Courtney Bower, Cornell University

This special issue invites empirically grounded research examining how the Black Sea region recovers and transforms amid conflict, economic transitions, and geopolitical uncertainty. The editors welcome submissions employing quantitative methods such as econometrics, input-output modeling, GIS, remote sensing, network analysis, and agent-based models, as well as mixed methods approaches. Studies offering actionable policy recommendations for diverse stakeholders including municipalities, port authorities, government ministries, and international organizations are particularly valued.

Appel publié par Growth and Change. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Spatial configurations and governance arrangements for resilient recovery
• Corridors, gateways, and supply chains under geopolitical stress
• Cross-national comparisons of economic, institutional, and geopolitical trajectories
• The Black Sea as a complex adaptive system
• Multi-scalar analyses of infrastructure networks
• Displacement, migration, return, and relocation
• Energy security and vulnerability in contested sub-regions
• Regional development transitions: past, present, and future
• Urban–rural disparities and interdependencies
• National and regional innovation systems and spillovers
• Diaspora finance and development
• Cross-scale policymaking shaping growth trajectories
• Workforce development, skills matching, and labor-market recovery
• Roles of institutional actors, international organizations, and non-governmental entities

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Patrick Cohendet, HEC Montréal

Bastian Lange, Université Humboldt de Berlin

Elke Schüßler, Université Leuphana de Lüneburg

Laurent Simon, HEC Montréal

Appel publié par Management international. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Deadline for paper submission

Meena Chavan, Macquarie University

Christina Theodoraki, IAE Aix-Marseille University

Michelle Evans, University of Melbourne

Jane Menzies, University of Sunshine Coast

Anna Earl, University of Canterbury

Alex Maritz, La Trobe University

Bella Galperin, University of Tampa

This special issue examines Indigenous-led enterprises as drivers of sustainable regional development. Indigenous entrepreneurs worldwide create ventures that blend economic ambition with cultural stewardship, community well-being, and sustainability, often emerging from contexts of historical marginalization and systemic exclusion. The issue broadens geographic scope beyond Anglophone regions to include insights from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and beyond, recognizing Indigenous entrepreneurship as a global phenomenon.

The special issue situates Indigenous entrepreneurship at the intersection of place-based enterprise, sustainability, and regional development. Indigenous ventures are deeply embedded in specific lands, ecosystems, and social networks, operating as collective processes that integrate cultural values with business strategy. Many pursue triple bottom-line objectives combining economic, social, and environmental goals, challenging mainstream entrepreneurship paradigms to adopt more inclusive, community-centric frameworks.

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Indigenous entrepreneurial ecosystems and community-driven support systems
• Indigenous enterprise in CSR/ESG and sustainability goals
• Leadership styles and communal decision processes in Indigenous enterprises
• Market expansion and authenticity for Indigenous businesses
• Branding and storytelling around Indigenous cultural heritage
• Cultural appropriation and intellectual property rights protection
• Indigenous worldviews integrated into business and management frameworks
• Entrepreneurship education and capacity-building programs
• Enterprise as self-determination and pathways to economic independence
• Technology adoption by Indigenous entrepreneurs
• Challenges and resilience in Indigenous business development
• Indigenous women entrepreneurs and their contributions
• Policy and place-based development initiatives
• Global comparative perspectives on Indigenous entrepreneurship
• Culture-based enterprise models for heritage preservation
• How Indigenous cultural values shape entrepreneurial decision-making
• Institutional voids and barriers faced by Indigenous entrepreneurs
• Community networks, kinship ties, and competitive advantage
• Balancing profit motives with social and environmental responsibilities

Timeline

• December 1, 2025: Launch of call and submissions open
• February 1, 2026: Virtual Paper Development Workshop (for North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia-Oceania)
• May 1, 2026: Virtual Paper Development Workshop
• August 1, 2026: Virtual Paper Development Workshop
• October 30, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Guendalina Anzolin, University of Cambridge

Simon Collinson, Zhejiang University

Federica Rossi, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Elvira Uyarra, University of Manchester

Regional innovation systems face significant challenges from digital transformation, decarbonization needs, and economic crises. Governments increasingly fund innovation intermediaries—organizations like research centres, incubators, and technology organizations—to coordinate stakeholders and bridge gaps in innovation cycles. These intermediaries shape regional development through knowledge transfer and institutional adaptation.

This special issue seeks contributions examining how innovation intermediaries interact with regional economic change and institutional evolution. The editors welcome conceptual, empirical, and policy-focused papers employing interdisciplinary approaches and diverse methodologies, spanning economic geography, innovation studies, and public policy. Contributions should address how intermediaries foster diversification, support sustainability transitions, facilitate skills development, and shape emerging markets within regional contexts.

Appel publié par Regional Studies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Configurations of innovation intermediaries and their role in knowledge transfer, value chain upgrading, and regional diversification or resilience
• Structural conditions leading to the emergence of specific types of innovation intermediaries
• Relationship between innovation intermediaries and place-based, mission-oriented, or smart-specialisation policies
• Role of innovation intermediaries in supporting regional sustainability goals, decarbonization, and circular economy initiatives
• Innovation intermediaries as orchestrators of human-capital formation and labour-market transitions
• Adaptation of innovation intermediaries' activities, governance, and revenue structures to new technological waves and changing funding landscapes
• Impact of policy interventions on innovation intermediaries in specific or comparative regional ecosystems
• Sectoral and value-chain variations in innovation intermediaries' activities and functions
• Innovation intermediaries' contribution to market formation, including standards, certification schemes, and demand articulation
• Novel typologies and metrics for capturing dynamic functions of innovation intermediaries

Timeline

• June 30, 2026: Abstract deadline
• December 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline

David Morris, University of Nottingham

Carlo Corradini, University of Reading

Lisa De Propris, University of Birmingham

Duygu Buyukyazici, London School of Economics and Political Science

Appel publié par Regional Studies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• The nature and dynamics of regional skills formation and transformation due to technological change (skills creation, resilience, obsolescence, disappearance)
• The links between education, skills transformation and job dynamics in the green and digital transitions of regional economies
• The drivers and barriers of a regional skills transition for the innovation, growth and resilience of regional economies
• The regional skill mismatch and skill formation in new labour spaces, e.g. green jobs, remote working, new platformised digital industries, gig economy
• The enablers and barriers of a regional skills transformation for the green and digital transitions of industrial clusters and regional economies
• Regional skills transformation and mismatch within shifting regional labour markets
• Regional skills transformation and mismatch in regions as open economies: skills mobility, remote skills and migration
• The opportunities and constraints of stranded and stressed regions: left-behindedness, regional low-skill traps, transitioning carbon-intensive regions
• The links between vocational education, lifelong training and on-the-job upskilling and regional skills transition in the context of technological change
• The opportunities and constraints of regional skills transition in emerging and developing economies
• Policy debates and policy experiences to address the regional dimension of skill mismatch, skill formation and skill transition for just and inclusive growth

Timeline

• June 12, 2026: Abstract deadline
• September 25, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Mariachiara Barzotto, University of Bath

Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University

This special issue addresses the regional development implications of artificial intelligence as an emerging enabling technology. AI functions both as an independent industry and as infrastructure integrated across existing sectors, with potential to reshape production systems, innovation dynamics, regional governance, and spatial economic organisation. The issue recognises that understanding AI requires examining not only industrial transformation but also how it influences knowledge production and regional governance practices.

The special issue seeks to develop a coherent research agenda by bringing together fragmented discussions across different literatures and scales of analysis. It invites empirically grounded contributions that examine three interconnected dimensions: the spatial organisation of the AI industry itself, the effects of AI on regional development governance and planning, and how AI adoption across incumbent sectors reshapes patterns of regional economic concentration and dispersion.

Appel publié par Regional Studies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• The economic geography of the AI industry: spatial organisation of AI production, agglomeration and dispersion patterns, factors determining spatial organisation (skills, capital, infrastructure, energy, regulatory regimes)
• AI and the governance of regional development: impact on administration and management, effects on decision-making processes and outcomes, new expectations or criteria for regional development and planning practices
• AI diffusion and the restructuring of incumbent industries: how adoption and diffusion of AI alter regional geography of incumbent sectors, changes to spatial logics, substitution effects with other technologies, new patterns of concentration or dispersion
• Conceptually robust and empirically grounded contributions examining regional development implications of AI as an emerging enabling technology

Timeline

• October 16, 2026: Abstract deadline
• December 1, 2026: Manuscript deadline