New deadline: December 20^th,2013

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) invites regional scientists, policy makers and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 10^th World Congress. The Congress will be hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Bangkok. It will be held at the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, May 26-30, 2014 on the theme of Socioeconomic Integration and Transformation: Reshaping Local, Regional, and Global Spaces.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. Henk Folmer University of Groningen, The Netherlands	Dr. Chadchart Sittipunt Thailand Minister of Transport	Prof. Henry Yeung National University of Singapore
Others to be announced

The Congress will feature several world-renowned keynote speakers on cutting-edge urban and regional science and policy issues, expert panels, research presentations and posters. It will be attended by 500 delegates from the worldwide community of regional scientists.

Research topics related to the theme of the congress are particularly welcome, but the conference will be open to other topics within the broader contours of the regional science, urban and regional studies, geographical sciences and planning, and development.

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (new deadline - December 20^th, 2013). The abstract submission portal is open, along with the congress registration system. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at http://www.2014worldcongress.regionalscience.org.

Delegates can already register for workshops and tutorials.

Workshops and Tutorials

Workshop 1:Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Modeling(Full day)
Workshop Facilitator – Yuri Mansury, PhD (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Workshop 2:Exploratory Spatial Pattern Analysis: Revealing or Deceiving (Half-day/Afternoon)
Workshop Facilitator – David W. Wong, PhD (University of Hong Kong/George Mason University, USA)

Workshop 3:  Introduction to IMPLAN (Half-day/Morning)
Workshop Facilitator – Jenny Thorvaldson, PhD (IMPLAN Group LLC, Huntersville, North Carolina, USA)

Workshop 4:Land Use and Climate Change(Half-day/Afternoon)
Workshop Facilitator – B.Majumder, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Workshop 5:Design flood estimation under climate change(Half-day/Morning)
Workshop Facilitator – Samiran Das, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)

Publication opportunities will be available for papers accepted by the Program Committee. We plan to edits volume in the new book series published by Springer on New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. All manuscript submitted for possible publication in this series will be subjected to the customary peer-review process. Also, a select number of manuscripts will be invited for publication in the international RSAI Journals Papers in Regional Science andRegional Science Policy and Practice.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Bangkok in May 2014.

Jean-Claude Thill, RSAI President

Tomaz Dentinho, RSAI Executive Director

Call for Papers – Family Business and Regional Development

Guest Editors

Rodrigo Basco (Witten/Herdecke University)
Joern Block (Universität Trier and Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Roger Stough (George Mason University)

Friederike Welter (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn and University of Siegen)

Karl Wennberg (Stockholm School of Economics)

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Guest editors of Journal of Family Business Strategy, I would like to ask you if there is any possibility to help us to promote and disseminate the cal for papers entitled “Family Business and Regional Development”. The aim of this special issue is to examine the role of family firms in regional economic environments and to enhance our understanding of the ways family firms may (or may not) contribute to regional economic growth and development.

This special issue will consider qualitative and quantitative empirical studies, case studies, and more theoretical and conceptual research contributions. The cross-disciplinary nature of current research on family firms suggests that a new understanding of the role family firms play in regional economic development will likely come from a melding of theory and research across fields like regional economics, regional studies, entrepreneurship, geography, business, management, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Please note that the submission deadline is September 15^th, 2014. More information and  instructions for submission can be found here: Call for Papers. For questions regarding submissions or the content of this Special Issue, authors are welcome to write to one of the guest editors: Mr. Rodrigo Basco (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Mr. Joern Block (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or Mr. Karl Wennberg (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). For general questions or inquiries about JFBS, please contact Torsten Pieper, the Assistant Editor, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Rodrigo Basco, Ph.D.

In this issue:

Original Paper

The Gini coefficient of inequality: a new interpretation

Peter A. Rogerson

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Original Paper

Human capital, knowledge spillovers, and one kind of semi-endogenous regional economic growth

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal & Hamid Beladi

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Original Paper

The roles of location and education in the distribution of economic well-being in Indonesia: hierarchical and non-hierarchical inequality decomposition analyses

Takahiro Akita & Sachiko Miyata

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Original Paper

The role of an intermediate market within the barbell model

Wen-Chung Guo & Fu-Chuan Lai

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Original Paper

Three-dimensional spatial correlation

Taro Takahashi , Takeshi Sato , Hideo Aizaki , Na Guo , Yasuhiro Nakashima , Shigeo Ogawa , Nanae Yamada & Xiaoyun Zheng

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60^th Birthday of Regional Science Association International, Atlanta 2013

Douglas Woodward, Jean Claude Thill, David Boyce and Neil Reid

Peter Nijkamp, Free University of Amsterdam, In memory of Piet Rietveld.

2013 new RSAI Fellow, James LeSage and Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Kyoto University, JAPAN

2013 new RSAI Fellow, James LeSage and Roberta Capello, Polytechnic Milano, ITALY

2013 new RSAI Fellow, James LeSage and Jean Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Official lunch of the North American Regional Science Conference, Atlanta 2013

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

Apologize for any cross-posting!

We're excited to announce the launch of the Call for Papers for the 17th Uddevalla Symposium 2014 on:
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, which means that we are going back to the “place of birth” for the Uddevalla Symposia.  In June 1998 we held our first meeting there even if the hotel now has expanded, it is situated at the same place.

Please see www.symposium.hv.se for a complete Call For Papers including information e.g. regarding abstract submission, Keynote speakers, information regarding the special sessions, and co-financers, thanks.

You are invited to submit an abstract (deadline January 20^th, 2014) on the overall theme articulated at the CFP www.symposium.hv.se  or to one of the following special sub-themes:

 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: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:Prof. Kakuya Matsushima, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Urban Management, Japan & Prof. William (Bill) Anderson, Windsor University, Canada (TBC).

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

Kind regards,

Irene Bernhard

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing the next INFER Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics. The workshop is part of the scientific activities supported by the CREIP research centre (www.urv.cat/creip) and will take place in Reus, at the Faculty of Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University in September 2014 (4th and 5th). 

Topics:

-Agglomeration economies

-Location of economic activities

-Migration

-Firm entry, exit and survival

-Housing

-Environmental and sustainable development

-Spatial econometrics

Submission:

To submit a paper to the workshop, please send a complete version in pdf format to the email address "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." with the subject "Submission to the INFER Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics". The deadline is May 15th 2014. The front page of the document should include the title, authors, affiliations, contact details, and a short abstract. Notification of acceptance/rejection should be received by June 16th 2014. 

Registration:

The registration fee for presenting and non-presenting participants is 100 euros for INFER members and 160 euros for other participants. The registration fee includes all lunches, conference refreshments and the conference dinner (September 4th). It does not include travel or accommodation costs. Participants are expected to arrange their own accommodation (at the Call for Papers there is some information about hotels in Reus). The deadline for registration and payment is July 10th 2014. 

Call for Papers INFER Workshop Reus.pdf

Kind regards,

Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod & Miguel Manjón-Antolín

Universitat Rovira i Virgili & CREIPP

The House of Sweden in Washington DC will be hosting a two day conference on The Economics of the Ocean.

Can't attend the event in Washington DC? Check out the live-stream of the event hosted by OpenChannels, Duke University, the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and the Swedish Ministry of the Environment.

Agenda: There is a growing demand for decision-makers to better understand and manage human dependence on healthy ocean ecosystems and biodiversity. This meeting aims to raise awareness of these issues among decision makers and opinion leaders. Find the full agenda with times and speakers here.

When: December 3-4, 2013
Where: House of Sweden - 2900 K St NW Washington DC 20007 or  http://openchannels.org/economics-oceans-conference for the live-stream
Who: Keynote speakers include:

• Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, US State Department
• Rear Admiral Jonathan White, Oceanographer of the Navy, U.S. Navy
• Juergen Voegele, Global Ocean Partnership, the World Bank
• Claes Berglund, Stena
• Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
• Mikael Karlsson, President European Environmental Bureau

Register at  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-the-economics-of-the-ocean-tickets-8952181215

Dear ERSA Members,

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Igor Gorlinskii (St Petersburg State University) and Professor Gleb Fetissov (SOPS) as co-chairs of ERSA 2014 Local Organising Committee are proud and happy to invite the International Regional Science Community to St Petersburg.  

The Congress will be dedicated to the memory of Academician Alexander Granberg.

We're excited to announce the launch of the

• Call for abstracts / papers is NOW OPEN 
• Call for Special Session proposals  

Don't miss this chance to be part of next year's regional science momentum! 

www.ersastpetersburg2014.org

Best regards

Richard Kelly
ERSA Executive Director
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Main Congress Features

The 2014 Congress will feature "benchmarking issues in regional policy and planning as well as Arctic issues in the regional development". 
The Local Organising Committee has also the ambition to "put forward European regional science on new intellectual territories". 
And also "promote further deeper integration Russian Regional Science and scholars into the family of European regional scholars".
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Call: Abstracts and Papers

We're excited to announce the launch of the CALL for abstracts / papers, to the ERSA Congress 2014 in St Petersburg .
The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and the papers all together at the same time.
For more details on the guidelines for the different types of Submissions,
please click 

HERE

 
Deadline: 28th February 2014

Call: Special Session proposals

The Local Organising Committee would like to give you the opportunity to make a proposal for a Special Session Topic.
You can choose one topic from the list of Special Session Topics or propose another topic. The Local Organising Committee is particularly interested in receiving proposals on:

    - Cooperation of the regions and cities

    - Best practices for regional and urban development

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Preliminary Programme Highlights

* The Local Organising committee is proud to announce the participation of Keynote Speakers including Susan Christopherson, Philip Cooke , Kevin Stolarick, Michael Storper and Natalya Zubarevich  

* This 2014 edition will once again benefit from the contribution of the  Urban Economics Association which will once again organise its Special Sessions at the ERSA Congress.

*Young Scientists sessions 2014

Are you an ambitious young scientist that wants a good platform to present ideas and results and looks forward to receive comments from the best scholars in Regional Science? Then you should submit your paper to the ERSA Epainos sessions!

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As you know the EIB-ERSA Prize in Regional Science has been created to recognise outstanding contributions of scholar to the advancement of science at the European level.

The European Investment Bank - Institute has increased its contribution for this prize, to 10,000 Euros for the winner, at this years' Congress.

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23rd SRA-Europe Conference
Analysis and Governance of Risks Beyond Boundaries
16-18 June 2014, Istanbul, TURKEY

Joint Special Symposium
of
Society for Risk Analysis Europe (SRA-E) and European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Resilience of Regions in the Face of Risks

Call for Papers

The term “resilience” is used in many disciplines with different meanings. Psychology and psychiatry focus upon the individual and their resilience during life course transition and events. In ecological systems, resilience is related to system functioning rather than the stability or otherwise of its component populations and maintenance or loss of steady states. Social resilience is the ability of communities to withstand external shocks to their social infrastructure. Engineering resilience focuses upon the vulnerability of physical structures to hazardous environments and natural disasters, forecasting the likelihood of catastrophic events and systemic breakdowns and their social and economic implications. In economics, resilience has been defined in terms of return to a fixed and narrowly defined equilibrium or, in the more liberal version, multiple equilibria.

Recently, attention has turned specifically to consider spatial and territorial aspects of resilience in local and regional development and planning. In the social sciences, more generally, the term of regional resilience has become popular because of its association with regional adaptation and so has strong connections with evolutionary economics and evolutionary economic geography.

This Joint Special Symposium of SRA-E and ERSA aims to bring together the members of these two networks who have common research interest. While the main interest of SRA-E is risk analysis including risk assessment, risk management, risk communication and policy related to risks, ERSA is interested in regional, urban and local development and related issues and spatial and territorial aspects of risks as well as the resilience of territories and regions. This Joint Special Symposium on ‘Resilience of Regions in the Face of Risks’ aims to provide a platform for discussion how resilience of regions can be improved in the face of risks from an interdisciplinary perspective. This Joint Special Symposium also aims to initiate a collaboration between the two networks that may lead to further joint activities in the future.

Specific topics of the Joint Special Symposium includes:
• Resilience of regions
• Emerging patterns of regional resilience
• Risks and regional economy
• Economic turbulence and resilience of regions
• Resilience, innovation and regional creativity
• Resilience and territorial risks
• Territorial risk management
• Policies implemented in resilient territories
• Innovation, global change and territorial resilience
• Spatial and territorial aspects of resilience in local and regional development
• Resilience of urban systems
• Resilient cities
• Resilience of social-ecological systems in rural areas
• Adaptation, adaptability and adaptive capacity
• Emerging risks and new management approaches
• Resilience analysis

We are pleased to invite you to contribute papers for this Joint Special Symposium which we will organize at the 23rd SRA-E Conference on 16-18 June 2014. The SRA-E Conference will take place in Istanbul (TURKEY) and will be a major international event. The papers of this Joint Special Symposium will be published as a Special Issue for a relevant journal in the field or will be collected in a volume.

Symposium Organizer:
Tüzin Baycan (Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY)
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Chair of SRA-E 2014 Istanbul
Seda Kundak (Assist.Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY)

Important Dates:
The deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014
For further updated information and details: www.srae2014.itu.edu.tr

SRA (Society for Risk Analysis) is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly, international society that provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) was founded in response to the need for an interdisciplinary society which would address emerging issues in risk analysis, management and policy. It operates world-wide with International Sections in North America, Europe and Japan. The Society for Risk Analysis - Europe aims to bring together individuals and organizations interested in risk assessment, risk management and risk communication in Europe.

For further information on SRA and SRA-E, use the link: http://www.sra.org and http://www.sraeurope.org
ERSA (European Regional Science Association) is the largest supraregional science association covered under the umbrella of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). The RSAI oversees three major superregional organisations in Europe, North America and the Pacific. The main objectives of the Association include fostering the exchange of ideas and the promotion of studies focused on regions, including the utilisation of tools, methods and theoretical frameworks specifically designed for regional analysis. It also examines the concepts, procedures and analytical techniques of various social and other sciences. As a field of the social sciences, regional science is concerned with analytical and empirical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural or regional.

For further information on ERSA, use the link: http://www.ersa.org