No dia 14 de Janeiro de 2014, terá lugar na Universidade de Aveiro, Sala de Atos da Reitoria, entre as 9:00 e as 18:30, o seminário internacional “Governance, Science and Innovation in Development Policies”, organizado no âmbito do projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”.

O seminário será estruturado em torno de dois temas principais: “Leadership for Governance: Much Ado about Nothing?”, a ser debatido durante a manhã, e “Science, Development Policy and the Stubborn Reality!”, que constituirá o motivo de debate durante a tarde. A estimular e apoiar os debates estarão os oradores Gerry Stoker, Colin Copus, Giovanni Allegretti e Luís de Sousa no primeiro tema, e Bjørn Asheim, Louise Kempton, John Edwards, e Paulo Pinho no segundo. Poderá consultar mais informações sobre o evento no programa que enviamos em anexo.

O seminário, de inscrição gratuita, terá um número limitado de participantes. Teríamos muito gosto em poder contar com a sua presença. Ficaríamos gratos se confirmasse a sua participação para um dos seguintes e-mails: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ou This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Para qualquer informação adicional, não hesite em contactar.

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Saudações cordiais,

A Coordenação da Equipa do Projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”

Artur de Rosa Pires

Filipe Teles

Flyer in English (PDF)

Speakers (PDF)

'Call for Papers' for the 2014 IIOA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (15-18th July 2014). (See the Call document attached!)

Our Conference Paper Submission System (COPASS) is open to receive your abstracts (and full papers). Goto: https://copass.iioa.org, login, and click the link "22nd IIOA Conference in Lisbon".

We are looking forward to your participation!

Check out latest news, important dates, accommodation hints, and how to contact us on the conference web-page: http://www.iioa.org/conferences/22nd/

2014 International Conference on E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Development [ECED2014] aims to bring together researchers, engineers and students from around the world in both fields about E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Devel opment for information sharing and cooperation. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ECED2014.

Thesis topics

1. a) Business And Social Applications;
2. b) Communication And Network Security;
3. c) E- Business And Extended Issues In E -Business;
4. d) Innovation Management and International Finance.

Note: Not limited to the above issues. The authors according to the above issues can personally giving their comments and opinions

The paper language: English    

Index： EI and ISTP

Paper format

1. a) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.
2. b) Each paper should be at 3 pages
3. c) Finally leave our E-mail convenient we contact you.

Paper submission Due: March 08, 2014

Conference Date: June 7-8,2014 

Conference Location: Hong Kong, China

The official website: http://www.eced2014.com

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

ECED2014 ORGANIZER COMMITTEE

Dear colleagues!

The Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part on 3-4 April, 2014 at the scientific and practical conference for students, post-graduate students and young researches «Region-2014: human-geographical aspects» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «Journal of human geography». The call for papers is placed in the attached file.

http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/ – the link to the web-site of our journal. The journal is included in the list of Ukraine’s scientific professional publications (according to the Certified Staff Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine), which results of theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (geographical sciences) may be published.

In 2013 the monograph “Spatial Analysis in Human Geography: New Approaches, Methods, Models. Monograph / K.A. Nemets. – Kharkiv: KhNU, 2013. – 225 p.” by K.A. Nemets, L.M. Nemets was published. («Просторовий аналіз у суспільній географії: нові підходи, методи, моделі»)

In the attached file the content and the summary of the monograph are placed.

Also I suggest to look through the research interests of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies. The department deals with such issues: evaluation of natural resource, tourist resource potential and environmental management, demographic studies, investigations of the employment potential, analysis of the social infrastructure, social development, social safety of territories, studies of business environment, small and average entrepreneurship, studies of foreign economic connections of border and cross-border territories, territorial organization of the agricultural complex, training of specialties (masters) in recreation and excursion activity. Methodic of the study of the territorial planning, and monitoring model of the city's social and economic development have been worked out by the researchers of the department. If some of these fields of research are intersected with yours we would be glad to collaborate.

If you have any questions, please, write to my e-mail (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.) or listed below:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (the e-mail for questions on articles in «Journal of HUMAN geography»)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.(E-mail for submission papers at the conference «Region-2013: Human- geographical Aspects»

The e-mail of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine):

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

The web-site of the department:

http://soc-econom-region.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php?lang=en

We are waiting for your publications and look forward to working!

Sincerely, Pavel Kobylin.

With the support of Gulbenkian Foundation, and with the aim to create a Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org) Section in Armenia, took place on the 6th of December 2013, at Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (www.ysuac.am ) a Regional Science Workshop on Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability. There were seven speakers and thirty participants. The remaining of the support will be spent in a Conference by Peter Nijkamp on March 2014 and on support to Armenian scientists in the European Regional Science Association Conference that will take place on August 2014 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Only 6 DAYS left to submit the abstract.

List of tracks and online abstract submission are available here.

Dear Colleagues:

You still have time to join us in Bail, Indonesia at the 2014 international industrial engineering and operations management (IEOM) conference on January 7-9 and meet people from more than 60 counties including distinguished global engineering education speakers. IEOM 2014 conference program is attached.

If you are interested, you can register onsite at Grand Hyatt Bali. The early registration will open on Monday, January 6 from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Grand Ballroom Foyer area. The regular registration fee includes: conference technical sessions, keynote presentations, global engineering education sessions, welcome reception, conference award dinner and cultural program, box lunches (Tuesday and Wednesday), coffee breaks, conference program booklet, conference CDROM proceedings and conference bag.

You will see a great added value conference. Your participation of IEOM 2014 Bali Conference is highly appreciated.

IEOM Forum wishes you a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

Thanks

Ahad
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Ahad Ali, Ph.D.
Conference Chair, IEOM 2014
www.iieom.org

The Universidad Católica del Norte (www.ucn.cl), Department of Economics is recruiting two associate professors for researching and teaching activities.

We invite to apply Doctors and PhD in Economics and Geography. We will specially value the knowledge in the fields of regional economics, economic geography, urban economics, natural resources economics and economic development. The position requires a medium level of Spanish language. The applicant must 1) contribute to graduate-level teaching; 2) teach undergraduate courses; 3) ability to develop and maintain an externally funded research program; 4) ability to contribute to the department’s interdisciplinary mission.

It is expected that the candidate will be available to start working preferably in March, 1st 2014.

Required qualifications: 1) a full curriculum vita, 2) a doctoral degree closely related to the fields above describe at the time of appointment, 3) letter of application describing research and teaching interests, 4) samples of writing or publications and 5) the names and contact details of two referees plus the recommendation letter

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

Any question about the application process must be sent to Dusan Paredes, Tel. 56 55 2355746, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   

Geography of Growth. The Frequency, Nature and Consequences of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Regions of Varying Density

June 12-14, 2014

Venue: Hotel Bohusgården, Uddevalla, Sweden

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 20^th, 2014

Keynote Speakers

The theme of the Uddevalla Symposium
It is often argued that a key to understand the geography of growth is to understand the geography of entrepreneurship and innovation. The economic dynamism and change-processes induced by entrepreneurship and innovation behaviour in the Schumpeterian sense are indeed put forth as important drivers of long-term growth and well-being of regions. At the same time it is increasingly recognized that there is considerable spatial heterogeneity in terms of the frequency, nature and consequences of these processes. In some regions, processes of entrepreneurship and innovation thrive over long periods of time, whereas other regions persistently show modest levels of innovation dynamics and firm dynamics. Similarly, recent research points to that the effect of entrepreneurship and innovation differs substantially across different types of regions. We still know very little about the sources of these kinds of spatial heterogeneities. For example: what are the sources of persistent regional variations in entrepreneurship and innovation activity? What explains spatial variations in the effects of entrepreneurship and innovation activities? To what extent are they for example due to that the nature of these activities is different in different regions?

The aim of the 17^th Uddevalla Symposium is to gather high-quality contributions that bring new theoretical and/or new empirical knowledge of these issues. A key theme of the symposium is how and why the frequency, nature and consequences of entrepreneurship and innovation vary across different types of regions, in particular across regions of varying density. Improved knowledge of these questions is crucial for our understanding of the overall geography of growth. 

We invite theoretical and empirical research papers across a range of disciplines and fields to contribute to the symposium. A non-exhaustive list of examples of topics of includes:

• Economic density and the rates and types of new firm formation
• Geographies of innovating firms and their innovation strategies
• Innovation radicalness and its links to regional resources
• Spatial sorting of innovative firms and employees
• Path creation and economic renewal
• Local institutions, social capital and new firm formation
• Industry structures and functional specializations as determinants of local entrepreneurship and innovation propensities
• The process of innovation, including its relevant inputs and measurable outcomes, in firms and/or industries across regions of varying density
• The role of local industrial heritage and culture on current innovation behaviour
• Opportunity- and necessity-based entrepreneurship in different local contexts

We welcome the submission of papers to the overall theme of the symposium or to one of the special sessions below. Please visit www.symposium.hv.se for further information about the special sessions.

                I.          Geography of Growth. The Frequency, Nature and Consequences of Entrepreneurship

and Innovation in Regions of Varying Density (overall theme)

               II.          Firm Level Studies on R&D, Innovation and Productivity Across Countries

Chair: Prof. Hans Lööf, CESIS, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

             III.          IP-based Entrepreneurship

Chair: Prof. Helen Lawton-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

             IV.          The Role of Policy in Geographies of Entrepreneurship

Chair: Prof. Helen Lawton-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

              V.          Destination and Regional Development with Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Marifus)

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Yvonne von Friedrichs, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

             VI.          Place Management as a Key to Regional Transformation and Growth

Chairs: Dr. Ulrika Lundh Snis, MsSc. Tomas Lindroth & Director Place Management Christer Asplund, University West, Trollhättan Sweden

           VII.          Mechanism of Innovation - Collective Regional Assets, Market and Social in Regions or Cities

Chairs: Prof.  Tomomichi Yoshikawa, Waseda University & Phd. Cand.  Kazuhito Yamada, Hosei Graduate School of Regional Policy Design, Tokyo, Japan

          VIII.          Technology and Networks

Chairs: Prof. Håhan Ylinenpää and Prof. Joakim Wincent, Center for Interorganisational Innovation Research (CiiR), Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

             IX.          Obstacles and Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Growth in Cross-border Regions

Chair: Dr. Urban Gråsjö, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

              X.          The Regional Balance in a Changing Environment

Chairs: Dr. Nils Karl Sørensen & Prof. Andreas P. Cornett, University of Southern Denmark, Sönderborg, Denmark

             XI.          Geographical Dynamics in Innovation and Production Networks and Regional Development

Chair: Dr. Ben Vermeulen, University of Hohenheim, Germany

           XII.          The Geography of Innovation and Growth

Chairs: Assoc. Prof. Johan Klaesson, Dr. Sara Johansson, Prof. Börje Johansson, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden & Prof. Frank van Oort, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

          XIII.          Exploring Time-Geography

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Per Assmo, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

         XIV.          Creative Class/Creative Economy

Chair: Dr. Kevin Stolarik, Research Director, The Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, Canada

           XV.          Technology in Higher Education: From Open Resources to Global Learning (LINA)

Chair: Prof. Lars Svensson, Research Director, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

         XVI.          University Spin-offs and their Regional Economic Effects

Chair: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg, University of Hannover, Germany

        XVII.          Transportation Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development

Chairs: Assoc.  Prof. Kakuya Matsushima, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Urban Management, Japan & Prof. William (Bill) Anderson, University of Windsor, Cross-Border Institute, Canada.

      XVIII.          Local Density Conditions for Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Start-up, Strategy and Success

Chair: Prof. Dr. Veronique Schutjens, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

         XIX.          The role of Innovations in Regions of Varying Density

Chairs: Prof. Martin Andersson and Prof. Ron Boschma, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden

           XX.          Cluster Dynamics and Entrepreneurship

Chairs: Prof. Kingsley. E. Haynes, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA

Objectives and publications
Following the tradition established by the previous symposia, starting in 1998, the symposium is designed to bring together leading-edge views of senior academic scholars and mix them with the critical and creative views of post-docs and PhD students engaged in their thesis work. We welcome researchers from various fields, such as economic geography, entrepreneurship, international business, management, political science, regional economics, small business economics, sociology and urban and regional planning.

The objectives of the seventeenth Uddevalla Symposium 2014 are: i) to provide a unique opportunity for scholars including senior and junior researchers to discuss path-breaking concepts, ideas, frameworks and theories in plenary key-note sessions and parallel competitive paper sessions, and ii) to facilitate the development and synthesis of important contributions into cohesive and integrated collections for potential publication. Therefore, unpublished complete papers are invited for presentation and feedback from other scholars. Leading-edge contributions from the previous symposia have appeared in special issues of prestigious journals and eleven edited book volumes. For a selected list of publications of previous symposia, please see http://www.symposium.hv.se/en/publications.This symposium will follow the same practice. In addition to an Uddevalla Symposium Proceeding, we are considering to publish either a special issue and/or a book volume consisting of a selection of papers presented and at the symposium.

Submission information

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 20^th, 2014

Abstract – maximum 500 words including:
Title of the abstract/paper, selected theme (choose from the list above numbered from I to XIX.), keywords, Name(s) and academic title of the author(s), Affiliation(s), complete mail address(es), E-mail address(es) and corresponding author send by e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Submit the abstract using the Word 2010 version of Microsoft. We suggest naming your file “PRESENTERS NAME_Uddevalla2014.docx” to avoid confusion between abstracts.

Results of the review process will be communicated to authors by approximately
February 20^th, 2014

Submission Deadline for Complete Papers accepted for presentation (in Word 2010 or earlier version):
May 5^th, 2014

Best paper awards
To stimulate high quality papers a Best Paper Award of € 1.000 as well as a Best PhD Candidate Paper Award of € 700 will be awarded. The members of the scientific committee will select the winning papers. Only papers submitted before the deadline will be evaluated.

Scientific Committee
Prof. Martin Andersson, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Assoc. Prof. Per Assmo, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. David Audretsch, University of Indiana, Institute for Development Strategies, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Paul Cheshire, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dr. Rolf Dahlberg, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Börje Johansson, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Charlie Karlsson, Chair, Jönköping International Business School & University West, Sweden This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Assoc. Prof. Johan Klaesson, CEnSE, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Prof. Helen Lawton Smith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Hans Lööf, CESIS, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Mark Partridge, AED Economics, Ohio State University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Roger R. Stough, George Mason University, USA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Lars Svensson, LINA, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Håkan Ylinenpää, CiiR, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Organisation Committee

Ms. Iréne Bernhard, MSc & Tech.lic., Symposium Coordinator, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Rolf Dahlberg, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Urban Gråsjö, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Elisabeth Jansson, University West, Sweden This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Charlie Karlsson, Chair, Jönköping International Business School & University West, Sweden. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ms. Rebecca Olsson, Symposium Assistant Coordinator, University West, Sweden, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Co-financers and sponsors
Center for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE), Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

Center for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden

Center for Interorganisational Innovation Research (CiiR), Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Center of Excellence for Science and Innovations Studies (CESIS), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm & Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

Fyrbodals Kommunalförbund, Sweden

George Mason University, School of Public Policy, Fairfax, VA, USA

Interreg Sweden-Norway & Interreg IV A Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerack

Municipality of Uddevalla, Sweden

University West, Trollhättan, Sweden

Further information about the symposium can be found at the symposium website www.symposium.hv.se

I have the pleasure to announce that the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, entitled Mapping Economies in Transformation, will take place in Oxford on 19-22 August 2015. Building on the success of previous global conferences held in Singapore, Beijing and Seoul, the Conference is expected to attract hundreds of scholars with the objective to foster interdisciplinary worldwide dialogue on the state of the art and the future agenda of economic geography. Key themes of the conference will include: consumption, digital, emerging, financial, innovation, labour, political, environmental, regional, social, and urban economies, as well as epistemologies for understanding the world in transformation.

The conference website with further information will be launched in March 2014. I hope to see you in Oxford on 19-22 August 2015. Please, put these dates in your diary.

Dr Dariusz Wójcik

School of Geography and the Environment

and St. Peter's College Oxford