{"id":3239,"date":"2025-11-19T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/oratie-mark-thissen-macht-en-fragmentatie-in-regionale-productieketens-van-just-in-time-naar-just-in-case\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:33:27","slug":"oratie-mark-thissen-macht-en-fragmentatie-in-regionale-productieketens-van-just-in-time-naar-just-in-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/oratie-mark-thissen-macht-en-fragmentatie-in-regionale-productieketens-van-just-in-time-naar-just-in-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural lecture Mark Thissen: Global political and economic shifts are boosting the need for region-specific policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 27 November 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/en\/persons\/mark-thissen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Thissen<\/a> delivered his inaugural lecture. In his lecture, titled &#8216;Macht en fragmentatie in regionale productieketens: van just-in-time naar just-in-case&#8217; (<em>Power and Fragmentation in Regional Production Chains: From Just-in-Time to Just-in-Case)<\/em> he argued that political and economic changes around the world are increasing the importance of region-specific policies &#8211; and, consequently, of spatial economic research. In addition to being Endowed Professor of Spatial Networks and Economic Development in the Department of Spatial Economics, Mark also works as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbl.nl\/en\/about-pbl\/employees\/mark-thissen\">researcher at the PBL<\/a> (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/en\/publications\/macht-in-gefragmenteerde-regionale-productieketens-van-just-in-ti\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/en\/publications\/macht-in-gefragmenteerde-regionale-productieketens-van-just-in-ti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read inaugural lecture (in Dutch) >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.vu.nl\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/447032544\/Inaugurele_rede_PRESENTATIE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read presentation (in Dutch) >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3252\" src=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARKTHISSEN-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARKTHISSEN-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARKTHISSEN-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARKTHISSEN-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARKTHISSEN-scaled.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"790\" data-id=\"3251\" src=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mark3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mark3.png 780w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mark3-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mark3-768x778.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3253\" src=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MARK2.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 November 2025, Mark Thissen delivered his inaugural lecture. In his lecture, titled &#8216;Macht en fragmentatie in regionale productieketens: van just-in-time naar just-in-case&#8217; (Power and Fragmentation in Regional Production Chains: From Just-in-Time to Just-in-Case) he argued that political and economic changes around the world are increasing the importance of region-specific policies &#8211; and, consequently,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spatialeconomics.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}