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

Diversity has been thought to influence innovation and economic growth in many ways. The
mechanisms proposed as underlying these relationships interestingly operate at different …

There is a widely held belief that agglomeration economies encourage significantly more
successful and productive innovation activities. Based on this belief some scholars even …

Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper, we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to team production. We …

Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate
levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) plays an important role in the digital economy. Yet
although software production is amenable to remote collaboration and its outputs are digital …

Networks are powerful instruments to study complex phenomena, but they become hard to
analyze in data that contain noise. Network backbones provide a tool to extract the latent …

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

There is ample evidence of regions diversifying in new occupations that are related to pre-
existing activities in the region. However, it is still poorly understood through which …

Since heterogeneous knowledge resources are unevenly distributed across cities,
enterprises have gradually dispersed their activities to seek location-bound knowledge …