• Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Regional capabilities are regarded a pillar of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3). There is yet little focus in S3 policy on the role of interregional linkages. This study on 292 NUTS-2 regions in Europe finds that ...
    • The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe 

      Pinheiro, Flavio L.; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert; Hartmann, Dominik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      As regions evolve, their economies become more complex, and they tend to diversify into related activities. Although there is a bright side to this diversification process in terms of economic development, there may also ...
    • Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles? 

      Rigby, David L.; Roesler, Christoph; Kogler, Dieter; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent ...
    • Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions? 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Do scientific capabilities in regions translate into technological leadership? This is one of the most pressing questions in academic and policy circles. This paper analyzes the matching of scientific and technological ...
    • Mapping the potentials of regions in Europe to contribute to new knowledge production in Industry 4.0 technologies 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04)
      This paper aims to identify the future Industry 4.0 technology (I4T) centres of knowledge production in Europe. We expect I4Ts to thrive in regions where they can draw on local capabilities in I4T-related technologies. We ...
    • Network dynamics in collaborative research in the EU, 2003– 2017 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert; Ravet, Julien (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07)
      A key objective of the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation is the creation of cross-country research networks. We make use of Social Network tools to describe the evolution of the EU research network across ...
    • The new paradigm of economic complexity 

      Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Broekel, Tom; Diodato, Dario; Giuliani, Elisa; Hausmann, Ricardo; O'Cleary, Neave; Rigby, David L (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development, technological change, income inequality, spatial ...
    • Technological diversification of U.S. cities during the great historical crises 

      Steijn, Mathieu P.A.; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert; Rigby, David L. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Regional resilience is high on the scientific and policy agenda. An essential feature of resilience is diversifying into new activities but little is known about whether major economic crises accelerate or decelerate ...
    • What drives the geography of jobs in the US? Unpacking relatedness 

      Farinha Fernandes, Teresa; Balland, Pierre-Alexandre; Morrison, Andrea; Boschma, Ronald Adalbert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04)
      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 mechanisms related diversification operates. ...