Robert Hassink

The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development Across both industrialised and emerging economies worldwide, megaprojects have become important drivers of economic development. These large-scale ventures

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

Volume 18 Issue 2 | Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Oxford Academic A journal of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The journal publishes multi-disciplinary research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change, and examines the effe...

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

Zooming-in: Expanding the micro-geographic perspective in economic geography While economic geography is mainly concerned with regional and global dynamics, this paper examines the relevance of the micro-geographical perspectiv…

A micro-geographic turn in economic geography ? Insights for a research agenda : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @roberthassink.bsky.social

📢 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
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Submission of abstracts: 1st November 2025

Understanding Social Structural Change: Change Agency, Mediated Dualism and Fragmented Habitus Agency plays a crucial role in social and economic change, especially in regional transition processes. Interpreting the influence of context on agency reflects the spatial ontology of economic geogr...

new open access paper out in Geography Compass with Jue Peng on Understanding Social Structural Change: Change Agency, Mediated Dualism and Fragmented Habitus compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our special session 1 on Twin Transition in Regional Economies: A Co-Evolutionary and Interpath Perspective #DigGeoConf25, Co-organized with @hanchu0322.bsky.social and Sina Hardaker. Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2025
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Kann Künstliche Intelligenz grün sein? Der Strombedarf von Supercomputern ist gigantisch. Einer in Luxemburg setzt dabei ganz auf erneuerbare Energie

Kann Künstliche Intelligenz grün sein? #KünstlicheIntelligenz #EU #Energieverbrauch

I am honored to receive the Best Paper Award (Runner-up) in Geography & Entrepreneurship. I sincerely thank the AAG and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for this recognition! ~

🎉 We are thrilled to share some fantastic news!

A huge congratulations to Han Chu 楚晗 (Kiel University) for receiving the 2025 AAG Best Paper (Runner-up) Award in Geography & Entrepreneurship! 🏆👏

We are incredibly proud to have Han Chu as part of our research group! 🌟

Symbolic value and embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg Abstract. Large-scale industrial settlements, such as the establishment of multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries, are megaprojects that face addition

One year after the arson attack on Teslas #Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, debates about local resistance and embeddedness of the #megaproject continue. Our research explores these complex dynamics and unpacks their symbolic value.
🔍 Discover our open access article: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

#AAG2025

(PDF) Firms-Clusters-Networks Reorganizations in the Digital Platform Era: Evidences from Three Furniture Clusters in China PDF | The ever-evolving digital platforms have revolutionized production, consumption, and lifestyles, restructuring the organization of economic... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

with her paper: Firms-Clusters-Networks Reorganizations in the Digital Platform Era: Evidences from Three Furniture Clusters in China www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I am very, very happy, thrilled and proud that Han Chu (Kiel University) received the 2025 AAG Best Paper (Runner-up) Award in Geography & Entrepreneurship www.aag.org/award-grant/...

🔊Special Session at the @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 in Porto, Portugal, May 6-9, 2025:

New Perspectives on Evolutionary Economic Geography (SS39)!

Submissions that approach empirical data in novel and theoretically profound ways preferred.

❗️🗓️ (DEC19 - 2moro) www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa25/

📢📢Join us to discuss the challenge and agency in digital work!
GCEG2025 - CFP: Working in the digital age: Exploring precarity, agency, and spatiality.
Submission Deadline: Jan 10, 2025
For more info: aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/sol...
#Digitallabor #Digitalcreator

#Discontent is born of #decline.
#Europe’s angriest regions aren’t its poorest, but those stuck in #development traps—stagnating while others surge ahead.
Europscepticism thrives in economic neglect, as much as culture wars.
The remedy? #Innovation, #education, and #reform.
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SS61: 'Territorial Innovation Models in the Platform Economy Era' Han Chu and @roberthassink.bsky.social would like your papers. For more info: bit.ly/sspto25 Abstract deadline: ⏰19 Dec @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 (42)

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it builds, among others, on our recently published paper in Progress in Human Geography (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Are you an economic geographer who really enjoys discussing the current state of the discipline? Then you might be the ideal panellist in our panel session #GCEG2025 on research communities and paradigms in #EconomicGeography! aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/sol....

check out our CfP on Reintepreting regional resilience at the Global Conference on Economic Geography 2025 #GCEG2025
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Fünf Jahre Tesla in Grünheide: Zwischen Wachstum und Widerstand 12.500 neue Jobs, 300 Hektar Fabrik statt Märkischer Kiefer, sechs Millionen Euro Gewerbesteuer - und immer noch viel Widerstand. Nach fünf Jahren Tesla in Grünheide ziehen M. Krauss und G. v. Petersd...

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📣📣 Igor (@tupymg.bsky.social), Simone Grabner and I are organising a #Special #Session on #local #economic #resilience in RSA's (@regstud.bsky.social) annual conference in #Porto! #RSA25

See 👇 and sign up for SS8!
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...!