19th Regional Innovation Policies Conference

19th Regional Innovation Policies Conference
23-24/10/2025, Venice School of Management

Twin Transition, Ecosystems, and Disruptive Innovation

We are delighted to invite you to the 19th edition of Regional Innovation Policies Conference “Twin Transition, Ecosystems, and Disruptive Innovation”. The event will take place in Venice, Italy, on October 23rd-24th 2025, at the Venice School of Management - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, San Giobbe - Economic Campus.

The Regional Innovation Policies Conference has, for nearly two decades, been an important international arena for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to exchange insights on regional innovation and development, and to debate on current regional policies and challenges.

As the European agenda pushes firms and regional economies toward a transition that integrates digital innovations with more sustainable strategies, this edition will be dedicated particularly to assessing and debating the capacity of regional policies to support combined technological, environmental, and social transformations.
An opportunity to reflect on how innovation ecosystems targeted by recovery and resilience plans are transforming to follow regional trajectories along this direction.
An occasion to understand how regional specializations can be supported in the adoption and upscaling of today's most disruptive innovations meant to reach sustainable goals.



Call for abstracts

The call for abstracts is coming in early February 2025.

We welcome abstract submissions related to regional innovation policy, in relation, but not limited, to the following themes:

  • Policies and agency in twin (and multiple) transitions
  • Building functioning regional Innovation ecosystems
  • Regional adoption and upscaling of environmental and green technologies
  • Disruptive innovation for circular and regenerative economies
  • Challenged-oriented Regional Innovation Systems
  • Policies failures in addressing Grand Societal Challenges
  • Regional Innovation Policies in an era of disruptive changes in the global economy

Special track organized by the Agrifood Management & Innovation Lab:

  • Disruptive innovation and regional restructuring in the age of the twin transition: perspectives from the study of food systems

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