INTRODUCTIVE METHODS AND APPROACHES IN REGIONAL SCIENCE: Intensive program for PhD and postdoctoral students
6 - 8 October 2021 | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

The Centre for European Studies of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania will organise an intensive program for nurturing the future generation of researchers in regional science between 6-8 October. The event, supported by the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), will focus on sharing new methodological approaches in regional science methodology and on developing particular abilities and competences required for PhD and postdoctoral students. It will address foundations of qualitative and quantitative analysis and identify the best publishing strategies for young researchers. The main aim of the program is to develop a more informed and conscious use of diverse methodological techniques that can foster and enrich research in regional science and to ensure the enhancement of methodological skills and research competences of the future generation of researchers in regional science. The workshops will address a solid grounding in the concepts, practices, and procedures underlying research, as well as advanced skills for conceptualization, assessment, and analysis across cases and/or over time.

Applications submission period: 15 July - 5 September 2021
Eligibility: The workshops are designed for PhD students and postdoctoral students with less than 3 years of experience following their PhD defence from fields related to regional science (geography, economy, urban planning and other related fields). The event addresses participants from Europe with a particular focus, but not exclusively, to Romania, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Georgia and Turkey. The maximum number of participants accepted is 25 (maximum 5 per country).
The Intensive program has no participation fee. The organisers will cover for: • Lunch and coffee break throughout the event • Teaching materials • Accommodation for four nights in double rooms

More details https://cse.uaic.ro/en/nurturing.htm

“#EURegionsWeekUniversity – European stakeholder values regarding the Green Deal. Does space matter?” - 13WS21314, planned for 13/10/2021 from 11:30 to 13:00 CET.

https://eu.app.swapcard.com/event/eu-regions- week/planning/UGxhbm5pbmdfNjMxMzI3

The Green Deal is the new European growth strategy, involving sustainable investment and responsible projects to create new jobs, a cleaner environment and a better quality of life. Beyond regulatory policies and sustainable projects with the financial and technological means to implement them, the European Green Deal requires effective new strategies to encourage substantial behavioural changes, long-term commitments to trust and social acceptance, involving people, communities and organisations in all places.

The aim of this session is to analyse and understand the attitudes, values and choices of urban stakeholders regarding the characteristics of the places where they live and to grasp the subjectivity of human beings and individual engagement in relation to the Green Deal's ambitions. Data will come from urban stakeholders and indicators from Sustainable Goal 11 and from the selected European Green Deal cities. The session will discuss robust quantitative evidence and insights about attitudes, values and choices related to green growth and urban sustainability.

In terms of the Green Deal's challenges, the session will highlight key aspects of the following questions:

1. What are the knowledge, values and attitudes of urban stakeholders in Europe's cities?
2. What institutional, socio-economic, urban and environmental features explain the knowledge, values and attitudes of urban stakeholders?
3. What are the effects of urban stakeholders' environmental awareness and behaviour in cities' inclusiveness, safety, resilience and sustainability?

Dear RSAI members,

By RSAI Constitution, nominations for Councilors-at-large “shall be made by the Council after solicitation of suggestions from the members of the Association”. At the end of 2021, the position on the RSAI Council held by Prof. Maria Abreu (Cambridge University) will expire; we therefore inform that the proposals for a councilor-at-large can be sent to the address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. within September 30, 2021. Candidatures will have to include a professional CV and a photo.

The election of a councilor-at-large for the period 2022-2024 will take place electronically by RSAI members during the month of October 2021.

Best regards,

Andrea Caragliu

Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics

Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department

RSAI Executive Director

Nurturing new talent 2022

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 1093 | First Published: 25 August 2021

INTRODUCTION

Regional development in Latin America

Patricio Aroca, Carlos Azzoni

Pages: 1094-1095 | First Published: 25 August 2021

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Institutional fragmentation and metropolitan coordination in Latin American cities: Are there links with city productivity?

Juan C. Duque, Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Jorge E. Patino, Paula Restrepo Cadavid

Pages: 1096-1128 | First Published: 08 July 2020

The effect of a free trade agreement with the United States on member countries' per capita GDP: A synthetic control analysis

Esteban Colla-De-Robertis, Rafael Garduno Rivera

Pages: 1129-1145 | First Published: 02 February 2021

Regional economic growth and convergence: The role of institutions and spillover effects in Colombia

Juan Manuel Aristizábal, Gustavo A. García

Pages: 1146-1161 | First Published: 19 August 2020

Regional convergence, spatial scale, and spatial dependence: Evidence from homicides and personal injuries in Colombia 2010–2018

Felipe Santos-Marquez, Carlos Mendez

Pages: 1162-1184 | First Published: 28 September 2020

Market competition and firm productivity and innovation: Responses in Mexican manufacturing industries

Rut Atayde, Rafael Garduño, Eduardo Robles, Pluvia Zúñiga

Pages: 1185-1214 | First Published: 05 April 2021

Determinants of manufacturing micro firms' productivity in Ecuador. Do industry and canton where they operate matter?

Grace Carolina Guevara-Rosero

Pages: 1215-1248 | First Published: 02 February 2021

Spatial and non‐spatial proximity in university–industry collaboration: Mutual reinforcement and decreasing effects

Emerson Gomes Santos, Renato Garcia, Veneziano Araujo, Suelene Mascarini, Ariana Costa

Pages: 1249-1261 | First Published: 06 July 2020

Evaluating the effectiveness of ChileCompra's Entrepreneurship Centers policy

Sergio A. Contreras, Andrew J. Greenlee

Pages: 1262-1282 | First Published: 03 March 2021

Regional disparities in Mexico and the spatially cumulative effects of national development and economic cycles, 1940–2013

Alejandra Trejo Nieto

Pages: 1283-1296 | First Published: 04 July 2020

Regional development gaps in Argentina: A multidimensional approach to identify the location of policy priorities

Andrés Niembro, Jésica Sarmiento

Pages: 1297-1327 | First Published: 02 August 2020

Open Access

A multi‐scale approach to rural depopulation in Mexico

Liliana Castillo-Rivero, Philip McCann, Frans J. Sijtsma

Pages: 1328-1347 | First Published: 04 December 2020

Dimensions of local development in the Colombian Pacific Region

Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Inácio Fernandes de Araújo, Vinícius de Almeida Vale, Henry Duque Sandoval, Paola Andrea Garizado Roman, Lilian Andrea Carrillo Rodríguez, Elizabeth Aponte Jaramillo, Leidy Julieth Gruesso Lopez

Pages: 1348-1370 | First Published: 11 July 2021

Urban sprawl and the cost of providing local public services: Empirical evidence for Brazilian municipalities

Karina Simone Sass, Alexandre Alves Porsse

Pages: 1371-1387 | First Published: 15 September 2020

INVITED REVIEW

Does per capita income cause homicide rates? An application of an IV spatial model

Rogério Pereira, Tatiane Almeida de Menezes

Pages: 1388-1400 | First Published: 22 May 2020

BOOK REVIEW

Jones, Garett, 2020. 10% less democracy: Why you should trust elites a little more and the masses a little less. Stanford University press, Stanford, CA. US$22.91, Hb, 233 pp., ISBN 978–1–5,036‐0357‐8, DOI: 10.1515/9781503611214

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 1401-1402 | First Published: 31 May 2021

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 845-846 | First Published: 23 August 2021

FULL ARTICLES

A spatial regression methodology for exploring the role of regional connectivity in knowledge production: Evidence from Chinese regions

Yuxue Sheng, James LeSage

Pages: 847-874 | First Published: 08 March 2021

Estimation of regional input coefficients and output multipliers for the regions of Chile

Cristian Mardones, Darling Silva

Pages: 875-889 | First Published: 10 April 2021

Measuring fiscal interactions in local federalism: Evidence from Florida

Kevin Willardsen

Pages: 891-923 | First Published: 22 February 2021

Home Sweet Home: the Effect of Sugar Protectionism on Emigration in Italy, 1876‐1913

Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo, Daniela Vuri

Pages: 925-957 | First Published: 07 April 2021

Open Access

Social media adoption in Italian firms. Opportunities and challenges for lagging regions

Martina Aronica, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Davide Piacentino

Pages: 959-978 | First Published: 19 April 2021

Measuring insularity as a state of nature

Vania Licio, Anna Maria Pinna

Pages: 979-1004 | First Published: 27 January 2021

From hot to cold: A spatial analysis of self‐employment in the United States

Alejandro Almeida, Antonio Golpe, Raquel Justo

Pages: 1005-1023 | First Published: 03 February 2021

Open Access

Age cohort effects on unemployment in the USA: Evidence from the regional level

Carsten Ochsen

Pages: 1025-1053 | First Published: 11 February 2021

Quantile regression on the nonlinear relationship between land use and trip time

Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

Pages: 1055-1077 | First Published: 21 January 2021

Open Access

A machine learning approach to rural entrepreneurship

Mehmet Güney Celbiş

Pages: 1079-1104 | First Published: 22 January 2021

BOOK REVIEW

Survival of the city: Living and thriving in an age of isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, Penguin Press, 2021. 480 pages. $14.99 (Kindle). ISBN 0593297687

Andrea Caragliu

Pages: 1105-1110 | First Published: 07 June 2021

Dear Colleagues

I wish you are all safe and well.

Please submit your contribution to the workshop we are co-organizing devoted to the subject: 

Civic Universities, Ecosystems and Regional Development in Low-Industrial-Density Regions

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Submissions must be made by next September 17, 2021.

Please find also attached a CfP associated with this workshop, which will be organized in a hybrid format.

So we are welcoming your presentations that can be delivered through physical or virtual terms.

Yours faithfully

João Carlos Correia Leitão, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor with Habilitation 

University of Beira Interior  

Faculty of Human and Social Sciences

Department of Management and Economics

UBIExecutive, Business School 

Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal 

RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on:

Civic Universities, Ecosystems and Regional Development in Low-Industrial-Density Regions

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a highly significant role in developing their influence regions, due to its contribution both for intellectual and civic progress. HEIs have the responsibility to become deeply engaged with the societal challenges (Boyer, 2016), since they should be positioned as open institutions, with a proactive role in promoting a sustainable development of regions and people. From here, it results a need to better understand, and define the Civic Universities (CivUs), which play a significant role in fostering the regional development of Low-Industrial-Density Regions.

The idea of civic engagement of the Universities was originally described by Boyer (1996), in what he named as  scholarship of engagement, that is, a construct based on four pillars, namely: (I) the scholarship of discovery, pushing back the frontiers of human knowledge; (II) the scholarship of integration, creating more interdisciplinary conversations; (III) the scholarship of sharing knowledge, being a communal act; and (IV) the application of knowledge, moving from theory to practice back to theory.

In this line of reasoning, the CivUs should be deeply integrated in their communities. As such, CivUs should organize their teaching and researching activities, in order to train future citizens with the focus of entrepreneurship for societal innovation (Goddard and Vallance, 2011). CivUs have the potential for providing viable solutions for several societal problems, such as ageing, degenerative diseases, sustainability, smart mobility solutions, urban living, food security, water management, clean manufacturing, and environmental innovation (Goddard and Vallance, 2012; Unger et al., 2020).

The aim of this special issue is thus to bring together scientific contributions from interconnected research fields, helping to unveil and better understand the role played the CivUs in addressing the societal challenges and the prosecution of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), targeted to a sustainable regional development. Following this rationale, we are welcoming both theoretical and empirical contributions, focused on responding to the guiding g research question, that is: What is the role played by the CivUs in fostering sustainable regional development, especially, in low-industrial-density regions?

Examples of research topics that are considered relevant for this special issue, are as follows:

• Benchmarks and Good-Practices of Civic Universities
• Clusters, Industrial Districts and Productivity of Low-Industrial-Density Regions
• Cross-border Relationships and Sustainable Development
• Demography and Regional Development of Low-Density Regions
• Determinants of Performance of Low-Density Regions
• Efficiency of Higher Education Institutions
• Geography and Space Determinants of the Performance of Low-Density Regions
• Higher Educations Institutions and Sustainable Regional Development
• History, Culture and Development Pathway of Low-Density Regions
• Intellectual Capital of Higher Education Institutions and Sustainable Regional Development
• Knowledge and Technology Transfer of Higher Educations Institutions and SDGs
• Natural Resources and Sustainable Regional Development
• New Public Policies for Intelligent Smart Specialization Strategies
• Territorial Competitiveness and Inclusiveness of Low-density-industrial Regions

Planning

There are three alternative ways to select papers for this special issue:

• A selection of extended abstracts submitted to the 26^th APDR Workshop​ will be invited to deliver a full paper.
• Authors not attending the conferences above mentioned may send an extended abstract (1,200-2,000 words) to the editors until October 30, 2021

Please note that the full paper must be submitted to RSPP by January 31, 2022.

Editors

• João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, NECE and ICS, University of Lisbon, Portugal This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  
• Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Martina Dal Molin, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

References

Boyer, E. L. (1996). The scholarship of engagement. Journal of Public Service and Outreach, 1(1), 11-20.

Boyer, E. L. (2016). The scholarship of engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 20(1), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/3824459                

Goddard, John, & Vallance, P. (2012). The civic university: Connecting the global and the local. Universities, Cities and Regions: Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation, January, 43–63. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097144

Unger, M., Marsan, G. A., Meissner, D., Polt, W., & Cervantes, M. (2020). New challenges for universities in the knowledge triangle. Journal of Technology Transfer, 45(3), 806–819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9699-8

Corina Cretu, Romania - EP Member, Former European Commissioner for Regional Policy
Eduardo Haddad, Brazil - University of Sao Paulo, President of the Regional Science Association International
Peter Nijkamp, The Netherlands - Free University of Amsterdam, Past President of the European Regional Science Association and the Regional Science Association International
André Torre, France - University Paris-Saclay and INRAE, President of the European Regional Science Association

Chaired by:
Rosella Nicolini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, ERSA Secretary

Participants:
Bulgarian Section: Kosyo Stoychev
Croatian Section: Vinko Mustra
Greek Section: Yannis Psycharis
Romanian Section: Daniela Constantin
Turkish Section: Tuzin Baycan

Main topics:

• Recent trends in spatial development
• Spatial planning and territorial cohesion
• Endogenous growth and territorial capital
• Migration, employment and labour markets
• Clusters, networks and regional smart specialization
• SMEs, entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness
• Tourism, cultural industries and regional development
• Smart, sustainable and resilient cities
• Innovation, technological transformation and green transition
• Urban-rural linkages
• Multi-level governance and citizen participation
• Territorial cooperation - drivers and challenges
• Institutions, investments and regional policy

The abstract must not exceed 400 words (including keywords and JEL Classification). It should be sent by email at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., specifying in the email’s subject Abstract RRSA 2021.

Those interested in having their paper published should submit the full paper at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., specifying in the email’s subject Full paper RRSA 2021. The paper (5000-8000 words) may be published after peer-review in one of the following journals:

• Romanian Journal of Regional Science
• Contemporary Economy
• The USV Annals in Economics and Public Administration
• Journal of Academic Research in Economics

Maximum two papers per participant are accepted.

Registration fee - Euros or the equivalent in lei (for Romanian participants)
From 4.10.2021 to 22.10.2021

Bank account:
Account holder: ASOCIATIA ROMÂNĂ DE ȘTIINȚE REGIONALE
IBAN: RO66RNCB0072049702590001
Bank details: BCR - Sucursala sector 1, Calea Victoriei 155
Reference field: RRSA Conference 2021 and Name of Participant.

Please do not forget to send us by email the proof of your payment, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Important deadlines:
Abstract submission – 19 September 2021
The confirmation of abstract acceptance– 3 October 2021
Full paper submission – 31 October 2021
The payment of registration fee – 22 October 2021
Posted conference programme & Zoom links – 1 November 2021

Contact persons:
• Cristina Serbanica:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
• Amalia Cristescu: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.