First SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development - Call for abstract
Co-organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the Regional Studies Association, this conference aims to take stock of the smart specialisation experience and assess its current state of the art both in terms of conceptual developments and practical implementation. It offers to a limited number of participants from academia, European Institutions and territorial authorities, a unique opportunity to discuss these issues, to define the scope and main avenues for future research and policy analysis, and to address the challenges confronting policy makers and practitioners.
The conference organisers are keen to attract papers that address the whole spectrum of topics, disciplines, and methodologies encompassed by the smart specialisation approach, including contributions from all areas of regional analysis with a link to smart specialisation. As well as academic submissions, papers contributed by practitioners and by a combination of academics and practitioners are very much welcomed. Papers reflecting on similar policy experiments outside Europe would also be welcome.
Please submit proposals for papers in the form of a 400-500 word abstract (text only, no pictures, graphs or tables) through the Regional Studies Association online portal by Thursday 30th June 2016.
Proposals will be considered by the Conference Programming Committee against the criteria of originality, interest and subject balance.