General programme | Session programme | Keynote speakers
Subject to changes.
You will find the session programme here.
We are honoured to have both experience and enthusiasm for the NORSA 2010 plenary sessions, as Prof. Dr. Ann Markusen, Prof. Dr. Ron Boschma, Dr. Arnoud Lagendijk and Dr. Paul Benneworth have promised to give the keynote lectures of the conference.
Paul Benneworth: Globalisation in regional studies for the 21st century: beyond global pipelines, local buzz [Presentation]
Paul Benneworth is a senior researcher at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Prior to this post, he worked in a variety of research posts at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom, from 2005-2009 as a RCUK Academic Fellow in Territorial Governance of Innovation at the University of Newcastle's Institute of Policy and Practice. His research interests focused on the territorial governance of innovation, and in particular the roles played by universities in those networks.
Ron Boschma: How do regions diversify over time? The importance of technological relatedness [Presentation]
Ron Boschma is a professor in regional economics and a director in Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University. His research interests cover evolutionary economics and economic geography, spatial evolution of industries, regional systems of innovation, and industrial districts in Italy. He is also the deputy chief editor of Regional Studies and a member editorial board of Economic Geography.
Arnoud Lagendijk: Regional innovation policy versus spatial cohesion. The problematic reconciliation between the 'knowledge economy' and the 'knowledge society' [Presentation]
Arnoud Lagendijk is a lecturer in the Nijmegen School of Management. He has also worked as a lecturer in economic geography at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, visiting research fellow at the University of Reading and Research Associate at CURDS, Newcastle. His research focuses on regional development and processes of regionalisation across Europe. He is especially interested in relational approaches to region formation, exploring the impact of the circulation of ideas, practices, and forms of governance. Other research themes include the development of spatial planning concepts in The Netherlands, clustering and cluster policy (with emphasis on SMEs), the localisation and investment strategies of multinational companies and the rise of alternative economic practices.
Ann Markusen: Arts and Culture as Placemaking and Regional Economic Development
Ann Markusen is a professor in Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota and the director of the institute's project on regional and industrial economics. Her research interests cover a wide perspective to regional economy and development including arts and culture, planning, industrial organization, industrial and occupational planning, economic impact of high technology and military spending. Currently, her research focuses on occupational approaches to regional development and on artists and cultural activity as regional economic stimulants.
Before joining the Humphrey Institute, Markusen was State of New Jersey Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers University. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Colorado. She was elected president of the North American Regional Science Association in 2000. She won the McCoy Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning in 2005 and the Prestigious Alonso Prize in regional science in 2006.