Global Crises, Mega Trends and Regional Development Conference Presentations
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DAY ONE: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
| Presentation Title | Presenter | Audio File |
| Professor Ron Martin – Welcome and introduction | ||
| >Session 1: Keynote Speaker Chair: Judith Clifton We have entered a new epoch…and in complex systems this is not always easy to recognise Professor Saskia Sassen |
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| Session 2: PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||
| Session 2A: Alternative perspectives on regional development (McGrath Centre) Chair: Robert Hassink |
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| Squaring the doughnut: On the myths and realities of Amsterdam’s circular economy | Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Kevin Morgan & Martin Jones | |
| Alternative conceptions of regional development in light of global crises and megatrends | Emil Evenhuis | |
| ‘Overcoming the ‘metric trap’ in regional-economic studies by adopting a transformational diversity perspective | Freek de Haan & Arnoud Lagendijk | |
| Session 2B: The impact of Covid-19 (Ramsden Room) Chair: Betsy Donald |
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| The impact of Brexit and Covid-19 on UK-EU trade – country and regional analysis | Paweł Dobrzański, Sebastian Bobowski & Karenjit Clare | |
| Rural areas as winners of the COVID19 pandemic? Digitalisation, working -from home and the internal migration of the highly qualified | Rolf Sternberg, Louis Knüpling & Anne Otto | |
| Economic Resilience and Regional Covid-19 Policies: Exploring Mitigation Strategies in the Netherlands | Frank van Oort, Mark Thissen & Anet Wetering | |
| Session 3: PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||
| Session 3A: Innovation and Smart Technology (McGrath Centre) Chair: Meric Gertler |
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| Arenas in the Regional Innovation Policy Mix | David Waite, Graeme Roy, Stuart McIntyre | |
| China’s new labour mobility in the digital age: from manufacturing to platform work |
Chun/Charlotte Yang & Pu Hao | |
| Global Digital Networks | Matthew Zook & Michael Grote | |
| Session 3B: Green Economy and Energy Transformation (Ramsden Room) Chair: Peter Sunley |
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| Socio-economic implications of green transformation in traditional industries of advanced economies: a comparative study of Japan’s and Germany’s automotive sectors | Anna Dzienis & Katarzyna Kamińska | |
| Understanding the role of oil and gas companies in the current sustainability trends. An application of the sustainable business model archetypes | Jaime Menéndez-Sánchez, Jorge Fernández-Gómez & Andrés Araujo | |
| Regional Diversification: Sustainable Evolution vs. Rollercoaster Development | Dieter Kogler, Changjun Lee, Keungoui Kim, Myungjin Oh | |
| Session 4: Climate change, the Environment and Sustainability – What should the future look like? Chair: Amy Glasmeier University leadership in the climate crisis: seizing the opportunity Professor Meric Gertler |
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DAY TWO: Thursday, 12 July 2023
| Presentation Title | Presenter | Audio File |
| Session 5: Keynote speaker Chair: Professor Ron Martin ‘The right kind of growth for everyone: policy challenges during the digital and green transformations’ Professor Dame Diane Coyle |
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| Session 6: PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||
| Session 6A: Industry Supply Chains (McGrath Centre) Chair: Dieter Kogler |
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| GVCs and income inequality | Martina Pardy and Eduardo Rodriguez | |
| The great re-balancing and its impact on relocation and innovation strategies of multinational enterprises in Europe: Evidence from Danish micro data The great re-balancing and its impact on relocation and innovation strategies of multinational enterprises in Europe: Evidence from Danish micro data |
Timo Mitze & Torben Dall Schmidt | |
| Vertical integration and patterns of divergence in European industries: A long term input-output analysis | Fabio Ascione & Maria Enrica Virgillitor | |
| Session 6B: The Circular Economy (Ramsden Room) Chair: Emil Evenhuis |
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| The spatial perspective of circular economy (CE): an evidence from the mobilisation of territorial resources in the implementation of local CE projects. | Sébastien Bourdin | |
| Challenges to a circular economy in construction minerals Practices in the Greater Oslo region | Bjørnar Sæther | |
| Atmanirbhar Bharat – India’s Approach to the Circular Economy | Pratiksha Ashok | |
| Session 7: Levelling up Chair: Mia Gray |
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| The Way You Look at Me. Improving local measures of left-behind groups and inequality in times of turmoil. | Daria Denti, Paola Proietti, Alice Siragusa, Iraklis Stamos | |
| Losing Ground? A long-term comparative analysis of shifting middle-class dynamics in canada’s urban system | Niall Harney & Sébastien Breau | |
| Levelling Up ‘left behind’ Redcar & Cleveland in Northeast England | Luke Telford & Jonathan Wistow | |
| Session 8: Closing Panel discussion : Reflections and future research Panel discussion Speakers include: Ron Martin, Judith Clifton, Peter Sunley Amy Glasmeier |
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| Conference closes | ||