19th APDR Workshop - International Workshop
Resilient territories: innovation and creativity for new modes of regional development
Venue: Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve, Faro, PORTUGAL
Date: 29th November 2013
Background
In a context of economic turbulence, resilient territories gained relevance for academics, planners and decision makers. Resilience can be understood as a non-equilibrium characteristic that facilitates a socio-economic system to recover from a negative impact by re-entering a former trajectory or by adapting a new trajectory that successfully deals with the external pressures. Resilience is also connected but not fully integrated in literature with more stabilized notions, such as innovation and creativity. The International Workshop in “Resilient territories”, co-organized by APDR - Portuguese Association for Regional Development and CIEO – Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics of the University of Algarve, invites senior and early stage researchers, but also practioners, working in the following topics, to debate the research and policy-making agenda, in a transdisciplinary perspective, for this particular field of innovation studies and regional science.
Topics
- Theoretical contributions towards the integration of resilience, innovation, creativity and/or other relevant regional science branches
- Empirical studies focusing the conditions for resilient territories
- Smart specialization connections with creativity and innovation
- Impacts of talent and human capital in regional development
- Articulation of related variety and resilience
- Different forms of cosmopolitanism in innovation, creativity and resilience
- Clustering dynamics, and resilience
- Maritime economy and niches of excellence
- Comparative studies on institutional factors that shape resilience
- RIS3 instruments focused in innovation and creativity
- Policies implemented in resilient territories
Expected contributions of the conference
The conference intends to contribute for the definition and advancing of the scientific agenda in the topics of resilience, innovation and regional creativity. The conference is also focused in informing policy and decision-makers, in different levels of action, about the advancements of conceptualization in these domains. This may have relevant impacts in the process of planning, designing new policy measures and instruments, specifically for the implementation of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS 3), that can help the construction of more resilient territories in Europe.
This workshop also integrates a focus group discussion about “Human Capital and Related Variety in the Maritime Economy” developed by HARVEST Atlantic – Harnessing all resources valuable to economies of seaside territories on the Atlantic, project co-financed by the European cooperation program INTERREG Atlantic Area, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission: October 5, 2013
Results of the review process: October 19, 2013
Paper Submission: November 1, 2013
Registration with Reduced Price: November 1, 2013
For more information follow: http://www.apdr.pt/evento_19/