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2016 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS

 Innovation, networks and the geography of knowledge diffusion

Barcelona, October 27^th-28^th 2016

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona

Dear Colleagues,

AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the 2016 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, to be held in Barcelona on October 27^th-28^th, 2016.

The workshop will be focused on innovation and the spatial diffusion of knowledge with emphasis in collaboration networks. Its aim is to bring together researchers in urban and regional economics who are working in topics where the broad concept of the geography of innovation plays a fundamental role. Particular attention will be paid to papers dealing with the mechanisms and actors of knowledge diffusion (knowledge spillovers, networks, technological collaboration, and knowledge relatedness). Although the Workshop will focus on empirical papers, theoretical studies are also welcome.

The keynotes speakers will be:

• Maryann Feldman (Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina)
•   Karen Maguire (Regional Innovation Unit of the OECD Regional Development Policy Division)

Audience:We will accommodate around 8-10 papers, to be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the keynote speakers’ presentation.

Important dates:

• Deadline for papers submission: September 9^th 2016 (Papers should be sent in pdf format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Extended abstracts or incomplete drafts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured)
• Notification of acceptance: September 16^th 2016
• Preliminary programme: September 30^th 2016
• Final programme: October 15^th 2016

For further information, please visit the workshop website www.ub.edu/aqr/workshop/2016, see the attached file or contact to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please, feel free to distribute this announcement. Excuse us for “cross-posting”.

We look forward for your participation at the Workshop!

AQR-IREA Research Group

University of Barcelona

http://www.ub.edu/aqr/

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find attached the call for papers for a NECTAR Joint CL1 and CL 6 international workshop on ‘Transport Infrastructures for better Accessibility, Equity and Territorial Cohesion’. This meeting will take place in Warsaw, Poland, during the 20-21 October 2016.

Please send your abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. till 30^th June 2016.

Kind regards

Ana Condeço Melhorado

NECTAR secretary

Call for Abstracts and Applications

The Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org/) will organize a Symposium, on the theme Regional Development in Armenia; a Regional Science Perspective, that will be held on October 2nd  at Armenian State University of Economics, Yerevan and a Workshop, on October 3rd and 4th at the Dilijan Training and Research Centre of central bank of Armenia, Dilijan.

The call for abstracts to the Symposium is open.

Deadline for Abstracts submissions to the Symposium:August 5, 2016.

Applications for the Workshop are welcomed.

Deadline for the Application to the Workshop: July 30, 2016.

All information at the event website:http://regionalscience.org/armenia2016

Looking forward to meeting you in Armenia!

Anahit Harutyunyan

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

Estimados Colegas.
Vai ser realizado um Congresso Internacional , subordinado ao tema "Visión Interdisciplinar a la imigración y refúgio   europeo", no   final de Outubro  no Campus de Lugo- Universidade de , da iniciativa conjunta da USC ( Universidade de Santiago de Compostela e  UNED - Universidade Nacional de Ensino à Distância - Madrid 
Dada a pertinência e atualidade do tema  agradecemos a mais ampla divulgação. 
Anexo página  web do mesmo: http://www.congresorefugiados.com

The June 2016 issue of the newsletter of the North American Science Council is now available. It can be accessed on the NARSC website at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=417.

The Newsletter includes a reminder that the JULY 1 deadline for abstract submission for the 2016 North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International is fast approaching. More details are also given below:

The July 1 deadline for abstract submissions if approaching.

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the 63rd North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and hosted by the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association (MCRSA).  The conference will be held at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center, November 9th – 12th, 2016.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at http://www.narsc.org/.

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Individual papers, posters, and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the website between now and JULY 1, 2016. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We will continue to host poster sessions, and pre-conference workshops, which will be held on November 9th. Information about the workshops will be posted in May. If you are potentially interested in attending any workshops it is suggested that you wait until information about them is available before registering for the conference. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world. 

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Minneapolis Marriot City Center at the rate of $169/night for a single or a double (plus applicable taxes at time of check out – currently 13.4%).

If you have questions, here is contact information:

Local arrangements:

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

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

Program Chair:

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

Overall Arrangements

Neil Reid, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis.

The editorial team of Economy of Region (ISSN online: 2411-1406, ISSN print: 2072-6414), a peer-reviewed economic journal, welcomes your submissions in the area of regional economics.

The journal has been published quarterly since 2005. The journal has been published quarterly since 2005. Its founders are the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences and Ural Federal University.

Indexing: Scopus, EBSCO, RePec, DOAJ, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory et al. 

Your studies in economics are well known in the whole word and are widely cited by Russian economists including the authors of our Journal. It would be a great honour for us to publish one of your recent papers in our Journal. 

All submissions are subject to peer review. There are no publication fees.The Journal is a Member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and applies the international standards proposed by the Committee. All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Click on http://www.economyofregion.com/ for the journal’s web site.

You will find an online submission form at http://uralces.ru/en-us/erjournal.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us for further information.

We will be very glad to see you among our authors.

Best regards,

Dr. Alexander Kuklin, Deputy Editor-In-Chief

Evgeniya Balyakina, Associate Editor

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Call For Papers NARSC-NECTAR organized sessions on: 

Big data in regional science and transport

63rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 9-12, 2010, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

Call for Papers

"Cluster 8 of NECTAR on Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) is a organising a special session for 63rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, November 9-12, Minneapolis, on big data applications in regional science and transport.

Topic of interest

The vast (and ever increasing) ICT penetration has resulted to a new pool of data, known as ‘big data’, which captures almost every aspect of human activity. The assessment of spatial human interaction (and associated usage of infrastructure and resources) via big data opens a new stream of research and applications that is being proven useful for urban and regional planning, as the data brings in very detailed temporal and spatial information. Measurements coming from mobile sensors such as GPS navigators or mobile phones also offer the opportunity to study human interaction in their use of transport infrastructure (roads, railways, airports, etc.) at a very precise temporal and spatial resolution. The meeting aims to elaborate further on this area. We are inviting papers for these sessions dealing with: novel big data sources in regional science and transport in particular, methodologies to process big data sources, and novel applications of big data.

We plan to organise a special issue in a leading journal for selected papers.

Submitting an abstract

Submissions must be submitted directly using the website of the conference. Please submit your abstract via: http://www.narsc.org/newsite/conference/online-abstractsession-submission/  and send the submission confirmation to Elizabeth Mack at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Deadline for submissions is June 24th.

Session organisors

Elizabeth Mack, Michigan State University, NECTAR Cluster 8 co-chair, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Emmanouil Tranos, University of Birmingham, NECTAR Cluster 8 co-chair

Laurie Schintler, George Mason University

Karst Geurs, University of Twente, NECTAR chair

NECTAR is a European-based scientific association. The primary objective is to foster research collaboration and exchange of information between experts in the field of transport, communication and mobility from all European countries and the rest of the world. It is a multidisciplinary social science network bringing together a wide variety of perspectives on transport and communication problems and their impacts on society in an international perspective. For further information on NECTAR, use the link: http://www.nectar-eu.eu.

The North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) is one of three international regional science (RSAI) organizations that, together, promote the exchange of knowledge, theory, and analysis of cities and regions across the globe. NARSC fosters exchange across academic disciplines and builds on the understanding that urban and regional issues are best addressed by utilizing tools, methods, and theoretical frameworks specifically designed for regional analysis, as well as concepts, procedures, and analytical techniques of the various social and other sciences. For further information on NARSC, consult: http://www.narsc.org/newsite/

The North American Regional Science Council invites graduate students to submit entries to one of its two two graduate student paper competitions - Graduate-Student-Author Paper Competition and Graduate-Student-Led Paper Competition. More details can be found at - http://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/narsc-student-competitions/.

The deadline for submission of papers is August 1, 2016. However, please note that all entrants must submit an abstract of their paper by July 1, 2016. All entrants must also present their paper at the 2016 North American meetings of the North American Regional Science Council that will be held in Minneapolis, MN, November 9-12, 2016. Winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon that will be held on November 12.

If you have a question about the competitions please contact the following:

Graduate Student-Authored Paper: Henry Renski  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Graduate Student-Led Paper: John Winters  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Latest issue of the journal Regional Statistics is available at www.ksh.hu/terstat_eng

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/eterstat1502.pdf

Content

How to Measure the Local Economic Impact of Universities? Methodological Overview
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05201.pdf

Urban Sprawl and Loss of Agricultural Land in Peri-urban Areas of Lagos
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05202.pdf

Spatial Layers and Spatial Structure in Central and Eastern Europe
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05203.pdf

Local Labour System After the Turn of the Millennium in Hungary
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05204.pdf

The Role Weight of Key Factors Determining the (Infrastructure and Traffic) Intensity of Aviation for the Countries of the World
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05205.pdf

International Migration Diversity in Hungary in the 2011 Population Census Data
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05206.pdf

Divergence in the Socioeconomic Development Paths of Hungary and Slovakia
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05207.pdf

Understanding the Changing Geography of Labour-Intensive Industries from a GPN Perspective: Case Study of the Hungarian Leather and Footwear Sector
http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2015/RS05208.pdf

Facebook page of the journal: www.facebook.com/RegionalStatistics