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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 2h

Governments that pass down responsibilities but keep the purse strings do not really devolve power. @pedroecongeog.bsky.social & @davidwglasgow.bsky.social explore the limits of #decentralisation in #England & #Portugal in @tesg-journal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Putting #bureaucracy online can simply give the queue a password. Coluccia, Cattivelli & Barbieri show in the Annals of Regional Science that institutional capacity has no download button. Digitalisation alone does not ensure better #EU fund management. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Brazilelections, final count: #Flávio #Bolsonaro 47.0%, #Lula 45.2%. Among states that lost ground, the rich (#SãoPaulo, #Rio) backed Flávio Bolsonaro; the poor backed Lula. Stalled prosperity, not poverty, drives #discontent. doi.org/10.31389/lse... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The EU’s #SRIP2026 is out and is a monster of a report—in the best sense: rigorous, well built and alive to challenges far beyond #innovation itself. Innovation is not the whole story, but Europe will solve very little without it. research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/knowledge-pu...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Administrative boundaries do not define #ecosystems. Fratesi & Vicari, writing in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social, trace ecosystems from actual firm ties. The policy sting: backing the #networks that work in #Italy may lift productivity but deepen regional divides. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A well-deserved 2026 Jim Lewis Prize🏆for MacKinnon, Kinossian, Pike, Béal, Lang, Rousseau & Tomaney. Their EURS paper asks the awkward question: how new is “new” spatial policy? They find that new labels carry older intellectual luggage. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GDP is a scoreline, not a match report. A region can win on output but lose on #housing, #health, trust or mobility. The key point for Ottaviani, L'Huillier & Argoud in @cjres.bsky.social is that what we measure shapes what policymakers see and in turn what they do. doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

European inventors made 21,245 never-before-seen technology combinations between 1987 and 2017. Fewer than four in ten were reused. Ocampo-Corrales & Moreno show in @econgeog-journal.bsky.social that survival depends, above all, on the region where the #invention is born. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Berlin's mainstream collapsed amid dynamism; #MecklenburgVorpommern's amid decline. There, the #CDU polled a pitiful 4.9%. Same verdict, opposite causes. Mainstream parties call this a communications problem. It isn't. It is #geography & political #neglect. www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the global competitiveness game, #Europe holds cards its competitors envy. But it constantly talks itself into folding. @DijkstraLewis & I argue in @RSPP_RSAI that #competitiveness always begins with playing our own hand well. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#Ukraine’s post-war recovery needs more than a well-written plan. Federico Bartalucci’s @wiiw.ac.at paper with @U-LEAD with #Europe explains why local authority, skills & funding must turn strategy into delivery, particularly in the weaker communities of the country u-lead.org.ua/en/media?tab...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sweden’s far right lost votes. Its geography barely moved. The correlation with the 2022 #Sweden Democrats vote is 0.98. So, the problem remains and the task now is to rebuild opportunity in places where confidence in the future has eroded. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When skills exceed opportunities, the life prospects of individuals do not improve. Dentinho, Valiev, Valieva, Iskakova & Shaikin show in APJRS that, among 1,250 North #Kazakhstan graduates, #English proficiency did not lead to improvements in jobs. doi.org/10.1007/s416...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Ukraine must rebuild more than roads and power grids. It must rebuild local capacity and trust. My new paper for the U-LEAD with Europe #decentralisation #reform project puts local capacity at the heart of reconstruction and #EU accession. u-lead.org.ua/en/media?tab...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the #competitiveness game, #Europe holds good cards. The danger is that it is playing someone else’s hand. With Dijkstra in Regional Science Policy & Practice, we argue that, rather than chase #US & #China shadows, Europe must build on its strengths & strategic chokeholds. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A place should not have to become somewhere else to deserve a future. @gretegans.bsky.social & @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social, writing in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, argue that prescribing metropolitan #growth to every region mistakes one model for a universal cure. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Europe’s #competitiveness depends on the potential of all its regions. Cuadrado-Roura's new review in the Journal of Regional Research shows why #CohesionPolicy matters and why #Europe needs #investment that improves the prospects of all its citizens, wherever they live. doi.org/10.38191/iir...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sunday’s #AfD victory makes the politics of struggling places harder to ignore. @gjwestenberger.bsky.social in @actapolitica.bsky.social finds, however, that frustration has more than one electoral outlet, with stronger #SPD support in places failing to secure better #jobs. doi.org/10.1057/s412...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Saxony-Anhalt lost a quarter of its people. Yet turnout rose from 60.3% to 77.8%, and the #AfD more than doubled its vote share to 43.8%, three seats short of a majority. Political neglect carries a hefty price. And, increasingly, the bill arrives at the ballot box. #SachsenAnhalt

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Economic convergence may be #health policy by another name. Bayerlein shows in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social that #EU regions which actually converged saw far smaller #mortality increases during #COVID-19. Funding alone did little; development did the work. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Investing in places means, above all, investing in their institutions. Scotti, Caporali & @d-luca.bsky.social show in the Journal of Regional Science how good #institutions make public money go further. doi.org/10.1111/jors...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A place can lack research labs and still possess ingenuity. Kagel, Sternberg and Friedrich explore everyday #SME learning and how #innovation happens in lagging behind regions in their new paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Politicians can cut the ribbon on a #research centre. However, without impartial #government, it may never fulfil its promise. This is the main conclusion reached by Román Aso, Coca-Villalba & Bosch-Frigola in R&FS: Southern Europe’s #R&D gap is also an institutional gap. doi.org/10.1080/1359...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#Innovation in micro firms is not science or practice, but science with practice. Martins Gonçalves & Laranja find in European Planning Studies that 56% of those micro #firms surveyed innovated, often by combining #STI and #DUI. doi.org/10.1080/0965...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#Iceland’s No has a stark #geography: #Reykjavík voted Yes; every other constituency voted No. Recent #growth cannot explain the divide. The longer story —demographic decline, centralisation and lost local control— fits far better. doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Delighted that my great friend —and scholar of the highest rank— André Torre has won the 2026 ERSA Prize. His work on #proximity, knowledge diffusion and #innovation has transformed #RegionalScience. His wonderful #ERSA2026 keynote in #Sofia kept us thinking. Thoroughly earned and celebrated.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A few immensely rewarding days at #ERSA2026 have come to an end: thought-provoking papers and keynotes, inspiring young scholars, flawless organisation, and, above all, enormous fun. #Sofia won me over. Warmest thanks to ERSA & Kosyo Stoychev. Roll on #ERSA2027 in #Milan!

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

America’s middle has not merely been squeezed; it has been physically separated from the highly skilled. Frigon & Storper show in JoEG how #America is sorting itself apart, with high- and low-skilled sharing major #cities & the middle moving elsewhere. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

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Going separate ways: spatial sorting by education, work, and real income in the USA since 1970

Abstract. Advanced economies have undergone enormous structural change in work, income distribution, and the skills of the working population over the past

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Social #innovation follows the geography of relationships, not patents. Berti Mecocci, Dellisanti & Maghssudipour show in @regionalstudies.bsky.social that density matters. And that public funding matters most where #density is low. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How a region joins a global value chain decides who gets rich from it. @martinapardy.bsky.social & @eduherro.bsky.social find in their new ARS paper that, in #Europe, forward participation in #GVCs, swells #incomes at the very top while backward participation does not. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Europe’s #cities keep spreading even when their populations don't. Alexandra Sandu shows in @urbanstudiesjournal.com that 44.2% of European cities have expanded beyond what their demographic paths predicted. #Population decline no longer guarantees less urban #growth. doi.org/10.1177/0042...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#Europe cannot choose between #competitiveness and #cohesion. Casas, Christou, @abigarrod.bsky.social, Lazarou, Lecca, Monfort & Salotti show in @jcms-eu.bsky.social that while mission-led funding raises long-run GDP, place-based funding creates more than twice as many #jobs. doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

China’s innovation has two engines but one destination: STI and DUI both drive new products, not business-process #innovation. Parrilli & Lu show in JEE that, although #China excels at inventing products, it struggles at modernising how firms work. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Italy’s map of disadvantage is widening. Begantino, Caravaggio, Intini & Resce count 4,608 municipalities losing access to #schools, #hospitals & transport in 2025 in their new Review of Political Economy article. The Italian state is spending, but still receding. doi.org/10.1080/0953...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Washington Consensus treated policy like scripture. Besley & Velasco offer in @globalpolicy.bsky.social a more adult #economics for a more volatile age. #Growth matters, but so do place, dignity, resilience, politics and state capacity. People do not live in a vacuum. doi.org/10.1111/1758...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Europe's #circular transition is expected to create 700,000 new #jobs. But, according to Fantechi & Mazzola in European Urban and Regional Studies, these jobs will not be created in places where jobs are lost, but in regions that have little tradition of circular activity. doi.org/10.1177/0969...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As #Europe pivots to competitiveness & security, effective #green spending matters more, not less. Yet, as Aliana, Balaguer-Coll, Prior & Tortosa-Ausina show, #EU regions converge in eco-productivity once national and regional government quality is recognised. doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Urban and rural #Europe are drifting into different political worlds, making national #elections feel less national. Pautonnie, @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Nadeau document in Party Politics how the urban–rural electoral divide is widening across the continent. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Regions escape decline when local actors have the capacity to build a new path, as Frick, McCann & Collier show how in RSRS. @andyburnham.bsky.social's #devolution is a live test. It will work only if authority arrives with finance and institutional capacity. doi.org/10.1080/2168...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

An integrated #Europe grows faster but big #cities gain most. In a new JoEG paper, Capello, @Caragliu & Dellisanti show why fragmentation delivers weaker growth and an illusion of greater #equality. Europe needs integration with territorial #cohesion doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#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...

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