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Happening this Wednesday 25 Sept, 9am BST, the first online event for the RSA SPRINT Research Network 'Introduction to novel methodologies in regional innovation policies' Register for free here: bit.ly/3BfAC4E

And yes!! We’ve submitted our special session for the RSA Annual Conference 2025 #RSA25 in Porto!! Send your abstract before 19/Dec!!! Regional Studies Association Dima Yankova Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez Martina Pardy Benjamín Cornejo-Costas

Prof Kirsten Sehnbruch has generated a multidimensional measure of poor-quality employment. Results show that a quarter of the UK labour force is employed in poor-quality jobs, increasing to 1 in 3 in London. Read more in our 2024 Annual Report (pg 43) 👉ow.ly/36A350TXpee

Day 1 at the UB was filled with a lot of Sun, intros to the UN & RAUN and a lot of team bondings. ✍️✍️✍️

🚨 Just 9 days to go! 🚨 Don’t miss the chance to submit your abstract for SS17: Place-based Approaches to Regional Development and Sustainability at the #RSA25 Annual Conference in Portugal! 🇵🇹 📆 Deadline: 19/12/24 🔗 Submit here: regionalstudies.org/events/rsa25/ Act fast and join us!

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New! Brexit has reduced goods exports by £27bn – with smaller firms most affected. Rebecca Freeman , Marco Garofalo, Enrico Longoni, Kalina Manova UCL Economics , Rebecca Mari, Thomas Prayer, Thomas Sampson Read: cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/…

🚨Exciting Announcement: we launch our workshop: Pathways to Future Regional Development 🗓 Date: May 20, 2025 📍 Location: Vienna, Austria ‼️ Travel funds available

🚨🚨Call for papers!! Join us in Vienna!!

#Sustainability, #inequality & #innovation will shape the economies of tomorrow. Join WIFO, RSA, and SPRINT in Vienna on 20 May 2025 for a workshop on these urgent themes. Keynotes from Ljubica Nedelkoska & Riccardo Crescenzi . Submissions due 20 Feb. 📩[email protected]

We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Places vs. People: US regions that were strongly exposed to Chinese import competition in the 2000s eventually recover in terms of job levels but many former manufacturing workers struggle to find a way back to employment. David Autor Gordon Hanson Maggie Jones Brad Setzler

Excited to see it in print and hope it will be helpful for authors, referees, and readers of papers with shift-share variables (not only IV)! Do not miss the conceptual discussion in "Shift-Share Basics", the summary of practical steps in Table 2, and Q&A in the online appendix

Only a few days left to apply! WIFO, Regional Studies Association and SPRINT Research Network organize a workshop on "Pathways to Future Regional Development" - Sustainability, inequality and innovation - in beautiful Vienna. Keynotes by Ljubica Nedelkoska and Riccardo Crescenzi! Happy to see you there.

#Innovation should be “in the air,” but for many firms, it’s suffocating. In a new Research Policy article, Martina Pardy shows that as MNEs scale up, middle-tier #firms #patent less—outgunned and outpaced in a race where scale has become the strategy. doi.org/10.1016/j.resp…

Warming up for tomorrow's big event in Vienna! We're excited to kick off our workshop with WIFO and Regional Studies Association. Our first keynote speaker will be Riccardo Crescenzi from LSE. 📅 May 20th, 9.15 AM (CEST) 🎥 Join us online: shorturl.at/txRTp

And in the afternoon, we will host our second keynote speaker from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Ljubica Nedelkoska 📅 May 20th, 3:15 PM (CEST) 🎥 Join us online: shorturl.at/QhZFg

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting our workshop in Vienna in collaboration with WIFO. A big thanks to all the presenters for sharing their inspiring work, and special thanks to our keynote speakers Riccardo Crescenzi and Ljubica Nedelkoska for their outstanding presentations!

This was an inspiring workshop and a lovely group of researchers. I enjoyed the mix of academic work, impact projects, and policy applications. Thank you SPRINT Research Network, WIFO Martina Pardy, Dima Yankova and Anna Burton!

Please don't forget to submit your abstract to the 16th Geoff Hewings Regional Economics Workshop at WIFO! We are looking forward to great keynotes by Gabriel M Ahlfeldt and Stefanie Peer. Policies for Smart Specialisation ERSA Regional Studies Association Zenne Hellinga Martina Pardy Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez J Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo Dima Yankova