Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
London, United Kingdom
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Economic isolation sometimes has excellent timing but is never a sound #development strategy.
Duran, Faggian, Michelangeli & Tkach find in Applied Geography that places left behind suffered a smaller #COVID economic hit but a weaker first-year rebound.
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Green #innovation needs deeper roots than a leaf on the logo. Colozza & Lelli, in Technological Forecasting & Social Change, link #green tech entry to existing regional capabilities & find an inverted U-shaped link between related capabilities & tech entry
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European inventors made 21,245 never-before-seen technology combinations between 1987 and 2017. Fewer than four in ten were reused. Ocampo-Corrales & Moreno show in @econgeog that survival depends, above all, on the region where the #invention is born.
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#Berlin's mainstream collapsed amid dynamism; #MecklenburgVorpommern's amid decline. There, where the #CDU governed until 2021, it polled 4.9%.
Same verdict, opposite causes.
Mainstream parties call this a communications problem. It isn't. It is #geography & political #neglect.
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In the global competitiveness game, Europe holds cards its competitors envy. But it constantly talks itself into folding.
@DijkstraLewis & I argue in @RSPP_RSAI that #competitiveness always begins with playing our own hand well.
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#Ukraine’s post-war recovery needs more than a well-written plan.
@f_bartalucci’s @wiiw_ac_at paper with @ULEADwithEurope explains why local authority, skills & funding must turn strategy into delivery, particularly in the weaker communities of the country
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Sweden’s far right lost votes. Its geography barely moved. The correlation with the 2022 #Sweden Democrats vote is 0.98.
So, the problem remains and the task now is to rebuild opportunity in places where confidence in the future has eroded.
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When skills exceed opportunities, the life prospects of individuals do not improve.
@tomazdentinho, Valiev, Valieva, Iskakova & Shaikin show in APJRS that, among 1,250 North #Kazakhstan graduates, #English proficiency did not lead to improvements in jobs.
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#Ukraine must rebuild more than roads and power grids. It must rebuild local capacity and trust.
My new paper for the @ULEADwithEurope #decentralisation #reform project puts local capacity at the heart of reconstruction and #EU accession.
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In the #competitiveness game, #Europe holds good cards. The danger is playing someone else’s hand.
With @DijkstraLewis in @RSPP_RSAI, we argue that, rather than chase #US & #China shadows, Europe must build on its strengths and strategic chokepoints.
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A place should not have to become somewhere else to deserve a future and to prosper. @grete_rural & @fiorentino_stef, writing in @RegionalStudies, argue that prescribing metropolitan #growth to every type of region mistakes one model for a universal cure.
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Europe’s #competitiveness depends on the potential of all its regions.
@CuadradoRoura's new review in @JRR_InvRegs shows why #CohesionPolicy matters and why #Europe needs #investment that improves the prospects of all its citizens, wherever they live.
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Sunday’s #AfD victory makes the politics of struggling places harder to ignore.
@GJWestenberger in @ActaPolitica finds, however, that frustration has more than one electoral outlet, with stronger #SPD support in places failing to secure better-paid #jobs.
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Saxony-Anhalt lost a quarter of its people. Yet turnout rose from 60.3% to 77.8%, and the #AfD more than doubled its vote share to 43.8%, three seats short of a majority.
Political neglect carries a hefty price. Increasingly, the bill arrives at the ballot box.
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Economic convergence may be #health policy by another name.
Bayerlein shows in @SpatialEconomic that #EU regions which actually converged saw far smaller #mortality increases during #COVID-19.
Funding alone did little; development did the work.
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Investing in places means, above all, investing in their institutions. Scotti, @CC_caporali & @d_t_luca show in @JRS83202671 how good #institutions make public money go further.
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A place can lack research labs and still possess ingenuity. Kagel, Sternberg and @christopher32 explore everyday #SME learning and how #innovation happens in lagging behind regions in their new paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
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Politicians can cut the ribbon on a research centre. However, without impartial government, it may never fulfil its promise.
This is the main conclusion of Román Aso, Coca-Villalba & Bosch-Frigola in R&FS: Southern Europe’s R&D gap is an institutional gap.
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#Innovation in micro firms is not science or practice, but science with practice.
Martins Gonçalves & Laranja find in European Planning Studies that 56% of those micro #firms surveyed innovated, often by combining #STI and #DUI. doi.org/10.1080/09654313.202…
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