Dear ERSA Members,

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Igor Gorlinskii (St Petersburg State University) and Professor Gleb Fetissov (SOPS) as co-chairs of ERSA 2014 Local Organising Committee are proud and happy to invite the International Regional Science Community to St Petersburg.  

The Congress will be dedicated to the memory of Academician Alexander Granberg.

We're excited to announce the launch of the

• Call for abstracts / papers is NOW OPEN 
• Call for Special Session proposals  

Don't miss this chance to be part of next year's regional science momentum! 

www.ersastpetersburg2014.org

Best regards

Richard Kelly
ERSA Executive Director
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Main Congress Features

The 2014 Congress will feature "benchmarking issues in regional policy and planning as well as Arctic issues in the regional development". 
The Local Organising Committee has also the ambition to "put forward European regional science on new intellectual territories". 
And also "promote further deeper integration Russian Regional Science and scholars into the family of European regional scholars".
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Call: Abstracts and Papers

We're excited to announce the launch of the CALL for abstracts / papers, to the ERSA Congress 2014 in St Petersburg .
The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and the papers all together at the same time.
For more details on the guidelines for the different types of Submissions,
please click 

HERE

 
Deadline: 28th February 2014

Call: Special Session proposals

The Local Organising Committee would like to give you the opportunity to make a proposal for a Special Session Topic.
You can choose one topic from the list of Special Session Topics or propose another topic. The Local Organising Committee is particularly interested in receiving proposals on:

    - Cooperation of the regions and cities

    - Best practices for regional and urban development

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Preliminary Programme Highlights

* The Local Organising committee is proud to announce the participation of Keynote Speakers including Susan Christopherson, Philip Cooke , Kevin Stolarick, Michael Storper and Natalya Zubarevich  

* This 2014 edition will once again benefit from the contribution of the  Urban Economics Association which will once again organise its Special Sessions at the ERSA Congress.

*Young Scientists sessions 2014

Are you an ambitious young scientist that wants a good platform to present ideas and results and looks forward to receive comments from the best scholars in Regional Science? Then you should submit your paper to the ERSA Epainos sessions!

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As you know the EIB-ERSA Prize in Regional Science has been created to recognise outstanding contributions of scholar to the advancement of science at the European level.

The European Investment Bank - Institute has increased its contribution for this prize, to 10,000 Euros for the winner, at this years' Congress.

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23rd SRA-Europe Conference
Analysis and Governance of Risks Beyond Boundaries
16-18 June 2014, Istanbul, TURKEY

Joint Special Symposium
of
Society for Risk Analysis Europe (SRA-E) and European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Resilience of Regions in the Face of Risks

Call for Papers

The term “resilience” is used in many disciplines with different meanings. Psychology and psychiatry focus upon the individual and their resilience during life course transition and events. In ecological systems, resilience is related to system functioning rather than the stability or otherwise of its component populations and maintenance or loss of steady states. Social resilience is the ability of communities to withstand external shocks to their social infrastructure. Engineering resilience focuses upon the vulnerability of physical structures to hazardous environments and natural disasters, forecasting the likelihood of catastrophic events and systemic breakdowns and their social and economic implications. In economics, resilience has been defined in terms of return to a fixed and narrowly defined equilibrium or, in the more liberal version, multiple equilibria.

Recently, attention has turned specifically to consider spatial and territorial aspects of resilience in local and regional development and planning. In the social sciences, more generally, the term of regional resilience has become popular because of its association with regional adaptation and so has strong connections with evolutionary economics and evolutionary economic geography.

This Joint Special Symposium of SRA-E and ERSA aims to bring together the members of these two networks who have common research interest. While the main interest of SRA-E is risk analysis including risk assessment, risk management, risk communication and policy related to risks, ERSA is interested in regional, urban and local development and related issues and spatial and territorial aspects of risks as well as the resilience of territories and regions. This Joint Special Symposium on ‘Resilience of Regions in the Face of Risks’ aims to provide a platform for discussion how resilience of regions can be improved in the face of risks from an interdisciplinary perspective. This Joint Special Symposium also aims to initiate a collaboration between the two networks that may lead to further joint activities in the future.

Specific topics of the Joint Special Symposium includes:
• Resilience of regions
• Emerging patterns of regional resilience
• Risks and regional economy
• Economic turbulence and resilience of regions
• Resilience, innovation and regional creativity
• Resilience and territorial risks
• Territorial risk management
• Policies implemented in resilient territories
• Innovation, global change and territorial resilience
• Spatial and territorial aspects of resilience in local and regional development
• Resilience of urban systems
• Resilient cities
• Resilience of social-ecological systems in rural areas
• Adaptation, adaptability and adaptive capacity
• Emerging risks and new management approaches
• Resilience analysis

We are pleased to invite you to contribute papers for this Joint Special Symposium which we will organize at the 23rd SRA-E Conference on 16-18 June 2014. The SRA-E Conference will take place in Istanbul (TURKEY) and will be a major international event. The papers of this Joint Special Symposium will be published as a Special Issue for a relevant journal in the field or will be collected in a volume.

Symposium Organizer:
Tüzin Baycan (Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY)
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Chair of SRA-E 2014 Istanbul
Seda Kundak (Assist.Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY)

Important Dates:
The deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014
For further updated information and details: www.srae2014.itu.edu.tr

SRA (Society for Risk Analysis) is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly, international society that provides an open forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis. The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) was founded in response to the need for an interdisciplinary society which would address emerging issues in risk analysis, management and policy. It operates world-wide with International Sections in North America, Europe and Japan. The Society for Risk Analysis - Europe aims to bring together individuals and organizations interested in risk assessment, risk management and risk communication in Europe.

For further information on SRA and SRA-E, use the link: http://www.sra.org and http://www.sraeurope.org
ERSA (European Regional Science Association) is the largest supraregional science association covered under the umbrella of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). The RSAI oversees three major superregional organisations in Europe, North America and the Pacific. The main objectives of the Association include fostering the exchange of ideas and the promotion of studies focused on regions, including the utilisation of tools, methods and theoretical frameworks specifically designed for regional analysis. It also examines the concepts, procedures and analytical techniques of various social and other sciences. As a field of the social sciences, regional science is concerned with analytical and empirical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural or regional.

For further information on ERSA, use the link: http://www.ersa.org 

Call for Chapter Proposal Submission

OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications

Edited by

Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

GIScience, Institute of Geography,

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Alexander Zipf

GIScience, Institute of Geography,

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Mooney

Department of Computer Science,

NUI Maynooth, Ireland

Marco Helbich,

Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Introduction

The radical societal and Information Technology changes brought about by the Internet and social media and the availability of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices has seen the traditional geodata business model challenged and being changed radically.

One of the key driving forces in this change has been Volunteered Geographic Information of which OpenStreetMap is one of the most famous projects. 

OpenStreetMap was developed

with the motto of ?creating a free editable map of the world? in a collaborative manner so that people and end-users are not forced to buy geodata in the traditional way and subsequently be subject to restrictive copyright commitments. 

OpenStreetMap started with

a focus on mapping streets and roads. Since then it has moved far beyond these entities and it now contains a very rich variety of geographical objects all over the planet being mapped by hundreds and thousands of volunteer contributors to the project.

The gradual evolution of the OpenStreetMap eco-system has been very successfully. The project had a slow start but since 2007 there has been an ever increasing rate of people joining the project with just over 1.42 million registered users in November 2013. The academic and industrial communities have recognized OpenStreetMap not solely based on its rise to prominence in becoming an important distributor of geodata but its wider success in growing a global community of people who support the OpenStreetMap project. The OpenStreetMap community is actively involved in much more than collecting geodata to build and maintain its global database. The community is involved in: 

humanitarian work in many regions; open source software development to support OpenStreetMap and the GIS community; and in building a network of support for those using and contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. In recent years several scientific disciplines (e.g., geography, GIScience, spatial planning, cartography, computer science, social science, and ecology) have realized the immense potential of OpenStreetMap and it has become the subject of academic research. The OpenStreetMap offered researchers a unique dataset which is global in scale and a body of knowledge created and maintained by a very large collaborative network of volunteers. Research on OpenStreetMap has shown that it's geodata in some parts of the world are more complete and locationally and semantically more accurate than the corresponding proprietary datasets.

Objectives and Scope

The main objective of the intended edited volume is to seek  experiences using OpenStreetMap including cutting edge scientific investigations on OpenStreetMap from different geodata and users perspectives as well as developed and under development applications benefiting from OpenStreetMap and the advancement and promotion of OpenStreetMap in GIScience. Due to the complexity, inter- and trans-disciplinary nature of collaborative mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap, submissions of chapter proposals from an extensive range of scientific disciplines such as geography, cartography, computer science, statistics, geographic information science, sociology, urban planning, environment planning, transportation, and civil engineering  are highly welcome.

The edited book is scheduled to be published by Springer in its leading series in GIScience ?Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography? series, edited by William Cartwright, George Gartner, Liqiu Meng, and Michael P. Peterson. For more detailed information about this series, we refer to the Springer webpage, accessible via the following link  http://www.springer.com/series/7418.

The book seeks to build a firm foundation for research work focused on integrating OpenStreetMap. Chapters should address the following research topics, however not limited

to:

1. State-of-the-art and cutting-edge approaches for data 

quality analysis and data

fusion techniques in OpenStreetMap and other Volunteered Geographic Information sources,

1. Investigations on understanding OpenStreetMap contributors 

and the nature of

their contributions,

1. Identification of patterns of contributions and contributors 

in OpenStreetMap,

1. Desktop, online, and mobile applications of OpenStreetMap in 

different domains

(e.g. 3D, routing, traffic, disaster management, health, crime, history, ecology, etc.),

1. Mining value-added knowledge and information from OpenStreetMap,
2. Limitations and possibilities in the analysis of OpenStreetMap data,
3. Integration of OpenStreetMap with commercial and 

non-commercial geodatasets,

1. Emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap across the world,
2. OpenStreetMap?s contribution to GIScience.

Submission and Important Dates

All chapter proposals will be evaluated by a committee of experts before author(s) are being invited to submit their full book chapters. Chapters must not have been published elsewhere. Unpublished conference presentations and extended conference works are acceptable. Published conference presentations (e.g., in a proceedings volume) may be acceptable if the full copyright can be transferred.

Submission procedure for chapter proposals (abstracts):

Length:                1-2 pages

Format:                Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF

Figures/Tables:        Must be legible (<300 dpi are accepted at this stage)

Important dates:

January 31, 2014: Chapter proposal submission deadline February 28, 2014: Notification of chapter acceptance/rejection and invitation to submit full chapters May 30, 2014: Final chapter submission deadline July 30, 2014: Acceptance/rejection notification sent to author(s) September 30, 2014: Final revised chapter submission deadline December, 2014: Expected publication of book

General:

Submissions must include the author's names, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. In the case of multiple authors, all names, addresses, etc., must accompany the submission and a corresponding author should be identified.

If submitting a published conference presentation (e.g., one that has already appeared in a proceedings volume), the author(s) must provide proof that the article's full copyright can be transferred. Submissions must be sent as an e-mail attachment to Jamal Jokar Arsanjani using the e-mail address listed above.

Notification:

Notification regarding the status of each proposal will be sent by February 28, 2014 to all those who submitted a chapter proposal. At that time, authors whose chapter proposals have been accepted will also be e-mailed guidelines regarding full book chapter preparation.

Post-acceptance information:

The full book chapter deadline is May 30, 2014. Following receipt, full chapters will be sent out for double-blind review. The Editors will make the final decision regarding final acceptance of each book chapter. All chapters with revision requests (if necessary) need to be completed by September 30, 2014.

Inquiries should be directed to

Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

GIScience, Institute of Geography

University of Heidelberg

Berliner Straße 48

D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

 http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/gis_arsanjani.html

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Tel.: +49(0)6221 / 54 5572

Fax: +49(0)6221 / 54 4529

André Torre a le plaisir de vous annoncer que le prochain séminaire du GRETS portera sur « Les conflits d’usage de l’espace, frein ou moteur de la gouvernance des territoires?» aura lieu le mardi 3 décembre de 9h30 à 13h30 à la Maison Suger (en attaché le programme).

Le Labex Entreprendre (Université Montpellier) est à la recherche d’un post-doctorant, spécialiste du développement durable et de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises en PME.

Le candidat retenu intègrera un projet international portant sur les déterminants de l'orientation durable des PME et la RSE.

Vous pouvez contacter Jean-Marie Courrent pour plus d’information en lui envoyant un mail : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Le comité d'organisation des Doctoriales de l'ASRDLF 2014 a le plaisir de vous annoncer leur tenue les 3, 4 et 5 février 2014 sur le campus de la cité Descartes à Paris-Est. 

Succédant au Séminaire Européen des Doctorants en Economie Régionale (SEDER) qui s'est tenu pendant plus de 20 ans à Bordeaux, ces Doctoriales sont organisées par sept laboratoires de l’Université de Paris-Est développant des recherches en lien avec la ville et le territoire et bénéficie de l'expérience de Claude Lacour, Professeur émérite à l'Université de Bordeaux 3.

Vous trouverez ci-joint les fichiers destinés aux chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs et ceux destinés aux doctorants. Vous y trouverez une lettre d'invitation, une fiche rappelant les objectifs des Doctoriales et une fiche d'inscription. Les doctorants y trouveront également une fiche relative à leur thèse.

Nous vous remercions de diffuser cette information autour de vous et espérons vous accueillir à la Cité Descartes.

Nous vous signalons que les fiches d'inscription sont à renvoyer le plus rapidement possible et avant le 20 décembre 2013 à l'adresse This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Les informations seront également prochainement mises en ligne sur le site de l'ASRDLF :  http://www.asrdlf.org/doctoriales_ASRDLF.php

Nous restons à votre disposition pour tout renseignement complémentaire.

Bien à vous

Le comité d'organisation des Doctoriales ASRDLF 2014

Papers in Regional Science

© RSAI

Volume 92, Issue 4 Pages 691 - 892, November 2013

The latest issue of Papers in Regional Science is available on Wiley Online Library

ARTICLES

Firm relocations in the Netherlands: Why do firms move, and where do they go? (pages 691–713)
Kristin Kronenberg
Article first published online: 18 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00443.x

University-industry linkages: What are the determinants of distance in collaborations? (pages 715–739)
Alessandro Muscio
Article first published online: 18 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00442.x

Regional and company-specific factors for high growth dynamics of ICT companies in Germany with particular emphasis on knowledge spillovers (pages 741–772)
Christian Schröder
Article first published online: 23 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00457.x

Social capital in industrial districts: Influence of the strength of ties and density of the network on the sense of belonging to the district (pages 773–789)
F. Xavier Molina-Morales, Josep Capó-Vicedo, M. Teresa Martínez-Fernández and Manuel Expósito-Langa
Article first published online: 23 OCT 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00463.x

Footloose: An analysis of the drivers of firm relocations over different distances (pages 791–809)
Anet Weterings and Joris Knoben
Article first published online: 4 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00440.x

A proposal for detecting spatial contagion: Some evidence on the international migration distribution in Spain (pages 811–829)
María Hierro, Adolfo Maza and José Villaverde
Article first published online: 27 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00458.x

Trade costs, wage difference, and endogenous growth (pages 831–850)
Akinori Tanaka and Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00436.x

Models of spatial competition: A critical review (pages 851–871)
Ricardo Biscaia and Isabel Mota
Article first published online: 9 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00441.x

On Hotelling's ‘stability in competition’ with network externalities and switching costs (pages 873–883)
Luca Lambertini and Raimondello Orsini
Article first published online: 27 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00469.x

BOOK REVIEWS

Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation? Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies. edited by Nicola Bellini , Mike Danson and Henrik Halkier (eds.) Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 316pp. £100.00. ISBN: 978-0-415-68848-2 (pages 885–887)
Andreas P. Cornett
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12073

Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for other Developing Countries. by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013. 280pp. US$28.99. ISBN 978-1610392716. (pages 887–889)
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12072

Acknowledgement to Referees

Acknowledgement to referees (pages 891–892)
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12074

Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI

Volume 5, Issue 4 Pages i - ii, 369 - 490, November 2013
Special Issue: Territorial patterns of innovation: evidence from successful European case studies

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

Issue Information

Issue Information (pages i–ii)
Article first published online: 6 NOV 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-7802.2013.01096.x

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

Structural elements and dynamics in territorial patterns of innovation: A perspective through European case studies (pages 369–383)
Andrea Caragliu and Camilla Lenzi

Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12016

ARTICLES

Development dynamics within creative media industries: the case of television and digital media in Wales (pages 385–400)
Selyf Morgan
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12017

Knowledge creation and knowledge acquisition in the software industry in Slovakia: the case study of Košice region (pages 401–415)
Rudolf Pástor, Miroslav Šipikal and Štefan Rehák
Article first published online: 6 NOV 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12018

Patterns of innovation in the dairy processing sector in South West Wales (pages 417–434)
Selyf Morgan
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12019

PART II: DYNAMICS OF TERRITORIAL PATTERNS OF INNOVATION

Smart upgrading innovation strategies in a traditional industry: Evidence from the wine production in the province of Arezzo (pages 435–452)
Camilla Lenzi
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12020

Dynamics of knowledge diffusion: the ICT sector in Lombardy (pages 453–473)
Andrea Caragliu
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12021

The role of FDIs in regional innovation: Evidence from the automotive industry in Western Slovakia (pages 475–490)
Miroslav Šipikal and Milan Buček
Article first published online: 9 OCT 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12022

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces and Regional Science Association International

Mini conference

“Globalisation and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth”

June 19-20, 2014
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam

Organizers: Niels Beerepoot, Bart Lambregts, and Jana Kleibert (University of Amsterdam)

Conference Overview
The IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces is partnering with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) for a joint scientific event aimed at extending international research and scholarship in geography, promoting international collaboration in research activity and the dissemination of research findings, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge, experience and expertise between countries and institutions (http://uac.utoledo.edu/igu_commission/ ). Via the organisation of mini conferences the IGU committee and RSAI aims to bring together small groups of scholars for in-depth discussion on some of the latest issues in the field of economic geography.

The 2014 Amsterdam IGU/RSAI mini conference aims to stimulate discussions on how recent changes in the ways business processes are organized have been reshaping the international division of labour. After drastic shifts in the (spatial) organization of the production of goods, increasingly fierce competition forces firms look critically at how the production of services is organized. Digitization and advances in information and communication technologies enable firms to unbundle service business processes, and the increased global availability of sufficiently skilled labour allows for the relocation of particular business processes around the globe, leading to a new geography of services production. As a result, various Southern cities now command a prominent role as service delivery hubs for the global market. A growing, export-oriented service sector here is commonly understood to generate new employment opportunities for an increasingly well-educated labour force. It is also associated with the formation of a new middle class. Learning fast, multinational services producing enterprises from the global South rapidly expand their global presence, thereby presenting new competition to their Western peers. Simultaneously, patterns are further complicated by the tendency towards regionalization of value chains with production moving back to the firms’ regions of origin.

This conference welcomes contributions that deal with the drivers and the local outcomes (both in the global North and South) of the international reconfiguration of services production. More in particular we invite papers that address the following issues in different empirical and geographical contexts:
• Service sector growth and regional development
• Global production networks in service delivery
• New geographies of service work
• Local labour market impacts of the globalization of services production
• Emergence of Southern cities as hubs for service delivery
• Service work and the rise of a new middle class in developing countries
• The rise of non-Western multinationals in service delivery
• Service outsourcing and offshoring (and re-shoring)
• Linkages and comparisons between the globalization of manufacturing and services production

Abstracts
Abstracts (300 words max.) should be submitted by January 31 2014 to Niels Beerepoot: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Papers
Written papers submitted in advance will be circulated among the participants and considered for publication in an edited volume or special issue.

Registration
Deadline for registration is April 1, 2014.

Conference Package
Includes conference dinner, one lunch and conference materials: 75 euro.
A limited number of travel subsidies (of $250,- and $500,-) are available for PhD researchers. Please indicate your interest when submitting your abstract.

Location
This seminar is organised by the Geographies of Globalisation research group of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and will take place in one of the venues of the University of Amsterdam in the historic centre of Amsterdam.

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find enclosed a reminder for the submission of papers to the NECTAR cluster 4 session at at the 10th RSAI World Congress on 27-29 May 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The deadline has been extended to 18 November.

Please note that all enquiries should be directed to the session Organizers, by sending an e-mail

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

Best regards,

Knut Sandberg Eriksen

NECTAR Secretary