Rethinking Regional Skills: Place-Based Capabilities and Economic Transformation
Deadline 2026-09-25Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 4ABDC A*
Journal: Regional Studies
Skills are central to regional development, influencing labour markets, industrial evolution, and economic trajectories. Yet despite their long-standing recognition, regional skills are often under-theorised and frequently conflated with education, human capital, or occupational structures. Conceptual frameworks that treat skills as multidimensional, place-based capabilities that emerge from the interactions of peop…
Social Value in the Built Environment: ‘Within’ and ‘Through’ the Construction Project Lifecycle
Deadline 2026-09-30Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2ABDC A
Journal: Construction Management and Economics
Introduction The built environment profoundly shapes societal outcomes by affecting economic opportunity, public health, well-being, equity, inclusion, and everyday lived experience. The concept of social value has thus become a prominent concern across built-environment research and practice over the past decade. Policy and governance instruments—such as the UK Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012— as well as th…
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: The Diffusion and Adoption of an Emerging Enabling Technology and its Regional Development Implications
Deadline 2026-12-01Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 4ABDC A*
Journal: Regional Studies
AI is increasingly understood as an emerging enabling technology with potentially far-reaching implications for regional development. As both an industry in its own right and a technology increasingly integrated across incumbent sectors, AI has the potential to reshape production systems, innovation dynamics, regional governance, and the organisation of economic activity across space. Its growth, therefore, raises i…
Innovation intermediaries and capability-building: institutional, economic and social change in regional innovation systems
Deadline 2026-12-31Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 4ABDC A*
Journal: Regional Studies
Context Over the past two decades, the advent of digital technologies, the pressing need to shift productive structures towards greener systems, as well as recessions due to the Global Financial Crisis, Covid-19 and recent geopolitical tensions have increased the challenges for regions’ structural transformation process (Martin et al., 2016). At the same time, organisations try to keep pace with increasingly rapid i…
Place, Emotions, Ideology and Regional Development in Times of Transformation
Deadline 2027-03-15Taylor & FrancisIndexed (Active)ABS/AJG 2
Journal: European Planning Studies
In current times of political uncertainty and disruptions, place, emotions and identity are increasingly interrelated and politicized both in democracies and in authoritarian regimes. Not only at the national level and in international conflicts, but also at the regional level, place- and identity-related emotions are intensifying. In the context of climate transition, digital transformation, migration and socio-eco…
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