18th Uddevalla Symposium 2015 on:

Regional development in an international context Regional, national, cross border and international factors for growth and development

June 11-13, 2015
Venue: University of Southern Denmark, Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16th, 2015

The theme of the Uddevalla Symposium

Since the beginning of the European process of economic and political integration in the aftermath of the Second World War, international constraint on regional development measures have increasingly become important. In this sense the theories of neo-functional integration and functional spill-overs have been confirmed to a certain extent in the area of regional policy. In the first years, this process was mainly facilitated by the rules of competition policy. Nowadays, market forces powered by global liberalization are the main drivers, eroding the economic base of many regions and industries in the mature industrial economies. These processes have resulted in a fundamental alteration of the global and to same extent also the European economic landscape, recently also internal in the most developed OECD countries. The financial crisis and the European debt-crisis have reinforced the adjustment, also affecting the public sector and in particular the location of public service. The latter has significant impacts on the regional balance, also in relative good performing economies. Furthermore, these trends illuminate the changes in the framework for regional policy, and stress the need for international and cross border solutions, since national initiatives increasingly becomes obsolete or impossible due to international commitments and the market forces.

The aim of the 18th Uddevalla Symposium is to gather high-quality contributions that bring new theoretical and/or new empirical knowledge of these issues. A central purpose of the symposium is to investigate how economic growth and development are affected by inter and intraregional linkages and spillovers. In this context theoretical and empirical investigations of the economic, social and institutional environment on different layers in economic regions are needed. Of particular interest are studies of innovation, entrepreneurship and human capital, together with assessments of the integration of the regional economy at large into the European and global production system. In this perspective studies of different types of regions with regard to factor endowment, firms and instructional setting as well as the nature of interregional activities (i.e. trade, commuting, innovation cooperation or FDI etc.) are of particular interest.

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Cristina Chaminade, University of Torino, Italy
• Dr. Georgeanne M. Artz, Iowa State University, USA
• Prof. Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Johannes Bröcker, Christian-Alberchts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
• Prof. Cristina Chaminade, CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden
• Prof. Yvonne von Friedrichs, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
• Prof. Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Prof. Simona Iammarino, London School of Economics, UK
• Prof. Franz W. Kellermanns, University of North Carolina ? Charlotte, USA
• Prof. Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USA
• Prof. André Torre, National Institute for Agronomic Research, Paris, France

For more information, download the Call for Papers (.pdf) or visit the symposium website.