DG REGIO & ERSA Lecture Series started in 2015. The purpose is to make available to a broader range of policymakers important research in the context of the preparation for post-2020 EU Cohesion Policy Proposals. The first lecture started on 13 November 2015.

This lecture will be held the 6th October 2017 (15:00-17:00), at DG REGIO premises, Av. de Beaulieu 5, 1160 Brussels

Speaker: Prof. Ron Boschma , Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Discussant: Prof. Raquel Ortega Argiles, Chair in Regional Economic Development at the department of Strategy and International Business and the City-REDI research institute at Birmingham Business School

Registration is free but mandatory.

Contact and information on registration coming soon

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

Dear Colleagues,

we are delighted to invite You to participate in the 17th Ernestas Galvanauskas’ International Scientific Conference „RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS“ in Šiauliai, Lithuania.

The special topic of the plenary session – “Economic patriotism: challenges, dilemmas and opportunities” for a successful, sustainable country’s, region’s economic growth, and the competitiveness in the global market. Can economic patriotism exist at European level? Is it a national matter or European strategic interest? A support or a brake on the economy?

Date - November 30, 2017

Registration and conference fee (30 EUR) payment deadline – November 6, 2017  

http://smf.su.lt/registracijos/galvanausko  (sorry, there was a mistake in the registration link in the September, 14th letter. This one is right).

Other topics for the presentations and discussions in sections:

• Management of Economic Changes
• Trends of Labour Market Changes
• Current Issues of Business, Public Financial Management and Accounting
• Financial Markets and Institutional Management
• Legal Regulation of Economic-Social Environment
• Solutions of Public Policy and Administration
• Creativity and Value Innovations in Business
• Competitive Marketing Strategies
• Employees‘ Competencies and Career Development
• Strategies for Sustainable Development
• Regional Management, Strategic Planning and Development

Please find the attached invitation.

Please share this information with your colleagues!

Best regards,

Conference Organizers

If you have any questions, please contact 

Assoc. prof dr. Milda Damkuvienė

Tel.: +370 686 19902

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

This book aims to compile studies of hospitality and tourism from a regional sciences perspective not only to contribute to tourism and regional science literature jointly, but also to assist tourism specialists and policy makers to better understand the impact and the dynamics of tourism development.

We welcome submissions related (but not limited) to:

hospitality and tourism clusters
co-location
labor market implications
innovation in tourism and hospitality
entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality
international and domestic tourism
spatial and temporal variability in tourism
climate change and sustainable tourism
research methods for tourism sciences
quantitative methods applied to the tourism and hospitality industry applications of new technologies in tourism research
natural vs. man-made amenities
urban-rural tourism
destination development
tourism and smart specialization
tourism policies
regional impact of tourism

For more information see attachment.

Innovation processes in rural areas

Livia Madureira This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - CETRAD, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.

André Torre This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - INRA, University Paris Saclay.

Call for papers for a special issue of Regional Science Policy and Practice until December 15, 2017

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1757-7802

One often consider that rural territories are not innovative. Innovation would be mainly reserved for urban spaces and in particular for big cities, as revealed by the concentration of high tech firms and clusters in an urban environment. However, this preconceived idea meets two important limits. The first one is the existence of a very successful and very innovative farming sector, to the point that agriculture only employs nowadays an increasingly small number of workers, due to technical progress, in particular in Europe and in the USA, as well as in BRICs like Brazil for example. Agriculture and forestry are also the stage for intensive agro-ecological knowledge creation towards more sustainable farming processes and practices, involving both scientists and farmers. The second is that numerous innovations are emerging in rural areas highlighting non-technological types of innovation, like organizational innovations (new forms of networks between actors, direct marketing and local markets…), social innovations (cooperatives, services to the population…) and institutional innovations (Leader Programs, local charters…) along with product (superfoods, healthcare services and renewable energy) and technological innovations (the methanation for example).

This special issue aims to make the state of the art about innovations in rural areas, by describing various experiences, and by giving solid references onto the level of rural innovation and the characteristics of the latter, which bring new knowledge about innovation and support to policies to enhance it on rural territories.

Call for Abstracts

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Regional Science Association of India invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 12th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Spatial Systems: Social Integration, Regional Development and Sustainability". The Congress will be hosted by the Regional Science Association of India.

We invite formal paper presentations (deadline of November 30, 2017. The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at www.regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

Across the world, communities are striving to achieve an ecologically and socially secure future. The intricately linked ideas of sustainability and integration are the key to achieving our development goals. As regional scientists, our common pursuit of a sustainable future may be attained with more efficient understanding of the ‘region’ as a spatial unit. Keeping this objective in mind, the theme of the 2018 Congress highlights the importance of analyzing spatial systems as not just physical space or social space, but shared space. The sub-themes will be aimed at providing a platform for debates and discussions around the key issues of contemporary regional science and carve out the way to future research agenda.

Special Sessions

Regular Sessions

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Goa in May 2018.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

www.regionalscience.org/2018worldcongress

Dear Colleagues,

we are delighted to invite You to participate in the 17th Ernestas Galvanauskas’ International Scientific Conference „RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS“ in Šiauliai, Lithuania.

The special topic of the plenary session – “Economic patriotism: challenges, dilemmas and opportunities” for a successful, sustainable country’s, region’s economic growth, and the competitiveness in the global market. Can economic patriotism exist at European level? Is it a national matter or European strategic interest? A support or a brake on the economy?

Date - November 30, 2017

Registration and conference fee (30 EUR) payment deadline – November 6, 2017  

http://registracijos.su.lt/galvanausko

Other topics for the presentations and discussions in sections:

• Management of Economic Changes
• Trends of Labour Market Changes
• Current Issues of Business, Public Financial Management and Accounting
• Financial Markets and Institutional Management
• Legal Regulation of Economic-Social Environment
• Solutions of Public Policy and Administration
• Creativity and Value Innovations in Business
• Competitive Marketing Strategies
• Employees‘ Competencies and Career Development
• Strategies for Sustainable Development
• Regional Management, Strategic Planning and Development

Please find the attached invitation.

Please share this information with your colleagues!

Best regards,

Conference Organizers

If you have any questions, please contact 

Assoc. prof dr. Milda Damkuvienė

Tel.: +370 686 19902

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

Call for papers. Reminder
 
Only a few days left to submit your paper to the workshop "Public Policies, Cities and Regions", Lyon, December 14-15, 2017, organized by GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne!

This workshop will gather original research papers shedding light on the impact for urban and regional economies of public policies such as enterprise zones, industrial clusters policies, fiscal policies, housing policies, land use and environmental policies. The workshop welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions.

Keynote speakers: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (University of Toronto) and Kurt Schmidheiny (University of Basel)

Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission: September 25, 2017
Decisions of acceptance: October 20, 2017
Registrations: October 20 - November 26, 2017
Submissions should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Due to technical problems, we did not receive the emails sent before September 5. If you sent your submission before September 5, please send it again. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
 
Scientific committee: Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Laurent Gobillon (Paris School of Economics), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Florian Mayneris (Univ. of Louvain-la-Neuve), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (Univ. of Lausanne), Elisabet Viladecans (Univ. of Barcelona)

Organizing committee: Sylvie Charlot (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2), Pierre-Philippe Combes (GATE, CNRS), Sylvie Démurger (GATE, CNRS), Nelly Exbrayat (GATE, UJM), Florence Goffette-Nagot (GATE, CNRS), Sonia Paty (GATE, Univ. Lyon 2)

More information: https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/ppcr

Do not hesitate to contact us for more details. We look forward to seeing you in Lyon!

Kind regards,

Nelly Exbrayat and Florence Goffette-Nagot, on behalf of the organizing committee.