Research Awards – Young Investigator Training Program 2018 Policy Evaluation and Young Investigators: Building a Network of Excellence Throughout the World. The Gran Sasso Science Institute – GSSI Social Sciences (www.gssi.it) is part of the CERUP network (https://sites.google.com/view/cerup2018/call-for-papers) promoting this call for applications and is one of the Italian institutions that will host the awarded researchers.

 Overall, 9 research grants (3.000 Euro for researchers from European institutions and 4.000 Euro for those from non-European institutions), financed by the Associazione di Fondazioni e Casse di Risparmio Italiane SpA (ACRI), will be awarded to selected researchers who will:

-        participate in the international conference CERUP 2018 “Challenges in Evaluating Regional and Urban Policy”, that will take place in Rome from 8 to 9 March 2018.

-        spend a one-month visiting in one of the leading Italian departments that agreed to participate in the network (please see the list in Annex 1 in the call)

Applicants need to meet the following criteria:

-        research focus on regional and urban sciences and methodologies applied to the impact of evaluation of public policies

-        aged up to 40 years

-        affiliation to foreign institutions (outside Italy) to promote international collaborations and encourage mobility of young scholars.

The deadline for application is the 22^nd January 2018. Please make sure you state on the application your preferred hosting institution (e.g. GSSI). 

 All application and selection details are included in the attached call and can be found at this link: https://sites.google.com/view/cerup2018/call-for-papers

Regional Science Policy & Practice © RSAI Volume 9, Issue 3 Pages 141 - 228, August 2017

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information (pages 141–142)
Version of Record online: 28 DEC 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12081

ARTICLES

Economic impacts of cancelled recreational trips to Northwest Florida after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (pages 143–164)
Christa D. Court, Alan W. Hodges, Rodney L. Clouser and Sherry L. Larkin
Version of Record online: 23 OCT 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12099

Demographic transitions in South African cities: An analysis of household structures in the City of Tshwane (pages 165–181)
Daniël Jacobus Roux and Hermanus Stephanus Geyer
Version of Record online: 28 DEC 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12103

The implementation of smart specialization strategy in Greece: Re-balancing governance between the central state and the regions (pages 183–199)
Charalampos Chrysomallidis and Aggelos Tsakanikas
Version of Record online: 17 SEP 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12095

EU structural interventions and individual wages in Poland: Empirical evidence for 2004–2006 financial framework (pages 201–216)
Andrzej Cieślik and Bartłomiej Rokicki
Version of Record online: 24 NOV 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12100

Fostering a resilient regional economy in the SADC through regional integration (pages 217–228)
Ockert Pretorius, Ernst Drewes and Mariske Van Aswegen
Version of Record online: 28 DEC 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12102

Dear Colleague 

We are writing to invite you to contribute to a special issue of Research Policy titled “Citizens of Nowhere? Migration, Research, and Innovation” (call for papers attached and here).

This special issue aims to bring together scholars working on migration, innovation or development, and with an interest in the economics and management of knowledge diffusion, the relationship between innovation and development or the emerging role of organizations such as multinational companies and higher education institutions in structuring scientists’ and engineers’ migration flows (more details in the call for papers).

We believe that the proposed topics may fit with your research interests and/or of scholars in your personal network. Please do not hesitate to diffuse or to contact us for further information. 

Submission opens 1 June 2018 and closes 30 September 2018.

On behalf of:  

Stefano Breschi

Cornelia Lawson

Francesco Lissoni

Andrea Morrison

Ammon Salter

Research Policy Special issue guest editors

On behalf of the Faculty of economics, business and tourism in Split and The Regional Science Academy, we are very excited to invite you join us in Split, Croatia from June 18^th till June 22^nd 2018, for the first EFST Summer school titled From Smart to Intelligent Cities.

The EFST Summer school titled From Smart to Intelligent Cities supported by  Regional Science Association International represents an unique opportunity to learn and discuss about structures, actors, processes and challenges of the regional and urban development, smart city management and touristic development in dialogue with leading international academic experts and practitioners.

Target Audience:

The Summer School has been tailored to upper-year undergraduates, graduate students, PhD students and professionals from all over the world with an interest in different aspects of urban and regional development, smart city management and tourism. We encourage the participation of students in other applied fields who want to improve their knowledge in the field as well.

Organization:

There are three courses in this Summer School on “FROM SMART TO INTELLIGENT CITIES

1. Concepts, Methods, Policy Framework
2. Concepts, Methods, Digital Transformation
3. Concepts, Methods, Tourism Development

Important dates:

• Registration open: January 15, 2018
• "Early bird" application deadline: February 28, 2018
• "Regular" application deadline: April 30, 2018
• Notification of Acceptance: May 7, 2018
• Payment deadline: May 28, 2018

We would be grateful if you could share the announcement within your network and forward the information below on to anyone who you feel may be interested in attending the EFST Summer school.

To apply or for further details go to our website: http://summer.efst.hr/

If you have any questions, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We look forward to your submission and welcome to a beautiful Split in June 2018!

Best regards,

Vinko Muštra
Chair person of the Programme committee

Marina Tudor
Programme coordinator

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

To end this year, we are announcing two call for papers (attached):

1) The NECTAR Cluster 2 (Social and Health Issues) is organizing an international workshop in Utrecht (Netherlands), in June 6-8, 2018. Deadline for receiving abstracts:  January 31, 2018.

2) The NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) is organizing a workshop in Lyon (France), in June 18-20, 2018. Deadline for receiving abstracts:  February 15, 2018.

We wish you happy holidays!

--

Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary

Dear Colleagues,
the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of Sapienza University of Rome (DISSE) and the Department of Political Science of University Roma Tre (DISCIPOL) and the Regional Science Association of Italy (AISRE) organize the first international conference: “Challenges in Evaluating Regional and Urban Policy”, CERUP 2018.
The conference will be hosted by the Sapienza Conference Centre, on 8-9 March 2018.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

GIUSEPPE ARBIA, Professor of Economic Statistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
MARTIN HUBER, Professor of Applied Econometrics, University of Fribourg

SUBMISSION

Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcomed on the following main topics: counterfactual evaluation methods, spatial econometric methods for impact evaluation, policies for urban and regional economic growth, policies for economic and social resilience.

We encourage scholars to submit a paper (a complete draft, preliminary paper)  about their original research by January 11st, 2018 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in order to present in a paper session.

Only for poster presentation, an abstract (maximum 600 words) must be submitted for review by January 11st, 2018 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The abstract should be submitted as a word document and should include the title, the authors and describe: background, aim of the research, methodology, results, relevance to the conference theme.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 8th.

Further information will be made available on the CERUP2018’s website:
https://sites.google.com/view/cerup2018

Kind regards,
Guido Pellegrini and Marusca De Castris

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Estimados compañeros:

Os recordamos que el “Call for Experiences” de las XIV Jornadas sobre Docencia de Economía Aplicada finaliza el 12 de enero de 2018.

Se invita a todos los profesores a que envíen trabajos en los que expliquen los métodos innovadores que han aplicado a su labor docente en las diferentes materias que integran el área de Economía Aplicada así como los Trabajos Fin de Grado (en formato poster) defendidos en los últimos dos cursos y con una calificación igual o superior a 8.

El envío habrá de realizarse a la dirección de correo electrónico This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; en el archivo habrá de constar título del trabajo y nombre, filiación y dirección de correo electrónico del autor o coautores (y del director/tutor en el caso de los TFGs). Los trabajos estarán sujetos a un proceso de evaluación y selección por parte del Comité Científico. La notificación de los trabajos aceptados tendrá lugar el 29 de enero de 2018 y las Jornadas se celebrarán el viernes 9 de febrero.

Se concederá un Premio a la mejor comunicación en cada una de las dos categorías de trabajos considerados: a) Ponencia, efectivamente presentada, sobre experiencia docente innovadora y b) TFG en formato póster. El primero de los premios estará dotado con 300 euros y el segundo con 200 euros. Asimismo, podrán concederse hasta dos Accésit, sin dotación económica, a los trabajos que queden en segundo lugar.  

En la web de la Asociación (www.alde.es) está disponible el programa así como otra información relevante como boletín de inscripción, cuotas, procedimiento para el envío de experiencias docentes y fechas de interés.

Esperamos contar contigo en las XIII Jornadas sobre Docencia de Economía Aplicada.

Un saludo afectuoso

ALdE

Dear colleague:

We have just published a new issue of the journal Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research (Issue Nº 39). It is now available both on line and print version.

The journal is Scimago JRC (Scopus) and indexed in other scientific and academic international databases (Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI), EBSCO, ProQuest, EconLit, RePec, DOAJ, Redalyc, Latindex, …).

This is the contents:

Title: ‘Clusters, Industrial Districts and Strategy’

Introduction:

• Clusters, Industrial Districts and Strategy - Francisco Puig, Miguel González-Loureiro

Articles:

• Inter-Organizational Relationships, Knowledge Strategy and Innovation in Clusters of Cultural Tourism - Dioni Elche, Ángela Martínez-Pérez, Pedro M. García-Villaverde
• Disruptive Technological Innovations as New Opportunities for Mature Industrial Clusters. The Case of Digital Printing Innovation in the Spanish Ceramic Tile Cluster - Francesc Xavier Molina-Morales, Luís Martínez-Cháfer, David Valiente-Bordanova
• The Role of Institutional and Territorial Factors in Innovation: the Case of the Spanish Footwear Components Industry - Ángel Belzunegui Eraso, Miguel Ángel Miralles Amorós, M.ª Teresa Pastor Gosálbez
• Economic Competitiveness: Effects of Clustering, Innovation Strategy and the Moderating Role of Location in the Colombian Hotel Industry - Orietha E. Rodríguez-Victoria, Miguel González-Loureiro, Francisco Puig
• Location Decisions and Agglomeration Economies: Domestic and Foreign Companies -
• From Delocalisation to Backshoring? Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts - Marco Bettiol, Chiara Burlina, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria
• Strategic Responses to Environmental Turbulence: A Study of Four Brazilian Exporting Clusters - Angela da Rocha, Beatriz Kury, Rodrigo Tomassini, Luciana Velloso
• Clusters’ Vital Role in Promoting International Competitive Advantage - Towards an Explanatory Model of Regional Growth - Aihie Osarenkhoe, Daniella Fjellström
• Intra-Cluster Cooperation Enhancing SMEs’ Competitiveness - The Role of Cluster Organisations in Poland - Barbara Jankowska, Marta Götz, Cezary Główka

The Journal has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming submissions from fields such as Economics, Geography, Sociology, Land Planning and Political Science, whose scientific focus, originality and added value contribute to the dissemination of new ideas and methodological approaches, strengthening and improving the quality of the publication, via its This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

To contact us and/or to submit manuscripts:

            Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

            Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Yours sincerely,

Journal of Regional Research - Investigaciones Regionales 

International Conference
The Economy as a Spatial Complex System (ESCoS 2018) – II CICSE Workshop
June 21-22 2018, Naples (Italy)

The University of Naples “Federico II” in partnership with CICSE and ISSM-CNR is organizing the International Conference “The Economy as a Spatial Complex System” (ESCoS) to be held in Naples (Italy), June 21-22, 2018.

Aim of the Conference: The objective of ESCoS 2018 (http://conference-escos.com/) is to bring together economists, regional scientists, mathematicians, econometricians, statisticians and social scientists (sociologists, political scientists), who share the view that the economy is a complex system with a spatial dimension, to present and discuss their recent work which may have a theoretical or an empirical perspective or aim to develop advanced mathematical, computational or empirical methods for analysing complex systems (nonlinear dynamics, social network analysis, game theoretical models, agent based models). A combination of invited and submitted papers will be chosen for the final programme.

Conference Topics: We welcome submissions in a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited, to: Multiregional New Economic Geography models; Regional policies and regional inequalities; Trade agreements and their impact on the economy; Regional development and growth; Spatial econometrics methods; Location choices and factor mobility; Social and industrial interactions; Financial networks; Labour markets and migration; Mathematical and computational methods for the analysis of Complex Spatial Economic Systems.

Keynote speakers:

➢ Kristian Behrens (University of Québec at Montréal);

➢ Maria Durban (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Key deadlines

➢ Abstracts Submission (between 300-400 words): January 31st;

➢ Notification of Acceptance: February 15th;

➢ Registration: February 15 th - April 30th;

➢ Papers Submission: May 30th.

Please submit your abstract and paper to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Publishing opportunities A selection of papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Spatial Economic Analysis and of Metroeconomica. Papers that will be published in both special issues will meet Journals’ standards, and will be refereed and go through the Journals’ usual review process.

Scientific Committee

Gian Italo Bischi, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; Spiros Bougheas, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Salvatore Capasso, CNR-Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Society, Italy; Pasquale Commendatore, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; Laura Gardini, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; Alan Kirman, University of Aix-Marseille, France; Michael Kopel, University of Graz, Austria; Ingrid Kubin, Vienna; University of Economics and Business, Austria; Tönu Puu, Umeå University, Sweden; Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa, Italy; Luis Miguel Varela, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

We would appreciate it if you circulate this Call for Papers on to other colleagues.

Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; For more information: http://conference-escos.com/