CSH Webtalk by Zoltán Elekes & Gergő Tóth: “Technology network structure conditions the economic resilience of regions”
Nov 27, 2020 | 15:00—16:00
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Zoltán Elekes and Gergő Tóth will present an online talk within the seminar “Analysis of Complex Systems” on Friday, Nov 27, 2020 via Zoom.
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Title: Technology network structure conditions the economic resilience of regions
Abstract:
The paper that Zoltán Elekes and Gergő Tóth will present assesses the network robustness of the technological capability base of 269 European metropolitan areas against the potential elimination of some of their capabilities. By doing so it provides systematic evidence on how network robustness conditioned the economic resilience of these regions in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. The analysis concerns calls in the relevant literature for more in-depth analysis on the link between regional economic network structures and the resilience of regions to economic shocks.
By adopting a network science approach that is novel to economic geographic inquiry, the objective is to stress-test the technological resilience of regions by utilizing information on the co-classification of CPC classes listed on European Patent Office patent documents.
Findings from a regression analysis indicate that metropolitan regions with a more robust technological knowledge network structure exhibit higher levels of resilience with respect to changes in employment rates. This finding is robust to various random and targeted elimination strategies concerning the most frequently combined technological capabilities. Regions with high levels of employment in industry but with vulnerable technological capability base are particularly challenged by this aspect of regional economic resilience.
About:
Zoltán Elekes is a research fellow at the Agglomeration and Social Networks Research Lab (ANET-Lab), an interdisciplinary research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a senior research assistant at the Department of Geography at Umeå University (Sweden).
Gergő Tóth is a PhD candidate at the Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin (Ireland), and a junior researcher at ANET-Lab.
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