Smart cities as “mission-oriented” innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems—insights from 20 years of experiments in Japan Fumi Kitagawa Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, rsaf019, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

The November issue of CJRES will be on the theme of Mission-Oriented Policy: Innovation and Regional Development This issue has been edited by Maryann Feldman, Michael Kitson, Johan Larsson, Peter Tyler and Elvira Uyarra academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc... #MissionOrientedPolicy

Governing green missions within regions: the case of the Basque Country Edurne Magro and Ainhoa Arrona Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2025;, rsaf030, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

Mission-oriented innovation: from a new vocabulary to a new grammar for regional innovation policy Iris Wanzenböck Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2025;, rsaf026, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

Evolving scales and spaces of mission-oriented innovation policy in the digital age: digital transition of makerspace innovation in Shenzhen, China Chun Yang and Rui Hu Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2025;, rsaf028, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

Embedding city revival into state-driven innovation system: unravelling the state–local entrepreneurial toolkits for innovation Ziming Li, Yiqing Zhao and Zhang Zhang, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2025; rsaf025, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

Analysing the prospects for place-based micro-missions: the role of challenge complexity and regional capacity Dylan Henderson and Rick Delbridge Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, rsaf027, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #MissionOrientedPolicy

New content for the Mission-oriented Policy Special Issue: Enhancing environmental sustainability: the impact of mission-oriented innovation policies on green innovation and patent trends Felix Kurz doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

The impact of innovation policy on the regional economies of Europe Pablo Casas, Tryfonas Christou, Abián García Rodríguez, Nicholas Lazarou, Patrizio Lecca, Philippe Monfort, and Simone Salotti doi.org/10.1093/cjre... 📣 Open Access

Turning the tide: how public R&D investment shapes European regional development Giovanna Ciaffi, Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes , Matteo Deleidi , Antonino Lofaro doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

First-mover alliance: mission-oriented innovation policy implementation in Shenzhen’s low-altitude economy Wangwang Zhou and Jian D Zhang doi.org/10.1093/cjre... 📣 Open Access

State-owned enterprises as drivers for regional missions in the Global South: insights from INVAP in Patagonia and Agrogenética Riojana in Northwest Argentina Manuel Gonzalo, Leila Mucarsel, Gabriela Starobinsky and Gastón Burlot doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

The US’ Polycentric Innovation State @thinkwoodist.bsky.social James D G Wood doi.org/10.1093/cjre... 📣 Open Access

Check out the content on our Advance Access pages for our upcoming issue: Mission-Oriented Policy: Innovation and Regional Development Edited by: Maryann Feldman, Michael Kitson, Johan Larsson, Peter Tyler and Elvira Uyarra academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

The 2024 Editors' Choice award has been made to Dylan Connor, Aleksander Berg, Tom Kemeny and Peter Kedron for their paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?" doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

Last chance to register - 'The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient' - @cjres.bsky.social 2025 Conference. cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

Still time to register for our conference - 'The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient'. cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... Join us at the beautiful @stcatharines.bsky.social for two days of incredible, insightful talks - and a wonderful college gala dinner...

Still time to register - 'The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient'- @cjres.bsky.social 2025 Conference cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient' - @cjres.bsky.social 2025 Conference - cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... Keynotes: Dame Sharon White, Chair of Frontier Economics & M.D. & Head of Europe for CDPQ Prof. Robin Leichenko, Rutgers University Prof. William Solecki, City University of New York

The latest issue of @cjres.bsky.social has published online: The Symbolic Value of Megaprojects in Urban and Regional Development academic.oup.com/cjres/issue/... Edited by @roberthassink.bsky.social @dfkogler.bsky.social Davide Ponzini and Xuefei Ren

This is a great post and for more on the political economy of megaprojects see the recent @cjres.bsky.social SI! academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

Register now for the CJRES summer conference: The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... The full programme is now online!

The July issue of CJRES is titled The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development It will publish shortly in full - you can read the Editorial Introduction at doi.org/10.1093/cjre... free access. @roberthassink.bsky.social, @dfkogler.bsky.social, Davide Ponzini and Xuefei Ren

Excited to share my new article in @cjres.bsky.social’s special issue on megaprojects & symbolic value — exploring how station areas steer urban policy in the era of symbolic capital. Based on fieldwork on the Grand Paris Express. Read: urls.fr/REqMRN #urbanstudies #megaprojects

🔥Putting a value on hosting a mega sporting event: symbolic value, economic and intangible effects John R Madden doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

👍Open Access: What killed HS2? Explaining the loss of political support for the UK’s high-speed rail megaproject Dan Durrant doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

📣A mega-rescaling-project: state powers and intra-state conflicts in the development of the Grand Paris Express station districts Antoine Gosnet doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

🔥Open Access: Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany Johanna Fellbrich, Franziska Sielker, Nicholas Phelps, Peter Dannenberg doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

🔥We have just published a lot of new content for the Megaprojects and their symbolic value for urban and regional economies #Megaprojects academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

We are now finalising the programme for the CJRES annual conference: The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient Book now! cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

📢 New call for papers Firm strategies and regional development in times of changing geopolitics and geoeconomics Editors: Chun (Charlotte) Yang, @roberthassink.bsky.social, Linus Kalvelage, Petr Pavlínek academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/... Submission of abstracts: 1st November 2025

Co-Director @prt1969.bsky.social has guest edited (with Sue Konzelmann & Christos Pitelis) an SI of the CJE to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of #AlfredMarshall. Check out the Editorial and papers academic.oup.com/cje/advance-... @cjres.bsky.social @uniofbathnews.bsky.social

Just published for the upcoming issue of CJRES “ The Symbolic Value of Megaprojects in Urban and Regional Development” A new city for a new era: Xiong’an as showcase of China’s evolving urban ideology Andrew Stokols doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

REMINDER! last few days to submit a proposal for either the journal issue or the conference... academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/... and cpes.org.uk/events/cjres...

Call for Submissions to the 2025 @cjres.bsky.social Conference – ‘The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient’ Deadline: 1 April 2025:

New Call for Papers🔥 Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times: Towards new Regional Futures? academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/... Submission of abstracts: 1st July 2025

TONIGHT, 10 Mar, Cambridge Realist Workshop, with Josef Menšík on 'Social Structure in Cambridge Social Ontology'. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔥Megaprojects as sites for resistance: the electoral effects of Mapuche attacks on highways For the CJRES #Megaprojects issue doi.org/10.1093/cjre... Felipe Livert, Xabier Gainza and Pablo Herrera Rivera

@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social The Western world is crumbling before our eyes. The pillars of its post-war order —peace, stability, prosperity (and decency)—are shaking. And yet those meant to be safeguarding it act as if this is all some great surprise. doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

🔥Contested visions of regional futures in Inland Norway: data storage, TikTok and the symbolic value of megaprojects doi.org/10.1093/cjre... Atle Hauge, Trond Nilsen and Giuseppe Calignano #Megaprojects

Megaprojects can be symbols of imagined futures, as well as controversies, in regional development. The reasons? (I) technology and greening, (II) geography and scale, and (III) the geopolitical situation. New article in @cjres.bsky.social with Atle Hauge and Trond Nilsen.

Great to have @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social from @cjres.bsky.social at @cgrisbath.bsky.social today talking about regenerating #englishseasidetowns #leftbehindplaces 👇🏼

The #green boom in northern #Sweden was sold as a miracle: clean energy, revitalised regions, #sustainability. Critics were dismissed—until #Northvolt collapsed. The lesson? Investment without proper scrutiny is just a story waiting to unravel. Check it in @cjres.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

Please join us @uniofbath.bsky.social next Thursday 27/2/25 at 12:15pm as we welcome @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social of @uniofcam.bsky.social for a #hybridseminar on #englishcoastaltowns #left-behindplaces Zoom Registration: shorturl.at/7E0bq Details below 👇 @regionalstudies.bsky.social

The heroes and killjoys of green megaprojects: a feminist critique doi.org/10.1093/cjre... Madeleine Eriksson, Anna Sofia Lundgren and Rikard Eriksson #Megaprojects Special Issue

🔥📣 Fresh off the press: Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2025 Global Forces and Local Impacts: Megatrends in Regional Economic Development academic.oup.com/cjres/issue/... #GlobalForces #Megatrends #LocalImpact @michaelkitson.bsky.social @harrygarretsen.bsky.social Chun (Charlotte) Yang

The call for papers is now open for the CJRES conference on "Cities and the Climate Crisis", held at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in July: cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... This theme will also be the focus of a special issue of @cjres.bsky.social, so get your submissions in!

⏰deadline extension... academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/... Submission of abstracts extended to the 1st April...

The symbolic dimensions of waterfront regeneration projects: inter-referencing, legitimating strategies and circulating practices in three Latin American megaprojects Guillermo Jajamovich, Gabriel Silvestre and Isabel Duque Franco doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects Special Issue