By Anna Growe and Eva Purkarthofer The special session “Governance and Imaginaries of Sustainable City Regions” at the RSA Winter Conference 2025 in London constituted a key working moment within the newly established open research network “Bridging Governance Gaps in City-Regions: Addressing Land Take and City-Region Building Through Comparative Research” (2025–2028) (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Logo RSA Research Network Bridging […]
By Samantha Archard & Felicia Fai How can industrial activities become more environmentally sustainable? In the face of global sustainability challenges, the adoption of environmentally sustainable business models is widely regarded as key to industrial upgrading and has prompted national policy responses and sustainability targets. Yet, while necessary, national approaches can miss important regional differences […]
By Zihan Wang, Felicia M Fai, Philip R Tomlinson, Mariachiara Barzotto and Beate Ehrhardt In a recent article published in Regional Studies, we explore the potential role of coworking spaces (CWSs) as vehicles for local skills development in the UK; mechanisms that extend beyond conventional, formal policy frameworks on skills and education systems. The country’s […]
By Stefano M. Iacus, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Haodong Qi (e-mail), Stockholm University Demography Unit, Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden and Devika Jain, Centre for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Abstract This article investigates the structural mechanisms through which regional climate hazards […]
By Samantha Archard, Felicia Fai, Mariachiara Barzotto & Phil Tomlinson (e-mail) Archard, S., Fai, F., Barzotto, M., & Tomlinson, P. R. (2026). Anchor entrepreneurs as microfoundational agents of regional industry emergence: The case of Scotland’s space industry. Regional Studies, 60(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2026.2618707 How do new-to-the-region sectors emerge? Most regions have a regional innovation system (RIS) — a network of organisations and […]
By Efthymios Georgiou (e-mail) Introduction Madrid is one of the largest cities in Europe, with its municipality and metropolitan area functioning as major political, economic, and cultural centres for both Spain and the wider European continent. In recent decades, European urban policies and Madrid’s strategic position vis-à-vis global cities such as Paris and London have […]
Is the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy really Place-Based? By David Bailey, Lisa De Propris, Chris Dimos, Felicia Fai, Sally Hardy, and Philip R Tomlinson The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy has been presented as a bold plan for economic renewal: a promise to boost productivity, spread opportunity across regions, support innovation, and rebalance an economy long […]
