Abstract Submissions

The 20th Regional Innovation Policies Conference organising committee invites abstract submissions related to regional innovation policies, in relation to, but not limited to, the following Themes and Open Special sessions:

Themes

• Regional Innovation Policies and Skills Development: Education, Training and Productivity
• Rethinking Innovation and Industrial Policies: Roles of Place-Based Strategies in an Era of Disruptive Changes in the Global Economy
• Building Place-Based Innovation Ecosystems: Actors, Intermediation and Networks
• Transitioning Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Across Resilient and Resurgent Regions
• Evaluating Place-based Innovation Policies: Evidence, Data and Methodologies

Special Sessions

• Session A - Future-Oriented Regional Innovation Policies: Imaginaries, Transitions, and Uneven Development (organised by University of Stavanger and Universität für Bodenkultur Wien team)
• Session B - Creative Coastal Futures: Partnerships, Projects and Practices with Creative Industries across Coastal Regions (organised by University of Plymouth team)
• Session C - Procuring Innovation for the Regional Future: Place-Based Strategies and Practices (organised by University of Birmingham, University of Manchester, CPC/IPEC)
• Session D - Building Effective University-Policy Partnerships to Support Innovation and Place-Based Impact (organised by University of Birmingham and University of Venice team)
• Session E - Small, marginal or too resistant to change? Policies for Inclusive and Sustainable Regional Food Systems (organised by Venice School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff University and Northumbria University)
• Session F - History, Retrovation and the Temporalities of Regional Innovation (organised by Justus Liebig University Giessen and University of Padova)