# The 54th ERSA Congress

Saint Petersburg, August 26-29, 2014

Welcome to the 54th ERSA Congress!

ERSA and the Local Organising Committee
wish you an inspiring and pleasant participation!

## Table of Contents

03. Welcome to ERSA Saint Petersburg 2014

08. Foreword of the ERSA President

09. Committees & Teams

11. Programme Overview

13. Sessions Themes

18. ERSA 2014 Exhibition

19. Congress Venue, Practical information

25. University room facilities

33. Social Programme Overview

36. Technical visits & Optional tours

47. Congress Programme

48. Tuesday, 26th August

48. Wednesday, 27th August

99. Thursday, 28th August

163. Friday, 29th August

191. List of Participants
# Implementing the agroecological transition: weak or strong modernization of agriculture? Focus on the mycorrhiza supply chain in France.

Valérie Angeon, Marie Chave

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54th Congress

Regional development
& globalisation: Best practices

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Saint Petersburg
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26-29 August
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# Implementing the agroecological transition: weak or strong modernization of agriculture?
## The example of the mycorrhiza supply chain in France

(Provisory draft)

Valérie Angeon* (1) and Marie Chave(2)

*corresponding author

(1) : Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (French West Indies and Guiana University)

Ceregmia Research Unit Caribbean Agroenvironmental Campus, Petit Morne, 97232, Le Lamentin, Martinique and INRA UR 143 Unité de Recherche en Zootechnie F-97170 Petit-Bourg

Valerie.Angeon@martinique.univ-ag.fr

(2) INRA UR 1321 ASTRO Agrosystèmes Tropicaux F-97170 Petit-Bourg France

Marie.Chave@antilles.inra.fr

## Abstract

The modernization of agriculture is under scrutiny. It is currently debated within the growing concept and practice of agroecology that applies ecological fundamentals to the design and the management of sustainable agroecosystems. In matter of ecologization of agriculture, agroecological transition may be considered as a privileged pathway. It relies on two main forms: the weak (that intends to reduce the use of chemicals by alternative practices such as their substitution by biological inputs) versus strong modernization of agriculture (based on the valorization of biodiversity providing ecosystemic services). In this article, through an analysis of the technological innovations used for the enhancement of mycorrhiza (symbiotic interactions between plants and soil microorganisms) as an illustration of the implementation of the agroecological transition in France, we wonder in what extent a strong modernization of agriculture is likely to occur.

This paper shows how the conceptual framework of socio-technical regime is useful to analyze the dynamics of the agroecological transition. Our demonstration relies on an empirical material (survey of the main actors of the mycorrhiza supply chain) that permits to understand how is structured the dominant system and how it impedes the development of the alternative niche. We then give some prerequisites in terms of public action to define in what extent the niche can be supported and can compete the current system.

**Key words:** Agroecological transition, socio-technical regime, technological paradigm, evolutionary economics

JEL code : B52, O33, Q01, Q55.
# Welcome to Saint Petersburg

## Greetings from the Co-chairmen of the Local Organizing Committee

Dear Participants of the 54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association,

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee we are happy to see you in Saint Petersburg, at the St.Petersburg State University where regional research of Russia had started in the 18th century.

We are very thankful to the Association for its decision made in Barcelona in 2011 to support the initiative of the Russian national section of ERSA, the Council for the Study of Productive Forces and St.Petersburg State University to hold this great scientific event in our. We are sure that this decision is the result of the collaborative achievements of the Russian regional scholars.

One of the outstanding representative of this group of scientists was the Russian academician, the chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces in 1992-2010, Alexander Granberg. Our Congress is dedicated to his memory. For several decades he had been the indisputable leader of the Russian regional scholars, and organised the first Russian ERSA Congress in 1993 in Moscow.

Regional studies under the era of globalization are especially actual and multi-faceted. Among the major themes of our Congress we can mention strategic planning and creative development of big megalopolises and small cities, contemporary problems of the Arctic regions, natural resource use and sustainable development.

Dear Congress participants! Let us wish you an interesting exchange of ideas in the sphere of regional and urban development, creative discussions at the plenary meetings, at the sessions and round tables of the Congress. And of course we hope that You will have the possibility to know better beautiful St.Petersburg as the city of unique destiny - the cultural and intellectual center of Russia.

Dear friends, we wish you successful work at our Congress!

V.N.Razbegin

Acting Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces

I.A.Gorlinskii

First deputy Director of the St.Petersburg State University
Introduction

Ecological transition remains a core and strategic question to be raised and implemented in the ongoing context where the agricultural productionist paradigm is being overwhelmed. The green revolution and its technological package (simplification of agricultural production system (i.e. single-crop farming), intensive farming, mechanization, use of chemicals) show major limits (Altieri *et al.*, 2012). Industrial agriculture is no longer in position to ensure food security (sufficient and safe food production and distribution). The development of industrial agriculture was founded on three main assumptions (the availability of fossil energy (fuel), abundant water and a stable climate) that are completely revoked. Moreover the strong and negative externalities produced by this agricultural model are numerous: persistent pollution, irreversible risks on ecosystems (degradation, loss of biodiversity, depletion of natural resources, emerging diseases etc.) and human being (deterioration of health). Therefore, these damaging effects and the inability of the post green revolution agricultural system to improve its performance have become a starting point to think about alternative techniques and reverse farmers' practices. This fact historically constitutes the ecological footprint of modern agriculture. It relies on the implementation and the adoption of environmentally friendly agronomic practices (intercropping, organic fertilizers, agroforestry, biological control etc.) to reduce the use of chemical inputs and thus rehabilitates biological regulation and ecological interactions (Jackson *et al.* 2010; Brussaard *et al.* 2010; Chave *et al.* 2014). In this new era the utilization of beneficial microorganisms will take more and more importance (Ijdo *et al.* 2011).

In matter of ecologization of agriculture, agroecological transition may be considered as a privileged pathway. Nevertheless, two major evolutions of modern agriculture can be distinguished (Duru *et al.* 2014). (i) The weak ecologization of agriculture implies few changes. These changes are limited to the implementation of “good practices” that intend to improve the efficiency of chemicals and/or reduce their use by alternative practices such as their substitution by biological inputs. (ii) The strong ecologization is based on biodiversity providing ecosystem services. Therefore, it imposes a real change of paradigm and “requires to deeply revise farming system, resources management at territory/landscape level, and the agrifood chain” (Duru *et al.* 2014, p.85).

In this article, we focus on the enhancement of mycorrhiza (symbiosis between roots and soil fungi), key elements of soil biodiversity which becomes a momentum in matter of agroecological engineering. Mycorrhizal fungi, present in most of the soil worldwide, colonize more than 80 % of plant species and enhance crop health and productivity (Smith and Read, 2008). We discuss in what extent a strong modernization of agriculture is likely to occur. We show how the conceptual framework of socio-technical regime is useful to analyze the dynamics of the agroecological transition. We use this approach to study the complex interrelationship structure implying a diversity of actors (farmers, industrials, researchers, policy-makers etc.) that interact. The result of their coordination (market and non-market) and the networks formed by these actors shape what is called in the economic literature a "socio-technical regime" (Geels and Shot, 2007). As shown by Vanloqueren and Baret (2009) for agricultural research systems, this concept is compatible with the ones of technological paradigm and trajectory proposed by Dosi (1992) in his evolutionary approach of industrial processes, changes and innovation. This evolutionary approach explains that a socio-technical system evolves thanks to the actions of economic agents whose capacities of learning, innovation and adaptation are central. In that sense, socio-technical systems are driven by knowledge, and knowledge constantly changes.

We mobilize this approach to identify the set of actors who pilot the technological trajectory of the socio-technical regime grounded on the use of mycorrhiza. Using the stakeholder analysis (Mitchell *et al.*, 1997), we conduct around 30 interviews that permit (i) to characterize the nature of the relationships developed between the agents (share of information, subsidies, good and services) and (ii) to specify in what extent these interactions stabilize the existing technological paradigm. We then produce a heuristic map designing the main categories of actors implied in the mycorrhiza supply chain (industrials, scientists, public authorities, farmers) and their role, place and power in this
Greetings from the Chief Scientific Secretary

How to create your own roadmap inside the scientific program of the
Congress

The 54th European Regional Science Association Congress is dedicat-
ed to the memory of the Russian Academician Alexander Granberg (1936-
2010), who had been the leader of the Russian Regional Science for decades.

Our Congress in St. Petersburg can be considered as a “spin-off” from
the Moscow Congress in 1993. This Congress is the partnership of two aca-
demic institutions – the Council for the Study of Productive Forces and the
St.Petersburg State University.

The LOC has tried to realize the idea of a compact Congress:

1) All areas for the plenary meetings and sessions are very close to each other and are concentrated along the axis of Shpalernaya Street – the Tauride Palace (Opening ceremony), the Smolny Cathedral (Closing ceremony), and the Smolny campus of the University (for all sessions and 2 plenary meetings).

2) We are able to have the whole Congress from Wednesday to Friday in one building of three University faculties – the International Relations, the Political Science and the Sociology.

3) We have deliberately increased the number of presenters at each session from the traditional three to four, five, or even six to create the atmosphere of intense communication and overcome the previous congresses' curse "*three presenters-three participants*". Simultaneously, we have expanded the time duration of the majority of sessions from the common 90 to 120 minutes.

4) Arranging the session rooms, we have tried to follow the logic “*one area for one thematic block of sessions*”.

For instance, in the first area we have the *Institutions, planning, evolution-ary economic geography* and *regional finances*; the second area is entirely devoted to the *urban sessions* of different kinds – and *realty and housing markets in the cities*; the third area is to *spatial econometrics* and *regional economic modelling, agglomeration effect in the cities and clusters*, and *economic crisis in the regions*; the fourth area to the *regional and urban labor markets*, infrastructure-transport-communication, and *cooperation/compe-tition among regions*; the fifth area is to the *Arctic/Northern and Russian regional research, natural resources/environment and climate change*, and *knowledge spillovers, innovations and human capital*; sixth area is to the *regional entrepreneurship*, small and *big business, location, social segrega-
regime. This empirical survey founds the raw material to appraisal the robustness of this
agroecological pattern.

We show that the agroecological pattern based on the inoculation of industrial strains participates in the reinforcement of the prevailing socio-technical regime. It corresponds to a weak form of ecologization of agriculture and hinders the emergence of alternative innovative niches (i.e. mobilization of indigenous mycorrhizal networks) that could support a strong modernization of agriculture.

This article is organized as follows. Section 1 shows the consistency of the socio-technical approach for the comprehension of the drivers of changes that support the agroecological transition. Based on the example of the mycorrhiza supply chain in France, section 2 depicts a description of the diversity of actors that implement this agroecological pattern. Our empirical results help understand in what extent the dominant socio-technical regime supports a weak modernization of agriculture. We also give some highlights on the way this prevailing regime lock-in alternative niches that could allow a strong ecologization of agriculture. We then discuss in a public action perspective how to break out the lock-in processes.

# 1. The socio-technical regime framework as a consistent evolutionary approach of changes driving the agroecological transition

In this section, we attempt to define what is agroecological transition that we apprehend as a
process of transformative change rooted in collective innovation systems (1.1). Doing so, we show
the consistency of the socio-technical regime framework to conceptualize the drivers of change that
occur in the agroecological transition (1.2). We then mobilize this approach to analyze the current
agroecological socio-technical system (1.3).

1.1. *The agroecological transition: a transformative and collective change driven by innovations*

We seek to understand the drivers of the agroecological transition. First, we explain that it is a
process of transformative change that occurs by innovations supported by paradigms and
technologies. Secondly, we show that this process cannot be implemented by a single category of
actors but fully necessitates the adhesion and the commitment of the diversity of stakeholders
involved in agricultural concerns.

- *The agroecological transition: an innovative transformative change*

The agroecological transition is nowadays advanced on the political agenda as a common and central
goal to achieve and aims at providing the development of doubly efficient agriculture stemming
from their economical and ecological performances (Guillou et al., 2013). It is engraved in legal
frameworks that call for sustainability. Around the world, growing attention is being paid to the
importance to sustain agricultural and food systems, particularly in the face of climate change. At the
international level, significant effort can be noticed. For instance, the United Nations Environment
Programme (2012) points out more than 500 international agreements for environmental matters
since 1972 on diverse issues as hazardous wastes, climate change, biological diversity and
desertification. For agriculture, international agreements cover issues as plant genetic resources,
plant protection, pesticide residues.

In the context of global changes, innovation is recognized as a driving force of progress for
sustainable and fair development. It is a priority that cannot be ignored by either industrial nations or
developing countries, which have to address numerous economic, societal and environmental
challenges. Indeed feeding a growing population and ensuring food security and safety whilst
protecting ecosystems and natural resources are crucial priorities. To respond to these priorities the
development of knowledge is central to apply ecological fundaments to design and manage
tion, and tourism; and finally, the sessions in the seventh area are devoted to the themes of *regional economic growth* and *development, transitional economy, and migration*.

To give the participants the knowledge of the Russian school of Regional Science and the Congress we have decided to organise the special closing plenary session on the Russian school in the regional dimension, a round table on St.Petersburg as the global city (August, 28, at 16.15-18.15).

We have received unprecedented number of requests for the special sessions during the preliminary stage of preparation of the scientific program. It is up to you which session you wish to attend.

**To simplify this process, we have structured all the special sessions into several blocks:**

1) Knowledge, innovations, and information.

2) Urban development – we recommend you to pay your attention to the session on the small and medium cities of Europe, which was not at the previous congresses.

3) Arctic as the last frontier in the regional science looks like unique block of themes but is natural for Russia as the Northern country.

4) EU, border cooperation, economic transition in the regions

5) Theoretical block of various topics – here our colleagues are involved in innovative search inside the field of regional science.

6) Entrepreneurship and firms – please pay attention to the last one where themes of productivity, structural factors of efficiency not very often at the ERSA congresses are elaborated.

7) Methodical and practical issues of regional development.

8) St. Petersburg Congress is unique for the two Memorial sessions dedicated to Alexander Granberg, Piet Rietveld, and 100th anniversary of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces.

9) Finally, let us not forget the infrastructure block of some sessions and the new special sessions devoted to the climate challenge in the regional economic development.

**And what about the Ordinary Sessions?**

**What new details have we tried to add in the traditional topic structure of the O-sessions?**

1) For each meeting of every Ordinary session we have stressed the umbrella topic uniting to the presentations of 4-5 panelists. We have deliberately selected papers to make this happen.

2) We would like to highlight the complicated dialectics of regional development in the names of our sessions, trying to give not only one, but
sustainable agroecosystems. Therefore, the agroecological transition cannot be tackled without considering the crucial question of innovation.

Agroecological innovations can be incremental or radical. Incremental innovations contribute to improve the efficiency of chemicals and/or reduce their use by alternative single substitution practices such as biological inputs (weak ecologization of agriculture). They imply few changes as they are limited to the implementation of “good practices” and single technologies in agrosystems. These technologies are usually implemented in substitution for chemical inputs and are used and assessed separately. For instance, many agroecological practices such as organic soil amendments, solarization, plant-induced resistance stimulation, biological control agents or symbiotic microorganisms inoculation contribute partially to reduce the use of chemical inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides.

Radical innovations impose a real change of paradigm that necessitates a holistic comprehension of agrosystems in interaction with their environment. These innovations aim at a strong modernization of agriculture. They rely on alternative methods and technologies to regreen agriculture through the enhancement of ecosystem services based on biodiversity. This ecological technological package combines innovations based on the mobilization of multiple ecological interactions at nested multi-scaled levels to achieve tradeoffs and synergies. This technological package fits with the smart conception of agricultural systems (FAO, 2011) that relies on deep innovative changes based on ecological interactions. Therefore, activating ecological processes, revealing, mobilizing and promoting latent resources like biodiversity offer new lines of action to implement new technologies. For instance, the action of a chemical input can seldom be replaced by the stimulation of a single ecological process (Lopez-Escudero and Mercado-Blanco 2011) while the holistic approach has been proved to be the best strategy to effectively control soil-borne pathogens by integrating biological, physical, and crop-management approaches (Collange et al. 2011; Oka 2010).

This technical progress is intrinsically knowledge-intensive. It does not derive from turnkey technologies that can be applied and replicated in different environmental contexts. The smartness of agroecology is incremented by the fact that the available technologies have to be combined and adapted to the heterogeneity of the environment. Smart technologies result from cumulative experiences that are in rupture with the ones developed within the previous paradigm that supports conventional agriculture. The agroecological package has to build its own internal coherence, which appears as a promising prospect to place agrosystems on a new technological trajectory.

The weak and the strong modernization of agriculture respectively supported by incremental monotechnologies innovations or radical mixed technological packages are fully part of the agroecological transition pattern. Since they are both encouraged by public authorities whatever their scales of application (national, supra-national, international), they make unclear the political strategy and fuzzy up the delivered institutional message. This regulatory framework (or landscape) is ambivalent. It nevertheless constitutes the rules of the game within the actors take their decisions.

- *The agroecological transition: a collective process of change*

Though it has been engraved in regulatory frameworks, the agroecological transition cannot be established by decree. It results from a process which implies a diversity of actors. The implementation of the agroecological transition fully depends on the adhesion and the commitment of the majority of stakeholders that are and will be *de facto* involved in this process. Agro-ecological concerns encompass not only production, but also agro-transformation and food supply and commit a wide range of actors.

As underlined by De Schutter (2014), strong environmental arguments in favor of agroecology are well popularized nowadays but agroecology also provides other economic and social benefits. For instance, by reducing the cost of farming (minimization of the use of expensive inputs), it improves the livelihoods of farmers. Moreover, because it is knowledge-intensive and generally more labor-
two-sided phenomenon: urban sprawl and shrinkage, social embeddedness and alienation of the multinationals, regional cooperation and competition.

3) We would like to underline the issue of best practices and benchmarking in several sessions following the title of this years' Congress.

4) In each session meeting we have tried to focus questions connected to knowledge, innovations, human capital considering them as priority topics for contemporary regional science and community of regional scholars.

5) We have united the phenomena of economic clusters and urban agglomeration in one session as the result of common increasing returns effect.

6) Some topics are here for the first time like aging in the regions, tourism as regional experience economy etc. It is natural for the ERSA Congress in Russia to stress the theme of natural resources.

7) In each meeting of the Ordinary session we have tried to follow the logic from the general to the particular: first reports on the most general issue, then more concrete and peculiar.

8) To provide unity in the plot, the LOC has tried to create a thematic "chain", when all the meetings of the one session are organised in one room successively, even when we have a Special and Ordinary sessions of the similar plot.

9) In our own innovative search we have tried to create unexpected merge/combination of old elements and themes: for example, mountains and urbanization – special meeting on the 28th of August at 18.30, or a special meeting on all kinds of territorial capital on the 28th of August at 18.30, or a special meeting on comparative institutional analysis on the 28th of August at 16.15, and finally a special meeting on happiness on the 29th of August at 11.00.

10) During the Congress we are eager to give the broad panorama of different national schools of regional science, national experience of regional policy. Therefore we have created special meetings with umbrella topics such as "Italian Tourism", "Human capital in Greece", "Romanian experience in economic restructuring", "Russian school of Regional Science", "Dutch perspectives in the regional research", and much more.

**"A Plurality in Unity" – is the LOC 's slogan.**

11) We have tried to create a broad inter-country and an inter-regional comparison perspective even when the presenters are not inclined to. For this reason we have constructed umbrella topics like EU-Russia works on regional economic growth, or India-Russia works on regional finance.

We are sure that these approaches are truly natural at this years' Congress with the general theme on "cooperation and competition between regions under the globalization".
intensive, it creates employment opportunities and then supports rural development. These
observations allow to consider the interdependence and linkages between actors, sectors and
systems. They show how the landscape is being shaped not only by farmers' decisions, but also by
decisions made through the supply chain from producer to consumer. They highlight the importance
of looking across multiple perspectives for options of synergies and trade-offs and policies for
transforming agricultural and food systems.

On this basis, the effective implementation of the agroecological transition comes to crystallize into a complex network of actors (farmers, industrials, researchers, policy-makers etc.) whose interactions and coordination processes for technological innovations shape a “socio-technical regime” (Geels and Shot, 2007). The agroecological transition is not spontaneous. It goes through innovation stages, cumulative learning and collective processes. It that sense, it is not linear but matches by trial and error and evolves thanks to the actions of economic agents. Therefore, the setting up of the agroecological transition can be analyzed as an evolutionary process.

## 1.2. *The agroecological transition in the conceptual framework of socio-technical system*

The notion of socio-technical regime is fully included in Nelson and Winter's (1977, 1982) and Dosi's (1982) economic evolutionary approaches. These authors defined the theoretical understanding of industrial process which is interpreted as a dynamic and competitive innovation process. They explained industrial dynamics asymmetries as the result of differentiated technological regimes. A regime is a combination of factors such as technological opportunities, the ease of access to these technological opportunities (high or low importance of barriers to entry) and learning patterns. This conceptual frame permits to identify common properties of innovative processes in distinct sets of production activities. It assumes that industrial structures and dynamics strongly depend on the properties of technological regimes.

Three concepts laid the groundwork for technological regimes: technology, paradigms and technological trajectory. "Technology" cannot be reduced to the standard view of a set of well-defined blueprints. Rather, it primarily concerns problem-solving activities involving – to various degree – also tacit forms of knowledge embodied in individuals and organizational procedures. (...) *Paradigms* entail specific heuristic and visions on "how to do things" and how to improve them, often shared by the community of practitioners in each particular activity (...) i.e. they entail a collectively shared cognitive frames. (...) *Paradigms* generally also define basic models of artifacts and systems which over time are progressively modified and improved. These basic artifacts can also be described in terms of some fundamental technological and economic characteristics". (...) The concept of *technological trajectories* is associated to the progressive realization of the innovative opportunities associated with each paradigm, which can in principle be measured in terms of the changes in the fundamental techno-economic characteristics of artifacts and the production process" (Cimoli and Dosi, 1995, p. 246).

Whatever their levels of sophistication, artifacts are always produced, appropriated and used by
agents operating in an economic, social, cultural and institutional structure. Technologies are thus
described as contingent upon their context or contextualized. Their regular use augments their
legitimacy and takes them as references. Technological concerns necessary deal both with technical
and social considerations, what is summed-up by the expression "sociotechnical systems".

From the economic literature where it originally comes from, the concept of technological regime
has been expanded to the one of sociotechnical regime. While a sociotechnical system is a set of
artifacts, market and non-market rules, norms and practices, formal and informal organizations,
networks that makes collective sense, a regime designs the governance of the system.

- *Regimes, landscape and innovation niches*
**What strategy should we recommend for you to follow the scientific program of the Congress?**

Your roadmap should not be a highway on one topical session forever. Please, allow yourself to venture and be innovative to create your own Congress platform on different sessions, and meetings. Only when you do this, you can get this unique taste and atmosphere of the St.Petersburg Congress!

We ask you to follow the scientific leaders on their talks and not to omit such rare and inspiring possibility to be closer to our scientific colleagues from around the world.

I wish you every success in your choice!

Professor Alexander Pelyasov

Chief Scientific Secretary of the 54th ERSA Congress
In the vein of the economic evolutionary approach of innovation systems, the multi-level perspective analysis grid of socio-technical system (Geels, 2002; Geels and Shot, 2007; Geels, 2011) describes three elementary components: the regime which is the main element of the socio-technical system, the landscape that shapes the regime and the innovation niches that may under certain circumstances contest the current regime. In this conceptual framework, the regime level is the first one to be considered because transitions occur by shifts from one regime to another regime. The niche and landscape levels are defined in relation to the regime. These 'derived concepts' (Geels, 2011) influence the evolution of the regime. The niches include practices and/or technologies that are not part of the current regime. The landscape is the external environment that pressures the regime and impacts its interactions with niches.

The regime is composed of different actors that regularly interact on the strength of routines. These actors are closely linked, share norms of action, values and fund the stability of the regime. One of the most important Nelson and Winter's (1982) contributions relies on the role of routines in stabilizing regimes. By the way, the two authors present routines as a key unit of analysis in their approach. In such a framework, the weight of routines is likely to explain: (i) how change occurs, (ii) how selection processes are implemented, and (iii) under what conditions what has been selected is maintained through time (that is to say transmitted from one period to another).

The regime is characterized by three elements: its technology, its paradigm and its trajectory. The trajectory of a regime is stable over time as the regime evolves on the basis of incremental innovations. The literature put emphasis on the notion of paradigm defined as a particular worldview (i.e. strong specific beliefs) trusted by stakeholders. Beliefs guide actions. In that sense, they pilot change. Paradigms are diverse: they coexist, and in some cases, stay fully opposite and competitive.

Paradigms constitute the solid fundaments on which niches emerge. Sociotechnical niches are privileged arena for innovations. Within niches, technologies are invented, tested and developed. "Niches are crucial (...), because they provide seeds for change." (Geels, 2002, p. 1261). They generate radical innovations, a fact which is possible because of the confidentiality of niches. New technologies are then protected from pure and perfect competition mechanisms which is a prerequisite for their development as they are low efficient and costly. Niches assume business risks (i.e. economic and technological) and act as "incubation rooms" (Geels, 2002) where social networks supporting learning processes for radical innovations arise and grow.

The innovation niches provide disruptive innovations that rely on a radical paradigmatic rupture from the one followed by the current system. Niches are numerous and are of varying duration. They are composed of more or less stabilized groups of actors whose norms of actions are not necessarily routinized. Although niche-innovations are central, they do not govern by themselves the success of a new technology.

The third level to be considered is given by the metaphor of the landscape. This macro-sphere designs external factors that constitute "a set of deep structural trends" (Geels, 2002, p. 1260) which is imposed to stakeholders. It describes the broad context in which sociotechnical regime are embedded. It defines all the structural rules that regulate the regime. "The sociotechnical-landscape contains a set of heterogeneous factors such as oil prices, economic growth, wars, emigration, broad political coalitions, cultural and normative values, environmental problems" (Geels, 2002, p. 1260).

- The drivers of change and innovation

The evolutionary approach of socio-technical system explains that a socio-technical system evolves thanks to the actions of economic agents whose capacities of learning, innovation and adaptation are central. In that sense, socio-technical systems are driven by knowledge, and knowledge constantly changes. In later works, Cimoli and Dosi (1995) conceptualized this mechanism. They analyzed patterns of learning and show the cumulativeness property of learning for innovation.
## Words from our New ERSA President

On behalf of the European Regional Science, I am very delighted to welcome you all to our 54th European Congress on ‘Regional development & globalisation: Best practices’ in the historic city of Saint Petersburg.

For this year's conference programme I am proud to say that we have participation of delegates from across the world with the representation of our ERSA sections going stronger. With around 800 presentations scheduled for this Congress, St Petersburg from 26-29th August, 2014 will be another momentum for Regional Science. ERSA's main objective through this year's congress is to foster a stronger relationship with our fellow scientists in research and project excellence.

Having taken on this new position as President of ERSA and working closely with our new Vice-president André Torre, we are looking forward to enhancing the membership of ERSA and its future activities in Regional Science. The co-operation with organisations and institutions continues to grow, through the economic growth and social development across Europe. We aim to maintain and improve the high-level of our Congresses, Summer Schools, Workshops and other events, through fostering research excellence as well as supporting promising young scientists.

I am very pleased to announce the launch this year of the new online and fully Open Access diamond-status journal REGION as the official scientific journal of ERSA. Diamond Open Access is the highest and most preferred Open Access status, because it is freely accessible to all readers, there is no submission or publication fee for authors, it is inclusive of peer review and REGION hosts the final version of the article. REGION aims to strengthen ERSA's role in facilitating the free dissemination and creation of high-quality research on issues in Regional Science.

I also would like to thank Alexander Pelyasov, chair of the LOC and his team for their two years of careful planning and enthusiastic hard work of which we are now enjoying the results.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a fruitful participation!

Enjoy your stay in St Petersburg!

Jouke van Dijk

Professor

and President of the European Regional Science Association ERSA
Technological transitions are prepared in niches that may impact the sociotechnical regime. As Geels and Schot (2007) underline, "radical innovations have developed in niches, but remain stuck because the regime is stable and entrenched (Geels and Schot, 2007, p. 409). Hence, "technological regimes create stability because they guide the innovative activities towards incremental improvements along trajectory" (Geels, 2002, p. 1259). On these bases, we admit that radical innovations are provided in niches and incremental ones in regimes as risks are better assumed in niches than in sociotechnical regimes. The major difference between niches and regimes is that regimes hold historical and social thicknesses contrary to niches. Therefore, niches emerge and disappear easier than regimes which appear to be more stable though they are not inert.

For a new technology to be adopted and disseminated in a smooth transition, the alignment of the three spheres (niches, regime and landscape) that influence stakeholders' action is required (Geels and Schot, 2007). This opens a window of opportunity that modifies the sociotechnical system trajectory. This configuration is most of the time observed by current socio-technical systems. Nevertheless, other situations are also experienced.

From landscape, emerge slow but severe dynamics of change that shift the sociotechnical regime. In short, sociotechnical change derives from slow and rapid movements depending on strong interactions between the niches, regime and landscape. It is led by profound mutations in certain parties of sub-societal systems and stresses a shift from a dynamic initial equilibrium to another one.

Sociotechnical systems are then not static, they continuously evolve: technology, rules, social representations, relations among actors, undergo substantial transformations. In the long run, these systems experience different successive states of equilibrium. We then talk about dynamic equilibrium. In the literature, a sociotechnical system in a state of dynamic equilibrium is usually called "regime". The succession of dynamic equilibria forms a trajectory. It appears then that change is not only technological but also social. Thus, the actors (and their systems of values, norms, beliefs etc.) must also evolve for change to occur in sociotechnical regimes.

The multi-level perspective framework takes into consideration the landscape and the niches as variables that impact the regime in different ways. These interaction mechanisms lead to different transition pathways depending on whether the landscape is more or less unstable and the niches developed or not (Geels and Schot, 2007). Four scenarios are identified.

Box 1 Transition pathways (Geels, 2011, p. 32)

* *Transformation:* In this pathway, landscape developments exert pressure on the regime when niche innovations are not well-developed. Incumbent actors modify the direction of innovation activities and development paths, which leads to gradual adjustments of regimes to landscape pressures. Although niche-innovations do not break through in this path, experiences from niches can be translated and accommodated (often in a watered-down form) in the regime (Smith, 2007).

* *Reconfiguration:* In this pathway, niche-innovations are more developed when landscape developments exert pressure on regimes. If niches are symbiotic to the regime, incumbent actors can adopt them as 'add-ons' to solve local problems. This incorporation can trigger subsequent adjustments, which change the regime's basic architecture.

* *Technological substitution:* In this pathway, competitive niche-innovations are well developed when landscape developments exert pressure on regimes. Tensions in the regime form a window of opportunity for the breakthrough of niche-innovations that replace the regime. An alternative route is that niche-innovations gain high internal momentum (because of resource investments, consumer demand, cultural enthusiasm, political support, etc.), in which case they can replace the regime without the help of landscape pressures.

* *De-alignment and re-alignment:* In this pathway, major landscape pressures first cause disintegration of regimes (de-alignment). Then, taking advantage of this 'space', multiple niche-
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innovations emerge, which co-exist for extended periods (creating uncertainty about which one will become the winner). Processes of re-alignment eventually occur around one innovation, leading to a new regime".

1.3. Framing the current agroecological system through the socio-technical regime approach

In accordance with the socio-technical system approach, we attempt to operationalise the multi-level perspective in order to understand what is at stake in the context of the agroecological transition. In what extent the current agroecological system constitutes a regime? Do niches and landscape reinforce or break the existing regime? We base our analysis on the identification of the actors that interplay in the agroecological pattern. We wonder whether they constitute a regime and act for its stabilization. Following Duru et al. (2014) who distinguish the weak versus strong ecological modernization of agriculture, we assume that agroecological concerns do not constitute a unique and unified set of practices. In other words, the paradigms, the technologies and the trajectories deriving from these two conceptions of agroecology differ.

In the case of the strong modernization of agriculture, a radical and definitive rupture is made with
the productionist paradigm whereas the weak modernization scheme appears for some scholars as a
slight rupture and is considered as the extension of the previous paradigm (Amilien 2005). Adopting
the analytical approach developed by Amilien (2005) which deals with food system, we identify three
views of agricultural and food concerns: the productionist paradigm (that support the conventional
agricultural and food systems), the life science integrated paradigm and the ecologically integrated
paradigm.

For the author, the well known and popularized paradigm has been well established for more than
50 years, while the two others are more recent and turned toward the future. This “life science
integrated paradigm” stands on market stances (Amilien, 2005, p. 3). Within this socio-technical
system, multinational enterprises try to get patents on the living entities (Orsini, 2010) and are very
turned toward genetically modified organisms, biotechnology and support growth bolstered by
globalization. It lines up well with business perspectives and well established productionism (Amilien,
2005). This paradigm is fully orthogonal to the “ecologically integrated paradigm” which promotes a
"fair distribution of nature and goods" (Amilien, 2005, p.3) with territorial embeddedness as strong
modernization processes require. Thus, the weak ecologization of agriculture stems from the life
science integrated paradigm” while the strong modernization is rooted in the “ecologically integrated
paradigm”.

If we conceive that the setting up of the agroecological transition relies on two distinctive socio-technical systems, we must analyze each of them. We start the reflection by an historical review of the evolution of agriculture discussing the three paradigmatic movements depicted before. To flesh our view, we will answer the following questions: How does landscape transformation impact the dominant regime and give alternative niches the opportunity to expand? How do the niches-actors organize to augment their visibility and seize the chance to become real engine of change?

The three paradigms correspond to three distinctive moments in the history of agriculture. They have fully left their mark on the landscape. These different paradigms cohabitate and are still ratify by the wide range of actors involved in agriculture and food concerns. In that way, they make the message (macro-rules, deep cultural patterns etc.) given by the landscape fuzzy and ambivalent.

The more well-established paradigm is the productionist one. It has emerged during the post-war reconstruction where total production and yields should strongly increase to ensure food security in the countries that had suffered from the destruction of their infrastructure. This paradigm was economically coherent and emphasized the productive function of agriculture. It relies on technologies related to the manipulation of the environment by various means: mechanization, synthetic chemical inputs, genetic engineering, and monoculture. The socio-technical system put in
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place on this basis was deeply established thanks to the strong interrelationship structure that joined
together scientists, industrials, public authorities, farmers, consumers. Scientific knowledge deeply
dominated the organization of the system with the belief that science does not face any limits and
can best control natural processes. Vertical relationships occur between these categories of actors.
Innovations are provided by scientists and are produced by industrials. When scientists and
industrials disseminate new technologies, public authorities give strong incentives to farmers to
ensure the purchase of these chemical or mechanical inputs. Consumers committed in this globalized
scheme buy the goods and services produced in this context. This interrelationship structure governs
the socio-technical regime.

As expected, this simplification of cropping systems increased productivity and yield, but it had
undesirable side effects. One of the most important side effects is the degradation of the
environment that still suffers from the consequences of dramatic pollution episodes (alteration of
natural resources, loss of biodiversity, risk to human health, vulnerability of people depending on
polluted resources etc.). Moreover the recognition of the inability of the current productionist socio-
technical system in providing increasing yield anymore comes to the conclusion that this paradigm is
obsolete.

In the 1990s, the institutionalization of sustainable development created a window of opportunity for a growing recognition of the other functions of agriculture: social and environmental. This legitimated the rise of the “life science integrated paradigm” and modifies the landscape. This paradigm is compatible with the development of technologies that support a weak modernization of agriculture. We also observe strong collusion of interests among the set of actors that constitute this socio-technical system. Scientists, industrials, public authorities, farmers and consumers are still involved in the governance of the system thus forming a regime. Scientists and industrials are deeply committed in the developed of new technologies (mainly biotechnologies, GMO) (Vanloqueren and Baret, 2009). Public authorities still continue to distribute incentives to farmers for the use of these technologies. The coherence of this regime relies on economical stances. But since its emergence, the regime is severely internally criticized on the basis of its scientific fragility. A growing recognition of uncertainties surrounding the soundness of scientific knowledge gained more and more currency. This context of incertitude opened up new opportunities for epistemic communities (Callon et al., 2001) that contest the solidity of the regime. These epistemic communities are composed of different kind of actors providing from the civil society framing new consumption references (basically more attached to ecological fundamentals).

The “ecologically integrated paradigm” has gained in importance for the 2010s and generates disruptive innovations. The technologies it supports mobilize solely natural elements. They combine vernacular and scientific knowledge that surge in collaborative processes. In that way, the nexus of actors is not hierarchically organized. It deeply stands on horizontal relationships (Schut et al. 2014). These actors constitute an arena where joint visions of the future are being built. They elaborate scenario, they define programs of actions and shape the future of the system. They design transition paths that should lead on the basis of collaborative and proactive processes to more sustainable food systems. Such networks act as "innovation thought collectives" and can facilitate the paradigm shifts which are important for disruptive technologies.

From this historical review of agriculture and food system, we point out that the agroecological transition is implemented in a specific landscape context. Agroecology does not rely on a single paradigm and associated technologies. The strong versus weak ecologization of agriculture are rooted in a confusing and ambivalent message delivered by the landscape. As explained by Geels and Schot (2007), the best configuration for change to occur without triggering strong disturbance of the existing regime is when the alternative niches, the regime and the landscape are linked to each other and aligned, creating thus a dynamic stability. This articulation assures positive outcomes as it permits long-term structural transformations. When the alignment is not realized, change occurs
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erratically (it can be blocked) due to strong confrontations and tensions among the niches, the regime and the landscape.

More often, crises or shocks occurring in the landscape destabilize a regime, whose practices and technologies are then challenged by the alternative innovations developed in niches. In response, to face increasing competition from alternatives, actors marginally refine existing solutions. At the end, it may be possible that the actors of the ongoing regime progressively abandon their old practices and techniques and adopt or investigate for more radical solutions. This *de-alignment and re-alignment* pathway is observed in the modernization process of agriculture where the confusing message of the landscape exerts pressures on the current regime. In front of global changes that imply deep mutations in the landscape, dominant industrial groups invest nowadays in ecological innovations. By doing so, they prove the inefficiency of the prevailing sociotechnical regime in feeding the world and achieve long term sustainability using technologies stand in the productionist paradigm (Altieri *et al.*, 2012). Hence, these actors rehabilitate the niches they had actively resisted to and that they deliberately confined in narrow position thus impeding they became a new regime.

The current agriculture and food systems show a misalignment between the landscape (which indifferently supports weak and strong agroecological concerns), the productionist and the life science integrated regimes and the diverse niches fit in the ecologically integrated paradigm. We can observe that most of the new technological innovations adopted in the current socio-technological regime fit in the weak modernization of agriculture. The life science integrated paradigm that funds this regime resolutely stays economic although it integrates ecological concerns. In that sense, the ongoing productionist regime runs under incremental changes and thus corresponds to the transformation transition pathway identified by Geels and Schot (2007). The stakeholders change the direction of innovation activities, which allows progressive adjustments of the regime to the landscape's ambivalence. The previous niches resulted from the life science integrated paradigm has progressively formed an alternative regime.

However, niches based on strong agroecology principles (ecologically integrated paradigmatic) still stay niches. In the high competition between the two first regimes (productionist and life science integrated paradigms), the ecological niches are under pressure and literally crushed by the dominant regimes. In the following part, we illustrate the robustness of the life science integrated regime, taking as an example a growing technology centered of the enhancement of soil microorganisms (mycorrhiza).

## 2. The robustness of the current life science integrated paradigm regime. Focus on agroecological innovations based on mycorrhiza in France

Among the criticisms addressed to the multi-level perspective issues, the question of its operationalization and its empirical assessment is currently raised (Geels, 2011). This section aims at discussing the implementation of the agroecological transition by analyzing the example of mycorrhiza which is of growing interest in matter of modern technologies in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry programs, to enhance crop health and productivity and to reduce the use of chemicals (Ijdo et al. 2011). The use of mycorrhiza can be interpreted as a weak or a strong way of ecologization of agriculture depending on practices. Inoculation of industrial strains in substitution to chemicals corresponds to the weak ecologisation of agriculture while a systemic analysis of the agrosystem to benefit from the ecosystem services provided by natural mycorrhizal networks (enhancement of soil structure, increased resistance to plant abiotic and biotic stress: salinity, drough, pathogens, etc. (Gianinazzi et al. 2010)) corresponds to a strong ecologisation. Taking this example, this section analyzes in what extent the spread strategy of inoculation is fully part of the existing "life science integrated" regime and discuss its robustness.
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Aiming at identifying the actors involved in the sociotechnical system, we describe the characteristics of the network they constitute. We then provide an explanatory grid to measure the nature and the importance of the flows that circulate within this network (2.1). This helps understand the functioning of the network, its power structure, the internal rules ratified by the agents which are consistent analysis categories to understand how innovative learning processes are put in place and establish and reinforce the current life integrated sociotechnical regime (2.2). We point out how this complex network structure lock-in the embryonic but competitive innovation niche illustrated by the local strategy of mycorrhization. We discuss the potential evolution of the niche anchored in the ‘ecologically integrated’ paradigm. We then highlight some guidelines for it to be reinforced and penetrate the existing regime (2.3).

## 2.1. Appraisal of the robustness of the life science integrated regime: methodological issues

The operationalization of the multi-level perspective has been illustrated with different case studies of transitions. Among others, we can list: land transport (Geels, 2005), shipping (Geels, 2002), cargo handling (Van Driel and Schot, 2005), sanitation (Geels, 2006), waste management (Geels and Kemp, 2007). This approach has also been applied in contemporary studies to shed light on transition pathways to sustainability (i.e. electricity systems (Verbong and Geels, 2007, 2010; Hofman and Elzen, 2010), mobility and ‘green’ cars (Nykvist and Whitmarsh, 2008; Van Bree et al., 2010; Geels et al., 2011), biogas and co-combustion (Raven, 2004), organic food and sustainable housing (Smith, 2007), animal welfare (Elzen et al., 2011) and crop diversification (Meynard et al., 2013)). These studies explain the dynamic of changes occurring in these systems by analyzing their learning processes, network dynamics, and the way existing regimes are impacted. The case of mycorrhiza is a supplementary example that gives empirical evidence on the implementation of the agroecological transition.

Our methodological investment relies on three main raw materials.

The first one consists of an analysis of the mycorrhiza supply chain based on rare available data and a multidisciplinary literature review (biology, agronomy and ecology sciences) to describe challenges faced by the two mycorrhiza enhancement strategies (inoculation of exogenous industrial strains and the mobilization of indigenous natural mycorrhizal networks). Literature was sourced in an iterative manner. We identify the scientific community working on mycorrhiza (International Mycorrhiza Society), their supports of publication and the articles considered noteworthy and relevant (effects of reputation). Our methodological approach combined thus literature review with expert judgment by researchers working on mycorrhiza. An identification of the scientific landscape on mycorrhiza shows a great enthusiasm for this topic which is at the cutting edges of research in Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic etc.), North America (United States, Canada), Asia (India) etc. By an online literature review using a variety of academic search engines, we considered the highlights on mycorrhiza issues. From these two approaches, two evidences emerged.

(i) The mycorrhiza market is dominated by a few number of producers around the world (around 35 producers were registered in 2004 (Gianinazzi and Votsaka 2004) but the number is certainly higher today). It is an oligopolistic market.

(ii) These producers popularize and diffuse the strategy of inoculation of exogenous mycorrhiza through inoculations are not universally beneficial and can generate invasive species problems (Schwartz et al. 2006, Verbruggen et al. 2012).

Focusing on the development of the mycorrhiza supply chain in France, an analysis of key policy documents produced by public authorities (European Commission, the French Ministry of agriculture) on the regulation of the use of mycorrhiza has been made. There is now in France a large consultation to favor the marketing approval of biological agents (Herth, 2011). From this work (articles L.255-1 to L.255-11 of the French rural and fishery code) we learnt that mycorrhiza are legally commercialized as fertilizers. The regulation does not then cover the other properties of mycorrhiza like their ability to compete with elements of natural biodiversity. The recognition of this
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propriety should imply restrictive approval processes to ensure the safety of inoculation. Under the current state of the art, the regulation does not promote the existence of control mechanisms to ensure this quality. For example, in existing commercialized products, the presence of pathogens is not always detected (Schwartz et al. 2006).

The second methodological material provides from an analysis grid developed in previous works and conceived to apprehend the nature of the links developed among agents in agricultural innovation systems (researchers, farmers' associations, industrials, regional authorities, public or private funders) (Chave et al., 2012). This grid was designed to by-pass the rigidity of a top down approach by a systemic analysis of innovation trajectories. It aims to identify financial, material and information flows circulating from a category of agent to another over time. We applied this grid on the case study of the mycorrhiza supply chain.

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The third raw material relies on qualitative interviews with the main stakeholders on the mycorrhiza supply chain. Using the stakeholder analysis (Mitchell et al., 1997), around 30 interviews have been made with producers and distributors of mycorrhiza (France, Canada, Austria, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Belgium, United States) and the researchers that develop the technologies which are commercialized (propagules produced in vivo or on transformed roots, distributed as single inocula or associated in organic fertilizers or by seed coating (Ijdo et al., 2011, Adoleya 2013)). The classical approach of stakeholder analysis is a power / interest grid that permits to identify stakeholders, differentiate between them and categorize them, investigate relationships among them. It helps examine what are the main stakeholders of a network and how they pilot it given their influence and interests. We combine the stakeholder analysis with the snowball non-probability sampling method that allows existing stakeholders to identify others depending on the importance they recognize to them. Thus, at the end of the questionnaire, all the stakeholders were asked to cite other agents. The stakeholders mostly cited are then considered as those who are the most influent and therefore cannot be ignored.

Our analysis results in a comprehensive monograph of the international mycorrhiza supply chain with a specific focus on the French case study. We provide evidence on agroecological innovations from our surveys among stakeholders and scientific publications. Our results confirm the importance of
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the strategy of inoculation as an agroecological practice and the core role played by scientists and industrials.

## 2.2. The salient features of the dominant technological regime

To describe the sociotechnical system and to determine whether it constitutes or not a regime, we examine the interactions (nature and density) that are developed among identified key-actors. On this basis, we seek to build a heuristic map that represents the different flows exchanged among the actors of the system.

Three types of flows are considered (Chave et al., 2012):

- Flows of information: orientation of public policies concerning research, partnership between private and public actors of research, knowledge transfer towards farmers etc.

- Financial flows: public authorities' subsidies towards private actors, funding offered to research units by industrials, farmers' or consumers' purchases and sales etc.

- Material flows: sales of inocula to farmers, exchanges of strains and inocula samples.

The flows of information are central as they can influence the shift of technology to another.

The identified stakeholders are the firms that produce mycorrhiza, the public research laboratories, the public policies responsible for directing research, the public policies for registration and certification processes of fertilizing materials and crop supports, the farmers, the organizations in charge of agricultural council and the distributors. All these actors use **media** to diffuse information and communicate on their self representations. These media can take the form of published documents or participation to events.

All the firms whose products are registered and approved for the French market have been contacted. We also contacted the most important firms present on the international market as a result of the snowball sampling method to expand the set of surveyed firms. Using the same method, researchers have also been interviewed, starting from the French ones.

A first hypothetic map of the main categories of stakeholders has been built before starting the interviews. On this map, we materialized all the potential links that can exist between the stakeholders. The interviews aimed at verifying if the exchanges really exist and at assessing them for the most diffused strategies of mycorrhization.

The interviews were mainly conducted by phone or mail. From this raw material we learnt about the stakeholders' representations (the advantages and drawbacks of the technologies of inoculation identified by the actors, their level of knowledge about the existence of ecological alternative niches) and their strategic interactions. We then grasp the factors that determine the stakeholders' choice within the mycorrhiza innovation system. The influence of each determinant is systematically described (funding priorities, scientists' cognitive and cultural routines etc.).

- *Some highlights on the stakeholders' representations and strategies*

All the scientists that were interviewed work on the more spread strategy. Half of them also study practices that favor local mycorrhizal networks or are even able to cite this strategy as a possibility of enhancing mycorrhiza.

The industrials feel concerned only by the strategy of inoculation although one of them specify that the stains are local even if they are not able to explicit in what extent they are local. One of these firms pretended to be also positioned on the enhancement on local mycorrhiza by giving the farmers some advices. We must precise that one of the international leaders producing mycorrhiza does not recommend reducing the use of chemical fertilizers in parallel with the use of mycorrhiza (a fact that can be prejudicial to the efficiency of the microorganisms). In this case, the environmental argument thus disappears in favor of the economical argument (i.e. augmenting yield).
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S_D5 Social Innovations in Regional Practice: Arctic Examples and Experiences, Nadezhda Kharlampieva

S_D6 Indigenous Component in Arctic Regional Development, Konstantin Klokov

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S_J Economic, Demographic, and Geographic Aspects of Population Decline, Eveline van Leeuwen
Half of the scientists mention the ecological risks deriving from the importation of inocula on local biodiversity but they minimize it. Only one of them indicates the risk of contamination by pathogens that can be integrated in the inocula.

One industrial revealed that he is perfectly aware of the potential negative risk of the exogenous mycorrhiza inocula and that he takes specific measures of protection using local strains. The other industrials only identify the potential economical risk resulting from the eventual inefficiency of the inocula.

The analysis also reveals that farmers have been educated in a particular way and have developed specific routines that enable them to stay in the productionist paradigm. The cost of moving from practices using mainly chemicals to more agroecological practices is high (knowledge, reputation, networks, access to research grants).

- *Assessing the flows among the actors*

From the interviews we learnt that farmers do not have access to sufficient knowledge on mycorrhiza. Information flows do not reach them. In these conditions there is no way that the farmers fully take advantage of these agroecological technologies.

Strong ties exist between researchers and industrials for the technology of inoculation. These proximity ties can be formal or informal and concern the three types of flows. All the scientists that we interviewed confirmed that they developed contacts with industrials whatever the medium used (research projects, exchange of information, and profit sharing of firms producing mycorriza). Most of the managers of firms producing mycorrhiza come from research laboratories. The three types of flows can be examined.

(i) The **informations** are disseminated through research results that are shared among the stakeholders. For instance, a research laboratory and an industrial indicated that manage together a project on the development of genomic markers to identify and measure the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inocula in agricultural soils. Moreover, in France, several firms were created with the support of public research laboratories as a result of collaborations.

(ii) Research culture collections provide selected material to companies (according to material transfer agreement) or act as repository for inoculum deposited by companies (Ijdo et al., 2011). Some scientists also participated in the creation of firms. For instance the collections of the commercialized mycorrhiza are promoted by their laboratories. In our sample, a public laboratory directly commercializes mycorrhiza of its collection and suggests soils analysis. The exchanged flow is then **material**, with sharing of collections and products that the public laboratories use. These flows are also informal, with exchange of strains among scientist and firms for the development of the products and their evaluation.

(iii) The financial means are shared between research laboratories and industries with the support of the public authorities.

We show that the rules of decisions of scientists and industrials are predominant in the choice of technological paradigms and the development of technological trajectories. The results of our analysis sum up the key actors' strategies that structure the current technological regime.
S_K Spatial Development of Russia: Does Geography Matter? Leonid E. Limonov

S_L Chief Editors of Flagship Journals in Regional Science - for Young Scholars (Panel Session) Manfred Fischer

S-M Networking Structures in Regional Economic Development: Airports, the Knowledge Economy, and How Close Is Close? Comparing Experience from the U.S. with Europe, Alain Thierstein and Sven Conventz

S_N Climate Challenge to Regional Economic Development, Dmitry Kovalevsky

S_P1 Urban Economics Association, Jens Suedekum, Eleonora Patacchini and Kristian Behrens

S_P2 Urban Economic Association - Young Scientists, Jens Suedekum, Eleonora Patacchini and Kristian Behrens

S_Q Supporting Local Development through Collective Self-Help: The Potential of Social Enterprises Jacopo Sforzi, Giulia Galera

S_R Institutions and Regional Development, Victor Polterovich

S_S1 Spatial Interactions and Economic Performance: Firm-Level Evidence, Oleksandr Shepotylo

S_S2 Spatial Organization of Economic Activities within and across Cities, Dmitry Pokrovsky

S_T The Role of Regions in shaping Socio-Ecological Transition in the EU Peter Huber, Jarko Fidrmuc and Jesus Cuaresma-Crespo

S_U Regional Externalities and Labour Markets, Stephan Bru now and Alexander C. Lembcke

S_V1 Cross-Border Cooperation and Interregional Integration, Oleg Tolstoguzov

S_V2 Regions - Countries Networks in Knowledge Economy Field: Cross - Country / cross - border Comparisons and Experiences, Chrysanthi Balomenou and Aniko Kalman

S_W Location and Distribution: New Advances from Ukrainian Studies, Volodymyr Vakhitov

S_X Economic Interactions between Neighboring Countries under Globalization - Russia, China, and Japan, Kenji Kondoh

S_Y The Causal Impact of Infrastructure on Regional Economic Activity, Joachim Moeller and Daniel F. Heuermann

S_Z Small and Medium Sized Town in Europe: Performance, Role, Policy Challenges Antonio Russo, Christophe Demaziere and Loris Servillo
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As a result of their interactions, these actors participate in the reinforcement of the current socio-technological regime. Special attention is then paid to research and industry as they seem to influence the current agroecological pattern. The rules of decisions laid down by scientists and industrials are predominant in the choice of technological paradigms and the development of technological trajectories. They thus determine a lock-in situation that impedes the development of the alternative niches (mobilization of indigenous mycorrhiza networks) that could engineer a strong modernization of agriculture. Issues on the breaking out of this lock-in situation are discussed in the following section.

## 2.3 Implementing the strong modernization of agriculture: some prerequisites

The socio-technical approach and our methodological contribution to appraise the factors that influence the technological choices and innovation processes mobilized for the use of mycorrhiza are fruitful to demonstrate how this pattern structures the current regime. We show how the cultural and cognitive routines, the market prices and the public policies orientations shape the decision rules of the whole stakeholders and generate lock-in situations and path-dependence.

The concept of path dependence has been imported in the multi-level perspective approach to explain the stability of sociotechnical systems. "Among several technologies that perform similar functions and compete for adoption by economic agents, one technology may become dominant, even though it may have an inferior long-run potential (David and Arthur, 1985; Arthur, 1989). This process is 'path dependant' as the initial conditions may greatly influence the success of the dominant technology, particularly when increasing returns occur. This process is self reinforcing and may lead to a technological lock-in situation in which the dominant technology excludes competing
S_ZA Toolkit and the Experience to Elaborate Target Programs of Regional Development, Vladimir Malov and Petr Baklanov

S_ZB Economics of Quality as a Basis for Sustainable Development of Local Communities Vladimir Okrepilov

S_ZC Knowledge and Technology - Production, Application & Diffusion, Dieter F. Kogler

S_ZD Evolutionary Economic Geography - Relatedness, Proximities and Resilience, Dieter F. Kogler

S_ZE Regional Entrepreneurship and its Effects, Michael Fritsch

S_ZG Towards a Smart Rural Europe, André Torre and Frédéric Wallet

S_ZH Actual Problems of the Spatial Planning, Gennadii Fedorov

S_ZI Special Session in honour of Piet Rietveld, Erik Verhoef, Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp

S_ZK Cross- and trans-border cooperation as a capacity-building instrument for the sustainable development of Russia's North-Western/Arctic regions and municipalities, Alexander Sergunin

S_ZL Real Spaces and Cyber Spaces: New Challenges in Regional Science, Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, Edward Malecki, Mark Partridge
and possibly superior technologies (Liebowitz and Margolis, 1995)" (VanLoqueren and Baret, 2009, p. 980).

In a pragmatic approach, we must admit that lock-in situations have consequences for public action. The main question raised is to understand how to break out of lock-in because, as we pointed out before, incremental innovations are not enough to ensure the strong form of agroecological transition. Agroecological innovations supported the strong modernization of agriculture are of first interest as they are crucial for our contemporary societies, especially in the quest for sustainable agriculture context of climate change. In this section, we discuss three essential aspects that we consider as keys to manage the necessary shift requested for a transition path based on a strong modernization of agriculture. Considering the analysis grid of Geels (2011) that identifies a typology of pathways, we consider the two main levels that influence the regime suggesting then actions on the niches and the landscapes.

- Accompany the niches

The multi-level perspective approach emphasizes the niches level. Niches play a core role in the stimulation of radical innovations and counterbalance path dependence and lock-in situations. They are the locus where learning processes are improved, where technological developments are made, where market risks are assumed. Niches imperatively require strong supports for their development to occur in which case they do not survive.

Agroecological innovations to enhance natural mycorrhizal networks such as mixed farming, agroforestry, or on-farm mycorrhiza production systems are precisely radical innovations as they necessitate redesigning the agroecosystems. In some respects, they can be considered as laboratories that prepare for the wider changes that are occurring or will occur. To make them reinforced, we assume that supportive action should be developed in priority in two directions.

(i) Accompany the niches in financial terms

If we consider the results of niches as public goods, whose benefits are not exclusively appropriated by a unique category of agents but create larger externalities, market incentives for their production are not efficient. Public intervention is required to support their high productive costs. Public support will then help networks become larger and enroll powerful actors that may convey legitimacy and resources to niche-innovations. In that way, learning processes could evolve on various dimensions (market demand and consumer preferences, techniques, organizational configurations, cultural and symbolic meanings etc.) and the niches could be more and more developed and compete with the innovations supported by the current regime.

(ii) Accompany the niches through public-private partnerships

The promotion of public-private partnerships (PPP) is henceforth acknowledged as an explicit mission hold by the public-sector research establishments because it is considered as a mean to transfer technology and knowledge (Tait *et al.*, 2001). The regime fitted in the productionist paradigm has strongly benefited from this partnership for the development of its main innovations. This is less the case for agroecological innovations (Vanloqueren and Baret, 2009).

We assume that agroecological innovations for the strong modernization of agriculture should be addressed more scientific attentions. Most of the time these innovations result from intensive vernacular knowledge processes and are not considered as decisive center of interest for research. More widely, studies on innovation show that the ability to innovate is often linked i) to collective action and sharing of knowledge between actors, ii) to incentives and available resources that were invested in collaboration actions and iii) to the creation of an enabling environment for the production of ideas and innovations by different actors (World Bank 2006). This militates in favor of creating the conditions of a horizontal partnership that helps increase
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and circulate information flows. Among the wide range of actors, advisory organizations (public or private) could be of fruitful collaboration provided that they share the right information flows and participate in the production of knowledge and innovation.

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Different studies on agroecological innovations show the importance of participatory methods in supporting new technological processes (Angeon et al., 2014, Duru et al., 2014). This is one of the means for building social networks and enrolling more actors to expand the resource base niche of innovation. More widely, this implementation process of collective actions pilots the creation and the evolution of the niches and its interactions with the current regime.

- Clarify the message delivered by the landscape

Up to this point, we mainly put emphasis on niches without considering the role of landscape. But, for niches to become thicker, external expectations must become more precise and broadly accepted. We indicated in the previous section that the institutional message delivered by the landscape is ambiguous. We then focus on the landscape to analyze the consistency of clarifying its macro-rules.

In the case of the agroecological transition the landscape is divergent (it both supports the weak and the strong modernization of agriculture). As pointed out by Geels and Schot (2007) increasing problems can be caused to the current regime. The stakeholders are lost and wonder about the technologies that are to be used. “The destabilisation of regime rules creates uncertainty about dimensions on which to optimise innovation efforts (guiding principles, user preferences, selection criteria, regulations, etc.)” (Geels and Schot (2007) p. 408). This context of incertitude can lead to the de-alignment of the current regime. As niche-innovations are not well developed, there is no clear substitute likely to redesign the regime. In this transition pathway the regime comes rapidly under landscape pressure. The regime experiencing troubles may collapse, erode and de-align.

If the niche-innovations are developed then one of them may become dominant and form a new regime. Public action has to create space for the emergence of multiple niche innovations issued from different types of knowledge (scientific and local) necessary for the implementation of the strong modernization of agriculture. These multiple embryonic niches are carried by outsiders. They diversify the set of actors governing the regime. This configuration corresponds to the reconfiguration pathway.
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From our empirical results, we learnt that knowledge is not thoroughly shared except among scientists and industrials and does not favor the emergence of niche-innovations based on local mycorrhizal networks.

From the multi-level perspective, we show that an ambivalent landscape does not create windows of opportunity to produce scientific knowledge and to co-design and disseminate innovative technologies fit in the ecologically integrated paradigm. The trajectory of the forthcoming regime will confront a more challenging and uncertain context, a fact that hinders the strong modernization of agriculture.

## Conclusion

In this article, we mobilize the evolutionary sociotechnical system approach to understand what is at stake in the agroecological transition. We analyze the mycorrhiza example to illustrate in what extent a weak versus strong modernization of agriculture supported by parallel paradigmatic movements can occur. We depict the bright and downsides of 'green' regimes and niche-innovations that are operating in the current agroecological transition. From an empirical work that seeks to assess the nature and the density of ties developed by the stakeholders, we found that the lack of shared-knowledge is a major innovation-inhibiting factor for regreening agriculture. We explain that the flow of information is relatively inaccessible to farmers. This makes difficult the implementation of agroecological innovations and even farmers' involvement in adopting and designing niche-innovations.

We put emphasis on the core and destabilizing role of the landscape resulting from its ambiguous message. The landscape supports both weak versus strong agroecological paradigms. It then provides contradictory injunctions and does not specify how to implement the regreening of agriculture. In this fuzzy context, where radical innovations-niches struggle to emerge, the current socio-technical regime stays on the same trajectory.

The need to create conditions of innovations and learning is required for the implementation of the strong modernization of agriculture. This can be achieved through the development of public-private partnerships

## Acknowledgements

We particularly thank Rebecca Bilon who conducted the interviews.

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Opening Ceremony – August, 26, 17:00-19:00

Welcome reception: 19:00-21:00

Tauride Palace (4 Potemkinskaya str.)

*No shuttle service is arranged for the Opening Ceremony.*

The opening ceremony will be carried out in the Tauride Palace which is one of the biggest and well-known palaces in St. Petersburg.

In 1783 Prince Grigory Potemkin of Tauride commissioned his favourite architect, Ivan Starov, to design his city residence in a rigorous Palladian style. Considered the grandest nobleman's residence of 18th-century Russia, Tauride Palace served as a model for innumerable manors scattered across the Russian Empire.

In the 19th century, the palace was refurbished by Carlo Rossi and Vasily Stasov as a residence for minor royalty. It had been used to host balls and exhibitions until 1906, when it was transformed into the seat of the first Russian parliament, the Imperial State Duma. Immediately after the February Revolution of 1917, Tauride Palace housed the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet.

Since 1990s the Tauride Palace was the homeland of Interparliamentary assembly of Member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and also serves as one of the main meeting places for the congresses in the city.

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27-29 August:
Smolny Convent,
1/3 Smolny street

The Congress sessions will be held in the historical premises of Smolny convent. All buildings in the complex are architectural monuments of the 18th century. It has influenced the location and size of lecture-halls (former classrooms and bedrooms), width of corridors, passages between floors and buildings, and, of course, the decor.

Despite its name, it was never used for religious purposes.

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In imperial Russia it became well-known Smolny Institute of Education for Noble Maidens.

Now it serves as the complex of lecture hall buildings of the St. Petersburg State University, that possesses all the modern conference facilities.

There are three departments in the complex: Faculty of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and the Faculty of Sociology.

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The magnificent Smolny Cathedral will host the Congress' closing ceremony. This stunning blue-and-white cathedral of the Resurrection is the heart of the Smolny complex. It is considered one of the architectural masterpieces of the Italian architect Rastrelli, who also created the Winter Palace, the Grand Palace in Peterhof and many other St. Petersburg sightseeings. Smolny Cathedral was never used for church services. Now it is used primarily as a concert hall.
## How to reach the Congress Venue

### By Public Transportation:

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It is possible to get to the Congress Venue from the metro station "Mayakovskaya" or "Ploshad' Vosstania". Please take the bus 22, 181 or trolleybuses 5 or 11 from the metro station to the bus stop "Tul'skaya ulitsa". Ticket costs 25 RUB (only by cash, directly to a bus conductor).

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### By car:

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The city bus #39 stop is in front of Arrivals hall exit. The bus runs between the terminal and «Moskovskaya» metro station every 12-20 minutes from 5.30 a.m. till 01.30 a.m. The trip takes 30-35 minutes. Ticket costs 25 RUB (only by cash).

Shuttle bus K39 stop is in front of the Arrival hall exit. The bus runs between the terminal and «Moskovskaya» metro station every 5 minutes from 7.00 a.m. till 23.30 a.m. The trip takes 15-20 minutes. Price — 36 RUB (only by cash).

Then please go by metro from the station "Moskovskaya" to the sta-
tion “Technologichesky Institute-2” and change the line to the metro station “Technologichesky Institute-1”. Go directly to the station “Chernyshevskaya”. Please then use the buses mentioned above.

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Practical Information

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**Congress Venue**

1/3 Smolny str. (entrance from Rastrelli square)

**Faculties and rooms**

The 3 faculties used for the Congress presentations are linked to one another in a unique building:

- Faculty of International Relations

- Faculty of Politology

- Faculty of Sociology

**Please find maps** showing rooms and desks' area, coffee breaks and lunch areas, toilets, computer rooms **in your delegate's bag**.

*Presentation*

All rooms are equipped with a computer and a video projector.
Delegates are required to bring their presentation slides on a USB stick.

*Internet*

Access to the university network is available in all areas of the Smolny Convent without password.

There is also a computer preview room in Zone D, 3rd floor (see the map).

**ERSA Networking Area**

It is located in the main hall of the Faculty of International Relations, near the entrance at the ground floor.

**The Networking Area includes:**

- The ERSA Desk

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- The Registration Desks

All delegates are invited to go to the Registration Desks and sign in order to pick all congress material (incl. badge, congress bag,
congress book, certificates of presentation/attendance, USB stick, maps, tickets)

Contact person: Asya Gilmanova, Monomax Service Agency

Registration Desks will be located:

**August, 25 at 14:00-20:00:** Smolninskaya hotel, Oktiabrskaya hotel, Moscow hotel, Grand hotel Emerald, Russ hotel

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**August, 26 at 15:00-18:00:** Tauride Palace (4 Potemkinskaya str.)

**August, 27-29 at 08:00-17:00:** Smolny Convent, the Faculty of International Relations

## Other Desks

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### Info Desk

Should you have any queries about the congress and other practical information (computer room, map of the city, touristic information, taxis, restaurants, etc.), the team at the Registration and Information Desks is there to assist you.

Contact person: Elena ROMANIUK

## The Exhibition Area

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Congress info phone number +7 911 096 46 17

Just in Case :
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Taxi

Taxi company “068”: +7 (800) 550-0-068, +7 (812) 324-77-77

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We recommend to book taxi at your hotel's reception desk or at the Congress information desk.

Emergency number for credit cards:

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Banks

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## Restaurants and coffees close to the Congress venue

Please take into account that many restaurants and coffees accept credit cards. Only Russian rubles are accepted for payment by cash. You can easily exchange money in exchange points ("obmenny punkt") or banks that are located throughout the city. Tipping is not a general custom in Russia and generally at your discretion.

### STEAKHOUSE

Cuisine: International, Russian

Prices: (in average) 50 euro per person

Address: 36, Suvorovsky Prosp.

Telephone:+7 (812) 275-22-26

Working hours: 12:00 – 00:00

### Shalyapin

Cuisine: European, Russian

Prices: (in average) 40 euro per person

Address: 12/15, Tverskaya St.

Telephone:+7 (812) 275-32-10

Working hours: 09:00 – 23:00

### Angle Vert

Cuisine: European, Russian

Prices: (in average) 40 euro per person

Address: 56, Suvorovsky Prosp.

Telephone:+7 (812) 274-82-31

Working hours: 10:00 – 23:00

### Emil

Cuisine: European, Russian, Caucasian

Prices: (in average) 30 euro per person

Address: 62, Suvorovsky Prosp.

Telephone:+7 (812) 577-13-71

Working hours: 09:00 – 23:00
## Piano-Piano

Cuisine: Italian

Prices: (in average) 30 euro per person

Address: 5, Smolny prosp.

Telephone:+7 (812) 940-30-05

Working hours: 12:00 – 00:00

## Smolninsky

Cuisine: European

Prices: (in average) 30 euro per person

Address: 22, Tverskaya St.

Telephone:+7 (812) 325-65-00

Working hours: twenty-hour hours a day

## Eurasia

Cuisine: Japanese, Mexican, European

Prices: (in average) 20 euro per person

Address: 42, Suvorovsky prosp.

Telephone:+7 (812) 274-99-11

Working hours: 12:00 – 23:00

## U Smolnogo

Cuisine: pastries

Prices: (in average) 10 euro per person

Address: 2/3, Bonch-Bruevicha St.

Telephone:+7 (812) 274-14-16

Working hours: 09:00 – 00:00
Social Programme Overview:
networking events

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Please note that tickets for evening Social Events must be collected at the Registration desk.

## Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception - Tuesday, 26 August

*Venue: Tauride Palace*
*4 Potemkinskaya str.*

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Since the 1990s Tauride Palace was the homeland of Interparliamentary assembly of Member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and also serves as one of the main meeting places for the congresses in the city.

17:00-19:00 Opening Ceremony

19:00-21:00 Welcome reception

*No transfer shuttle is arranged. The venue is very close to the Smolny Convent (see Congress map).*

## Get-together Party - Wednesday 28 August

*Venue: the restaurant "Moskva"*
*of the hotel "Moscow"*
*2, Alexander Nevsky Square*
*Metro Station "Alexander Nevsky Square-1"*

Hotel "Moscow" is situated in the historical center of Saint

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Petersburg near Nevsky Prospekt on the Neva river embankment and opposite Aleksander Nevsky Lavra. The hotel is served well by public transport. A metro station is adjacent to the hotel and several buses and trolleybuses will take you directly to the Nevsky prospekt.

The restaurant “Moskva” is the main restaurant of the hotel. It occupies 2 floors at the main building. The restaurant is well known in St. Petersburg as the place which hosted many city events for 30 years of its existence and became very popular with its hospitality.

19:00-21:00 Get-together Party

*No transfer shuttle is arranged.*

## Gala Dinner - Friday, 29 August

*Venue: Manege*

*13 University emb.*

Situated in the historical part of the city, on the river Never embankment. It's a building of XVIII c., but newly renovated.

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20:00-23:00 Gala Dinner

*Transfer shuttle will be arranged by the LOC from the Congress Venue.*

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‘Manege’ can be reached from the metro stations “Nevsky Prospect / Gostiny Dvor”, “Mayakovskaya / Ploshad Vosstaniya” by buses # 3M, 24, 7 and trolleybuses # 1, 10, 11 (till bus station “Universitet”).
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Technical Visits
*Attendance to the technical visits is reserved to registered participants only. Ticket reservation in advance is necessary.*

## “The Underground World of St. Petersburg”,
SUE “Vodokanal of St. Petersburg”

Price: 30 EUR per person

Date: August 26, Tuesday

Meeting time: 13:45

Duration: 14:00 – 16:00

Meeting point: 56, Shpalernaya str. (just opposite the Taurida palace - the Opening Ceremony Venue)

The multimedia exhibition “The Underground World of St. Petersburg” and a large-scale map of the Neva river with up-to-date equipment to show a hydrological regime and an environmental situation in the city is situated in the left extension of the old Water Tower. In the spacious hall there

is a large model of the historical center of St. Petersburg created by the Institute of Architecture by the order of SUE “Vodokanal of St. Petersburg”. The model gets alive and lightened by opalescent lights; at the same time, a film shown on the screen above the model tells about a current state of the water supply and wastewater treatment in St. Petersburg and Vodokanal’s role in the city life. An unforgettable trip to the installation “The Underground World of St. Petersburg” gives an opportunity to follow the whole way of water going under the streets and houses.

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“Technical peculiarities of St. Petersburg undeground”,
SUE “St. Petersburg Metro”

Price: 30 EUR per person

Date: August 28, Thursday

Meeting time: 13:45

Duration: 14:00 – 19:30

Mode of transportation: by bus from the Congress venue

During the excursion you will get acquainted with construction peculiarities of deep stations, will learn to differ stations according to

their construction type:
columnar, pier, single-
vault types etc. You will
discover which stations
work as horizontal lift
type, what is under a
station platforms. The
technology of tunneling,
the tunnel boring shield
system, the chute
construction, the escalator
operating principle,
how much it costs to
build 1 meter of tunnel,
why ground for metro

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construction is better in St. Petersburg than in Moscow. Wagons of Petersburg metro: types, structure, weight, capacity and special marking. What is the speed of a train, operating principle of wagons with rotary-field motor. Episodes of competitive “battles” between production plants. For those who want to know: from what does the metro start? For what screen doors were installed at the platforms of some stations? For what Sportivnaya station was built as double-decked? How did a metro wagon develop? Belt-line: to be or not to be? And other interesting facts from St. Petersburg metro life.
## Tour to the construction of the second exit from Sportivnaya station of St. Petersburg Metro

- Price: 30 EUR per person

- Date: August 28, Thursday

- Meeting time: 13:45

- Duration: 14:00 - 19:30

- Mode of transportation: by bus from the Congress venue

The construction of Sportivnaya station second exit is provided by "Metrostroy" OJSC. As part of construction was created a transition tunnel under Malaya Neva, which connects a functional Sportivnaya station situated on Petrogradskaya Side with Vasilyevsky island. Due to the fact that the territory for surface structure constructions is absent on Vasilievsky island, the undeground variant was chosen for station vestibule location. Metro ticket hall and staff rooms are situated under the groung just outside Malaya Neva. Technologies of grouting as a wall in a ground and jet grouting were used during their construction.

## Tour to the Baltika brewery, JSC Baltika Breweries

- Price: 30 EUR per person

- Date: August 28, Thursday

- Meeting time: 13:45

- Duration: 14:00 - 19:30

- Mode of transportation: by bus from the Congress venue

During the visit you will get acquainted with the main moments of company history and activity, with beer production technology, on which raw material-based different beer brands are made and what are the differences, also you will visit main production facilities.
## Tour to the St. Petersburg Flood Protection Barrier:
“Technical and architectural decisions”

- Price: 30 EUR per person

- Date: August 28, Thursday

- Meeting time: 13:45

- Duration: 14:00 – 19:30

- Mode of transportation: by bus from the Congress venue

It is the security facility. There will be passport control. Please give us your passport details in advance and take your passport with you.

The Barrier or simply “dam” is a multipurpose facility, which includes: 11 rock and earth embankment dams, 2 navigation structures, 6 water sluices, and part of the ring road. The overall length of the Barrier is 25.4 km. It is an amazing historical, architectural, and natural landscaping complex. Its grand size, beauty, and the novelty of technical and architectural solutions are impressive. One of the results of this project is a new outstanding sight - the Sea Gate of St Petersburg. During the tour you will see a water sluice, a tunnel under a navigation structure and a traffic central desk. Also you will get acquainted with Kronshtadt and its depth gauge and hydraulic architecture of XVIII century – Petrovsky dock as a part of a program “St.Petersburg without floods”.
**GS Technopolis:**
**practical implementation of a creative town project**

Price: free of charge, all the fees will be covered by the Organisers.

Date: August 30, Saturday - August 31, Sunday

Mode of transportation: by airplane and by bus

It is the security facility. There will be passport control.

Please give us your passport details in advance and take your passport with you.

"Technopolis GS" is a unique project for creative town organization which develops by investment and industry holding GS Group in Kalinigrad region.

The tour includes the town infrastructure overview and experts round table.

Here are realised the mechanisms of active involving of the population of the region and Gusevs in cluster development: the GS Venture fund and "Creative platform GS" social projects support fund operate, Immanuel Kant BFU campus creation project is ready to start, Technopolis GS and Gusev district Administration enter into cooperation in social and cultural sphere.
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## Optional Tours' programme
*An attractive programme of Optional Tours is organised before, during, and after the Congress for participants and accompanying persons to experience the attractions of the city and surrounding areas.*

# **Pre-Congress Tours**
## (for Delegates and Accompanying persons)

### **Tour 1 Full day tour to Peterhof by hydrofoil (high-speed) boat**

Date: Monday 25 August 2014

Time: 09:30-18:30

Duration: 9 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, guided walking tour around Lower park, visit to the Grottoes of the Grand Cascade and the Catherine Block, all the entrance fees, business-lunch, transportation (bus and high-speed boat)

### **Tour 2 Full day tour to Velikiy Novgorod**

Date: Monday 25 August 2014

Time: 08:00-21:00

Duration: 12 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, guided walking tour around the city, visit to the monuments of XI-XVIII centuries: the Kremlin, St. Sophia Cathedral, Yaroslav's courtyard (ancient marketplace), the Museum of wooden architecture and Yuryev (St. George's) monastery, all the entrance fees, business-lunch, transportation (bus)

<footnote>*The high-speed boat is the most comfortable and fast way to get to Peterhof: the whole trip will take you only 45 minutes.*</footnote>
# Tours during the Congress
## (Accompanying Persons' Programme)

### Tour 1 Bus city tour and visit to St. Isaac's Cathedral

Date: Tuesday 26 August 2014

Time: 10:00-14:00

Duration: 4 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, guided tour around the city center, visit to St. Isaac's Cathedral with the colonnade for panorama view of the city, all the entrance fees, transportation (bus)

### Tour 2 “The jewels of St. Petersburg”

Date: Wednesday 27 August 2014

Time: 10:00-17:00

Duration: 7 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, visit to the Belosselsky Belozersky palace and Yusupov palace with Rasputin's room, all the entrance fees, business lunch, transportation (bus)

### Tour 3 The promenade at the Winter Palace

Date: Thursday 28 August 2014

Time: 10:00-14:00

Duration: 4 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, visit to the State Hermitage, tour around the parade halls and enfilades, the entrance fee, transportation (bus)
## Tour 4 Boat trip around the Never river and the canals "St. Petersburg at night"

Date: Thursday 28 August 2014

Time: 21:00-00:00

Duration: 3 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, transport (boat and bus)

## Tour 5 Tour to Peterhof

Date: Friday 29 August 2014

Time: 09:00-16:00

Duration: 7 hours

Starting point:
the Congress venue (parking near the Smolny cathedral)

Price includes: English-speaking guide, guided walking tour around Lower park, visit to the Catherine block and the Great Palace, all the entrance fees, business-lunch, transport (bus)

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**Post-Congress tours**
**(for Delegates and Accompanying persons)**

**_Tour 1 Tour to Moscow**

Date: Saturday 30 August to Tuesday 02 September 2014

Time: starting at 06:00

Duration: 4 days

Starting point: your hotel's reception desk

Price includes: English-speaking guide, transfer from the hotel in St. Petersburg to the Moskovsky railway station, ticket to Moscow by the high speed train, accommodation in the hotel Korston Moscow****, meal, transport and tours as stated in the Program of the tour (see www.onlinereg.ru/ersa2014), transfer from the hotel Korston Moscow to the airport or railway station.

**_Tour 2 Tour to Vyborg**

Date: Saturday 30 August 2014

Time: 8:00-20:00

Duration: 12 hours

Starting point: your hotel's reception desk

Price includes: English-speaking guide, meal and tours as stated in the Program of the tour (see www.onlinereg.ru/ersa2014), transportation (bus).

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Congress Programme

Day-to-Day program
August, 26

17.00-19.00

Tue_5_Tauride Palace

Opening Ceremony

Chair : TBC

*Natalya Zubarevich*, Moscow State University, Moscow
Spatial Inequality in Russia: Size Matters less than Institutions

*Zoltan Acs*, London School of Economics and Political Science,
United Kingdom
National regional systems of entrepreneurship: Europe and the world

August, 27

09.00-10.30

Wed_1_Assembly Hall

Keynote Session 1

*Michael Storper*, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Regional Development: A'Whodunit Story'

*Konstantin Aksenov*, GS Group, Russia
St.Petersburg - Leningrad - St.Petersburg Round Trip: Back From the
USSR?

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Assembly Hall

Special Session
S_A1 Alexander Granberg: his legacy for Regional Science

Chair: Peter Nijkamp
**Vyacheslav Seliverstov**

Alexander Granberg and his legacy for Regional Science

**Hans Westlund**

Memories of Academician Alexander Granberg

**Gyula Horváth**

Memories of Academician Alexander Granberg

**Victor Polterovich**

Memories of Academician Alexander Granberg

**Victor Razbeguin**

Alexander Granberg as the Chairman of SOPS

**Larisa Melnikova**

Memories of Academician Alexander Granberg

**Boris Krasnopolski**

Memories of Academician Alexander Granberg

**Aleksei Struchkov**

Alexander Granberg and Strategic planning in Yakutia:
success story and incessant search

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room B-140

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: Theory

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum**, **E.Patacchini**, **Kristian Behrens**

**Tadashi Morita**, Kazuhiro Yamamoto

**985.00** Birth of Cities: Division of Labor and Transportation Costs
**Matthias Wrede**

**284.00** Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model

**Marcus Berliant**, Masahisa Fujita

**257.00** The fine microstructure of knowledge creation dynamics: reporting further advances

**Rainald Borck**

**1342.00** Will skyscrapers save the planet?

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room B-141

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: Immigration

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum**, **E.Patacchini**, **Kristian Behrens**

**Jan Rouwendal**, *Or Levkovich*,

**960.00** Location choices of highly-educated foreign workers: the importance of urban amenities

**Alessio D'Ignazio**, Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio,
Paolo Naticchioni

**554.00** Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and the politics. The role of immigration in shaping natives' political preferences

**Laurent Gobillon**, Matthieu Solignac

**558.00** Homeownership of immigrants in France

**Ceren Ozgen**, Cornelius Peters, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Peter Nijkamp,
Jacques Poot

**1750.00** Immigration and Firm Productivity: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the Netherlands
11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room C-206

Special Session S_C Reg. / Urban impact & consequences of the
econ. crisis

Umbrella Session Theme: Economic crisis and regional resilience

Chairs: Juan Cuadrado-Roura, Andres Rodriguez-Pose

Riccardo Crescenzi, Davide Luca, Simona Milio

**1206.00** The geographies of the economic crisis: assessing the links between macroeconomic and regional resilience factors and the crisis impacts

Andres Rodriguez-Pose, Ugo Fratesi

**1426.00** The impact of the crisis at regional level: what role for protected economies?

Ayda Eraydin

**1308.00** The importance of endogenous capacities and government support in the resilience of regions

Barbara Martini

**735.00** Economic and social resilience: an analysis for the Italians
regions after 2007

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room E-321

Special Session S_I Cluster evol. reconsid.: mechanisms,
knowl. comb.& net.

Umbrella Session Theme: Cluster Change

Chairs: Franz Tödtling, Michaela Tripl, Päivi Oinas

Franz Tödtling, Alexander Auer, Tanja Sinozic

**214.00** Driving factors for cluster change – A comparative perspective
**Maria Höyssä**, Päivi Oinas

**1488.00** Explaining cluster transformation: What do causal mechanisms do?

**Jonatan Paton**, Jaime Del Castillo, Belen Barroeta

**392.00** Regional Economic Transformation: The role of clusters in specialised diversification

**Luciana Lazzeretti**, Annalisa Caloffi, Silvia Rita Sedita

**749.00** The emergence of the “donut model”: a new interpretation of the evolution of cluster literature

**Luciana Lazzeretti**, Francesco Capone

**745.00** Cluster evolution in mature Industrial cluster. The case of Prato Marshallian ID after the entrance of Chinese firm populations (1945-2011)

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room F-107**

Special Session S_Q Supporting local development through collective self-help

Umbrella Session Theme: Social Entrepreneurship

Chairs: **Jacopo Sforzi**, **Giulia Galera**

**Mario Biggeri**, Andrea Ferrannini, Enrico Testi, Marco Bellucci

**708.00** Social Enterprises as enabling factors for Sustainable Human Development at the local level

**Jacopo Sforzi**, **Giulia Galera**

**1415.00** Assessing the potential of social enterprises as a vehicle for local development: an international perspective

**Eva G.Fekete**

**1623.00** Social enterprises or public employment could result more
efficient local development in post socialist rural areas?

**Anna Ciepielewska-Kowalik**, Ewa Les

**1740.00** Social economy and social enterprises in Poland: trends, challenges and obstacles

**Mihaela Lambru**, Claudia Petrescu

**1781.00** Between regional policies and national policies – the institutionalization of social enterprises in Romania.

**Sara Depredi**, Alessandro Fedele

**1805.00** In Medio Stat Virtus: Towards a More Balanced Economy

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room A-106**

Special Session S_ZH Actual Problems of the spatial planning
Umbrella Session Theme: Border Regions

Chair: **Gennady Fedorov**

**Jacek Zaucha**

**632.00** Territorial cohesion in the Baltic Sea region as a spatial planning challenge

**Gennady Fedorov**

**672.00** Problems of the transborder spatial planning in the North-West of Russia

**Eduardas Spiriajevas**

**1103.00** Borderlands of Lithuania and Russia: Limitations and Quest for Spatial Interaction

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room B-136**

Refereed Session G_O. Realty and housing markets
Umbrella Session Theme: Real Estate

Chair: **Konstantin Kholodilin**

***Konstantin Kholodilin***

**9.00** Business confidence and forecasting of housing prices and rents in large German cities

***Yunlong Gong,*** Peter Boelhouwer, Jan de Haan

**448.00** Spatial Dependence in House Prices: Evidence from China's Interurban Housing Market

***Nikhilesh Sinha***

**710.00** An institutional Analysis of Informal Rental Housing Sub-Markets in Hyderabad, India

***Martijn Droes***

**1609.00** Renewable Energy and Negative Externalities: The Effect of Wind Turbines on House Prices

***Benjamin Wirth,*** Andreas Mense

**1552.00** Flat Prices, Cell Phone Base Stations, and Network Structure

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room B-142**

Special Session S_H4 Urban and regional regeneration :
The diversification

Umbrella Session Theme: Benchmarking Big Cities

Chair: **A.Makhrova/ Pavel Kirillov**

***Lise Bourdeau-Lepage***

**867.00** Greater Paris: A Plan for a Global City
**Leonid Limonov**

**216.00** Suburban Development of St Petersburg: comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions

**Alla Makhrova**, Oleg Golubchikov

**300.00** Moscow periphery: from summurbia to socio-spatial fragmentation

**Pavel Kirillov**

**1799.00** Distortions of Commuting Space Pattern in Moscow Suburbs: the Time-lapse Effect

**Kostyantyn Mezentsev**, Nataliia Mesentseva

**947.00** Suburban housing in Ukraine: trends and differences

**Susana Franco**, Edurne Magro, Miren Estensoro

**1472.00** Benchmarking as a tool for urban strategic processes: The case of Bilbao

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room C-215**

Ordinary Session G_K. Spatial econometrics and regional economic modelling

Umbrella Session Theme: Impact Studies: Innovation

Chair: Attila Varga

**Attila Varga**, Péter Járosi, Tamás Sebestyén, Mete Basar Baypinar

**1710.00** The GMR-Turkey model and its application for the impact assessment of alternative regional policy options

**d'Artis Kancs**, Philippe Monfort, Alexandra Rillaers

**386.00** The Employment Effect of Innovation
Hwang JaeHee, Lee SeongWoo

**1325.00** The Impact of Official Development Assistance on Human Development Index: Application of Spatial Econometrics for Panel Data

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room D-304

Refereed Session G_D. Regional and urban labor markets
Umbrella Session Theme: Effects on the Market

Chair: **Uwe Blien**

Uwe Blien, Oliver Ludewig

**261.00** Technological progress and regional disparities in (un) employment

Duncan Roth, John Moffat

**1546.00** Cohort size and youth unemployment in Europe: a regional analysis

Johannes Ludsteck

**374.00** Exploiting Regional Heterogeneity to Test Wage Setting Theories - Firm Size Wage Effects in Urban and Rural Regions

Maxime To, Matthieu Solignac

**1734.00** Neighborhood Effect and Labor Market Integration

11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room D-305

Ordinary Session G_R. Infrastructure, transport, commun. for mobile regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Airline-Train Competition

Chair: **Federico Cavallaro**
**Francisco Carballo-Cruz**, Rosa-Branca Esteves

**1246.00** Penetration of Low-Cost Carriers in Portugal: Transport and Regional Effects

**Christiaan Behrens**, Mark Lijesen

**903.00** The effect of high-speed rail on aviation networks: Eurostar and the supply of aviation services in Western Europe

**Veronika Poreisz**, Tamás Dusek

**873.00** Tendencies of travel costs in European air travel

**Stefanie Peer**, Erik Verhoef, Jasper Knockaert

**1112.00** The valuation of comfort in trains: Evidence from a real-life peak avoidance experiment

**Federico Cavallaro**, Elisa Ravazzoli

**876.00** New railway infrastructures and accessibility in mountain regions: a case study from the Alps

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room D-306**

Ordinary Session G_V. Regional cooperation and competition
Umbrella Session Theme: Trade and Inequality

Chair: **Vladimir Sherov-Ignatev**

**Maria Stella Chiaruttini**

**764.00** EU, Russia and the reshaping of the post-Soviet economic space: an international trade analysis

**Vladimir Sherov-Ignatev**

**871.00** Regional Effects of Regional Integration: the Case of Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan

**Georg Hirte**, Christian Lessmann

**304.00** Trade and Interregional Inequality
**George Petrakos**, Dimitris Kallioras, Maria Tsiapa

**162.00** Regional Inequalities in the ENP Countries: The Effects of Growth and Integration

**Jose Cesar Cruz Jr.**, Antonio Carlos Diegues Jr., Vinicius Stringhini

Onofre, Amanda Brito Andriotta

**1590.00** The Effect of the Chinese International Trade on the Brazilian Trade Balance

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room E-317**

Refereed Session G_Q. Natural environment, resources, & sustainable develop.

Umbrella Session Theme: Russian and Japan cases

Chair: **Svetlana Ratner**

**Svetlana Ratner**

**679.00** Pro-environmental Behaviors, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development in Russia

**Soushi Suzuki**

**223.00** Improvement restriction data envelopment analysis for new energy in Japan

**Yuzuru Miyata**, Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Tomoaki Fujii

**529.00** Economic and Environmental Impacts of Electric Vehicle Society in Toyohashi City in Japan - A CGE Modeling Approach

**11.00 – 13.00**

**Wed_2_Room E-318**

Ordinary Session G_P. Arctic and Northern frontier regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Economic Development

Chair: **Lars Westin**
**Lars Westin**

**557.00** Resource Curse and Urban development in the North –
Analysing the Economic Development of the Barents Region

**Marte Bjørnsen**, Steinar Johansen, Bjørg Langset

**1360.00** How do we increase value-added in northernmost regions?

**Marc-Urbain Proulx**

**930.00** New Economic Cycle in Northern Periphery

**11.00 – 13.00** Wed_2_Room F-106

Ordinary Session G_G. Entrepreneurship, small business and
regional diversity

Umbrella Session Theme: Innovations

Chair: **Sophia Khalimova**

**Mercedes Gumbau Albert**

**147.00** Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional performance:
application for the Spanish regions

**Isidoro Romero**, Juan A. Martínez-Román

**242.00** Determinants of innovativeness in small and medium-sized
enterprises. An analysis for Spanish regions

**Sophia Khalimova**

1164.00 Barriers for Small Innovation Business Development in the
Regional Innovation System of Novosibirsk Region

**Jolanda Hessels**, Martijn Burger

**1645.00** Inward FDI and the Entry of Exporting Start-ups
11.00 – 13.00

Wed_2_Room G-243

Refereed Session G_B. Regional economic growth and development
Umbrella Session Theme: Growth Factors - Known

Chair: **Yuyuan Wen**

***Yuyuan Wen***

**251.00** FDI Spillovers in Chinese Urban Agglomerations:
Comparative Analysis of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta

***Roberto Ercole, Robert O'Neill***

**514.00** The impact of agglomeration externalities on manufacturing growth within Indonesian Cities

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Assembly Hall

Special Session S_A2 A. Granberg: Council for SOPS on eve of its centenary

Chair: **Victor Razbegin**

***Nadezhda Mikheeva***

Spatial factors of national economic growth

***Gyula Horváth***

The regional structure and decentralization of science in Central and Eastern Europe

***Andrei Polynev***

Schemes of the location and development of productive forces in the USSR and Russia
**Anatolii Shevchuk**

KEPS/SOPS: research and expeditions on the resource management and environment

**Alexander Bgatov**

Transportation megaprojects in contemporary Russia

**Irina Grishina**

Investments for Regional Development in Russia: truisms and paradoxes of regional patterns for the post-Soviet period

**Aleksei Konovalov**

Development of the Arctic territories of Russia

**Galina Baturova**

Development of the marine activity in Russia

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room B-140

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: NEG theory

Chairs: Jens Suedekum, E.Patacchini, Kristiaan Behrens

**Sergey Kichko**, Sergey Kokovin, Evgeny Zhelobodko
**691.00** Trade Patterns and Export Pricing Under Non-CES Preferences

**Philip Ushchev**, Mathieu Parenti, Jacques-Francois Thisse
**1287.00** Toward a theory of monopolistic competition

**Jacques Thisse**, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Xiwei Zhu
**276.00** Technological Progress and Economic Geography
**Michael Pflüger**

**1347.00** Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-141**

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association

Umbrella Session Theme: Taxation and Local Public Finance

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum, E.Patacchini, Kristian Behrens**

**Tuukka Saarimaa**, Janne Tukiainen

**1249.00** Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers

**Marcus Roller**, Kurt Schmidheiny

**1354.00** Mobility and Progressive Taxation

**Amanda Ross**, Kaitlyn Wolf

**653.00** Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit

**Simon Planells** Struse, Daniel Montolio

**1606.00** The effect of football matches on crime patterns in Barcelona

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room C-206**

Special Session S_C Reg. / Urban impact & consequences of the
econ. crisis

Umbrella Session Theme: After crisis/Regional Impact Cases

Chair: **Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura**

**Roberta Capello**, Andrea Caragliu

**171.00** After Crisis Scenarios for CEECs: A simulation through the MASST3 model
**Garri Raagmaa**, Donatas Burneika, Tarmo Kalvet, Viktor Trasbeg, Laila Trasbeg, Laila Kule

**177.00** After the Crisis: Austerity in Governance and its Impact to the Further Peripherization of the Baltic States Remote Areas

**Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura**, Andres Maroto-Sanchez

**322.00** Unbalanced Regional Impact of the crisis in Spain. An explorative analysis through structural changes, sectorial specialization and productivity

**George Petrakos**, Ioannis (Yannis) Psycharis

**1642.00** Regional inequalities, economic crisis, and convergence: evidence from Greece

**Andreas P. Cornett**

**155.00** A new regional balance: Challenges and opportunities for intermediate city regions in Europe.

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room E-323**

Ordinary Session G_M. Innovations in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Innovations in European Regions

Chair: **Attila Varga**

**Attila Varga**, Tamás Sebestyén

**1711.00** Innovation in Central and Eastern European Regions: Does EU Framework Program participation lead to better innovative performance?

**Marcos García-Velasco**, Blanca L. Delgado-Márquez

**439.00** Measurement and evolution of the knowledge areas as bases for innovation in Europe
**Iris Wanzenböck**, Philipp Piribauer

**456.00** Inter-regional R&D networks and knowledge creation: Regional evidence from Europe

**Argentino Pessoa**

**989.00** Smart Specialisation in the EU: Is it a Bridge between Innovation and Cohesion?

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room E-321**

Special Session S_I Cluster evol. reconsid.: mechanisms, knowl. comb.& net.

Umbrella Session Theme: Regional Cases

Chairs: Franz Tödtling, Michaela Tripl, Päivi Oinas

**Michaela Trippl**, Roman Martin

**370.00** Regional Variety in Knowledge Bases and the Evolution of the ICT Cluster in Southern Sweden

**Tanja Sinozic**, Franz Tödtling

**718.00** Knowledge bases and technical change in the New Media cluster in Vienna

**Frédéric Gaschet**, Guillaume Pouyanne, Vanessa Bouaroudj

**172.00** Related variety and the dynamics of European photonic clusters

**Josephine Rekers**, Markus Grillitsch

**436.00** Selection and cluster evolution: A conceptual and empirical investigation using the case of med-tech in Scania, Sweden

**Arne Isaksen**, James Karlsen

**203.00** Emergence of clusters: by chance or by design. The rise of the Oslo Cancer Cluster
14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room G-242

Ordinary Session G_J. Migrations, diasporas,
and aging in the regions
Umbrella Session Theme: Knowledge

Chair: **Mark Partridge**

***Katerina Stancova***

**137.00** Attracting international research professionals to EU smart regions: evidence from Tuscany

***Mark Partridge, Mike Betz, Belal Falah***

**662.00** Smart Cities and Attracting Knowledge Workers: Where Do Highly Educated Workers Migrate in the 21st Century?

***Francisco Carballo-Cruz, Rosa-Branca Esteves***

**1251.00** The spatial impacts of implementing a system of dual vocational training in Portugal

***Selim Cagatay***

**1402.00** Remittances Impacts on Consumption Patterns and Human Capital Formation in Egypt, Jordan and Palestine

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room E-322

Special Session S_ZC Knowledge & Technology - Production, Application & Diff
Umbrella Session Theme: Commercialization of Knowledge: National Cases

Chair: **Dieter F. Kogler**

***Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Susanne Frick***

**1292.00** Urban Structure and Economic Growth
*Amit Batabyal*, Peter Nijkamp

893.00 Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in
Leading and Lagging Regions

*Dieter F. Kogler*, David L. Rigby, Jurgen Essletzbichler

**643.00** The Evolution of Invention within European Regions, 1980-
2005

*Stefano Usai*, Francesco Quatraro

**463.00** Are knowledge flows all alike. Evidence from European
regions

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room E-324**

Ordinary Session G_M. Innovations in space

Umbrella Session Theme: China-Turkey-Brazil "triangle" of
Innovations

Chair: **Fritz Luther**

*Fritz Luther*, Manfred M. Fischer, Thomas Scherngell

**104.00** The geography of collaborative knowledge production in
China

*Petra Staufer-Steinnocher*

**1145.00** Hotspots in China's Patenting Landscape 1974-2011

*Berna Sezen Özen*, Tüzin Baycan

**1288.00** Turkey's National Innovation System Performance: Recent
Progress and Ongoing Challenges

*Burhan Can Karahasan*, Alpay Filiztekin

**1058.00** Geographical Distribution and Persistence of Human
Capital in Turkey
**Patricia Turco**, Ricardo Firetti, Flavia Bliska, Eder Pinatti, Antonio Pinatti, Antonio Bliska, Sergio Tôsto

**517.00** Connection Between Technological Trajectory of the Coffee Sector and the Economic Growth of Brazilian Producing Regions

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room F-106**

Ordinary Session G_G. Entrepreneurship, small business and regional diversity

Umbrella Session Theme: Smart Cultural Specialization

Chair: **Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska**

**Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska**, Jacek Soltys

**1211.00** Methodological identification of opportunities for development of smart specialization in Pomorskie Voivodship in Poland

**Fikri Zul Fahmi**, Sierdjan Koster, Jouke van Dijk

**547.00** Regional differences in creative and cultural industries in Indonesia

**Annie Tubadji**, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

**581.00** Migrant Entrepreneurs, Risk and Cultural Diversity

**Pia Nilsson**, Lucia Naldi, Hans Westlund, Sofia Wixe

**832.00** What is smart rural development?

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-134**

Refereed Session G_A. New frontiers in Regional science

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: **André Torre**
André Torre, Fred Wallet

**719.00** The role of proximity relations in regional and territorial
development processes

Peter Schmidt

**1560.00** EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Masao Ogaki, SunYoun Lee, Byung-Yeon Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon,
Hyoung-Seok Kwon, Hyoung-Seok Lim, Fumio Ohtake

**1568.00** Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room A-108

Ordinary Session G_A. New frontiers in Regional science
Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: Maria Dementyeva

Dafeng Xu

**536.00** Rural-Urban Migration with Behavioral Preferences

Konstantinos Melachroinos, Ching-mu Chen

**1545.00** Intangible Investment and Regional Productivity Dynamics
in Japan

Anastasios Kitsos, Paul Bishop

**37.00** Regional stress performance in Europe

Maria Dementyeva, Erik Verhoef

**600.00** The role of insurance premiums in internalization of road
accident externalities

Akio Matsumoto, Keiko Nakayama

**40.00** Dynamic monopoly with demand delay

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room A-107
Ordinary Session G_E. Reg. & urban policy, planning & govern.

Best practices

Umbrella Session Theme: EU

Chair: **Yiannis Saratsis**

**Mara Giua**, Riccardo Crescenzi

**728.00** Spatial discontinuity for the impact assessment of the EU
Regional Policy. How does the Policy net impact differ across
countries?

**Yiannis Saratsis**, Angelos Kotios

733.00 How place based are Cohesion Policy regulations?

**Elisavet Thoidou**, Dimitrios Foutakis

**1662.00** New challenges for regional development policy: the climate
change approach of EU cohesion policy

**Jioi Novosák**

**911.00** Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional
policy: the case of the Czech Republic

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-138**

Special Session S_ZI Special Session in honour of Piet Rietveld

Umbrella Session Theme: Spatial Interaction

Chairs: **Eric Verhoef**, **Aura Reggiani**, **Peter Nijkamp**

**Henri De Groot**

**1550.00** Dutch perspectives on spatial interaction and agglomeration

**Manfred M Fischer**, James P. LeSage

**716.00** Spatial regression-based model specifications for exogenous
and endogenous spatial interaction
**<u>Aura Reggiani</u>**

**1232.00** Complexity and Spatial Networks

**<u>Raymond Florax</u>**

**1803.00** A Tiebout Model of Recent US Migration Patterns Using
Spatially Explicit Generalized Propensity Score

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-139**

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Special Session S_ZA Toolkit & the exp. to elaborate target prog of
reg dvp

Chairs: **Vladimir Malov, Petr Baklanov**

**<u>Petr Baklanov</u>**

**674.00** Geographical and geopolitical factors of long-term
development of Pacific Russia

**<u>Boris Melentyev</u>**

**222.00** Development of interregional tools for predictive modeling of
spatial proportions of economy

**<u>Vladimir Malov</u>**

**180.00** Clusters and territorial industrial complexes: common and
specific characteristics

**<u>Valentina Zolotova</u>**

**563.00** Experience of development of the program of formation of North
Sakhalin Aqua Territorial Manufacturing Complex: look out of the Past

**<u>Olga Tarasova</u>**

**233.00** Toolkit to estimate the organizational structure of Arctic
industrial complexes
14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room A-114

Special Session S_R Institutions and Regional Development
Umbrella Session Theme: Institutions

Chair: **Victor Polterovich**

***Victor Polterovich***

**1536.00** Reforms, Lines of Interim Institutions, and Regional Experimentation

***Guido de Blasio, Giovanna D'Adda***

**815.00** Historical Legacy and Policy Effectiveness: the Long-Term Influence of pre-Unification Borders in Italy

***Andrea Filippetti, Giovanni Cerulli***

**367.00** Decentralization and the quality of local governments: Evidence in European regions with a dose-response approach

***Ermy Ardhyanti, Hasrul Hanif***

**1511.00** Innovative Policy of Regional Development in Decentralized Indonesia

***Yuheng Li, Zhichao Hu, Yansui Liu***

**398.00** Approaching integrated urban-rural development in China: The changing institutional roles

***Ksenia Averkieva***

**684.00** Prison geography: the role of penal facilities in regional development

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room A-106

Special Session S_ZH Actual Problems of the spatial planning
Umbrella Session Theme: Spatial Planning

Chair: **Gennadii Fedorov**
**Marek Pieniazek**

**1562.00** The Obtaining of Statistical Data for Spatial Planning from Database of Topographic Objects

**Anastasia-Zoi Souliotou**

**1166.00** Imaginary Lines metro network: towards a dynamic spatial infrastructure

**Vladimir Gorbanyov**

**1720.00** New zoning Russia

**Joachim von Braun**

**841.00** Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services

**Mahalaya Chatterjee**

**1459.00** Regional Variation in Urbanisation in India and the Emergence of New Towns

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-142**

Special Session S_Z Small & medium sized town in Europe: performance, role

Umbrella Session Theme: Small and Medium Towns

Chair: **Antonio Russo**

**Antonio Russo**

**605.00** Mapping Small and Medium Sized Town in Europe: Classifications, Spatial Trends and Ontological Issues

**Ian Smith**

**634.00** What are the factors underpinning change in European small towns?
**Christophe Demazière**, Abdelillah Hamdouch, Ksenija Banovac
**1277.00** The Socio-Economic Development of Small and Medium-Sized Towns: Between Residential Economy, Competitiveness and Innovation

**Françoise Navarre**, Aurelien Delpirou

**1776.00** Analyzing Small and Medium-Sized towns in the light of their constraints and opportunities – the case of Nevers (Burgundy – France)

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room E-317**

Ordinary Session G_Q. Natural environment, resources, & sustainable develop.

Umbrella Session Theme: Energy and Regions

Chair: **Yuri Yegorov**

**Yuri Yegorov**

**39.00** Energy Transition to Renewables: Problems

**Eiji Ohno**, Ryuta Mori, Masafumi Morisugi, Hiroshi Sao

**668.00** Economic Evaluation of Small Hydroelectric Generation
Project which aims to both Global Warming Adaptation and Regional Economic Revitalization

**Christophe Heyndrickx**, Victoria Alexeeva-Taleebi, Natalia Tourdyeva

**1535.00** To raise or not to raise: Impact assessment of Russia's gas price reform

**Irina Semykina**

**780.00** Management problems of oil and gas projects' socio-economic effects in newly developing areas
14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room D-305

Ordinary Session G_R. Infrastructure, transport, commun. for
mobile regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Ports and Telecommunications

Chairs: **Alain Thierstein**, **Sven Conventz**

**Alain Thierstein**, Sven Conventz

**413.00** Hub Airports, the knowledge economy and how close is close? Evidence from Europe

**Sébastien Bourdin**, Thomas Cornier

**206.00** European and Mediterranean ports in competition: an evolution of the spatial concentration and polarization

**Thomas Cornier**

**714.00** The European ports in the globalization: the example of Le Havre in the European Northern Range

**Julieta Llungo-Ortiz**

**1455.00** Privatization of telecommunications in Latin America, an analysis of its efficiency

**Emmanouil Tranos**, Elizabeth Mack

**1537.00** Broadband provision and knowledge intensive firms: a causal relationship?

14.00-16.00

Wed_3_Room F-114 A

Ordinary Session G_S. Social segregation, poverty, and social policy in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Regional Economic Inequality

Chair: **Simonetta Longhi**
**Jean-Mari Hakizimana**, Hermanus Geyer

**133.00** Socio-economic inequality in South Africa according to different disparity indices

**Patricia C. Melo**

**136.00** Understanding the contribution of people and place to regional income inequalities in Scotland

**Martin Gornig**, Jan Goebel

**1172.00** Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations

**Simonetta Longhi**, Malcolm Brynin

**329.00** Occupational and geographic concentration of ethnic minorities in the UK

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room D-306**

Ordinary Session G_V. Regional cooperation and competition
Umbrella Session Theme: Cross-Border Cooperation

Chair: **Tatiana Gerasimenko**

**Tatiana Gerasimenko**

**1280.00** The Impact Of The New State Border To Regional Development (Example Of Orenburg Region)

**Christer Persson**, Marcus Sundberg, Anders Karlström, Karin Brundell-Freij

**1634.00** Opening the Öresund bridge: effects on cross-border migration, jobs reallocation and commuting

**Andrea Uszkai**, Zsolt Dános

**346.00** Cross-border relationships of Central-European higher education institutions
**Gabriela Dragan**, Catalina Tuluca

**823.00** The Importance of the Black Sea Region in the European Energy Security. A Romanian perspective

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room E-318**

Special Session S_D3 Arctic Dev. Strat.: best pract. fr Russian & north. reg

Umbrella Session Theme: Economic Development

Chair: **Vladimir Didyk**

**Tuomas Suutarinen**

**545.00** Economic diversification or resource extraction as the best strategy for the economic development in the Murmansk region?

**Alexander Pelyasov**, Nadezhda Zamyatina, Alexander Kotov

**252.00** New approach for the elaboration of planning documents for the Northern municipalities (the case of the City of Khanty-Mansiysk)

**Vladimir Didyk**, Larissa Riabova

**723.00** Development strategies of the single-industry towns in the Russian Arctic: case of the Murmansk region

**Larissa Riabova**

**1207.00** Trans-border cooperation as a driver for development of small localities in the Russian Arctic: the Murmansk region

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room G-243**

Ordinary Session G_B. Regional economic growth and development
Umbrella Session Theme: Growth Factors - Hidden

Chair: **Natalie Iakovleva**
**Robert Huggins**, Piers Thompson

**781.00** Networks, Entrepreneurship and Regional Growth: An Empirical Analysis

**Natalie Iakovleva**

**85.00** Humanitarian cooperation as a factor in the strategic partnership between Altai Territory of Russia and Land Saxony-Anhalt of Germany

**Helen Caraveli**, Asimina Christoforou

**221.00** Social Capital in Rural Development and Socio-Economic Cohesion: A Review of the Literature and the Greek Paradigm

**Miriam Marcen**, Rafael González-Val

**1500.00** The effect of regional economic growth on marriage and divorce

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room F-102**

Special Session S_H2 Urban reconfigurations in the post-Soviet space
Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chairs: **Natalia Vlasova**, **Isolde Brade**, **Carola Silvia Neugebauer**

**Natalia Vlasova**

**773.00** Largest Russian cities development strategies and structural transformation in the urban economy

**Isolde Brade**, Carola Silvia Neugebauer

**798.00** The socio-economic transformation of regional capitals in Russia

**Maria Podkorytova**

**1709.00** Transformation of suburbs of Saint-Petersburg in post-Soviet period
### Kostyantyn Mezentsev

**1476.00** New Image of Kharkiv: the Regional Capital or Part of the Trans-Border Agglomeration?

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room B-136**

Ordinary Session G_O. Realty and housing markets
Umbrella Session Theme: Metro

Chair: Nicolas Devaux

### Sara Mohammad, Daniel Graham, Patricia Melo

**619.00** The effect of the Dubai Metro on the value of residential and commercial properties

### Luigi Benfratello, Matteo Kersbamer, Rosalba Ignaccolo

**1521.00** Effects of underground and high-speed train infrastructures on housing prices: evidence from a diff-in-diff analysis

### Nicolas Devaux, Jean Dubé, Philippe Apparicio

**353.00** Anticipation and post-construction impact of the metro extension on residential values: The Case of Laval (Canada), 1995-2013.

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room C-215**

Ordinary Session G_K. Spatial econometrics and regional economic modelling
Umbrella Session Theme: Impact Studies: Europe

Chair: Andries Brandsma

### Andries Brandsma, D'Artis Kancs, Philippe Monfort, Alexandra Rillaers

**387.00** RHOMOLO: A Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium Model
for Assessing the Impact of Cohesion Policy

**1773.00** On the Interdependence and Dynamics of Regional Disparities and Individual Inequality. Empirical Evidence for Europe based on EU-SILC-Microdata

Jonathan Jones, Dominique Peeters, Isabelle Thomas

**786.00** Influence of scale on policy evaluation using LUTI models

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room F-101**

Special Session S_ZB Economics of Quality as a basis for sustainable development

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: Vladimir Okrepilov

Vladimir Okrepilov, Vladimir Kvint

**237.00** The role of Quality in the development and implementation of the regional strategies

Evgeny Avanesov

**245.00** Quality of life and international standardization in the field of sustainable development of communities

Petr Burak, Tatiana Zvorykina

**542.00** Harmonization of national indicators for sustainable development of the administrative-territorial units with the requirements of the international community

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room F-108**

Ordinary Session G_N. Tourism and regional experience economy
Umbrella Session Theme: Russia-Italy-Turkey
Chair: **Nataliia Zigern-Korn**

**Nataliia Zigern-Korn**

**1722.00** Tourist development of the historical and cultural space as the direction of regional policy

**Eleonora Lorenzini**, Maurizio Pisati, Tomaso Pompili

**862.00** Determinants of international tourist choices in Italian provinces: a joint demand-supply approach with spatial effects

**Hilal Erkuş Öztürk**, Aliye Ahu Akgün

**1051.00** Diversification in a Tourist City: A Relation of Related and Unrelated Variety

**K.Ali Akkemik**, Erisa Dautaj

**891.00** CGE Assessment of Tourism Policies in Turkey

**14.00-16.00**

**Wed_3_Room D-304**

Special Session S_H3 Best practices for regional and urban development

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: **Vladimir Fesenko**

**Vera Bodrova**

**692.00** Implementation of the GIS Technology in the Natural Resource Management (Development Level Assessment, Problems And Prospects of the Volgograd Region)

**Vladimir Fesenko**

**722.00** Diagnosis of the Social and Economic Welfare of the Population for the Purposes of Regional Economic Policy
**Sergey Kanischev**

**1025.00** Recreation areas in the ecological and economic balance of the urbogeosystem

**Stefano Aragona**

**1285.00** The ecological city between future and memory: a great opportunity to rethink the world

**Maria Siti**, Efthimios Bakogiannis

**657.00** Interrogating best practices of School accessibility in neighborhood planning.

16.15-18.15

Wed_1_Assembly Hall

Round Table of Editors

**Roberta Capello**, Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science, Dipartimento BEST, Politecnico di Milano

**Peter Batey**, Editor-in-Chief, Town Planning Review, Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool

**Martin Andersson**, European Editor, The Annals of Regional Science, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University

**Henk Folmer**, Editor-in-Chief, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Department of Economic Geography, University of Groningen

**Jean-Claude Thill**, Editor-in-Chief, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

**Petra Staufer-Steinnocher**, Managing Editor, Journal of Geographical Systems, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, WU Vienna University of Economic and Business
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room B-140

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: Labor Markets

Chair: **Jens Suedekum**

**Steven Brakman**, Charles Van Marrewijk

**341.00** Agglomerations, and cities in China: on the effectiveness of sorting

**Jens Suedekum**, Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen

**277.00** Adjusting to Globalization: Evidence from Heterogeneous Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany

**Oleksandr Shepotylo**

**700.00** Deregulation and productivity: selection or within-firm effect?

**Ulrich Zierahn**, Anna Salomons, Terry Gregory

**549.00** Technological Change and Regional Labor Market Disparities in Europe

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room B-141

Special Session S_P1 Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: Parking and Traffic Policy

Chair: **Jens Suedekum**

**Richard Arnott**

**41.00** An Isotropic Model of Downtown Traffic Congestion

**Eren Inci**, Robin Lindsey

**344.00** Garage and Curbside Parking Competition with Search Congestion
**Antonio Russo**, Bruno De Borger

**1132.00** Lobbying by Retailers and Urban Traffic Policy

**Coen Teulings**, Ioulia Ossokina, Henri De Groot

**1480.00** The welfare effects of transport infrastructure changes: a
spatial general equilibrium perspective

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room F-107**

Special Session S_G2 Global Value Chain Participation & Reg. Trade
Openness. Umbrella Session Theme: Structure of Production

Chairs: **R.Boschma**, **B.Los**, **Ph.McCann**, **F.van Oort**

**Riccardo Crescenzi**, Kerwin Datu, Simona Iammarino

**1551.00** Sectors, value chains and Foreign Direct Investment
networks in the EU Regions

**Frank Van Oort**, Mark Thissen, Thomas De Graaff

**1629.00** The region specific importance of structural factors of the
efficiency of industries in Europe

**Bart Los**, Luca Cherubini

**1367.00** Regional Employment Patterns in a Globalizing World: A
Tale of Four Italies

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room B-138**

Special Session S_ZI Special Session in honour of Piet Rietveld
Umbrella Session Theme: Transportation

Chairs: **Eric Verhoef**, **Aura Reggiani**, **Peter Nijkamp**

**Erik Verhoef**

**1554.00** Piet Rietveld: A Dutch perspective on the economics of
transport and transport policy
**Daniel Shefer**

**306.00** Sustainable Transportation and Urban Development

**Roger Stough**

**443.00** Transportation and Livability: Cases from North America

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room E-323**

Ordinary Session G_M. Innovations in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Factors

Chair: Markus Grillitsch

**Markus Grillitsch**, Martin Andersson, Magnus Nilsson

**1345.00** Do collaborations with non-local actors substitute for local knowledge spillovers?

**Daniel Vossen**

**830.00** Migration of the creative class in Germany

**Ana Isabel Melo**, Carlos Rodrigues

**1454.00** Evaluating the third academic mission: merely ‘impressionistic’?

**Luciano De Bonis**, Eugenio Leanza, Jesse Marsh,

Ferdinando Trapani

**1140.00** Towards a co-creative recapitalization of territorial systems

**Igone Porto**, Jose Ramón Otegi

**389.00** ROSIS: A Regional Open Sectoral Innovation System

**Timo Mitze**, Torben Dall Schmidt

**1235.00** Do too many cooks really spoil the broth? Using spatio-temporal variations of Michelin-stars as an indicator for local creative amenities
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room F-106

Refereed Session G_G. Entrepreneurship, small business and regional diversity

Umbrella Session Theme: Knowledge

Chair: **Stephan Brunow**

*Stephan Brunow, Valentina Nafts*

**596.00** What types of firms tend to be more innovative: A study on Germany

*Imre Lengyel, Miklós Lukovics, Szabolcs Imreh*

**649.00** Knowledge-based local economic development in the less developed region: ELI Science Park in Hungary

*Francesco Aiello, Fernanda Ricotta*

**808.00** Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe. What explains what?

*Miroljub Hadzic, Petar Pavlovic*

**101.00** The Need for the shift in Supportive policy for SME Development in Serbia

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room A-114

Ordinary Session G_I. Institutional factors in regional and urban development

Umbrella Session Theme: Institutions

Chairs: **Victor Polterovich, Leonid Vardomskiy**

*Leonid Vardomskiy*

**384.00** Federative relations and Russian space problems
**Antonella Rita Ferrara**, Philip McCann, Viktor Venhorst

**894.00** Dynamics in sigma and gamma convergence of well-being in European regions

**Sabine Sedlacek**

**570.00** Regional governance and Leader – support mechanisms for autonomous regional development

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room G-243**

Ordinary Session G_B. Regional economic growth and development
Umbrella Session Theme: Russia-EU regional economic growth

Chair: **Nicola Cortinovis**

**Andrey Polynev**

**713.00** Comparative competitiveness of Russian regions: the main factors and modern trends

**Leonid Bezrukov**

**518.00** Competitiveness of Siberia in the Russian and world economies

**Nicola Cortinovis**, Frank Van Oort

**208.00** Related variety and regional economic growth in Europe: a dynamic perspective

**Lola Gadea**, Eduardo Bandres, Ana Gomez-Loscos

**174.00** Regional business cycles across Europe

**Sheila Anne Chapman**, Valentina Meliciani

**183.00** Behind the Pan-European Convergence Path: the Role of Structural Change and of Geographic Proximity
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room C-206

Special Session S_C Reg. / Urban impact & consequences of the
econ. crisis

Umbrella Session Theme: Regional Impact Cases

Chairs: Juan Cuadrado-Roura, Tomaz Dentinho

Tomaz Dentinho, João Borba

**144.00** Spatial impacts of economic crisis. Scenarios for the
Portuguese Regions

Irena Dokic, Ivana Rasic Bakaric, Zlatan Fröhlich

**455.00** Impact of crisis on regional development in Croatia

Ricardo Tomé, José Teixeira

**1638.00** Portuguese public services: past experiences and new trends
in management

Izabella Szakálné Kanó, Imre Lengyel, Zsófia Vas, Balázs Lengyel

**1603.00** Impact of economic crisis on spatial specialization and
concentration of manufacturing branches in Hungary

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room E-322

Special Session S_ZC Knowledge & Technology - Production,
Application & Diff

Umbrella Session Theme: Commercialization of knowledge: national cases

Chair: Dieter Kogler

Amit Batabyal, Peter Nijkamp

**889.00** Innovation, Decentralization, and Planning in a Multi-Region
Model of Schumpeterian Economic Growth
**Michael Fritsch**, Ronney Aamoucke

**602.00** Types of Higher Education Institutions, Fields of Knowledge and Innovative Start-ups – An Empirical Investigation

**Maria Markatou**

**403.00** From R&D policy to R&D and innovation results in Greece: The PAVE case

**Magdalena Wisniewska**

**414.00** Best practice in technology transfer managers training according to ECVET system (ETM project)

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room E-317

Refereed Session G_Q. Natural environment, resources, & sustainable develop.

Umbrella Session Theme: Environmental Innovations

Chair: **Amit Batabyal**

**Bettina Peters**, Georg Licht

**1542.00** The Impact of Environmental Innovation on Employment Growth in Europe

**Yuzuru Miyata**, Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Indrawan Permana

**527.00** Economic Analysis of Illegal Settlements in Flood Prone Areas in Palangkaraya City in Indonesia - A General Equilibrium Approach

**Amit Batabyal**, Peter Nijkamp

**901.00** Biodiversity Prospecting Over Time and Under Uncertainty: A Theory of Sorts

**Fadim Yavuz**, Ayla Bozdað

**1268.00** Evaluation of the Obstacles against the Economic
# Development of Cihanbeyli Rural Area

Vincenzo Provenzano, Maria Rosaria Seminara

**1490.00** Green Economy: the Development of Marginal Areas in the Horizon 2020 Strategy

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room E-324**

Ordinary Session G_Q. Natural environment, resources, & sustainable develop.

Umbrella Session Theme: Urban Energy Development

Chair: **Sebastiaan van Bemmel**

Cansu Ilhan, Tüzin Baycan

**977.00** Measuring and Mapping urban energy Efficiency in Turkey

Touria Abdelkader B. Conde, Fernando Barreiro-Pereira

**1630.00** Energy and Emissions Conflicts in Urban Areas

Sebastiaan van Bemmel, Bart Rijken

**1116.00** Sustainable urban development in a spatial model from the energy transition-viewpoint: a case study from the Netherlands

Melanie Lienhard

118.00 Implications of the 2000 Watt Society For Urban Planning And Economics

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room B-136**

Ordinary Session G_O. Realty and housing markets

Umbrella Session Theme: Factors

Chair: **Marc Francke**
**Marc Francke**, Alex van de Minne, Johan Verbruggen

**506.00** The effect of Credit Conditions on the Dutch Housing Market

**Oskari Harjunen**, Matti Liski

**1034.00** Not so myopic consumers: Evidence on the capitalization of energy technologies in the housing market

**Marco Modica**

**476.00** Regional economic resilience in Italy: preparedness and economic impact of natural disasters on housing market

**Sara Mohammad**, Daniel Graham, Patricia Melo

**622.00** The effect of generalized cost of travel on the value of residential and commercial properties

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room E-318

Special Session S_D1. Sustainability in the Arctic

Umbrella Session Theme: Economic Development, Level of living

Chairs: **Andrey Petrov**, **Gail Fondahl**

**Andrey Petrov**

**1752.00** From Creativity to Sustainability: Creative Capital and Sustainability in the Arctic

**Peter Schweitzer**

**842.00** Unraveling Sustainability: Arctic Cultures and Change

**Elena Kotyrlo**

**294.00** Northern Investment Risks in Human Capital Formation: Russian Experience

**Nadezda Polevshchikova**

**1247.00** Social infrastructure and the level of population's life of the North region
Mara Kimmel, Diane Hirshberg

**1790.00** From Stakeholders to Rights Holders: Alaskan Tribal
Governance as a Case Study in Fate Control

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room D-306

Ordinary Session G_V. Regional cooperation and competition
Umbrella Session Theme: Regional Competition

Chair: Larisa Melnikova

Larisa Melnikova

**688.00** Economic growth outlooks in sub-federal development
strategies: prospects and constraints

Frank Van Oort, Mark Thissen, Martijn Burger

**980.00** Economic networks, revealed regional competition and
regional policy in Europe: one man's meat is another man's poison

Laurent Bergé, Iris Wanzenböck, Thomas Scherngell

**457.00** Centrality and closure of regions in inter-regional R&D
networks: A new measurement approach

Christoph J. Hauser, Katia Delbiaggio, Melanie Lienhard

**278.00** The Freerider Problem of Cultural Spending in the Lucerne
Region

Kamila Borsekova, Katarina Petrikova, Anna Vanova

**650.00** From local to regional competitive advantage (The case of
Nikita's Homestead in Olkhon island; Baikal)

Pia Wassmann, Daniel Schiller, Stephan Thomsen

**352.00** Does Connectivity Impact Innovation Performance in Rural
Regions?
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room F-102

Special Session S_V1. Cross-border cooperation and interregional
integration

Umbrella Session Theme: Border Regions

Chair: **Oleg Tolstoguzov**

***Oleg Tolstoguzov, Nikolai Kolesnikov***

**556.00** Border regions in terms of center-periphery interaction model

***Heikki Eskelinen, Aku Alanen***

**782.00** From asymmetric to symmetric relationships or continuing volatility – Finnish-Russian cross-border interaction

***Annika Jaansoo, Nico Groenendijk***

**1018.00** Cross-border delivery of public services: How useful are EGTCs?

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room G-242

Ordinary Session G_J. Migrations, diasporas, and aging in the regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Retirement

Chair: **Michel Dimou**

***Michel Dimou, Alexandra Schaffar***

**256.00** How does elderly migration affect urban growth and city-size distribution in the French Riviera?

***Lale Berkoz***

**90.00** The Relationships between Living Conditions and Life Satisfaction of Elderly People in Istanbul
**Ivan Šotkovský**

**592.00** Spatial Typology of the Ageing Process in the European Union on the Level NUTS 2 Regions

**José Martins**, Carlos Silva, Eduardo Castro

**1671.00** Socioeconomic impacts of an increase in retirement age

**Sascha Sardadvar**, Elena Vakulenko

**421.00** The Impact of Distance on Interregional Migration in Russia: A Spatial Econometric Approach

**16.15-18.15**

**Wed_4_Room D-305**

Ordinary Session G_R. Infrastructure, transport, commun. for mobile regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Effects

Chair: **Arthur Grimes**

**Arthur Grimes**, Eyal Apatov, Larissa Lutchmann, Anna Robinson

**178.00** Infrastructure's Long-Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics

**Zeynep Elburz**

**1579.00** The Spatial Effects of Public Investment in Transportation Infrastructures in Turkey

**Patricia C. Melo**, Daniel J. Graham

**134.00** Estimating the Size of Transport-Induced Agglomeration Effects in US Metropolitan Areas

**Mariko Futamura**, Takamune Fujii

**1039.00** The Effect of Transport Policy on Fuel Consumption in Japan
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room C-215

Ordinary Session G_K. Spatial econometrics and regional economic modelling

Umbrella Session Theme: Impact Studies: Asia

Chair: Euijune Kim

Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Yuzuru Miyata

**328.00** Economic Assessment of Large-Scale Earthquakes in Asia: A Spatial-CGE Application

Ling Xue

**1125.00** Dynamic simulation of impact factors on regional urbanization by using agent-based modeling in China

Euijune Kim, Hyewon Shin

**1512.00** Impact Analysis of Economic Linkages of South Korea with North Korea Using a CGE Model

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room F-108

Ordinary Session G_N. Tourism and regional experience economy
Umbrella Session Theme: Russia-Italy-Turkey

Chair: Francesco Antonio Anselmi

Elena Kropinova

**944.00** The role of Cross-border cooperation programs EU-Russia in formation and territorial organization of tourist and recreation systems at various levels

Francesco Antonio Anselmi

**1669.00** Governance of Glocal Tourism
**Hilal Erkus-Ozturk**, Aliye Ahu Akgun

**1009.00** Economic diversity with or specialization in tourism: A logistic regression analysis on the literature

**Semiha Sultan Eryilmaz**, Hüseyin Cengýz

**1746.00** Evaluation of Formula 1 Event's Tourism Dimension: Case of Istanbul Destination

**Bella Krasnoyarova**

**667.00** The gradient of recreational development of Altai Regions in Russia

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room B-142

Ordinary Session G_C. Urban sprawl and shrinkage
Umbrella Session Theme: Sprawl

Chair: **Geoffrey Caruso**

**Ahmet Tanju Gültekin**

**652.00** Recent Sprawl and Shrinkage Policies Deployed in The Sphere of Urban Management in Turkey: The Case of Ankara

**Barbara Weilenmann**, Tobias Schulz

**1188.00** Socio-economic explanation of urban sprawl: Evidence from Switzerland, 1970-2010

**Despina Dimelli**

**1357.00** Measuring urban sprawl in Mesogia basin

**Geoffrey Caruso**, Mohamed Hilal, Isabelle Thomas

**953.00** Characterising urban sprawl from built-up morphologies using graphs and local spatial association tools
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room E-321

Special Session S_I. Cluster evol. reconsid.: mechanisms, knowl.
comb.& net.

Umbrella Session Theme: Regional Development

Chairs: Franz Tödtling, Michaela Tripl, Päivi Oinas

***Nicole Litzel***

**645.00** Does participation in clusters lead to better economic performance? An establishment-level analysis using CORIS data

***Ben Vermeulen,*** Elvira Uyarra

**1541.00** Temporal policy program instruments for regional
development exploiting spatial network dynamics

***Mario Davide Parrilli,*** Arantza Zubiaurre, Eduardo Sisti

**268.00** The role of social capital for regional development:
mechanisms for growth

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room F-114 A

Ordinary Session G_S. Social segregation, poverty, and social policy
in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Poverty

Chair: Verena Ast

***Verena Ast***

**143.00** poverty and poverty alleviation in globalised cities

***Herman Geyer,*** Faizel Mohammed

**1026.00** An analysis of ecological, social and political factors on
urban poverty levels in neighbourhoods in Cape Town
*Neriman Yörür*, Dilek Karabulut, Ayþegül Çýrak

**1504.00** Urban Poverty and Deprivation in a Roman Neighbourhood:
The Case of Ege Neighbourhood-Ýzmýr

**Maria Luisa Caputo**

**790.00** Understanding segregation and poverty within London
Eruvin

16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room D-304

Ordinary Session G_D. Regional and urban labor markets
Umbrella Session Theme: Human Capital

Chai: Andrea Filippetti

*Katalin Lipták*

**1456.00** Revaluation of the labor theories and the Central-Eastern-
European labor market trends

*Andrea Filippetti*, Frederick Guy, Simona Iammarino

**371.00** Training quality and return to training in the Italian regions

*Lina Ahlin*

**1108.00** Human capital movements across business cycles – an
empirical analysis of recent graduates’ spatial movements over time

*Sascha Sardadvar*, Christian Reiner

**419.00** The Long-Run Distribution of Human Capital Endowments
across Regions: Evidence from Austria

*Alpay Filiztekin*

**1040.00** Regional wage gap in Turkey: Differentials in the return and
endowment of human capital
16.15-18.15

Wed_4_Room A-107

Ordinary Session G_E. Reg. & urban policy, planning & govern.
Best practices
Umbrella Session Theme: Impact of Regional Development
Institutions

Chair: **Mathilde Poulhes**

***Ahmet Bas, Mehmet Alý Yüzer***

**1435.00** An Analysis in Order to Measure of Regional Development Agencies Performance and Their Impacts to the Regional Growth in Turkey

***Guilherme Resende, Tulio Cravo, Alexandre Carvalho***

**123.00** The Impact of Brazilian Regional Development Funds on Regional Economic Growth: A spatial panel approach

***Mathilde Poulhes***

**1131.00** Are Enterprise Zones Benefits Capitalized into Commercial Real Estate Prices?

***Sébastien Bourdin***

**205.00** Growth, structural Funds and regional governance: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions
August, 28

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Assembly Hall

Keynote Session 2

Chair: Alexander Pelyasov

*Aleksei Novikov, Thomson Reuters*

From simulation modelling to lean planning: spontaneous data for unpredictable city

*Kevin Stolarick, Institute for Competitiveness in Toronto*

The First Two Places

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room F-106

Ordinary Session G_G. Entrepreneurship, small business and regional diversity

Umbrella Session Theme: academic spin-offs

Chair: **Marina van Geenhuizen**

*Paul Bijleveld, Frank Van Oort, Martijn Burger*

**1614.00** The long-term regional development potential of academic spin-offs – evidence from Twente, The Netherlands

*Marina van Geenhuizen, Mozhdeh Taheri, Qing Ye*

**1628.00** Internationalization: Challenges and barriers among young university spin-off companies

*Johannes Kopper, Hans-Christian Dinse*

**729.00** Determinants for Spin-off Creation by German University Professors
09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room F-101

Ordinary Session G_F. Location of Economic Activity
Umbrella Session Theme: Firm relocation

Chair: Roberto Ercole

Ilona Elzbieta Serwicka, Jonathan Jones, Colin Wren

**255.00** The Motives for the FDI Location Choice in the 'Old' and 'New' Europe

Zuzana Macuchova

**544.00** Firm relocation and firm performance – evidence from the Swedish wholesale and retail sector

Angelika Jäger, Johannes Kopper

271.00 Location Choice of Academic Spin-Offs – Case Study of the German Internet Industry

Jana Nekolová, Jiöí Novosák

**919.00** Location of economic activities in the Ostrava metropolitan area (Czech Republic): focused on brownfield redevelopment

Roberto Ercole, Robert O'Neill

**512.00** Spatial determinants of manufacturing localisation patterns within Indonesian regencies and municipalities in 2011

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room A-107

Ordinary Session G_E. Reg. & urban policy, planning & govern.
Best practices
Umbrella Session Theme: Urban policy, planning

Chair: Carola Silvia Neugebauer
**Junyi Zhang**, Yubing Xiong, Minh Tu Tran

**201.00** Life-oriented approach for urban policy decision-making: Surveys and applications

**Monique Borges**, Eduardo Castro, João Marques

**899.00** Decision support methodologies in public policy formulation

**Carola Silvia Neugebauer**

**776.00** Between conflicts and partnerships: Managing the UNESCO World heritage label in peripheral and metropolitan urban regions in Europe

**Luis Delfim Santos**, Isabel Martins

**696.00** Intra-urban disparities in the quality of life in the city of Porto: A spatial analysis contribution

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room C-215

Refereed Session G_K. Spatial econometrics and regional economic modelling

Umbrella Session Theme: Concrete regions and EU

Chair: **Jan Oosterhaven**

**Lisa Gianmoena**, Davide Fiaschi, Angela Parenti

**1400.00** Spatial Clubs in European Regions

**Lisa Gianmoena**, Davide Fiaschi, Irene Brunetti, Angela Parenti

**1406.00** An Index of Growth Rate Volatility: Methodology and an Application to European Regions

**Jan Oosterhaven**, Michiya Nozaki

**163.00** The impact of production and infrastructure shocks to the Japanese inter-regional economy: A non-linear input-output programming approach
**Boriss Siliverstovs**, Alberto Montagnoli, Oreste Napolitano
**933.00** Regional interest rate pass-through in Italy

**Villegas Marcela**
**810.00** Regional Spatial Interaction Model for the Mexican Economy: a special case for Metropolitan Areas.

**Dimitris Kallioras**, Ioannis Panteladis, Maria Tsiapa
**1403.00** Business cycle asymmetry and regional convergence. The case of sheltered economies in Greece

**09.00-10.30**
**Thu_1_Room G-243**

Ordinary Session G_B. Regional economic growth and development
Umbrella Session Theme: Growth description

Chair: Irina Ilina

**Irina Ilina**, Carol Scott Leonard, Evgenij Pliseckij
**1111.00** Modern trends and risks in the development of resource regions of Russia

**Eduardo Almeida**, Pablo Guimarães
**219.00** Economic Growth and Infrastructure in Brazil: A Spatial Multilevel Approach

**Flavio Vieira**, Ana Paula Avellar, Michele Verissimo
**67.00** Brazilian State Level GDP Growth and Industry: A Panel Data Analysis

**Zühal Çelebi Deniz**
**167.00** Regional Economic Development and Competitiveness: A Study of Leading and Competitive Sectors of Diyarbakir-Sanliurfa Region, Turkey
09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room A-106

Ordinary Session G_T. Regional finances, investments and capital markets

Umbrella Session Theme: India-Russia

Chair: **Mikhail Milchakov /Deepak Sethia**

**Deepak Sethia**

**1474.00** Savings, Investment, and Interregional Capital Flows in India

**Olga Vasilyeva**

**1032.00** Local Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Russian Regions

**Mikhail Milchakov**

**1060.00** The fiscal tools for regional support in the Russian Federation: the lines of improvement

**Deepak Sethia**

**1520.00** Government Transactions for Regional Accounts in India

**Nadezhda Lvova**, Ivan Darushin, Natalia Voronova

**86.00** The Russian financial system: need for complex evaluation

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room F-108

Ordinary Session G_N. Tourism and regional experience economy
Umbrella Session Theme: Cross-Cultural Perspective

Chair: **Karima Kourtit**

**Angelika Jäger**, Rüdiger Hamm

**471.00** The game lasts longer than 90 minutes – Empirical Analysis of the Regional Effects of a Premier League Soccer Club
**Antonio Russo**

**610.00** Tourism without development? The logic and structure of the house swapping “marketplace” and its local effects

**Eleni Gaki**, Stella Kostopoulou, Dimitris Lagos

**929.00** Regional employment disparities in the Greek tourism sector: an overview

**Konstantina Zerva**, Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit

**1271.00** Voyeurism in Amsterdam's heterotopias: tourism gazes at the Red Light District and Coffee Shops

**Katsuhito Nohara**

**1017.00** Economic Valuation of the Damage to Tourism Benefits by Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room D-305

Refereed Session G_R. Infrastructure, transport, commun. for mobile regions

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: **Martin Adler**

**Apostolos Giantsidis**

**390.00** Mobility Management in small and medium cities: The case of Serres

**Hisa Morisugi**

**395.00** Measurements of Value of Time and Transportation Benefits by using Observable Demand

**Martin Adler**, Jos van Ommeren, Piet Rietveld

**1245.00** Transit strikes: mode choice and external cost
09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room E-323

Refereed Session G_M. Innovations in space
Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: **Dirk Assmann**

**Dirk Assmann**, Johannes Stiller

**1101.00** Knowledge Spillovers in Cities: The Role of Imitation and Innovation

**Suelene Mascarini**

**885.00** The innovation and its territorial factors: An analysis in the micro-regions of São Paulo.

**Massimiliano Bratti**, Chiara Conti

**485.00** The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

**Otavio Sidone**, Eduardo Haddad, Jesus Mena-Chalco

**187.00** Scholarly Publication and Collaboration in Brazil: The Role of Geography

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room B-134

Special Session S_E1. Counterfactual methods for regional policy evaluation
Umbrella Session Theme: EU-Firms

Chairs: **Elena Ragazzi**, **Lisa Sella**

**Antonella Rita Ferrara**, Philip McCann, Guido Pellegrini, Dirk Stelder, Flavia Stelder, Flavia Terribile

**904.00** Effectiveness of the European Cohesion policy on transport accessibility, research and innovation using a Regression Discontinuity Design approach
**Dirk Czarnitzki**, Thorsten Doherr, Cindy Lopes-Bento

**1227.00** Counterfactual impact evaluation of cohesion policy at the firm level

**Guido de Blasio**, Stefania De Mitri, Alessio D'Ignazio, Paolo Finaldi
Russo, Lavinia Finaldi Russo, Lavinia Stoppani

**626.00** Public Guarantees to SME Borrowing. An Evaluation

**Alessandro Cusimano**, Sylvain Barde, Fabio Mazzola

**1179.00** Selection bias and incentives to firms in development programs: an ex-post evaluation of an aid scheme for Sicily

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room F-114 A

Ordinary Session G_S. Social segregation, poverty, and social policy in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Segregation, Integration

Chair: **Miguel Vargas**

**René Kreichauf**

**93.00** The Fortress European City: The socio-spatial Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Copenhagen, Madrid, and Berlin

**Miguel Vargas**, Alejandro Corvalan

**1433.00** Segregation and Social Conflict: An Empirical Analysis

**H.Filiz Alkan Meshur**, Ahmet Alkan

**582.00** The Integration of Elderly and Disabled People into Urban and Social Life: A New Model for Konya/Turkey-YEBAM

**Antonio Campino**, Gabriela Borger, Tania Yuba

**1001.00** Social Inclusion of Visually Disabled - Costs for the Family
09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room B-136

Ordinary Session G_O. Realty and Housing Markets
Umbrella Session Theme: Cases

Chair: Nicolas Devaux

Alkis Henri Otto

**1647.00** Soaring housing prices in the aftermath of the financial crisis - the case of Hamburg

Etienne Berthold, Nicolas Devaux, Jean Dubé

**349.00** Residential Property Values and Heritage Policies in Designated Historic Districts: The case of the Old City of Québec

Marie-Line Glaesener, Geoffrey Caruso

**612.00** Spatial patterns of land-use and neighbourhood diversity: a multilevel analysis of residential land prices in Luxembourg

Kerem Arslanli, Dilek Pekdemir

**629.00** Istanbul Urban Agglomerations: The Case of Residential REITs

Amaia Altuzarra, Marisol Esteban

**211.00** Local political power and housing bubble in Spain

09.00-10.30

Thu_1_Room E-324

Special Session S_X Econ. Interactions betw. Neighboring Countries und. Glob
Umbrella Session Theme: Japanese perspective
Chair: Kenji Kondoh

Akihiko Yanase, Hiroshi Kurata

**1041.00** Domestic Product Standards and Free Trade Areas: Implications for the EU-Japan FTA
**Laixun Zhao**

**741.00** Heterogeneous Pollution and Offshoring

**Kiyoshi Matsubara**

**999.00** Endogenous FDI Spillovers from Japan to Russia and China with Spillover-Prevention Costs

**Kenji Kondoh**, Nicola Coniglio

**124.00** Multilateral Economic Integration and International Migration: The Special Case of Russia, a Midstream Country

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-106**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_L. Spatial agglom. - economic clusters & metropolit. areas

Chair: **Eduardo Haddad**

**Pavel Em**

**212.00** The Concept of Fuzzy Central Place as the Approach to Analyze Distribution of Central Functions within Urban Agglomerations

**Jevgenijs Leontjevs**, Inna Dovladbekova

**1180.00** Far Eastern Federal District Development: Statistical and Economic Overview

**Pavel Ratner**

**932.00** Software for energy audit of households

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-107**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_I. Institutional factors in regional and urban development

Chair: **Andres Rodriques-Pose**
**Matthias Firgo**, Agnes Kügler

**1437.00** Detecting Collusion in Differentiated Markets. An Application to Alliances Among Austrian Ski Resorts

**Anastasia Lomakina**

**1534.00** Transport-geographic continentality of Canada: from sea to sea

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-108**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_D. Regional and urban labor markets

Chair: **Philip McCann**

**Jasper Van Dijk**

**504.00** Local Multipliers, Unemployment and Migration: An Empirical Analysis of the United States

**Gintare Morkute**

**1584.00** Growing surrounded by decline: do the growing sectors benefit from sharing a labour pool with declining sectors

**Dafeng Xu**

**1089.00** Who Benefits from Globalization of Labor? Evidence from the 'Bosman Ruling'

**Miriam Marcen**, Hector Bellido

**1449.00** Spaniards around the World

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-114**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_C. Urban sprawl and shrinkage

Chair: **Peter Batey**
**René Kreichauf**

**94.00** Being on the Losing Side of Global Urban Development – The Limits to Managing Urban Decline

**Maryam Naghsh** Nejad, Amanda Ross

**1183.00** Does Suburbanization Cause Obesity?

**Felix Richter**

**1424.00** Winner Picking in Urban Revitalization Policies: Empirical Evidence from Berlin

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-134**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_M. Innovations in space

Chair: **Roberta Capello**

**Anastasia Nagirnaya**

**313.00** ICTs' Spatial Diffusion Waves

**Laurent Bergé**

**1498.00** Closure in inter-regional knowledge networks: An application to the European co-publication network

**Miguelez Ernest**

**1030.00** Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-136**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_B. Regional economic growth and development

Chair: **Henri de Groot**

**Tobias Ketterer**

**1241.00** Institutions vs. geography – What drives economic growth in Europe's NUTS-2 regions?
**Davide Luca**

**1229.00** Do political factors matter for regional development? Evidence on the central-local partisan alignment in Turkey during AKP ruling

**Heike Delfmann**

**1333.00** Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK – NL case study

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-138**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session S_P2 Urban Economics Association - Young Scientists

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum**, **Kristian Behrens**

**Teresa Schlueter**, Giulia Faggio

**878.00** Local multipliers in local labour markets - A case study of the move of the German government to Berlin

**Ahmet Ali Taskin**

**1219.00** Sorted and Settled: Migration Decisions of Dual Income Families

**Brahim Boualam**

**1300.00** Getting a first job: quality of the labor matching in French cities

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-139**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session S_P2. Urban Economics Association - Young Scientists

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum**, **Kristian Behrens**
**Sevrin Waights**

**1380.00** Gentrification and displacement in English cities

**Marianne Bléhaut**

**1410.00** How does a change in risk perception affect the housing market? Evidence from an industrial accident in France

**Pauline Charnoz**

**1465.00** French enterprise zone program : did it help the residents of deprived neighborhoods?

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-140**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_F. Location of economic activity

Chair: **Raimond Florax**

**Nikolay Kurichev**

**59.00** Location of national manufacturing in international context (the case of U.S.)

**Christoph Alfken**

**725.00** Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity – A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity

**Özge Öner**

**1785.00** Retail city: The relation between place attractiveness and accessibility to shops

**11.00-13.00**

**Thu_2_Room A-141**

Refereed Young Scientists' Session G_K. Spatial econometrics and regional economic modelling

Chair: **Gunther Maier**
Vicente Rios Ibañez

**924.00** What drives regional unemployment convergence?

Yukiko Sawada

**1069.00** Agglomeration, Segmentation and Technology Choice

Henri Busson

**1448.00** Does History Fully Determine the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital ?

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room B-140**

Special Session S_P1. Urban Economics Association

Umbrella Session Theme: Trade, Transportation and Localization

Chair : Jens Suedekum, Kristian Behrens

Yasusada Murata, Ryo Nakajima, Ryuichi Tamura

**224.00** Testing for localization using micro-geographic data: A new approach

Kristiaan Behrens, Mark Brown, Théophile Bougna

**32.00** The Determinants of Agglomeration Reduc: Transportation, Trade, and Input-Output Linkages

Se-il Mun, Yoko Konishi, Yoshihiko Nishiyama, Ji-eun Sung

**410.00** Measuring the value of transport time for inter-regional trade

Hangtian Xu

**78.00** Revisit' the Silk Road: A Quasi-Experiment Approach
Estimating the Effects of Railway Speed-Up Project on China-
Central Asia Exports

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_2_Room B-141**

Special Session S_P1. Urban Economics Association
Umbrella Session Theme: Housing and Land markets

Chairs: **Jens Suedekum, Kristian Behrens**

**Martin Micheli**, Jan Rouwendal, Jasper Dekkers

**1658.00** Border Effects in House Prices

**Jeffrey Zax**

**1682.00** Housing allocations, imputed rents and inequality in urban China

**Elias Oikarinen**, Eero Valtonen

**1261.00** Regional variation in the elasticity of supply of housing, and its determinants: The case of a small sparsely populated country

**Gabriel Ahlfeldt**, Daniel McMillen

**108.00** New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution of Land for Capital

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room F-107**

Special Session S_G2. Global Value Chain Participation & Reg. Trade Openness

Umbrella Session Theme: Structure of Production

Chair: **Philip McCann**

**Philip McCann**, Raquel Ortega Argiles

**1302.00** Global Value Chains, Entrepreneurial Search Processes and Smart Specialisation

**Giulia Felice**, Lucia Tajoli

**320.00** External Imbalances in the European Union and International Fragmentation of Production: Is There a Link?
Xianjia Ye

**492.00** Shifts in Comparative Advantage and Industrial Structure when Production is Internationally Fragmented

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room B-138**

Special Session S_ZI. Special Session in honour of Piet Rietveld
Umbrella Session Theme: Evaluation

Chair: **Peter Nijkamp**

Peter Nijkamp

**1789.00** Dutch Perspectives on Evaluation of Spatial Policy

*Or Levkovich*, Jan Rouwendal, Ramona van Marwijk

**736.00** The value of proximity to water in residential areas

*Jos Van Ommeren*, Arno Van der Vlist

**1747.00** Households' willingness to pay for public housing

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room E-316**

Special Session S_Y. The Causal Impact of Infrastructure on Reg.
Econ. Activ

Umbrella Session Theme: Human Dimension of Infrastructure

Chair: **Joachim Moeller** / **Daniel F. Heuermann**

*Joachim Moeller*, Marcus Zierer

**1794.00** The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study For Germany Using Historical Instrument Variables

*Peter Haller*, Daniel F. Heuermann

**779.00** Trains, Commuting, and Regional Hires: Spatial Dependency in the Matching Function
Martijn Smit

1250.00 Following your job

14.00-16.00

Thu_3_Room E-323

Ordinary Session G_M. Innovations in space

Umbrella Session Theme: Firms innovations

Chair: Annekatrin Niebuhr

Annekatrin Niebuhr, Amber Naz, Cornelius Peters

107.00 What's behind the disparities in firm innovation rates across regions? – Evidence on selection and context effects

Stefano Usai, Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Brancati,
Manuel Romagnoli, Romagnoli

539.00 Firm export and innovative performance in Italy

Raphael Bar-El, Dafna Schwartz

1363.00 Industry led innovaton policy for regional development

Ion Lucian Ceapraz, Gaëlle Kotbi, Loïc Sauvée

1428.00 The concept of territorially integrated biorefinery as a new model of territorial innovation

Yeong Kim, Seong-mun Kim

1019.00 The Analysis on the Changes of Commercial Areas by
development of Innovation City

14.00-16.00

Thu_3_Room A-108

Special Session S_ZD. Evol. Econ. Geog. - Relatedness, Proxim. & Resilience

Umbrella Session Theme: Firm Level

Chair: Dieter F. Kogler
**Rune Dahl Fitjar**, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

**333.00** There is nothing in the air: On randomness and purpose in the emergence of innovation partnerships

**Høgni Kalsø Hansen**, Lars Winther, Rikard Eriksson

**553.00** Uneven Regional Development: Employment Growth, Human Capital and New Economy Sectors

**Sam Tavassoli**, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol

**1376.00** The Effect of Agglomeration Economies on Productivity of Firms

**Tom Kemeny**, Maryann Feldman

**1156.00** Dealmakers, Regional Social Capital and Firm Performance

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room A-139**

Special Session S_ZG. Towards a smart rural Europe

Umbrella Session Theme: Smart Rural Development, Specialization, Governance

Chair: **Frederic Wallet**

**Michael Steiner**

**1778.00** Potentials for smart development of rural areas. A case study approach

**Frederic Wallet**

**1441.00** What smart specialization for rural areas ? A comparative analysis of plans for agricultural and rural development in French Regions

**Pierre-Marcel Desjardins**

**639.00** The Economic Impact of Universities: A Rural Perspective
*Chiara Mazzocchi*, Stefano Corsi, Guido Sali, Federica Monaco,
Monaco

**1346.00** Innovation in territorial governance: the case of agricultural districts in Lombardy Region

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room C-206**

Ordinary Session G_L. Spatial agglom. - economic clusters & metropolit. areas

Umbrella Session Theme: Knowledge, Maritime Cluster

Chair: **Astrid Krenz**

**Astrid Krenz**

**1626.00** Agglomeration of Knowledge: A Regional Economic Analysis for the German Economy

**Jose A. Belso-Martinez**

**354.00** Who, How and Why really broker knowledge in clusters?

*Mariusz E. Sokolowicz*, Aleksandra Nowakowska,
Zbigniew Przygodzki

**309.00** Enhancing the innovativeness of local production systems: Polish experiences

**Regina Salvador**

**501.00** European Regional and National Maritime Clusters

**Regina Salvador**

**1095.00** The Emerging Portuguese Maritime Mega Cluster: Endogenous Dynamics and Strategic Actions

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room F-102**

Ordinary Session G_H. Multinational corporations, social
embeddedness/alienation

Umbrella Session Theme: Various

Chair: **Sandro Usai**

**Teodora Dogaru**, Martijn Burger, Bas Karreman, Frank Van Oort
**961.00** The geography of multinational corporations in Central and Eastern European countries

**Laura Resmini**

**543.00** Patterns of FDI in Southern European Periphery: a Tale of Missing FDI?

**Laura Resmini**, Laura Casi

**540.00** FDI and Growth: Can different regional identities shape the returns to foreign capital investments?

**João Lopes**, Amélia Branco, Francisco Parejo, Jose Rangel

**638.00** Determinants of success and failure in the internationalisation of the cork business: A tale of two Iberian family firms

**14.00-16.00**

**Thu_3_Room B-134**

Special Session S_E1. Counterfactual methods for regional policy evaluation

Umbrella Session Theme: Research & Development

Chairs: **Elena Ragazzi**, **Lisa Sella**

**Giovanni Cerulli**, Bianca Potì

**625.00** The Impact of Public Support Intensity on Business R&D: Evidence from a Dose-Response Approach

**Marusca de Castris**, Guido Pellegrini

**1664.00** Firm characteristics and the impact of R&D subsidies