Conference on SMEs and the Urban Fabric

15-16 April 2019  Trento, Italy    

Organised by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development in collaboration with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Sweden and the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy

What makes a liveable place? What makes a place a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and growth?

These two questions might have the same answer. SMEs and entrepreneurs can benefit from well-functioning, well-designed and well-planned cities, the same way these cities and their neighbourhoods can benefit from local entrepreneurs and SMEs that create jobs, but also authenticity, charm, social integration and social connections.

But the ecosystem for entrepreneurs and SMEs is not guaranteed given, as not all urban environments are conducive to having a dynamic business community. It is therefore crucial to understand what economic policies, business regulation, land use and urban planning can help leverage the benefits that SMEs and entrepreneurs can provide to create liveable places.

What will be discussed?

The two-day OECD conference on SMEs and the Urban Fabric will help assess how far we can go in answering two questions: “What can SMEs do for their cities?” and “What can cities do for their SMEs?”.

This conference brings together speakers that tackle the questions at different scales, such as cities, clusters, or neighbourhoods, and from different backgrounds, that take an economic, planning or social lens when considering the complex interplay between SMEs and the city.

For more information, please visit the conference website - http://www.oecd.org/cfe/smes-cities-trento-conference.htm

Nomination and Selection Protocol of RSAI Fellows

1. Each RSAI member - except RSAI fellows – is entitled to nominate candidates for the RSAI fellowship, but self-nominations are not allowed. Each nomination has to be done through a standard concise nomination form that follows a systematic template.
2. A nominee has to be RSAI member (or a member of any section recognized by the RSAI) and to meet the qualifications mentioned in Annex A.
3. The selection of new RSAI fellows takes place only once a year, but nominations can be sent in at any time and will be considered for a given selection round, if they have been received before a given deadline. A nomination has a maximum life of two years.
4. All nominations will be put on a list supplemented with non-elected candidates for the RSAI fellowship who were on the short list from the previous year.
5. The short list will be screened by the RSAI fellows selection committee (in consultation with the RSAI director). This committee comprises 3 RSAI fellows appointed by the RSAI Council for a period of staggered 3-year terms. The selection committee has to seriously consider all available information on the candidates and can remove candidates (unanimous vote) who do not qualify.
6. The selection committee can also decide to reduce the list of nominated RSAI members to a manageable number, so that candidates can be selected with a qualified majority. This short list should normally not contain more than 10 to 12 names.
7. The short list is next circulated to all RSAI fellows, who have the exclusive right to vote for (a maximum of) 3 candidate-fellows. No ranking of candidates is allowed.
8. The selection committee can put an upper ceiling on the maximum number of candidates to be selected in a given year, if circumstances dictate so.
9. A vote of at least 1/3 will normally mean election, unless that would exceed the ceiling.
10. The selection committee informs the RSAI Director of the final selection results, who will communicate these results to the selected RSAI fellows, the RSAI Council, and the home institutions of the newly appointed fellows.

Standard Nomination Form for RSAI Fellows

1. Factual bio-data on candidate, including a proof for RSAI membership
2. Professional career of candidate (max. 100 words)
3. Substantive contribution to regional science (max. 200 words)
4. Path-breaking publications on regional science (max. 5)
5. Signs of international scientific recognition (max. 50 words)
6. Reasons for nominating the candidate (max. 50 words)

To ensure full consideration by the committee, these materials should be provided in electronic format (pdf preferred) by April 17, 2019 to Takatoshi Tabuchi, Chair 2019 Fellows Election Committee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The 5th Ibero-American Congress on Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology - CIEEMAT is a forum for discussion and creation of synergies among different students, professors, researchers and professionals to favor the development of Entrepreneurship, Energy, Environment and Technology.

The challenges of higher education for the 21st century, such as the centralization of educational procedures in the student, and the sharing of experiences between institutions at the level of international cooperation, double graduation, and cooperation with the community, are also discussion topics in this conference.

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and the best papers will be suggested for publication in a special edition of an international journal and in international scientific journals.

The organising committee welcomes you to CIEEMAT2019, we will be delighted to welcome you in our beautiful city.

Best Regards,
 
The Organising Committee

http://en.cieemat.com/

The 2nd Bioenergy International Conference will be held from 11th to 13th September 2019 in PORTALEGRE (Portugal).

This congress is organised by researchers of the C3i/IPP (Portalegre, Portugal), and AreanaTejo, Energy Agency (Portugal) with the objective to join academics, researchers and companies in an international forum to discuss matters related to bioenergy technologies, economic and policy aspects.

We believe that we must rethink, personally, institutionally and corporately, the management that we make of the waste we generate and the energy that we have available. That’s why we have created this congress and exhibition, that we hope can be part of our contribution for a more efficient use of these resources.

All papers will be published in the congress E-book. The feasibility of publishing special issue(s) of reputed scientific journals will be confirmed shortly.All papers will be published in the congress E-book. The feasibility of publishing special issue(s) of reputed scientific journals will be confirmed shortly.

For more information, please visit the website of the conference on http://www.bioenergy-conference.com

Please submit your abstract by the 15th of June 2019, and you can find the instructions for authors and the template to prepare your abstract on http://www.bioenergy-conference.com/pages/congresso/submissao.html

You can submit your work on the following link: http://www.bioenergy-conference.com/pages/registo.html

If you have any question about this conference, please contact the organising committee on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Best wishes,

Paulo Brito, PhD.

Chairman

2nd Bioenergy International Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

RIDITA2019 International Congress

October 9-11, 2019, Faculty of Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã (Portugal)
Deadline: April 7, 2019

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you about the launch of the Call for Papers for the VII RIDITA – International Congress of the Iberoamerican Air Transportation Research Society 2019, organized by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Beira Interior, on October 9-11, 2019. 

Submissions of well-developed abstracts should be made by the online platform that you can find in the website of the Congress (http://www.ridita2019.ubi.pt), by April 7, 2019.

Notification of acceptance is expected by May 5, 2019.

For further information please find attached the Call for Papers.

We would appreciate if you could spread this message among your contacts and encourage people from your Institutions to apply.

Yours sincerely,

Organizing Committee

THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/eterstat1802.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2018, VOL 8, No 2.

STUDIES

Donatello Caruso – Francesco Conto: Private capital in the rural development programme: the case of the Apulia Region, Southern Italy

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080209.pdf

Gergely Tagai – Josef Bernard – Martin Simon – Bálint Koós: Two faces of peripherality: labour markets, poverty, and population dynamics in Hungary and Czechia

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080204.pdf

Vidmantas Daugirdas – Gintarė Pociūtė-Sereikienė: Depopulation tendencies and territorial development in Lithuania

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080203.pdf

Melinda Nagy-Molnár – Lendvay Endre: New method to support decision making process in the local economic development of Hungary 

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080207.pdf

Mátyás Szabó – Orsolya Pap-Szuromi – Róbert Romvári: Preliminary results of a farmstead survey of the Great Hungarian Plain –

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080208.pdf

Tibor Kóti: Spatial differences regarding the chance to leave supported public employment in Hungary’s rural periphery

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080210.pdf

Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska – András Trócsányi – Gábor Pirisi: Urbanisation in a formal way? The different characteristics of the ‘newest towns’ in Poland and Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080202.pdf

Lyudmila Grigorievna Matveeva –  Ol’ga Anatolievna Chernova – Natal’ya Alexeevna Kosolapova – Alexey Evgenievich Kosolapov: Assessment of water resources use efficiency based on the Russian Federation’s gross regional product water intensity indicator

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080201.pdf

K.S. Akbash – N.О. Pasichnyk – R.Ya.Rizhniak: Generalization of calculation methods for gender indices in demographic and social statistics

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080205.pdf

VISUALIZATIONS

Ladislav Novotný – Loránt Pregi: Visualization of migration using spatial interpolation method

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080206.pdf

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Regional Science Policy & Practice

Volume 11, Issue 1

Pages: 1-209

March 2019

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 1-2 | First Published: 28 March 2019

SPECIAL SECTION: SPATIAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Spatial and social justice

Budy P. Resosudarmo, Ari Kuncoro, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Pages: 3-4 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Open Access

Household characteristics at the bottom, the typical, and the top of the 2016 income distribution in South Korea: A quantile regression analysis

Yuri Mansury, Jae Beum Cho

Pages: 5-21 | First Published: 18 January 2019

Gender inequality among urban households in South Korea

Yuri Mansury, Kyung‐Heun Baek

Pages: 23-38 | First Published: 12 March 2019

Open Access

Interprovincial differences in labour force distribution and utilization based on educational attainment in Indonesia, 2002–2015

Mitsuhiko Kataoka

Pages: 39-54 | First Published: 29 November 2018

Education and expenditure inequality in Myanmar: An analysis with the 2006 and 2012 Household Income and Expenditure Survey in an urban and rural setting

Aye Thu Zar Thein, Takahiro Akita

Pages: 55-70 | First Published: 12 March 2019

Inequality of opportunity, a matter of space?

Jesus Perez‐Mayo

Pages: 71-87 | First Published: 12 February 2019

Open Access

Are poor provinces catching‐up the rich provinces in Indonesia?

Hengky Kurniawan, Henri L. F. de Groot, Peter Mulder

Pages: 89-108 | First Published: 29 January 2019

In search of spatial justice. Towards a conceptual and operative framework for the analysis of inter‐ and intra‐urban inequalities using a geo‐demographic approach. The case of Italy

Giovanni A. Barbieri, Federico Benassi, Marianna Mantuano, M. Rosaria Prisco

Pages: 109-121 | First Published: 20 November 2018

Open Access

A sectoral growth‐income inequality nexus in Indonesia

Iván González Gordón, Budy P. Resosudarmo

Pages: 123-139 | First Published: 20 June 2018

OTHER ARTICLES

Interpreting and understanding territorial identity

Roberta Capello

Pages: 141-158 | First Published: 07 December 2018

Differential demographic transitions for Women of different ethnicities in Gauteng, South Africa, 1996–2011

Hermanus Stephanus Geyer, Nhlapo Mosidi

Pages: 159-171 | First Published: 07 January 2019

Fiscal Decentralization – A Cautious Tale

Yizhou Zhang, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Pages: 173-187 | First Published: 09 January 2019

Do light rail transit investments increase employment opportunities? The case of Charlotte, North Carolina

Kristine Laura Canales, Isabelle Nilsson, Elizabeth Delmelle

Pages: 189-202 | First Published: 27 February 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems, Cristina Chaminade, Bengt‐Åke Lundvall, Shagufa Hanneef, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2018

Roberta Capello

Pages: 203-204 | First Published: 28 August 2018

The square and the tower: Networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

Gordon F. Mulligan

Pages: 204-207 | First Published: 15 October 2018

The Cost–Benefit Revolution. Cass R. Sunstein

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 207-209 | First Published: 22 November 2018