Excursion to the salt flats in Cagliari together with the #SummerCollege RSA Europe

Estimating regional knowledge production function based on the notion of recombinant innovation requires related variety measures that capture recombination of knowledge explicitly New WP with Josef Taalbi in PEEG series peeg.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/20-…

Fresh from the press. The article together with Kadri Kuusk Dynamic Nature of Relatedness, or What Kind of Related Variety for Long‐Term Regional Growth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New online-tool that presents basic parameters of Swedish regional development over 1990-2016

Which regions outperform growth expectations, and which regions underachieve? Can they help us look inside the black box of regional growth? New #openaccess paper out now in Journal of Geographical Systems with @M_Grillitsch Mikhail Martynovich and @s_haus_reve link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interested in starting a research career at one of the best #humangeography departments in the Nordics? Lund University is #hiring up to 4 new #PhDcandidates #jobopening #PhDposition lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

A powerful insight from a well-known scholar on how not having a "right" academic background may be detrimental for young scholars in #economics

Come join us to talk about #agency in #regionaldevelopment

Even being in half-vacation mode, I couldn't deny myself a pleasure to visit a doctoral dissertation seminar at my home city. Listening about technological process of copper production in my home region

One thing I’ve noticed since I moved to Toulouse, is that I use social media way less. But I am not alone. Look at these pictures I took near my house. How many phones do you see? My hypothesis is that the virtual space may be a substitute for bad urban spaces, not good ones.

Cool employment op at Nordregio for recent graduates in #GIS, #geoinformarics, #geography or similar Junior Cartographer GIS Analyst norden.org/en/vacancy/jun… via Nordisk Samarbejde

Happy to join CIRCLE. Looking forward for fruitful collaborations and future research projects

New in #EuropeanPlanningStudies. Josef Taalbi and I engage with what is ‘related’ in #relatedvariety. We show that #relatedness should encompass indirect industry links and account for link dynamics to explain regional #innovation patterns over time tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#foundationaleconomy is resilient to economic downturns, but is it a silver lining for regional economies in #crisis? Teis Hansen, Karl-Johan Lundquist and I address this question in a new paper just published in the Journal of Economic Geography academic.oup.com/joeg/advance-a…

Up to 6 #professor positions in #humangeography at Lund University. Come work with us

Check this out! We study whether co-location with foreign-owned MNEs is beneficial for start-ups. In a nutshell: (1) yes, when start-ups and MNEs are in related sectors, and no, when they are in the same sector; (2) not for young start-ups, but it gets better as start-ups age