ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

FULL ARTICLES

Quality of government and women's political empowerment: Evidence from European regions

Vicente Rios,  Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve,  Lisa Gianmoena,  Jesús Peiró-Palomino,  Andrés J Picazo-Tadeo

The European regions in the global value chains: New results with new data

Miguel Ángel Almazán-Gómez,  Carlos Llano,  Julián Pérez,  Giovanni Mandras

Regional economic resilience, trophic characteristics, and ecological analogies

Hadi Arbabi,  Giuliano Punzo

Heterogeneity in performance of science and technology parks in China: Is there “club” convergence?

Chen Rui,  Boris Lokshin,  Pierre Mohnen

The innovation networks of city-regions in Europe: Exclusive clubs or inclusive hubs?

Andrea Filippetti,  Antonio Zinilli

The productivity effects of polycentricity: A systematic analysis of urban regions in Europe

Freke Caset, Yuting Yang,  Ben Derudder,  Krasen Samardzhiev

Networking and spatial interactions: What contributes most to increasing museums' attractiveness?

Cristina Bernini,  Federica Galli

BOOK REVIEW

Economies, Institutions and Territories: Dissecting Nexuses in a Changing World By Luca Storti, Giulia Urso, Neil Reid (Eds.), Routledge. 354pp + 39 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9781032042343. Price £ 31.19

Abdul Shaban

REFEREES

Acknowledgement to referees

Dear RSAI members,

we hope all is well with you and your families.

We are writing you for a last reminder on the pending final deadline for submitting your abstracts for presentation at the RSAI World Congress, Kecskemét, Hungary, Apr. 8-11, 2024.

The final deadline for submitting your abstracts is due Dec. 31, 2023. After this date, the portal for submissions will close and a second and last round of revisions will be sent out to scientific committee members for their opinions on the fit of your works for the congress. Acceptance letters will be sent out within mid January, and once the roster of papers will be final, we will gladly move to organize what we promise to be an exciting scientific program, with 5 excellent keynotes (https://regionalscience.org/2024RSAIcongress/index.html), progressive rates (https://regionalscience.org/2024RSAIcongress/registration.html), and generous support for members hailing from low and lower-middle income Countries (https://www.regionalscience.org/index.php/programs/building-bridges.html).

Please do not forget to register once your paper is accepted.

Thank you in advance for your attention,

We both look forward to seeing you in Kecskemét!

Hans Westlund

Professor of Urban and Regional Studies

KTH Stockholm

RSAI President

Andrea Caragliu

Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics

Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department

RSAI Executive Director

Invitation to RSAI members

THE WORLD OF REGIONAL SCIENCE

Dear regional science colleague:

We have decided to compose a unique volume which summarizes the ‘world of regional science’ in the form of an Encyclopedia. This major opus seeks to become a kind of ‘Wikipedia’ for regional scientists. It will comprise of an organized collection of hundreds of entries on concepts, theories, methods and applications. Each item will contain about 1000 words, written according to a systematic pre- determined format.

This work aims to become some sort of collective and shared body of knowledge in our field. Several hundreds of regional scientists from all over the world have already committed themselves to write an item text, which does not take much time. At this moment we still have a vacancy for about 100 entries (see attached list). All regional scientists are cordially invited to write a concise entry on one of the selected topics, by writing before December 23, 2023 an expression of interest to the handling editor, Zeynep Elburz (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).    

You will then receive the necessary information.

We hope to make this joint effect a collective success for regional science.

Peter Nijkamp

Karima Kourtit

Kingsley Haynes

Zeynep Elburz

Attached: list of vacant entries

All information at the congress website: https://www.rsai-bis.org/

Dear members,

We are excited to announce that our 50th annual RSAI-BIS conference will take place in Bristol, 9th-11th July 2024.

The Spatial Economic Analysis Keynote Lecture will be given by Professor Robert Huggins (Cardiff University) on "Cultures of Possibility and Regional Development: Changing Behaviour, Values and Narratives".

For more information on the conference see here.

The Call for Abstracts is now open until February 14, 2024. You can submit an abstract here.

We also welcome proposals for special sessions in this link.

We look forward to your submissions and to see you in Bristol!

On behalf of the RSAI-BIS Committee,

Tasos Kitsos

Call for Papers | 19th IRSA International Conference.

Ambon, 15-16 July 2024

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Call for papers

The Italian Regional Science Association (A.I.S.Re), the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), announces its XLV Annual Scientific Conference and welcomes contributions from researchers working on different disciplines in the field of regional science. The conference venue is Università degli Studi di Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena, 100A.

The central theme of the conference is the digital and circular transformation and the new opportunities and challenges emerging from these radical changes for regions and cities. Despite the large commitment and investments envisaged by the PNRR, the adoption of the new digital technologies remains weak and highly unbalanced across businesses and territories, with the risk of worsening the territorial gaps between North and South as much as between centers and peripheries, and of postponing the much desired, and increasingly necessary, relaunch of productivity. The transition towards a circular economy, made compelling by the climate crisis, has found a further obstacle in the rapid and unexpected growth of inflation, and in particular in the sharp increase in energy prices, especially following the explosion of the conflict in Ukraine. The combination of these factors depict a new, more complex and changing scenario in which the future of the territories must be framed and appropriately rethought, in order to make the best of the vast possibilities offered by the PNRR, already in the early stages of implementation. The conference aims to represent an opportunity for reflection and discussion on the determinants and consequences of the digital and circular transformation underway in the various territories, as well as on the governance policies and structures which, in a context of greater political and economic uncertainty and turbulence, can better initiate and/or facilitate the transition towards a phase of renewed growth of the country and its regions and cities.

Besides the main theme, the A.I.S.Re conference encorauges the discussion on the major topics in regional science. Thus, the A.I.S.Re invites all those interested to present original scientific works on the following themes:

1. Governance, regional and territorial public policies, European programming
2. Growth, decline, and regional disparities
3. Globalization, value chains and local production systems
4. Methods of territorial analysis and spatial econometrics
5. Labor, welfare, personal services and social policies
6. Tourism, culture and local development
7. Urban planning, real estate market and city development processes
8. Infrastructure, transport, mobility and local development
9. Wellbeing, sustainability, and local development
10. Urban development and agglomeration economies
11. Development and local entrepreneurship
12. Innovation, creativity and local development
13. Policy evaluation methods

HOW TO JOIN THE CONFERENCE

There are two ways to participate in the Conference:

• with organized sessions. Participants can propose themselves as session organizers (no more than two sessions per organizer) on specific themes. The proposal can be submitted directly from the login area of the website, by entering the name of the scientific manager, the session title and the tentative number of presentations. The deadline for the submission is January 31, 2024.
• with individual papers. Those interested should submit an abstract by February 29, 2024, directly from the login area of the website. Consult this LINK to see detailed instructions for abstract submission. A template file for writing the papers is also available on the Conference site (LINK).

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

AWARDS

AISRe promotes the diffusion of studies in regional science by awarding young scholars with:

• Best PhD Dissertation Award
• Best young scholar paper

The call for candidatures and their instructions are available on AISRe website (www.aisre.it/en/awards).

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP

Registration and participation in the Conference is subject to A.I.S.Re. membership, as individual, corporate or young member, available in the login area. Registration and membership fees are available at this LINK.

A.I.S.Re membership benefits include:

• the subscription to Scienze Regionali (Italian Journal of Regional Science) for the following calendar year;
• the volumes of the Regional Science Series (FrancoAngeli) published during the business year and the AISRe E-book (Donzelli);
• the registration to the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which includes an online subscription to the journals Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy and Practice for the following calendar year, the opportunity to pay a reduced fee at the Annual Conferences of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) (www.ersa.org) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (www.regionalscience.org).
• Young scholars have also the opportunity to participate to the Summer/Winter Schools of A.I.S.Re.

Local Organising Committee

• Valentina Biconne, Politecnico di Torino
• Massimiliano Coda Zabetta, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Alessandra Colombelli, Politecnico di Torino
• Elettra D’Amico, Politecnico di Torino
• Fabrizio Fusillo, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Gianluca Orsatti, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Andrea Panelli, Politecnico di Torino
• Francesco Quatraro, Università degli Studi di Torino (Chair)
• Silvia Francesca Rota, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Alessandra Scandura, Università degli Studi di Torino

Scientific Committee

• Cristiano Antonelli, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Alessandra Colombelli, Politecnico di Torino  
• Egidio Dansero, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Davide Piacentino, Università degli Studi di Palermo
• Francesco Quatraro, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Elena Ragazzi, IRCrES-CNR - Istituto di Ricerca sulla crescita economica sostenibile
• Alessandra Scandura, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Stefano Usai, Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Promoting Committee

• Carlo Cambini, Politecnico di Torino
• Raffaele Caterina, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Christophe Feder, Università Valle d’Aosta
• Aldo Geuna, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Simone Landini, IRES Piemonte
• Elisabetta Ottoz, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Massimiliano Piacenza, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
• Francesco Ramella, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Michele Rosboch, Università degli Studi di Torino e IRES Piemonte
• Roberto Zanola, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

Executive Board A.I.S.Re.

• Mariarosaria Agostino, Università della Calabria
• Cristina Bernini, Università di Bologna
• Cristina Brasili, Università di Bologna
• Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano
• Augusto Cerqua, Università di Roma La Sapienza
• Marusca De Castris, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
• Silvia Emili, Università di Bologna
• Valeria Fedeli, Politecnico di Milano
• Camilla Lenzi, Politecnico di Milano Marco Mariani, IRPET
• Ilaria Mariotti, Politecnico di Milano
• Marco Modica, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
• Davide Piacentino, Università di Palermo
• Elena Ragazzi, IRCrES-CNR - Istituto di Ricerca sulla crescita economica sostenibile
• Laura Resmini, Università di Milano Bicocca
• Domenico Scalera, Università del Sannio
• Daniela Storti, Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA)
• Silvia Cerisola, Politecnico di Milano Simone Landini, IRES Piemonte
• Pietro Pizzuto, Università di Palermo

Segreteria Tecnica A.I.S.Re.

Diana Sarmiento, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.