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

The term tipping point has experienced explosive popularity across multiple disciplines over
the last decade. Research on social-ecological systems (SES) has contributed to the growth …

This study investigates how structural changes and economic activities impact on the
environment in Japan. Instead of using traditional economic and environmental factors, the …

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately
in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the …

The idea that skills, technology, and knowledge, are spatially concentrated, has a long
academic tradition. Yet, only recently this hypothesis has been empirically formalized and …

The propagations of diseases, behaviors and information in real systems are rarely
independent of each other, but they are coevolving with strong interactions. To uncover the …

Economic diversification—the process by which locations enter new economic activities—is
known to be a combination of related and unrelated diversification. Related diversification is …

Social and economic networks can be a channel of negative shocks and thus deteriorate
resilience and sustainability in societies. This study focuses on supply chains, or supplier …

The research agendas of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global value chains
(GVCs) have developed more or less independently from each other, with little interaction so …

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 …