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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society @cjres.bsky.social · Jun 2

The July issue of CJRES is titled The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development

It will publish shortly in full - you can read the Editorial Introduction at doi.org/10.1093/cjre... free access.

@roberthassink.bsky.social, @dfkogler.bsky.social, Davide Ponzini and Xuefei Ren

The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development

Across both industrialised and emerging economies worldwide, megaprojects have become important drivers of economic development. These large-scale ventures

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Phil Tomlinson @prt1969.bsky.social · May 8

@dfkogler.bsky.social talking about #pathevolution @regstud.bsky.social at #RSA2025

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Ron Davies @ronbdavies.bsky.social · Apr 8

New paper: www.ucd.ie/economics/t4...
with Bernardo Buarque, Ryan Hynes, Gianluca Tarasconi, and @dfkogler.bsky.social .

www.ucd.ie

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Apr 2

@cgrisbath.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social @fmfai.bsky.social - Thank you for the opportunity to present and discuss my recent work earlier today. It is always wonderful to be in Bath amongst colleagues and good friends!

Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) @cgrisbath.bsky.social · Apr 2

We were delighted to host @dfkogler.bsky.social to @uniofbath.bsky.social this afternoon for an insightful seminar/webinar on the links between local/regional scientific knowledge & #innovation @regionalstudies.bsky.social #regions @regstud.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @uresg76.bsky.social 👇🏼

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Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) @cgrisbath.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us today at 13:15 in-person/online @uniofbath.bsky.social as we welcome @dfkogler.bsky.social for a hybrid seminar. Online Zoom Registration at shorturl.at/Q7UCf. Further details below 👇
@regstud.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social @uniofbathnews.bsky.social

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Vincenzo Riccardi @vinric.bsky.social · Dec 3

🌟𝑪𝙤𝒏𝙜𝒓𝙖𝒕𝙪𝒍𝙖𝒕𝙞𝒐𝙣 𝙤𝒖𝙧 𝙬𝒐𝙧𝒌 𝒉𝙖𝒔 𝒏𝙤𝒘 𝒃𝙚𝒆𝙣 𝙥𝒖𝙗𝒍𝙞𝒔𝙝𝒆𝙙!🌟

"𝐀𝐈-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬"

www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

"𝐀𝐈-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬"

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Jason Deegan @jay-deegan.bsky.social · Jan 8

1/ I seem to recall that new research threads were all the rage on that 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦, so lets try one for Bluesky!

𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠? 𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
(just published in 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴).

Curious why regions copy each other? Let’s dig in. 🧵

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 25

THX - glass half empty, half full? We'll go with the latter for 2025 - enjoy and talk soon! PS - all the very best to the family too.

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 25

Cheers from the other side of the mountain range... 🏔☃️

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 24

Geography and branding in the craft beer industry (doi.org/10.1080/0034...) published in @regionalstudies.bsky.social shows that place-based branding strategies are important marketing tools for regions and firms taking advantage of consumers’ embrace of the local in response to globalisation. (3/3)

Results indicate that place-based branding strategies, as indicated by our GPE (references to geopolitical entities) and LOC (references to natural landmarks and geographic features), have a positive impact on consumers’ perception of craft breweries. Furthermore, a brewery’s status as independent, and the number of beers is it brews have a positive impact on perception. This supports the notion that craft breweries rely on and get rewarded for place-based branding approaches. This echoes arguments put forward in the organizational ecology literature concerning identity-based approaches to marketing and consumer perceptions (Hsu and Hannan, 2005). Looking at some of the variations between different brewery categories, it is evident that microbreweries benefit the most from a marketing language that incorporates geographic features and references, unlike other small-scale establishments like nano breweries or brew pubs. This indicates that place-based branding strategies do not have the same effect across all types of craft beer makers and that size matters in the sense that being too small or too big has a negative or at least limiting impact on breweries’ performance (Carroll and Swaminathan, 2000). On the other hand, GPE and LOC references in microbreweries’ branding language results in positive public perception across all regional settings, something that has been untested in the relevant literature until now. Place-based branding strategies are not unique to craft beer, and so these findings have important implications for other industries as well. Indeed, these results are even encouraging for regions who invest in creating their own place-based branding narrative to entice firms and consumers to the region.

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 24

Hops, Skip and a Jump: The Regional Uniqueness of Beer Styles (hdl.handle.net/10197/24460) in "The Geography of Beer" (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...), explores the geographical differentiation of beer via data on regional beer recipes, styles, and ingredients by employing #EEG methods. (2/3)

The two figures plot the correlation between resiliency and either unrelated variety or average Relatedness. The y-axis is resiliency, which we measure as the percentage of nodes a network can lose before fragmenting into many unconnected components. The x-axis is either unrelated variety or average relatedness. We calculate unrelated variety using the Shannon Entropy formula following (Frenken et al., 2007). We calculate average relatedness following (Kogler et al., 2013). Points are colored according to the country of origin.

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 24

Festive Cheer - now as the holiday season is in full swing some of us will occasionally enjoy a fizzy drink or two while spending time with family and friends.

We investigated the #geography of #beer - 2 papers you might enjoy reading while you sip on a beer - always drink responsibly! (1/3)

Geography and branding in the craft beer industry

Ryan M. Hynes and Dieter F. Kogler

ABSTRACT

We investigate the quantitative link between geography and branding in the craft beer space by assembling a novel dataset of tens of thousands of breweries, their marketing language, and their public perception. We use named entity recognition to process breweries’ description text, and extract the counts of geographic and location labels. We regress these counts against breweries’ rating score, which we take as a measure of public perception. We find a strong, positive link between the number of place-based labels and a brewery’s rating. This is the first large-scale quantitative result in this space, and is strong evidence of the positive link between geography, branding, and public perception. We also contribute by introducing novel data collection and text processing techniques to the regional studies and geography of beer literature. Our results confirm several previous qualitative and survey-scale studies in this space, and establish a definite link between place-based branding strategies and brewery perception.

KEYWORDS
craft beer; economic geography; regional studies; place-based branding; marketing; consumer perception; natural language processing

Hops, Skip and a Jump:
The Regional Uniqueness of Beer Styles

(✉) Ryan M. Hynes, School of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ryan.hynes@ucdconnect.ie
Bernardo S. Buarque, Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, bsbuarque@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ronald B. Davies, School of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ronald.davies@ucd.ie
Dieter F. Kogler, Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, dieter.kogler@ucd.ie

Abstract
Perhaps more than any other product, beer evokes its place of origin. Part of what makes every pint of Guinness or stein of Paulaner so memorable is what sets them apart and gives them their unique "taste of place." This chapter explores the geographical differentiation of beer. To do so, we collect data on regional beer recipes, styles, and ingredients from a homebrewing website. We then employ Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) methods and create weighted co-occurrence networks for the ingredients within each style. We use these networks to identify which ingredients are most important to each beer style, measure a style’s robustness, and compare differences between geographically close and distant styles. While previous literature focuses on the related diversification of regions, we use these methods to examine the differences within the same product and across many regional styles and flavours. Combining the EEG methods with this unique ingredients dataset, we show that almost all beer styles rely on only a handful of key ingredients. Yet some regional beers are more robust than others due to readily available substitute ingredients in their region. Likewise, we demonstrate that styles originating in close geographic proximity are more similar in their use of ingredients.

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Dec 20

🚨 Job alert 🚨

IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined!

Focuses include (among others):

1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science
2. Data Science in Biological Systems
3. Data Science in Human Mobility

it-u.at/en/careers/p... 1/2

Professor of Data Science | IT:U

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Fernanda Sperotto @fqsperotto.bsky.social · Dec 2

Session organized by researcher Joana Costa and myself.

💡🌎 SS75: Insights on the Role of Innovation in Reshoring - Territorial and Economic Effects 💡🌎
Submit your abstract by⏰19 December 2024: bit.ly/RSAAC25

#RSA25
@regstud.bsky.social

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 18

🔊Special Session at the @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 in Porto, Portugal, May 6-9, 2025:

New Perspectives on Evolutionary Economic Geography (SS39)!

Submissions that approach empirical data in novel and theoretically profound ways preferred.

❗️🗓️ (DEC19 - 2moro) www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa25/

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 13

📣 #GCEG2025 CFP - gceg.org

The Role(s) of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Regional Growth and Uneven Development

Further details here: tinyurl.com/GCEG2025CFP

🗓️ abstracts by 05 JAN 2025. Inquiries/Abstracts to Dieter F. Kogler ([email protected]) and Sebastián Baeza ([email protected]).

We invite contributions that are related to the following themes:

• Geographical histories of scientific and technological creative destruction
• Spatial inequalities of knowledge production, recombination and diffusion
• Regional resilience, technological trajectories, path dependent development and path creation
• Links between scientific knowledge production, technological change and regional fortunes
• The roles of technological structure and complexity, related and unrelated variety to fast/slow growth
• The interplay of agents, organizations, institutions and place in innovation systems and dynamics
• Firm and regional linkages, the relatedness of firms, regions and technologies, relatedness dynamics and uneven development
• Regional policy for technological change, transformation/transition and inclusive growth

The organizers welcome abstracts of no more than 250 words by the 5th of January 2025. Please send inquiries and abstracts to Dieter F. Kogler (dieter.kogler@ucd.ie) and Sebastián Baeza (sebaeza@udec.cl). Following feedback (latest by January 10th) authors will be required to register via the conference website at https://gceg.org/index.php/register/.

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 13

📣 #GCEG2025 CFP - gceg.org

The Role(s) of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Regional Growth and Uneven Development

Further details here: tinyurl.com/GCEG2025CFP

🗓️ abstracts by 05 JAN 2025. Inquiries/Abstracts to Dieter F. Kogler ([email protected]) and Sebastián Baeza ([email protected]).

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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · Dec 12

🔊Special Session at the @regstud.bsky.social #RSA25 in Porto, Portugal, May 6-9, 2025:
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Automation, and Digitalization Technologies on Regional Economic Development Trajectories. (SS65)!
🗓️ (DEC19) www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa25/
#AI

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Automation, and Digitalization Technologies on Regional Economic Development Trajectories - Special Session at Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2025

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Julie MacLeavy @jmacleavy.bsky.social · Dec 2

First post on Bluesky to advertise my new book, Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State.

This is available with 50% off through December with code BUP12.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/enduring-aus...

Me, with a hardback copy of my book ‘Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State’

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Matti Pihlajamaa @mattipihlaj.bsky.social · Nov 21

🌱Innovation policy for growth: Can it drive transformation to sustainability?
💡Highlights from VTT's innovation scholars' recent position paper: 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱

🔗Learn more at cris.vtt.fi/en/publicati...

This slide discusses innovation policy's potential to drive the transformation toward sustainability. It highlights challenges, including the pressure of continuous economic growth, the slow pace of decoupling growth from emissions and resource use, and whether challenge-led policies focused on growth can meet sustainability goals. Proposed solutions emphasize low-energy, low-material innovation, community-driven approaches, and aligning innovation policy with ecological and social value creation.

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Regional Studies Journal @regionalstudies.bsky.social · Dec 6

Very nice opportunity here for an aspiring early career researcher. Deadline 10th of December.

Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Dec 5

🌟Five days for ECR to submit their application for the Early Career Plenary Speaker call for #RSA25 🌟

For more information and to apply: bit.ly/RSAAC25

➡️Navigating Regional Transformation
⏰6-9 May 2025
🌎 Porto, Portugal

⌛Deadline: 10 December 2024

🔄😀

@rsaeurope.bsky.social

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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · Dec 6

Last chance to submit a paper for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social meetings in Berlin in March 2025. Call for papers closes Monday 9th December. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

UEA 2025 Berlin

urbaneconomics.org

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Tom Broekel @tbroekel.bsky.social · Dec 6

Spinning Stories: Wind Turbines & Narratives in Germany

Our new study dives into the interplay between #wind #turbines and #narratives in #Germany. Using #news data, we study how wind turbines are reflected in #local #narrative #landscapes (new concept!!!!).

doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

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Lukas Kriesch @lkriesch.bsky.social · Dec 2

Just in time for my first Bluesky post my latest research, co-authored with Dr. Sebastian Losacker, is now published with Nature Portfolio in Scientific Data.

Discover the paper and the dataset here:

rdcu.be/d1Ui3

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