The contents of the workshop relate, but are not limited, to key themes on cluster research, such as:

1. Multinationals, clusters and global value chain

2. Technological change, innovation networks and sustainable business models

3. Cluster life cycle, resilience and evolutionary trajectories of local systems

4. Clusters’ transition towards sustainability

5. Entrepreneurship in clusters and local systems

6. Culture and creative industries in sustainability transitions

7. Complexity theory and sustainable development 

8. Intelligent manufacturing and services in the context of industry 4.0

9. Research methods on clusters, industrial districts and local systems

10. Industrial policy, clusters/platforms policy

We encourage submissions from scholars in the social and scientific sciences, practitioners, innovators and leaders who are forging ahead with strategies to shift towards sustainability. We welcome contributions that develop innovative approaches in concepts, theory, methods or analysis and have deep or broad implications to inform transitions to sustainability, and that use observational, experimental or theory-driven modes of inquiry.

Interested contributors should send an extended abstract or a full paper to the email address: rethinkingclusters@unipd.it from 14th December till February 28th, 2019.

Please find the CALL for papers here