A5012728120- Regional resilience and development
- Regional Development and Policy
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Economic and Technological Innovation
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Innovation Policy and R&D
United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility
2025
Mère et Enfant en Milieu Tropical
2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
Utrecht University
2018-2022
Center for Innovation
2018-2019
University of Lisbon
2018
There is ample evidence of regions diversifying in new occupations that are related to pre-existing activities the region. However, it still poorly understood through which mechanisms diversification operates. To unpack relatedness, we distinguish between three mechanisms: complementarity (interdependent tasks), similarity (sharing similar skills) and local synergy (based on pure co-location). We propose a measure for each these relatedness dimensions assess their impact evolution...
Urban economies are composed of diverse activities, embodied in labor occupations, which depend on one another to produce goods and services. Yet little is known about how the nature intensity these interdependences change as cities increase population size economic complexity. Understanding relationship between occupational interdependencies number occupations defining an urban economy relevant because interdependence within a networked system has implications for resilience easily can...
Public support to firm-level investments in innovation is one of the main mechanisms through which European Union promotes socioeconomic convergence among regions and creation quality jobs considered a necessary condition for disadvantaged regional economies. This paper exploits availability natural experiment conditions linked employer-employee microdata Portugal offer empirical evidence on impact relevant job-quality outcomes large EU-cohesion-policy program SMEs' investments. The analysis...