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The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is an international multi-disciplinary journal publishing refereed papers on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change. The aim of the Journal is to understand the formative changes and developments associated with the new spatial foundations of today’s globalizing world.
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The 2025 CJRES Conference
The annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference will be held on 17-18 July 2025, at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK. The theme is ‘The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient’. Those interested at presenting a paper at the conference are encouraged to submit their abstracts by 1 April, 2025.
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Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times: Towards new Regional Futures?
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is accepting papers on the topic of progressive and forward-looking views of development with a focus on regional and geographical aspects.
Deadline for abstract proposals: 1 July 2025.
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Firm Strategies and Regional Development
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is accepting submissions that examine how firm-level actors respond to and are influenced by state-induced geopolitical and geo-economic instability, and how their various strategic responses reshape subnational/local development.
Deadline for abstract proposals: 1 November, 2025.
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CJRES 2024 Conference - Presentations now available
The eleventh annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference was based on two major themes: The Entrepreneurial State and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy, and Rethinking Path Dependence and Lock-Ins. The conference was held on 11-12 July 2024, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK. Discover some of the presentations from the online event here.
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Best Paper Award
The Editors of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society are delighted to announce that our inaugural Best Paper Award has been given to Prof David Bieri for his paper Schumpeter’s Gesetz and Gestalt in space: exploring evolutionary economic geographies of money and finance published in the Special Issue on Re-Imagining Evolutionary Economic Geography. Congratulations to our very worthy winner.
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