Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
@rodriguez-pose
Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
A #shrinking region can still be a good place to live and may not feel left behind. Gescher, Royer, Svynarets, Leibert & Lang make the case in the Journal of Rural Studies that regional #growth and regional #wellbeing are not the same thing. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...
#Europe’s political divide has an address: #education explains a small part of the widening #urban–#rural voting gap. @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social, @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @bramlancee.bsky.social show in @ejprjournal.bsky.social that where people live matters politically. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Which institutions make a place #green? Not the economic ones, but the political: rule of law and civic participation, while corruption barely registers. Pinate, @martidalmolin.bsky.social & Brandano show this across #Italy's regions in The Annals of Regional Science. doi.org/10.1007/s001...
#Governance cannot be an afterthought in #innovation policy. It must be embedded from the start. David A. Wolfe shows in @regionalstudies.bsky.social how collaborative governance and civic capital turn transformative ambitions into regional action. doi.org/10.1080/0034...
Public #investment does not revive every struggling place. Michele Mariani in Regional Science and Urban Economics finds #Italy’s Inner Areas Strategy boosted firm performance mostly in intermediate, well-governed places. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#Spain won the #WorldCup not by serving one superstar, but by making every player matter and not orbit around a star. #Development works the same way: dynamic #cities are vital, but not when the rest becomes a supporting cast. doi.org/10.1111/j.19... doi.org/10.1080/1742...
#Innovation pays dividends, but not always where the bill is paid. Cipollina & De Pascale show in their new Structural Change and Economic Dynamicsa paper that innovation gains often spill across regional borders, creating bigger gains next door than at home. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
Regional development has two clocks: jobs #stabilise fast; #institutions, skills and decarbonisation take time. Canário Borrega, Peixe Rego & Rocha de Sousa show in PiRS that uniform policies can deepen regional divides. #Development must respond to place. doi.org/10.1016/j.pi...
#Institutions are not spare parts: regional reform must build on the institutional system in place. In @regionalstudies.bsky.social, @ronboschma.bsky.social shows that Innovation, missions and the green transition depend on the rules, norms and trust already in place. space”. doi.org/10.1080/0034...
Europe will converge between countries but diverge within them. Caragliu & Dellisanti show in their new Regional Science Policy & Practice paper that integration boosts growth but concentrates its gains in #large cities. Regional #inequality is made but can be reshaped. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
Geography shapes discontent without fully explaining it. Refisch, Bernard, Kostelecký & @andreasklaerner.bsky.social find in RSPP that disadvantage explains only a modest share of voting in #Czechia & East #Germany. Some individual factors may matter more. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
#Europe cannot patent its way out of the carbon trap. Imandojemu, Orole and Chukwuka argue in Sustainable Development that #green #innovation only breaks fossil inertia when paired with deep industrial restructuring and capital renewal. doi.org/10.1002/sd.7...
Capital travels easily. Institutional competence does not. David A Wolfe, writing in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, argues that lasting renewal & #development rests on shared strategy, trusted intermediaries and habits of cooperation. doi.org/10.1080/0034...
Economic maps are never innocent. Ding & Sun show in Growth and Change that, in #China, city rank is not ceremonial. It shapes #productivity by steering capital, investment and #talent. #Markets may choose places, but states often choose first. doi.org/10.1111/grow...
Industrial policy is back. Yet pouring capital into weak institutional settings is a triumph of hope over experience. In my SERIEs paper, I argue that the returns on state-led development hinge entirely on #government quality. Money cannot buy competence. doi.org/10.1007/s132...
Growth can soften inequality; inequality can blunt growth. As Wajid Ali, Cristina Brasili and Pinuccia Calia show in European Planning Studies, in Italy, #inequality is not just the residue of weak #growth; it is one of its causes. doi.org/10.1080/0965...
#Competitiveness is less about ideology than allocation. It is decided not in summit declarations but in factories, labs, data centres & balance sheets. The new McKinsey Global Institute report shows that whoever grasps it first will write the next economy's rules. www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-rese...
Regional futures are not relics of the past. They are political projects, made through voice, memory and choice. Farooq & @suyashjolly.bsky.social show in their new @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social paper why studying escape from #development traps matters as much as explaining lock-in. doi.org/10.1080/2168...
Regional #decline does not happen with a bang, but with the lost pharmacy, the closed school, the abandoned bus line. While #development policy is too often dazzled by tech clusters, Varavallo, Barbera & @riccardodiclemente.com show how basic services matter. doi.org/10.1016/j.se...
A true #CircularEconomy cannot be built by decree. It requires rules that bite and local #trust. A new European Economic Review article by @dbuyukyazici.bsky.social, Brossard & @ronboschma.bsky.social reveals that regional #institutions form the base of a sustainable future. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
#Italy's territorial divide goes well beyond the traditional North/South gap. The eight territorial types mapped by Pasquale Pavone in Social Indicators Research show that #productivity is no northern monopoly and economic fragility no southern inheritance. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
#Industrial policy has returned in fine clothes: green missions, digital transitions. However, as I argue in SERIEs, whether it works will not depend on money alone. A successful policy requires effective institutions. Otherwise, grand ambitions will fail. doi.org/10.1007/s132...
Europe cannot compete by chasing America's #AI, China's #batteries or Taiwan's #chips. Its strength lies in transforming what it already has. In GC&RS, Bartalucci & I argue that chasing ghosts abroad is both inefficient & a stress test of the #EU's legitimacy doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
Industrial policy is back, greener and better funded. In my new article in SERIEs, I argue that its fate turns less on bold spending than on solid #institutions and #governance. Poor governance quality will make any grand #strategy a leaky bucket. doi.org/10.1007/s132...
The Brexit vote is ten today. #Brexit was the revenge of voters tired of being told they had no future in the places they live in. Future Brexits can be preventing by not to scolding voters as "deplorables" and reviving their regions through #development. doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
Economic geography ignores ordinary places for the glamour of superstar cities. In @proghumgeog.bsky.social, @howard-hw.bsky.social, Bathelt & @maxbuchholz.bsky.social show how many #cities in the #USA have boomed but also how breakthroughs built on fossil #fuels are fragile. doi.org/10.1177/0309...
The best #innovation policy may be a court that works. Agostino, Nifo, Ruberto, Scalera & Trivieri show in Eurasian Business Review that rule of law helps firms innovate at home and dulls the premium of internationalisation. doi.org/10.1007/s408...