Part of the project results will be presented at REDETE conference in October 2023 - “ECONOMIC REJUVENATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND GOVERNMENT IN TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS: THE VIEW FROM THE PERIPHERY”, which will be organized in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The aim of the 10th REDETE Conference is to encourage researchers, practitioners and policy makers to contribute to our understanding of the challenges faced by countries and regions in the periphery. "The world is in turmoil. The war in Ukraine set Russia against all NATO powers, disrupting global supply chains and scrapping plans for sustainable development across the world. Russia, effectively, stopped supplying oil and gas to the EU and the EU turned to American LNG, a monumental project as it requires an entirely new infrastructure still to be built. In 2022, the USA produced two bills, the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips & Science Act, which are deeply protectionist and against WTO rules aiming at bringing the semi-conductor and high-tech industry back to the USA. European industry is in disarray. Germany’s BASF, the largest chemical industry in the world, hit by the sanctions against Russia downsized and moved to China. In this global and European context, what are the views coming from the periphery? What are the prospects for sustainable entrepreneurship and economic rejuvenation in the Balkans? Is membership of the EU something to aspire to? Will the protectionist measures of the USA affect decision-makers in other countries to do the same?"

Topics of interest include:

• Economic development: public policy and welfare state regimes in the region; integration and social tolerance; sustainable economic development and public policy models.
• Regional development: clustering and networking; interfirm relations; regional innovation ecosystems; foreign direct investments; role of banks and financial markets; role of infrastructure.
• Entrepreneurship and innovation: new firm formation and firm dynamics; university-industry collaboration; academic entrepreneurship; innovation in transition economies; entrepreneurial and SMEs financing.
• Social development: population dynamics; social policies, poverty and exclusion; legal systems, corruption and inequality.
• International trade: regional economic integrations, international trade institutions/the role of the GATT and the WTO, supply chains, protectionism.
• Migration: migrant and refugee crises; migrant socio-economic integration; brain drain; remittances; return migration; migrant entrepreneurship; migration policies.
• Political economy and governance: current trends and issues including corruption of different forms.

CEP project coordinator, prof. Danijela Jacimovic will present a paper "THE IMPACT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WESTERN BALKANS AND FASTER ROAD TO EUROPEAN UNION".

You can read the abstract HERE.