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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 7h

The @MayorofLondon is seeking fresh minds for the Young Professionals Panel—a rare chance to shape the city’s future.
Ideal for LSE LED, RUPS & IP wonks with skin in the game.
If you want to help improve #London, find out more and apply here:
www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

The Mayor's Young Professionals Panel

The next generation of infrastructure leaders supporting and informing the Mayor of London’s work on infrastructure

www.london.gov.uk

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 1d

#Brussels can’t roll out innovation like it does broadband.
According to Mehmet Pinar & Burhan Can Karahasan in Technology in Society, #innovation rewards regions already primed but bites in vulnerable areas. The North/West soar, the South/East stall.
doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

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

Competitiveness thrives on cohesion, not concentration.
My brand new article in @regionalstudies.bsky.social makes the case for unlocking #Europe’s full potential, wherever it can be found, as #cohesion is the foundation of #competitivenes, not its antithesis.
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 3d

#Czechia re-elects #Babiš. The map tells the tale: #Prague holds out, towns & rural areas—where status, jobs & faith have faded—swing.
Brussels should invest in the places time forgot or brace for irrelevance.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 4d

To hollow out #cohesion is to erode the #EU’s credibility from within.
In my brand new @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper, I argue that #Europe’s competitiveness and very viability depends less on emulating competitors and more on exploiting our latent potential.
DOI: doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5d

#Maps are the essence of #geography. Designed poorly, they silence data; designed well, they communicate powerfully and attract lots of attention.
Read @jakobeder.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social blog on why graphicacy matters:
www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Putting Graphicacy Back into Geography: Why it Matters How We Design Maps for Science Communication - RSA Main

Tools play a crucial role in research and the visual representation of regions. In this piece by Dr Jakob Eder, we explore mapping (graphicacy) and discuss its application and potential improvements f...

www.regionalstudies.org

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 7d

Economists, unlike pop stars, seldom chart. Geographers only chart maps😀.
But I've slipped in at No.11 on @Favikon_ UK list; proof that algorithms reward the inexplicable.
A fleeting honour, but a reminder: #economics matters most when it speaks to place.
www.favikon.com/blog/top-eco...

Top 20 Economists in the UK in 2025 - Favikon

Top 20 Economists in the UK in 2025, recognized for redefining economic thought and shaping the future of policy, finance, and innovation.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 9d

Innovation in #Europe’s periphery is less about #patents than practice. Progress comes from #firms that improvise, adapt, and share know-how in #networks of #trust as shown by Christoph Friedrich & Rolf Sternberg in their new Regional Science Policy & Practice article: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 10d

The LSE MSc in Regional and Urban Planning has shaped generations of planners.
Now it seeks new blood and new ideas: an Assistant and Associate Professor to guide the future of #urban and #regional #planning.
Ambition and scholarship required.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT477/a...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 12d

#Canada’s prosperity has blind spots. Whole areas of the country are rendered invisible by a politics that ignores place.
Sleeth, Riva, @kmanaugh.bsky.social & Breau show in Growth and Change how #deprivation accumulates in Canada´s forgotten rural, northern & suburban areas.
doi.org/10.1111/grow...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 13d

The myth of an EU-hating #countryside may be overstated.
Research by @pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @leoazzollini.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Jeannet in @electoralstudies.bsky.social shows that #EU structural funds investment has nurtured trust in the Union across #Europe's rural areas
doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 16d

PhD fellowship in #Innovaton and #Regional Studies at @unistavanger.bsky.social. Study the #Green Transition and its implications. Join RENOVATE, where true intellectual calibre meets genuine collegiality and warmth.
Deadline for applications: 16 Oct.
Full info: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Fellowship in Innovation and Regional Studies (285983) | University of Stavanger

Job title: PhD Fellowship in Innovation and Regional Studies (285983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, October 16, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 21d

The geography of #decarbonisation is uneven: vulnerability clusters, preparedness is patchy, responsiveness varies. @sbaumgartinger.bsky.social, @balazspager.bsky.social & @michaelatrippl.bsky.social address these contrasts in CEE in their new Economic Geography paper. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 22d

Regional #convergence in #Europe is not a single queue but a set of clubs. @kamilaborsekova.bsky.social, @Samuel Korony & Martin Kahanec, writing in @economyandspace.bsky.social, show labour markets —not #GDP per head— as the truer lens. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 24d

#Cohesion policy is #Europe’s glue, binding regions and citizens to an idea. To fold it into national plans is less reform than nationalisation in disguise. It is like pouring solvent on fragile trust
My @feps-europe.eu Progressive Post article: feps-europe.eu/cohesion-nee... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

Cohesion needs reform, not nationalisation - Foundation for European Progressive Studies

The EU’s proposed budget overhaul risks turning Cohesion Policy from a shared, democratic development tool […]

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 26d

💰 🇪🇺The #MFF is not just a question of figures, but of methodology & criteria,

This week's ProgPost dossier analyses the MFF's potential negative impact on the EU's #CohesionPolicy & #JustTransition.

🖊️ Kata Tutto @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social & Olivier Vardakoulias

🗞️ feps-europe.eu/dossier/the-...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 25d

The Nordic ideal of territorial #equality falters where it matters. As Lehtonen et al show in the Journal of Rural Studies, #Finland's public #investment props up #cities, while peripheries are pacified by subsidies.
A politics of neglect in plain sight.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 26d

Tourism does not follow the map; it redraws it.
In "Economic Geography of Tourism", João Romão reframes #tourism as a force shaping economic space, not merely inhabiting it.
Destinations inherit their pasts, but futures can still be forged anew.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 28d

Financial gravity is not fate or destiny: #Bilbao’s refusal to become a financial colony is captured by Gil de San Vicente & @jamierwilson.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social, who show how institution-building can let #regions defy the pull of #capital.
doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Effects and responses of peripheral regions to financialization: Exploring an extension of the cluster approach - Ibon Gil de San Vicente, James R Wilson, 2025

This article examines the implications and potential responses to financialization in peripheral regions, aiming to impact and boost the economic development of...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 29d

Truly honoured & grateful to receive the Sir Peter Hall Award from @regstud.bsky.social-
Please watch the online ceremony here:
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...
Many thanks to the RSA and all who make its intellectual community such a rare and generous thing.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Sep 7

Leading newspapers are noticing my research. Discontent is on the rise. From rural Spain to east Germany, resistance grows. Policy is felt as imposition, not opportunity.
@elpais.com: elpais.com/economia/neg...
SZ: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/infr...
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Sep 6

LSE’s Cañada Blanch Centre is inviting applications for its Winter Term 2026 LSE-Miguel Dols Fellowship scheme.
Open to all ranks.
For those with bright ideas on #inequality, #climate or #democracy, among others, and aims to reshape global debates.
👉 www.lse.ac.uk/canada-blanc...

LSE-Miguel Dols Fellowship Winter term 2025-6

Call for Applications for the Winter term LSE-Miguel Dols Fellowship Scheme 2025-6

www.lse.ac.uk

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Sep 5

#EU Cohesion Policy: a bulwark for regional equity, is becoming, according to @fmolica.bsky.social, De Renzis. @bourdinseb.bsky.social in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, a stabiliser for national crises.
For them, #Cohesion Policy slips from development to national expedience.
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our study on political #extremism’s toll on #innovation has struck a nerve.
Coverage in F&L and @resprofnews.bsky.social shows that Europe is suffocating science at the ballot box.
doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/po...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · Sep 3

Financial inclusion is often imagined as a personal failing. It is not.
Alexandra Sandu & I show in EPA: Economy and Space that, in #CEE, local #trust & #geography outweigh financial literacy & national policies in determining who gets access to banking.
doi.org/10.1177/0308...

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