🧭 Final takeaway — for policymakers 👇
Infrastructure must be allocated where it delivers the highest economic returns.
Our paper shows how to do this systematically, aligning agglomeration, firm behaviour & local needs.
Strategic, not scattershot.
📘 Papers in Regional Science

🎯 Equity vs Efficiency? Why not both?
Our framework helps balance spatial equity with economic efficiency in infrastructure planning.
Especially relevant for resource-constrained settings.
Out now in Papers in Regional Science
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🇵🇪 Insights from Peru, Lessons for All
Infrastructure investments in developing countries often ignore where returns are highest.
We offer a new way forward.
#DevEcon #SpatialPolicy #Peru

📍Where to build? What to fund?
Our new paper in Papers in Regional Science lays out a replicable framework:
🏭 Map industrial clusters
📈 Estimate firm location drivers
📊 Build a typology of high-return zones

🧠💡 A Smarter Way to Invest in Infrastructure?
We propose a data-driven methodology to target high-return areas where agglomeration effects boost productivity. Published in Papers in Regional Science 🎓
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🚀 From research ideas to real challenges
We piloted a 4-step participatory process across CHARM-EU partners 🧪
✅ 6 societal challenges
✅ 3 proposals already submitted 💥
One funded by Water4All 💧

You can find out more here👉 rdcu.be/egdmz

What happens when 5 EU universities come together to tackle global challenges?
They build a common R&I agenda driven by:
✅ #SDG3: Good Health
✅ #SDG10: Reduced Inequalities
✅ #SDG13: Climate Action
More in our new paper 👇
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💡 Interdisciplinary + International + Inclusive = CHARM-EU 💡
We present a replicable method for building joint #science agendas across universities!
🔁 Bottom-up meets top-down
🌱 Centred on #sustainability
👥 Rooted in researcher collaboration

You can find more about the journal here: sciencedirect.com/journal/glob...

We invite the regional science community to explore the contributions in this inaugural collection of outstanding papers by leading scholars. This issue reflects the commitment to excellence and sets the foundation for future contributions that will shape regional science

This editorial is coauthored with the associate editors Balazs Lengyel (HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, HU), Sarah Low (Dept Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Univ Illinois, USA) and Raquel Ortega-Argiles (The Productivity Institute, Univ Manchester, UK)

🤝 Science with purpose! 🌍✨ Global Challenges & Regional Science positions itself to support responsible, impactful research aligned with societal needs and multidisciplinary collaboration. 🏘️⚙️📖

📚 New data, new methods, bigger impacts! 📊✨ The first issue of Global Challenges & Regional Science reveals how regional scientists use innovative methods and diverse datasets to face society’s greatest challenges. 🌐🔍🌿

🔍 How does Regional Science tackle global issues? Our survey shows top research topics: Innovation, Sustainability, Urban-Rural transitions & more! 🌆🌳🚊

🌍 Grand Challenges are described as ambitious societal issues demanding interdisciplinary collaboration and long-term, cooperative strategies. They connect research with global priorities, and require innovative methods, responsible innovation, and active societal engagement🏙️🤝

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This volume of the Italian Journal of Regional Science includes articles from Roberta Capello, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Philip McCann, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings and Grzegorz Gorzelak. 👉 www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1720-39...