Submissions to the open track will be reviewed by members of the scientific or organising committees.

We reserve the right to reassign papers from the open track to a special session, or vice versa, where appropriate.

• Universities and the geography of science and innovation
• Social capital, institutions and innovation
• Globalisation of innovation and knowledge
• Innovation in peripheral regions
• Innovation in developing and emerging economies
• The spatial dynamics of innovation networks
• Mobility, migration and innovation
• Geographies of green and sustainable innovation
• Responsible innovation, social innovation and inclusive growth
• Clusters and innovation ecosystems
• Innovation policies for regions and countries
• Urban innovation

Please note that submissions to a special session will be reviewed by the special session organisers.

We reserve the right to reassign a paper from one special session to another, or to the open track, where appropriate.

• SS1: Innovation in the Bioeconomy and Regional Sustainability Transitions: Promises, Pitfalls and Contradictions
• SS2: Innovation and Regional Economic Development in Emerging and Developing Economies
• SS3: Examining the global, regional and local challenges in inclusive innovation
• SS4: The Geography of University Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Actors, Outcomes, and Evolution
• SS5: Innovation, immigration and diversity in firms and cities
• SS6: Strategic dual transition: Challenges and opportunities
• SS7: Opening green windows: Technological opportunities in a low-carbon world
• SS8: Working from home and the new geography of workers, firms and innovation
• SS9: Geographies of controversial innovation
• SS10: The role of peripheries in innovation
• SS11: Social networks and the geography of innovation
• SS12: The Doing, Using and Interacting (DUI) mode of innovation in European firms and regions
• SS13: Trans-local linkages of and between entrepreneurial ecosystems
• SS14: Data and network science in economic geography
• SS15: The role of public R&D support for hidden innovation and regional innovation levelling-up
• SS16: Innovation and path dependence
• SS17: Policy, funding, research, and regional development in the science-technology nexus
• SS18: International students and innovation
• SS19: Global knowledge flows: Multilocational firms and value chains
• SS20: Mission-oriented innovation policies and their multiscalar dynamics: The possibilities and challenges for regions
• SS21: How is the new industrial policy paradigm shaping the geography of innovation?
• SS22: Interregional perspectives on challenge-oriented innovation systems for sustainability transitions
• SS23: Leveraging large language models in the geography of innovation research
• SS24: Innovation based regional development
• SS25: The geography of creative activities and industries
• SS26: Innovation and (subjective) well-being: The need for a step-change
• SS27: Innovation, institutions and the geography of the economic system
• SS28: Narratives, news, and the power of sentiments
• SS29: Territorial and institutional transformations caused by the digitalization process
• SS30: The Library of Babel: Uncovering knowledge in unstructured textual data to better understand the geography of innovation
• SS31: The uneven geography of standards
• SS32: The role of regional ecosystems in the development of digital technologies for sustainability
• SS33: Geographies of Innovation and Well-Being
• SS34: Digital-enabled, resilient and sustainable production and supply chain processes: reconfiguration and international competitiveness of companies and territories