Theme & Program

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|