The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains
(GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so …

Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal
issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development …

Different strands of literature have provided important insights into the economic effects of
high-skilled migration. Evolutionary economic approaches have provided robust evidence …

Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal
issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development …

The term 'intellectual migration'initially referred to the exodus of European scientists and
other professionals to the US in the first half of the twentieth century. Academic and policy …

How do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process?
This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of …

The capability framework in evolutionary economic geography views regional economic
development as a process of related diversification through the acquisition of capabilities …

Innovation is an important driver of potential growth but quantitative evidence on the
dynamics of innovative activities in the long-run are hardly documented due to the lack of …

Leveraging the discrete skill and knowledge worker requirements of each occupation
provided by O* NET, our empirical approach employs network-based tools from the …

In view of the undisputed promising effects of regional clusters and spurred by lighthouse
examples such as Silicon Valley, cluster policies have been popular in many countries …