RA(X) Workshops series
EAEPE RA [X] Workshop Series
The 7th RA [X] Workshop (2023) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Knowledge, Networks and Regions’ (Muhamed Kudic & Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch) and the Research Area [D] ‘Technological change, governance, and transition' (Andreas Pyka and Ben Vermeulen).
Workshop theme: Twin Transition – co-evolutionary between green and digital change
Location: ZSW – Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
Organizing committee: Muhamed Kudic, University of Siegen; Matthias Mueller, University of Hohenheim; Andreas Pyka, University of Hohenheim; Bernd Ebersberger University of Hohenheim; Tobias Buchmann, ZSW (local host); Patrick Wolf, ZSW.
Key-Note Speaker:
- Björn Asheim, Lund University, Sweden.
The 6th RA [X] Workshop (2021) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Knowledge, Networks and Regions’ (Muhamed Kudic & Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch) and the Research Area [D] ‘Technological change, governance, and transition' (Andreas Pyka and Ben Vermeulen).
Workshop theme: The Economics of knowledge creation and utilization in regions
Date and location: 1-2 October 2021, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.
Organizing committee: Muhamed Kudic, University of Siegen; Andreas Pyka, University of Hohenheim, Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch, University Duisburg-Essen, Yeoryios Stamboulis, University of Thessaly (local host)
Key-Note Speaker:
- César Hidalgo, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA, USA.
- Volker Wulf, Uni Siegen, University of Siegen, Germany.
The 5th RA [X] Workshop (2019) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Networks’ (Stefano Battiston & Muhamed Kudic) and the Research Area [D] ‘Technological change, governance, and transition' (Andreas Pyka and Ben Vermeulen).
Workshop theme: The role of innovation networks in economic transformation processes’
Date and location: 21-22 November 2019, ZSW – Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
Organizing committee: Andreas Pyka, University of Hohenheim, Muhamed Kudic, University of Bremen; Jutta Günther, University of Bremen, Tobias Buchmann, ZSW (local host); Patrick Wolf, ZSW.
Key-Note Speaker:
- Paolo Saviotti, INRA, Université Pierre Mendès-France
- Mark Knell, NIFU, Norway.
The 4th RA [X] Workshop (2018) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Networks’ (Stefano Battiston & Muhamed Kudic) and the Research Area [D] ‘Technological change, governance, and transition' (Andreas Pyka and Ben Vermeulen).
Workshop theme: New ways of innovation policy design and its evaluation – insights from complex adaptive systems and beyond
Date and location: 15-16 November 2018, Andrássy University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Organizing committee: Andreas Pyka, University of Hohenheim, Muhamed Kudic, University of Bremen; Jutta Günther, University of Bremen, Martina Eckardt, Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary (local host); Jutta Sehic, Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.
Key-Note Speaker:
- Dominique Foray, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Michael Fritsch, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
The 3rd RA [X] Workshop (2017) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Networks’ (Stefano Battiston & Muhamed Kudic).
Workshop theme: The role of innovation networks for sustainable economic development
Date and location: 30 November - 1 December 2017, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Organizing committee: Daniel Schiller, University of Greifswald; Tobias Wendler, University of Bremen; Muhamed Kudic, University of Bremen; Jutta Günther, University of Bremen (local host)
Key-Note Speaker:
- Wolfram Elsner, University of Bremen, Germany.
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The 2nd RA [X] Workshop (2016) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Networks’ (Sidonia von Proff & Muhamed Kudic).
Workshop theme: New frontiers in entrepreneurship, innovation and transformation research
Date and location: 28 - 29 November 2016, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Organizing committee: Muhamed Kudic , University of Bremen; Jutta Günther, University of Bremen; Sidonia von Proff, Philipps University Marburg; Michael Roos, Ruhr University Bochum (local host).
Key-Note Speaker:
- Ron Boschma, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Bart Verspagen, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands.
The 1st RA [X] Workshop (2015) was organized by the coordinators of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Research Area [X] ‘Networks’ (Sidonia von Proff & Muhamed Kudic).
Workshop theme: New frontiers and methodological advances in cooperation and network research
Date and location: 3 November 2015, Stifterverband, Haus der Wirtschaft, Essen, Germany.
Organizing committee: Muhamed Kudic, Stifterverband (local host), Sidonia von Proff, Philipps University Marburg.
Key-Note Speaker:
- Andreas Kladroba, Stifterverband, Germany.
Special Issues (in peer-reviewed journals), related to the RA[X] workshop series
- Kudic, M., Müller, M., Buchmann, T., Pyka, A., Günther, J. (2021): ‘Networks dynamics, economic transition, and policy design’, in: Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. 2, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-021-00038-3
- Fritsch, M., Pyka, A., Kudic, M. (2019): ‘Evolution, co-evolution and regional innovation processes’, in: Regional Studies. 53(9), 1235–1239. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1627306
- Gräbner, C., Heinrich, T., Kudic, M., Vermeulen, B. (2018): ‘The dynamics of and on networks – an introduction’, in: International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 8 (3/4). 229-241.