The Regional Helix ’21 focus on place-based development processes, namely on the roles of green and digital transitions facing current global challenges such as climate change, inequality, and migrations. However, in the tradition of the REGIONAL HELIX ® Conference Series, we welcome research on themes such as helix systems, development, tourism, and management. The conference topics are organized around the following six main themes:
A – Entrepreneurship and helix ecosystems
- Regional helix ecosystems and sustainability growth
- Smart specialization and entrepreneurial process
- Migrant and minorities entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial education, academic entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial university
- Networks and knowledge transfer
- Family businesses and self-employment
- Social and sustainable entrepreneurship
B – Digital transitions
- Digitization and digital innovation
- Digital consumers and digital marketing
- Digital inclusion
- Territorial dimensions of digital transitions
- Smartization, smart territories and smart ecosystems
C – Green transitions
- Sustainability-oriented innovation
- Decarbonization
- Circularity
- Green technologies, processes and products
- Green consumers and green marketing
- Environment, food systems, food safety, and health
- Territorial dimensions of green transitions
D – Transformative planning and place-based development processes
- Place-focused and place-based planning and development
- Place-inclusive and territorial fair transitions
- Citizen and community engagement towards transformational place-inclusive development scenarios
- Place-based knowledge co-creation and place-focused innovation processes
- Transformative, Healthy and Healing Territories
E – Management and governance of heritage and tourism
- Destination management and marketing
- Tourism after the pandemic
- Territorial dimensions of tourism development
- Sustainable and responsible tourism
- Economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism
- Special interest tourism
- Events and recreation management and governance
- Visitor management
- Heritage conservation and management
F – Organizations
- Organizational behavior
- Organizational responsibility and ethics
- Accounting and accountability
- Diversity in organizations
- Human resources management
- Strategic management
- Dynamic capabilities
- Knowledge management
- Financial management
- Management of public and nonprofit organizations