Koen Frenken

Research interests

Publications

• A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem–solution space

  Science and Public Policy · 2020 · 10.1093/scipol/scaa027

• The Principle of Relatedness

  Springer proceedings in complexity · 2018 · 10.1007/978-3-319-96661-8_46

• Political economies and environmental futures for the sharing economy

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0367

• Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies

  Regional Studies · 2017 · 10.1080/00343404.2016.1258460

• Putting the sharing economy into perspective

  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2017.01.003

• Related variety and economic development: a literature review

  European Planning Studies · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1246517

• Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting

  Regional Studies · 2014 · 10.1080/00343404.2014.940305

• Proximity and Innovation: From Statics to Dynamics

  Regional Studies · 2014 · 10.1080/00343404.2014.883598

• The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography

  Journal of Economic Geography · 2011 · 10.1093/jeg/lbq053

• Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory

  Hydrology and earth system sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1863-2010

• Research collaboration at a distance: Changing spatial patterns of scientific collaboration within Europe

  Research Policy · 2010 · 10.1016/j.respol.2010.01.012

• The Spatial Evolution of Innovation Networks: A Proximity Perspective

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2010 · 10.4337/9781849806497.00012

• Some Notes on Institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography

  Economic Geography · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01018.x

• The New Argonauts. Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

  Regional Studies · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400903132601

• Innovation, spillovers and university-industry collaboration: an extended knowledge production function approach

  Journal of Economic Geography · 2009 · 10.1093/jeg/lbp036

• Spatial scientometrics: Towards a cumulative research program

  Journal of Informetrics · 2009 · 10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.005

• Technological relatedness and regional branching

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2009

• The geography of collaborative knowledge production in Europe

  The Annals of Regional Science · 2008 · 10.1007/s00168-008-0252-9

• Export variety and the economic performance of countries

  Journal of Evolutionary Economics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-007-0081-5

• Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Regional Economic Growth

  Regional Studies · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400601120296

• A theoretical framework for evolutionary economic geography: industrial dynamics and urban growth as a branching process

  Journal of Economic Geography · 2007 · 10.1093/jeg/lbm018

• The geographical and institutional proximity of research collaboration

  Papers of the Regional Science Association · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2007.00126.x

• Toward a systematic framework for research on dominant designs, technological innovations, and industrial change

  Research Policy · 2006 · 10.1016/j.respol.2006.04.011

• Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography

  Journal of Economic Geography · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbi022

• A complexity approach to innovation networks. The case of the aircraft industry (1909–1997)

  Research Policy · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0048-7333(99)00064-5

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