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Spatial Productivity Lab special sessions and conference participation

 

The Spatial Productivity Lab at the OECD Trento Centre is an active participant in the current academic and policy debates on the spatial dimension of productivity, innovation and territorial development more broadly. Join our Special Sessions and attend our presentations at the upcoming conferences!


2023 RSA Annual Conference | 62nd ERSA Congress | XLIV A.I.S.Re. Annual Scientific Conference

 2023 RSA Annual Conference

 14-17 June 2023Ljubljana, Slovenia

Joint special session of the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and the University of Primorska, Slovenia 

Productivity for Regional Growth and Cohesion (SS08)

Following a period of economic growth and recovery since 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, the world has gone through a global pandemic and is currently experiencing a large energy and general price inflation period. Both events touch upon the fundamental structure of European and other advanced economies.
Within countries, regional economies are differently affected by the shocks and their adaptability to changing circumstances varies. However, the magnitude of such differences and their effects on productivity are still to be satisfactorily measured and interpreted. This is important since differences between regional economic circumstances strongly affect their growth opportunities.

The proposed special session offers a forum for a comprehensive discussion on the spatial drivers of productivity and the ways for subnational policies to facilitate regional productivity growth as well as on the implications of spatial differences in productivity for other socioeconomic dimensions such as wellbeing, inequality and resilience.

Quality contributions are invited on a broad range of topics within the outlined focus including (but not limited to):

  • spatial patterns of productivity performance and their implications;
  • regional and local differences in public sector productivity;
  • the role of entrepreneurship, innovation, skills and technologies;
  • the role of digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence;
  • the role of infrastructure, agglomerations and smart specialization;
  • spatial productivity implications of globalization, international trade and GVCs;
  • the implication of the green transition and regional productivity
  • spatial productivity implications of a shift to teleworking;
  • labour market productivity effects of regional (internal) migration;
  • the link between productivity and governance structure;
  • the interaction of productivity and resilience, productivity and wellbeing and productivity and inequality.

  

 

More Information

Call for papers

Submit your abstract here by 28 February 2023 and select session SS08 Productivity for Regional Growth and Cohesion

Links

Official website

 

The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab

  

University of Primorska

 

 

Contact

Wessel.Vermeulen@oecd.org

 

 

62nd ERSA Congress & XLIV A.I.S.Re. Annual Scientific Conference 

 62nd ERSA on 28 August-1 September 2023Alicante, Spain

 XLIV A.I.S.Re. Annual Scientific Conference on 6-8 September 2023Naples, Italy

Joint special sessions of the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

Digitalisation, global shocks and new inequalities

Workers, firms, regions and cities are increasingly subject to rapidly changing environment and are experiencing a rapid evolution of economic and technological circumstances. The global COVID-19 pandemic and recent surge of energy prices in Europe require ever increasing capability of adaptation, innovation and creativity from people, firms and local policy makers.

The adoption of advanced technologies can boost firms resilience against local and global shocks. At the same time, the emergence and adoption of advanced technologies, from automation to Artificial Intelligence, can also induce disruptive consequences for firms and people. Moreover, local and firm characteristics can determine the impact of global shocks, their adaptability to new circumstances, the ability to adopt new technologies and the impact on spatial productivity.
This special session invites papers that aim to measure and estimate indicators of technology development and adoption and its impact on the performance of firms and other organisations as well as broader social implications, such on inequality, e.g. through varying effects on workers, and the resilience of places and local labour markets.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

  • digitalisation and adoption of advanced technologies by firms and the public sector,
  • the consequences of remote working for firms and places,
  • the implications of energy intensive sectors and energy efficiency on regional economies and jobs,
  • the spatial reorganisation of global value chains and internationalisation strategies of firms facing the global COVID-19 pandemic, energy crisis and green transition,
  • the new spatial inequalities emerging from the new technological trends and global upheaval.

For each of these, the session welcomes papers discussing the implications for workers, firms, regional productivity and regional policy.

  

 

More Information

Call for papers

ERSA: Submit your abstract here by 15 March 2023 and select session SS15 Digitalisation, global shocks and new inequalities.

AISRe:  Submit your abstract here by 28 February 2023 and select session Digitalisation, global shocks and new inequalities.


Links

ERSA official website

 

A.I.S.Re. official website

 

The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab

  

Contact

Wessel.Vermeulen@oecd.org

 

 
 
 

 
Previous Special Sessions


2022

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab presentation at the 7th World KLEMS conference, 12-13 October 2022, Manchester, United Kingdom

13 Oct 2022 | 15.30-17.00 | Presentation: Regional productivity - Drivers and shocks

Discussion paper

 

Official website

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Politecnico di Milano special session at the XLIII A.I.S.Re. Annual Scientific Conference, 5-7 September, Milan, Italy 

5 Sept 2022 | 14.00-16.00 | Relaunch of productivity for regional growth and cohesion

Agenda of the event

 

Official website

 

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab special session at the 61st ERSA Congress, 23-26 August 2022, Pecs, Hungary & Virtual

22 Aug 2022 | 12.00-13.00 | S25 The spatial dimensions of productivity for regional growth

Agenda of the event

 

Official website

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab special session and presentation at the 6th Geography of Innovation Conference, GEOINNO2022, 4-6 July 2022, Milan, Italy

6 Jul 2022 | 9.00-10.30 |  OECD Policy Roundtable organised by the Spatial Productivity Lab  - Automation, Digitalisation and AI: A roadmap for regions

5 Jul 2022 | 16.20-18.25 | Presentation: Transformative regional resilience and innovation

Agenda of the event

 

Official website

 


2021

Relaunch of productivity for regional growth and cohesion

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Politecnico di Milano special sessions at the 60th ERSA Congress on "Territorial Futures - Visions and scenarios for a resilient Europe", 24-28 August 2021, digital

25 Aug 2021 | 10.15-11.45 | S09-S1 Relaunch of productivity for regional growth and cohesion: Institutions, the public sector and productivity

25 Aug 2021 | 12.00-13.30 | S09-S2 Relaunch of Productivity for Regional Growth and Cohesion: Innovation, technology and productivity 

26 Aug 2021 | 12.00-13.30 | S09-S3 Relaunch of productivity for regional growth and cohesion: Industrial structure, transitions and productivity

26 Aug 2021 | 16.15-17.45 | S09-S4 Relaunch of productivity for regional growth and cohesion: Productivity, competitiveness and resilience


OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Bank of Italy special sessions at the 60th ERSA Congress on "Territorial Futures - Visions and scenarios for a resilient Europe", 24-28 August 2021, digital

25 Aug 2021 | 16.15-17.45 | S64 Regional competitiveness and growth: Microeconomic drivers

27 Aug 2021 | 14.30-16.00 | S63 Regional competitiveness and growth: Macroeconomic trends

Official website

 


2019

The spatial dimension of productivity

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab special sessions at the 59th ERSA Congress on "Cities, regions and digital transformation: Opportunities, risks and shallenges", 27-30 August 2019, Lyon, France

Agenda of the four OECD Special Sessions 

Official website

  

 

 

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