Registration and final program avaiable // 2012 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS
Dear Colleague,
AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the 2012 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS: Innovation and Regional Economic Performance that will be held on October 18th-19th 2012 at the University of Barcelona.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together cutting-edge research papers on innovation and knowledge diffusion, and their linkages with regional economic performance. Particular attention will be paid to papers dealing with the mechanisms and actors of innovation and knowledge diffusion (knowledge spillovers, networks, skilled labour mobility, university-industry linkages).
The lectures of the Workshop will be given by Philip McCann (University of Groningen) and Karen Maguire (Regional Innovation Unit, OECD).
We inform you that the Final program is available at the workshop website: http://www.pcb.ub.edu/aqr/workshop2012
We remind you that participants will be required to register using the online form that will be available at this website since 15th October 2012.
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We look forward for your participation at the Workshop!
AQR-IREA Research Group
University of Barcelona