Economic complexity methods have become popular tools in economic geography,
international development and innovation studies. Here, I review economic complexity …

In the past 15 years, statistical physics has been successful as a framework for modelling
complex networks. On the theoretical side, this approach has unveiled a variety of physical …

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

In recent years economic complexity has grown into an active field of fundamental and
applied research. Yet, despite important advances, the policy implications of economic …

The study of social, economic and biological systems is often (when not always) limited by
the partial information about the structure of the underlying networks. An example of …

Rising global temperatures and the increase in natural disasters in recent years have raised
concerns regarding the sustainability of economic activity. In this context, eco-innovation has …

Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling
technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how important these topics are over time …

The goal of the paper is to elaborate an empirical overview of green technological
development in European regions. This is a timely pursuit considering the ambitious …

This article examines how regions develop new innovation specializations, covering
different activities in the whole process from technological invention to commercialization …

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