Thank you very much for attending the 8th edition of the Geography of Innovation Conference, it was a pleasure to have you all in Budapest!

In line with the seven previous editions of the conference, held in Saint Etienne (France) in 2012, Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2014, Toulouse (France) in 2016, in Barcelona (Spain) in 2018, in Stavanger (Norway) in 2020, in 2022 in Milan (Italy), and most recently in 2024 in Manchester (UK), the main objective of this event is to bring together some of the world’s leading scholars from a variety of disciplines ranging from economic geography and regional science, to economics and management science, sociology and network theory, and political and planning sciences.