute of Technology), Sutee Anantsuksomri (Chulalongkorn University), and Nij Tontisirin (Thammasat University).

Keywords and topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence
• Big data analysis
• Computational modeling & simulation
• Information & Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure
• Land cover and land use
• Machine learning
• Networks
• Prediction
• Remote sensing
• Social media
• Spatial analysis
• Urbanization

Papers should be submitted to the regular review process of the journal (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until December 15 th of 2019.

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 443-444 | First Published: 12 August 2019

SPECIAL SECTION: LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN PERIPHERAL AREAS BETWEEN POLICIES AND PRACTICES

Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

Maria Giulia Pezzi, Alessandra Faggian, Neil Reid

Pages: 445-449 | First Published: 12 August 2019

Open Access

Local entrepreneurship through a multistakeholders' tourism living lab in the post‐violence/peripheral era in the Basque Country

Igor Calzada

Pages: 451-466 | First Published: 14 June 2018

Cuban private entrepreneurship – from periphery to key sector of the economy in tourism‐oriented market socialism

Ruxandra Ana, Oskar Lubiński

Pages: 467-477 | First Published: 15 October 2018

International tourism entrepreneurs in Swedish peripheries: Compliance and collision with public tourism strategies

Marco Eimermann, Karin Tillberg Mattsson, Doris A. Carson

Pages: 479-492 | First Published: 05 October 2018

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Arturo Di Bella, Gianni Petino, Luigi Scrofani

Pages: 493-507 | First Published: 11 January 2019

Cultural tourism and rural entrepreneurship: A case study of a Scandinavian literary festival

David W. Marcouiller, Knut Ingar Westeren

Pages: 509-524 | First Published: 05 April 2019

OTHER ARTICLES

Global and regional effects of the US tariffs on iron, steel and aluminium: A SMART combination of models with a focus on Spain

Carlos Llano, Julián Pérez, Federico Steinberg, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Pages: 525-547 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Do European Funds support the formation of firms? New evidence from Italy

Andrea Ciffolilli, Eleonora Cutrini, Marco Pompili

Pages: 549-569 | First Published: 26 April 2019

Using local public goods to attract and retain the creative class: A tale of two cities

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

Pages: 571-581 | First Published: 28 May 2019

Development policy and regional economic convergence: The case of Tunisia

Mohamed Ali Labidi

Pages: 583-595 | First Published: 03 May 2019

The existence of economies of sequence: A theory of architecture in building an industry agglomeration

Akifumi Kuchiki

Pages: 597-612 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Impact of policies vis‐à‐vis small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on economic development of the border city of Al Buraimi in Oman

Khalid Al Badi

Pages: 613-620 | First Published: 19 June 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

Heat, greed and human need: Climate change, capitalism and sustainable wellbeing ‐ By Ian Gough

Gordon F. Mulligan

Pages: 621-624 | First Published: 16 January 2019

Macroeconomics of the Black Economy ‐ By Saumen Chattopadhyay

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 625-626 | First Published: 25 January 2019

Economic crisis and the resilience of regions – A European study ‐ By Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy (Ed.)

Rüdiger Hamm

Pages: 626-628 | First Published: 12 February 2019

URBANICS 4 

March 11-14, 2020

Valdivia, Chile

The ongoing Global Change is challenging our understanding of the dynamics involved in the ecological, social, and infrastructural realms surrounding us. Most of these changes have an urban origin and a deep impact on cities, the living place of most humans. While technological advances allow us to obtain near real-time information of these complex dynamics, a complete understanding, capable of giving us prospective usage, requires an integrated view from multiple disciplines.

This new version of URBANICS seeks to imprint such spirit on our academic conversations. We look forward to a workshop that integrates modeling approaches from all realms to understand and explain urban dynamics and thereby develop the next generation of urban planning and policies from the small to the large and even the global scale. 

Dear friends and colleagues,

The purpose of this email is to announce that, together with Cristina Chaminade (Lund), José-Luis Hervás-Oliver (Valencia), Ram Mudambi (Fox School of Business), Monica Plechero (Florence) and Julio Raffo (WIPO), we are organizing a Special Session on clusters and global innovation networks (GIN) at the 5th Geography of Innovation conference, to be held on January 29-31, 2020, in Stavanger, Norway. Here link to the Special Session--> http://geoinno2020.com/clusters-global-innovation-networks-and-the-globalization-of-knowledge/

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 31, 2019!!!

Stavanger might be cold in winter, but I'm sure it will be a great occasion to know better the Viking culture, as they have exhibitions and sightseeing on the topic. But more important than that, the lineup of keynote speakers for this GEOINNO edition is, simply, awesome! Check it out-->http://geoinno2020.com/program/#speak

The aim of this Special Session is to collect contributions at the interplay between innovation clusters and global innovation networks (GIN), or in other words, between regionalization and globalization of innovation activities. Within this, we intend to explore topics like how the connection between clusters supports the circulation of knowledge and global distribution of innovation activities, what type of GINs support linkages between clusters, what is the role of migrants and MNEs in building GINs favoring positive cluster evolution , cluster and GIN identification, clusters in the Global South and GINs, agglomerations and GINs, and so on. We aim to stimulate the study of phenomena from different lenses and angles, combining both theory and empirics, as well as macro, micro and meso approaches.

Consider submitting your proposals to our Special Session!

Sorry again for double-posting, and look forward to meet you all in Stavanger!

All the best,

Ernest