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RSAI Newsletter the Regional Science Association International New Series 20 - May 2021 RSAI Newsletter the regional science association international new series 20 - May 2021 Contents From the Editor The newsletter of the Regional Science RSAI membership information 1 Association International (RSAI) appears two From the Editor 1 times a year and contains information about upcoming conferences and meetings, recent events and publications, Welcome 2 and short contributions on current themes. Roger R. Stough Outstanding Mentor Award 3 The editorial team has an open position! I (Martijn) would very much appreciate a second pair of eyes to help with both the gathering of Interview with Peter Nijkamp 3 contributions, and the proofreading of the final product. Applications from the global South or from those with a good range of contacts Center of Excellence in Regional Science: there would be particularly welcome, as would being a native speaker of Calcutta 4 English. Please contact me at [email protected] by Friday 23 July 2021 if you’re interested, enclosing a CV and a half-page statement of purpose, ERSA/JRC Winter School 2021 5 indicating why you feel you’re a good fit for editing the newsletter and how involved you have been and plan to be in RSAI and its supraregionals. The Origins of Regional Science 6 Andrea Caragliu, the Executive Director, and the remaining editor will A textbook for regional science methods 6 decide together. Text contributions for the newsletter are always welcome, and can be Finding out more about the history of regional submitted directly to Martijn Smit ([email protected]). Deadline for the science 7 next issue is 15 October. In particular, short contributions on your current research are most welcome, as well as proposals for a piece in the Center Obituary Johannes Bröcker 7 of Excellence series. Calls for Papers 7 Martijn Smit Sequence analysis as a new tool for analyzing Utrecht University, the Netherlands dynamics on regional labour markets 8 RSAI membership information All RSAI members have online access to Papers in Regional Science (PiRS) and Regional Science Policy and Practice (RSPP): journals of the Regional Science Association International. Members will need to log in to access full text articles online. In addition to the RSAI publications, members are offered an opportunity to purchase other regional science journals at reduced rates and participate in the national and international conferences at reduced rates. For details on how to become a member, contact the Executive Director, Andrea Caragliu at [email protected], or visit www.regionalscience. org. page 1 RSAI Newsletter the regional science association international new series 20 - May 2021 Welcome being exposed to different topics and approaches people are using across the world. We will also have Dear Members of the RSAI Community, the opportunity to welcome many groups of regional scientists located in countries where no national section HE TIME FOR the 2021 RSAI World of the RSAI is to date present. Supported by donations from Congress has arrived! Organized by the T Geoffrey Hewings and Fipe, a Brazilian think tank, we were able Moroccan Section of the RSAI, the World to organize special sessions, and invite scholars from such countries as Congress will be a major international forum Angola, Egypt, Lebanon and Paraguay. for researchers and policy-makers in the field of Regional Science across the world, focusing on This edition of the World Congress will also be a digital agora for exchanging today’s most challenging issues. This edition of the ideas, a virtual place of strong networking. The figure below summarizes the event will bring together more than 500 participants from 53 different countries. intensity of co-participation for authors presenting papers accepted to different The papers cover all major areas of the field, with applications for a wide range sessions of the World Congress, suggesting a high propensity of exchange of of regions in the globe. I am particularly pleased with the high participation of ideas among regional scientists all over the world. As envisioned by my dear young scholars from the Global South. friend Andrea Caragliu, RSAI Executive Director and one of the organizers of the 2021 RSAI World Congress, “beyond the pre-existing networks, we wish Since we have decided that the congress would run 100% online, many colleagues this Congress to be an opportunity for all of us to open new nodes, and further from the Association have joined us in an extraordinary effort to organize a high diffuse our discipline”. From an institutional perspective, this “picture” reveals standard, inclusive, online event. I take this opportunity to extend my sincere there are opportunities for laying down strong foundations for RSAI future gratitude and appreciation for the hard work and dedication provided by all developments in strategic regions where the Association is still not present, of them. Special thanks go to former RSAI President, Mark Partridge, who in addition to promote and consolidate our presence in countries and regions initiated this adventure, and Abdellatif Khattabi, Andrea Caragliu and Elisabete where sections already exist. Martins, who made it happen! On behalf of the Regional Science Association International, the Local Going online has shown to bring us some opportunities. Counting on the Organizing Committee, and the Scientific Committee, I would like to thank invaluable help of the leaderships across our four supranational sections, we our sponsors (Fipe, Nereus, PCNS, UM6P, Wiley, Geoffrey Hewings), our have reached out every single national section and invited them to propose partners (NARSC, ERSA, PRSCO, LARSA, Regional Science Academy, ENA, special sessions dedicated to their countries/regions. We have received positive CAU, UMVR), and all participants for joining us at this historical meeting, responses from almost all sections. This is really invigorating and motivating, and for sharing their experience, research and views with our community. further developing the sense of community belongingness that may motivate Their participation and commitment to RSAI are very important and truly a larger number of young regional scientists to engage more broadly in the appreciated! Association. We now have the opportunity to have a truly global congress, with the participation of many of RSAI sections. Please receive my best wishes and enjoy this edition of our Newsletter! Going online has also made possible a wider participation across the world, allowing the organizers to minimize the number of competing sessions, to Eduardo Haddad allocate time slots with time zones in mind, and to reduce drastically registration fees. RSAI President This World Congress will be a unique opportunity to showcase some of the exceptional work regional scientists are doing all over the world. In the coming days, we will all have the opportunity to grab a big picture of our Association, page 2 RSAI Newsletter the regional science association international new series 20 - May 2021 Roger R. Stough Outstanding Mentor phenomenon and at best something for Award elite children in the big city. A job as a carpenter or a plumber would have been a more natural future for me. But I had ROFESSOR DR. PETER Nijkamp is the 2020 recipient of the Roger the great fortune to have an emancipated R. Stough Outstanding Mentor Award. He is the first awardee for this P female teacher who strongly advised my recognition. Nijkamp is an emeritus Professor in regional and urban economics parents to send me to a school for higher and in economic geography at the VU University, and associated with the Open education. Her argument was really University (OU), Heerlen (The Netherlands), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, convincing: if this boy does not have a real Iasi (Romania), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden) challenge, he will become lazy! and A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). He is a member of editorial/ advisory boards of more than 30 journals. He is also a fellow of the Royal Q: And she kick-started your university career? Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and past vice-president of this organization. A: All over my life as a youngster, I received support and encouragement from He has served as president of the governing board of the Netherlands Research many people, during my gymnasium period, during my life as a student at the Council (NWO). In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific Erasmus University in Rotterdam (thanks to ‘grand-master’ Jan Tinbergen), and prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award. In addition, he is a Fellow of the later on as a PhD student (thanks to Leo Klaassen and Jean Paelinck). And later Regional Science Association International (RSAI). Professor Nijkamp holds a on, during my long career at the Free University and the Tinbergen Institute Ph.D. (cum laude) from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam on new solution in Amsterdam, I received heart-warming and unforgettable support of so many methods for non-linear mathematical programming models for industrial colleagues, which was entirely undeserved. planning. Q: When did your eyes open to the international field of Regional Science? Professor Nijkamp has been an excellent role model of, one of the biggest supporters to, and an exemplary mentor to students and early career professionals. A:When I attended my first Regional Science conference (London, 1970), I He has always made himself available to students and junior colleagues within met with Walter Isard, Dave Boyce, Alan Wilson, Allen Scott and many others. and outside of his own institutions, from a wide range of academic disciplines, And I was so lucky to enjoy their great collegial company and great minds. and at various stages of their careers. Professor Nijkamp is known and greatly They shared freely with me their ideas and offered me so much, including new appreciated by many for his continued support and mentoring after students’ challenges all the time.
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