Globalisation in Crisis? Conference Presentations
Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability Conference Programme
Some of the presenters have given their permission for their presentations from the conference to be made available however please note that presentations should not be quoted or copied without the express permission of the authors.
DAY ONE: Thursday, 13 July 2017
| Presentation Title | Presenter |
| Session 1: Globalisation in Crisis? Chair: Ron Martin, University of Cambridge |
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| ‘Separate Worlds? The challenge of regional economic divergence and populism to regional economics and economic geography’ | Michael Storper |
| ‘Globalisation after the Financial Crisis: Structural Change and the Reconfiguration of Geography’ | Jonathan Perraton |
| PARALLEL SESSION 2 | |
| Session 2A: Cohesion Policy and ‘the Great Instability’ Chair: Pete Tyler |
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| ‘Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Technological Opportunities of Regions. A Framework for Smart Specialization’ | Pierre-Alexandre Balland, David Rigby and Ron Boschma |
| ‘Anchors Away! The Evolution of an ICT Cluster During and After the Sinking of its Flagship Company’ | Dieter F. Kogler, Peter Kedron, Greg Spencer |
| ‘What was the Effect of the Economic Crisis on Fuzzy Measures of Poverty at the Regional Level?’ | Gianni Betti, Federico Crescenzi and Francesca Gagliardi |
| ‘Regional Recovery and the EU Structural Funds’ | Raffaele Lagravinese and Riccardo Crescenzi |
| Session 2B: Session 2B: Institutions and Policies for a New Moderation? (1) Chair: Peter Sunley |
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| ‘‘Institutions and Policies in City Economic Evolution: Evidence from British Cities‘ | Andy Pike, Emil Evenhuis, David Bailey and Peter Sunley |
| ‘Practice Running Ahead of Theory? Political Economy and the Economic Lessons of UK Devolution’ | Graham Brownlow |
| ‘Integrating Spatial and Sectoral Policy: Evolutionary Conceptualisations in the Context of South-East Wales’ | Nick Clifton, Robert Huggins, David Pickernell and David Waite |
| PARALLEL SESSION 3 | |
| Session 3A: Structural Change and Uneven Development Chair: Judith Clifton |
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| ‘Growing Apart? Structural Transformation and the Uneven Development of British Cities’ | Peter Tyler, Emil Evenhuis, Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Ben Gardiner |
| ‘The City Dimension of the Great Productivity Slowdow’ | Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Ben Gardiner, Emil Evenhuis and Peter Tyler |
| ‘Why Don’t We See Growth Up and Down the Country?’ | Paul Swinney |
| ‘Reviving Industrial Eco-systems in Mature Economies : A Place Based Approach’ | Phil Tomlinson, David Bailey and Christos Pitelis |
| Session 3B: Institutions and Policies for a New Moderation? (2) Chair: Robert Hassink |
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| ‘High Tech Firms in Small- and Medium Sized Towns’ | Rahel Meili |
| ‘New Technological Path Creation and the Role of Institutions In Different Geo-Political Spaces’ | James Simmie and Camilla Chlebna |
| ‘Regions in Transition: New Path Development and Old Path Disruption as Core Policy Challenges’ | Michaela Trippl and Alexandra Frangenheim |
| Session 4: Panel discussion on Policy Levers for New Sector Growth Paths in Cities and Regions Chair: Pete Tyler |
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| Panel discussion on “Identifying Policy Levers for New Sector Growth Paths in Local Economies”, in cooperation with OECD With: Jonathan Potter (OECD), Ron Boschma (Lund University), Erik Stam (Utrecht University), Rosa Fernandez (Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; United Kingdom) |
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| Session 5: Remembering Susan Christopherson Chair: Meric Gertler |
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| Brief speeches by several members of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | |
DAY TWO: Friday, 14 July 2017