Call for abstracts

Dear colleagues:

We would like to remind you that 15 May is the deadline for sending your abstracts to the XLI International Conference on Regional Science. This event will take place at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili between 18 and the 20 November 2015.

The lemma of this conference will be Innovation and Geographical Spillovers: New Approaches and Evidence. Furthermore, as you may have seen on the conference website, the number of subject areas has increased (17), as have the special sessions (6), so that everyone interested in territorial-based issues will be catered for, be they economists, geographers or urban planners. Your participation is essential!

We are currently designing an attractive conference at academic level, however are able to provide the information on contents:

- Workshop: “Spatial Econometrics with the R Package”, presented by Coro Chasco (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Julie Le Gallo (Université de Franche-Comté). Free course.

- David B. Audretsch will be presenting “Innovation Spillovers: a Strategy for the Crisis”, Indiana University

- David B. Bailey will be speaking on “Drivers of Change in the Global Auto Industry”, Aston Business School.

With respect to leisure activities, we are also planning different events, which we will be announcing at a later date.

Therefore remind that 15 May is the deadline for sending your abstracts. THE COUNTDOWN HAS ALREADY BEGUN.

We look forward to seeing you at Reus,

The Organizing Committee

English version of the Meeting website is already available: http://www.reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/Home-82-home