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“How Regions Can Re-invent Themselves ” with Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Regional Resilience: How Cities and Regions Thrive in Times of Crises

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June 26, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Professor of Economic Geography and Network Science

Description

No region can rely on past successes, rather constant transformation and re-invention is necessary for a region to keep developing. Many regional policies, such as smart specialization, aim to support regions in this process of re-invention. Yet, the operationalization of regional development policies has been rather limited because a coherent set of analytical tools to guide the policy directives remains elusive. In this webinar Pierre-Alexandre Balland proposes a policy framework around the concepts of relatedness and knowledge complexity. Based on a recent study, he shows that diversifying into more complex technologies is attractive but difficult for European Union regions to accomplish. Regions can overcome this diversification dilemma by developing new complex technologies that build on local related capabilities. These findings are then used to construct a policy framework for smart specialization that highlights the potential risks and rewards for regions of adopting competing diversification strategies.

Pierre-Alexandre Balland is Assistant Professor of Economic Geography and Network Science at Utrecht University, Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab), and Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems Studies. He received his Master and PhD degree in Economics from the University of Toulouse in France. His interests and scientific work concentrates on Economic Geography, Economics of Innovation, the evolution of knowledge and network science. Balland has published his research in international journals such as "Regional Studies", "Journal of Economic Geography", "Research Policy" and "Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society".

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Attendees

Paula Tulppo

Andrea Belmartino

Milad Abbasiharofteh

Santiago Jose Perez Balsalobre

Kieran McLean

Theofanis Gekas

Florian Hack

Enrico Benassi

Bianca Vasconcellos

Prince Opoku Agyemang

Beatriz Pereira de Almeida

Judit Kalman

Felix Kalvelage

Fernando Mesquita

Shivani Shukla

Phuoc Pham

Alessandra de Renzis

Elton Freitas

Manuela Cóppola

Rafael Campos

Shivani Kokate

Claudio Caprarulo

Barbara FRANÇA

Emanuele Fabbri

Abdul raoof

RAFAEL SALES

Helen Cunningham

Igor Tupy

Ibanca Anand

Melina Galdos-Frisancho

Leslie King

Leslie King

Oliver Harman

Rafał Gajewski

Carlo Bottai

Renan Almeida

Jonathan Soto Moreno

Kai Erlenbusch

Thiago Mendes

Simone Maria Grabner

Li Fang

T Kudah Jairus

Anto Fuller

Mariia Shkolnykova

Jessica Birkholz

MAROUANE MASNAOUI

Andrés Niembro

Eugenie Mireille Kodogo

Arturo González

Diego osorio

Daniela Calá