The symposium brings together policy makers, academics and business leaders to the INSEAD Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi to share and discuss the latest cutting edge evidence on entrepreneurship and decent jobs in the MENA region.

TAKE 2016 will have the following objectives: a) To analyze the relation between the theory and the applications the economy of the 21st century. b) To understand how to improve the management of the knowledge based economy we live in. c) To analyze the today’s economy putting together...

Topics: - Public policies to promote entrepreneurship (Public Policies and public programs with a regional impact in promoting entrepreneurship) - Entrepreneurship and social innovation (innovative projects and programs of public or private social entrepreneurship with a regional impact) -...

More than half of humanity now lives in cities, and every month there are 5 million new city dwellers. A number of powerful forces are shaping this new phase of urbanization – escalating population growth, the rise of China and India, new connected technologies and pressures on both our...

The conference will be organized around the following themes: - Preconditions for sustainable development (economically, socially and environmentally) in European regions, - the role of universities in the promotion of regional development, - sectoral specificities (resource based and...

CEF.UP (U. Porto) and NIPE (U. Minho) are jointly organizing a Workshop on recent research developments based on LEED (linked employer-employee data). We aim to promote the interaction of researchers within this community by creating a forum for the discussion of applied and theoretical...

Topics: - Water as a quality in the urban landscape – for liveability, well-being and profit - Water-centric cities in; planning and design – why and how? - Integrating water services with energy production and use of nutrients for agriculture - Addressing the dilemma of aging infrastructure...

This conference will discuss the issues associated with urban policies and social capital. The conference is multi-disciplinary. All social science and economics disciplines can be involved provided that the presentation project conforms to TSCF’s standards of quality.

Concerning civil society’s relations to economic development, among others, the following general questions of issue might be raised: • Conceptual and theoretical issues • Which tendencies of development can be observed within the Swedish and international social economy? • In what...