REGINNPOL 2025

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

Programme

"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.

Keynote speakers

Lisa De Propris

Lisa De Propris is Professor of Regional Economic Development in the Birmingham Business School. She has expertise in innovation and technological change; industry 4.0 and twin transitions; manufacturing clusters and global value chain; industrial and innovation policy. She has published in top academic journals such as “Regional Studies", “Research Policy”, ”Cambridge Journal of Economics", “Journal of Economic Geography”, “Journal of International Business Policy”, “Cambridge Journal of RES”. She sits on the Editorial Boards of Regional Studies, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, and Progress in Economic Geography.

Laurens Klerkx

Laurens Klerkx is Professor of Agrifood Innovation and Transition at the University of Talca, Chile, and visiting professor at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His expertise is in knowledge intensive business services, innovation systems, sustainability transitions, mission-oriented innovation policy, digitalization, and start-up ecosystems,  empirically focused on the agrifood sector. He has published in journals such as Research Policy, Environmental Innovation and Societal Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Science and Public Policy, the Journal of Rural Studies, Food Policy and Agricultural Systems. He was editor-in-chief of The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension and is editor of Agricultural Systems.



Call for abstracts

Submission deadline

15th of May 2025

Abstract notification

15th of June 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

Abstracts should have a length of minimum 500 and maximum 1500 words and should not include graphs, figures, or tables. Please indicate a suggested track theme when submitting your abstract.


Registration

Registration opening: 15th of June 2025.

Fees cover all conference activities, including aperitif on the 22nd, conference dinner on the 23rd, light lunch and coffee breaks on both conference days, the 23rd and 24th:

  • regular attendance: 285 euros
  • PhD students: 220 euros

Support

Partners

Scientific committee