ERSA - European Regional Science Association

Theme & Program

Congress Main Theme & Types of Sessions

1. CONGRESS THEME:

The main theme of the Congress is Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy. This theme encompasses and reflects wider European concerns about regional growth and development in an era of globalisation and increased environmental awareness, expressed not least in the Lisbon Agenda. Besides the main theme, the congress is open for all issues concerning regional problems. A broad range of topics are listed among the themes below.

2. TYPES OF SESSIONS:

1- Refereed R-session Papers addressed to these sessions will be refereed by the theme convenors for each thematic topic. The deadline for the full paper submission for R-sessions is 14th April 2010.

2 - Refereed Y-session Papers are for Young Scientists. For these sessions, all coauthors of the paper should be younger than 33 years old on September 1st 2010. The full papers will be refereed by the convenor of the Young Scientists’ Sessions. All authors will compete for the Epainos Award, which is awarded to the best paper presented in these sessions. The deadline for submission of the full paper for Y-sessions is 14th April 2010.

3 - Ordinary O-session Papers addressed to these sessions are not refereed, but they will be included in the Conference USB stick/pen drive, unless the authors choose otherwise. The deadline for the full paper submission, if it is to be included in the USB stick/pen drive, is 18th June 2010.

4 - Special S-session Papers for these special sessions may be refereed by the special session organiser, if he/she decides to do so. The deadlines for abstract and/or final paper submissions are also determined by each special session organiser.

For a paper submission click HERE.

ERSA 2010 Congress Themes

A.Regional Science epistemology and pedagogy

B. Sustainability issues in regional development

C. Regional aspects of the knowledge economy

D. Regional economic modeling and spatial econometrics

E. Geographical information systems and spatial analysis

F. CGE-modeling in space

G. Location studies

H. Gender aspects of regional development

I. Regional health and welfare issues

J. Globalization and regional competitiveness

K. Infrastructure, transports and communications

L. Regional economic growth and development

M. Problems and prospects of European integration

N. Cross-border cooperation and development

O. Urban-rural relationships

P. Regional and urban policy, planning and governance

Q. Land use, real estate and housing markets

R. Social capital and regional development

S. Rural and local development

T. Tourism and regional development

U. Innovation and regional development

V. Entrepreneurship and regional development

W. Labour markets and demography

X. Social segregation, poverty and social policy

Y. Territorial cohesion and regional development

Z. Clusters – actors, processes and performance

ZA. Evolutionary economic geography

Special Sessions

Hereunder is a list of all the Special Sessions -and their convenors- that will be held at the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International in Jönköping, Sweden.

|SS1. High Quality Entrepreneurship| Michael Fritsch|
|SS2. Location Factors and Location Choice| Andreas Stephan|
|SS3. 13th Uddevalla Symposium 2010-Innovation and Multidimensional Entrepreneurship: Economic, Social and Academic Aspects| Roger Stough & Kingsley Haynes|
|SS4. State-of-the-art in spatial computable general equilibrium modelling| Olga Ivanova|
|SS5. Productivity effects of regional infrastructure investments| Andreas Stephan|
|SS7. R&D Strategies, Innovation and Growth| Martin Andersson|
|SS8. Evaluation of social capital and proximity on a firm/country level| Stanislaw Walukiewicz|
|SS9. Road Pricing| Jonas Eliasson|
|SS11. Entrepreneurship in rural regions| Johan Klaesson|
|SS12. Regional development in a Northern European perspective| Andreas Cornett & Aki Kangasharju|
|SS13. Regional Science and Complexity| Danny Czamanski|
|SS14. ERSA-NECTAR Special Session: Commuting, Migration, Housing and Labour Markets: Complex Interactions| Anette Haas & Liv Osland|
|SS15. The neighbourhood economy: local dynamics of firms and networks| Veronique Schutjens|
|SS16. The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region: A first resume of a work in progress| Stefan August & Lütgenau|
|SS17. Social/societal entrepreneurship| Bengt Johannisson & Malin Gawell|
|SS18. Round table with winners of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research| Pontus Braunerhjelm|
|SS19. Location and migration patterns of “creativity”| Alessandra Faggian & Charlotta Mellander|
|SS20. The 7th Swedish-Japanese workshop on social capital and rural development| Hans Westlund|
|SS21. Social Capital, Crime & Safety in Urban Environments| Vania Ceccato & Inga Britt Werner|
|SS23. Challenges in regional economic history| Lena-Andersson-Skog|
|SS24. The role of universities as regional economic innovators| Björn Hårsman|
|SS25. ERSA-NECTAR Special Session on High-Speed Rail as a new transport network| Moshe Givoni & Piet Rietveld|
|SS26. Statistics Sweden’s special session on databases and visualisation tools| Alf Fyhrlund|
|SS27. Territorial Governance, Rural Areas and Agrofood Systems| André Torre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac|
|SS28. ERSA-NECTAR Special Session on Accessibility and Spatial Patterns| Aura Reggiani & Andrea De Montis & Gebhard Wulfhorst|
|SS29. Planning and place marketing - theoretical implications| Krister Olsson|
|SS30. Regional city - reproduction and transformation of place in regional planning| Krister Olsson|
|SS32. Creative Regions: Cultural and Creative Industries & Regional Development| Roberta Comunian|
|SS33. Services and the Territory: Spatial aspects and problems of Service Activities| Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura|
|SS34. Migration and Regional Development| Ceren Ozgen|
|SS35. Special Session - PREPARE| Gunther Maier|
|SS36. Landscape Economics| Henk Folmer & Wim Heijman & Martijn van der Heide|
|[SS37. Chinese Special Session on Environment Policy & Regional Economy]| Yoshiro Higano|

Practitioners Sessions

To view the full list of Practitioners Sessions click HERE.

Program overview and FINAL programme

The final Jonkoping program is online


Final Program 17.08.2010

Chairs will find information on the session they chair by doing a search into the program on their name. If a chairperson has not been explicitly mentioned in the program, the presenter of the last paper will chair the session. All delagates are invited to check if they chair a session.

HOW DO I FIND AN ABSTRACT, AN AUTHOR, MY SESSION CODE, ETC..?

Please use the Online Attendee Session Planner will allow you to do a search via criterias.
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To view the Program Overview


ERSA 2010 Program Overview

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Keynote Speakers & Special Round Table

We have the pleasure to announce the participation of the following Keynote Speakers in the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International in Jönköping, Sweden.

Prof. Fabrizio BARCA
The Annual Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture, co-hosted by the Regional Studies Association and the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association

Biography:
Mr. Barca is Director General of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. His primary responsibilities include development policies, both national and European, for lagging or underutilized territories (mostly the Italian Mezzogiorno), establishing funding priorities (for about 16 billions euro a year) and public investment guidelines, evaluating policies and monitoring results. Previously, he was division chief at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy. He graduated from Rome University, carried an M-Phil degree and conducted research at the Universities of Cambridge (1978-80), MIT (1989-90), and Stanford (1994). He had appointments at the Universities of Bocconi, Siena, Modena, and Rome, where he taught corporate finance and Italian economic history. His works include papers and books on the theory of the firm, evidence on SMEs, corporate governance, the history of Italian capitalism, and territorial development policies.
The Barca Report

Prof. Annalee SAXENIAN

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Biography:
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how the "brain circulation" by immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley has transferred technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel.
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master’s in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College.

Prof. William STRANGE

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Biography
William Strange is RIOCAN Real Estate Investment Trust Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics, Rotman School of Management and Department of Economics, University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman School of Management in 2001 from the University of British Columbia. At UBC, Professor Strange served as Chair of the Urban Land Economics Division and Director of the Centre for Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. Professor Strange is currently Second Vice President of AREUEA, and he has served on the AREUEA Board from 2004-2006. He is currently Editor of Journal of Urban Economics (with Stuart Rosenthal). Professor Strange’s research concerns urban economics and real estate. He has published on a wide range of topics. Some papers have dealt with industry clusters, spatial concentrations of employment like the Silicon Valley. Much of this research has concerned urban labor markets and worker skills. Other research has analyzed "private government," collective institutions that combine the features of the traditional private and public sectors like community associations, business improvement districts, private schools, and gated communities.

Moreover, a Special Round Table Session will be organised with

Prof. Paul KRUGMAN

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Prof. Masahisa FUJITA

Prof. Anthony J. VENABLES

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and Prof. Jacques THISSE will be leading the discussion.

Biography:
Jacques Thisse, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Regional Science Association International, is professor of economics and regional science at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a member of CORE. His main fields of interest are in location theory, economic geography, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 150 papers in various scientific journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, Mathematics of Operations Research, Geographical Analysis and Journal of Economic Geography. He has held a full professorship at the Sorbonne (France) and has been visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA). He is the co-author of Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation (MIT Press), Economics of Agglomeration (Cambridge University Press) and Economic Geography (Princeton University Press). He is member of the Paris School of Economics and a Fellow of CEPR.

Prof. Peter BATEY - Celebrating Plenary Lecture

Peter Batey has been Lever Professor of Town and Regional Planning in the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool since 1989. He holds degrees in Geography (BSc Sheffield), Planning (MCD Liverpool) and Regional Science (PhD Liverpool) and is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI). Earlier in his career he worked as a professional planner in two local authorities in North West England. He spent 1981-82 as a Fulbright Scholar in the Regional Science Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Peter has been an active figure in the regional science community for nearly forty years, notably as the organiser of three ERSA Congresses (London, 1979; Cambridge, 1989; and Liverpool, 2008). He was a founder member of the European Organising Committee. He was Editor of the European volumes of Papers in Regional Science (1978-85) and chaired the Epainos Prize jury from 1999-2004. In 1997-98 Peter served as World President of RSAI. He was elected a Fellow of RSAI in 2006 and an honorary member of the Japan Section in 2008.

Peter’s research has been in the fields of planning methods, geodemographics and demographic-economic modelling. He has almost 120 publications to his name. Peter maintains a high profile in urban and regional affairs, currently serving as government-appointed independent chairman of the Mersey Basin Campaign (2004-10) and as a member of the North West Regional Economic Forecasting Panel. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2000. He serves as an Editor of the Town Planning Review.

Prof. Philip McCANN
Special Session: "The Swedish School of Regional Science".

Professor Philip McCann, University of Groningen has been appointed as a Special Adviser to Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy. Philip will work alongside the other newly-appointed Special Adviser, Fabrizio Barca, Director General of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and author of the 2009 Independent Report "An Agenda for a Reformed Cohesion Policy".

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