27 Jun 2022
Kicking off the Summer Conference Season in Dublin
It is conference season again, and some early-stage and senior researchers from our POLISS network finally met again this summer in Dublin. The Global...
23 Jun 2022
Weaving networks from Valencia to Pécs – continuing the POLISS secondment season
Arriving to Pécs from sunny Valencia, I was met by somewhat colder weather and a language that did not resemble anything I’ve ever heard before. With...
20 Apr 2022
Disseminated interest: Open Innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
One of the short-term objectives of the POLISS research project in the first academic year is research skills and techniques, which can be obtained through...
13 Nov 2021
Report on first Summer School in Utrecht, Netherlands
After a year of online events, PHD research fellows, supervisors and policy partners finally had their first in-person school. Between September 6th and 17th...
28 Jul 2021
POLISS meets GeoInno
POLISS will team up with Bocconi University to organise the next edition of the Geography of Innovation conference, which is to be held in Milan from 26th...
1 Jul 2021
Opening up about PHD Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a big issue for any PhD student: uncertainty about the topic of research, the methods or even the goals, uncertainty about the ability to finish...
29 Jun 2021
Vacant researcher position in POLISS (Bocconi University)
Bocconi University invites applications for one Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Fellowships funded as part of the Marie Curie European Training Networks, under...
7 Apr 2021
From The Netherlands to Italy – POLISS academic secondment season starts
And it came the time when I finally had to be in Milan. As...
9 Mar 2021
How Covid-19 will change university lectures
By outsourcing the presentation of information to new mediums and into new forms (digital material), we don’t create substitutes for us. We make substitutes...
19 Feb 2021
Digital project review meeting between POLISS and EU
Tuesday 2 February 2021 POLISS and the EU met to reflect on our first project year and to look ahead to the exciting year to come. Almost all members of POLISS...
20 Jan 2021
Moving to a new country in the time of a pandemic
Reassuringly calm, empty, and ordered; without the usual hustle and bustle inherent to a European transport hub. Ordinarily, Brussels Airport would never have...
15 Jul 2020
Economic geographers are to set up a Smart Specialisation training programme
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Economic geographers Andrea Morrison and Ron Boschma have received a Horizon2020 grant to set up an Innovative Training Network...
