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Large cities lose their growth advantage as countries urbanize
Andrea Musso, Diego Rybski, Dirk Helbing +1
The share of the world population living in cities with more than one million people rose from 11% in 1975 to 24% in 2025 (our estimates). Will this trend towards greater concentra…
Synthesis of innovation and obsolescence
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Manfred D. Laubichler +14
Innovation and obsolescence describe the dynamics of ever-churning social and biological systems, from the development of economic markets to scientific and technological progress…
Green building blocks reveal the complex anatomy of climate change mitigation technologies
Yang Li, Frank Neffke
Achieving net-zero emissions requires rapid innovation, yet the necessary technological knowhow is scattered across industries and countries. Comparing functionally similar green a…
Skill dependencies uncover nested human capital
Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang +1
Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nest…
Information consumption and size in firms
Edward D. Lee, Alan P. Kwan, Rudolf Hanel +2
Social and biological collectives need to exchange information to persist and to function. This happens across internal networks, whose structure represents static channels through…
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy
Yang Li, Frank Neffke
A growing body of research documents that the size and growth of an industry in a place depends on how much related activity is found there. This fact is commonly referred to as th…
Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change
James McNerney, Yang Li, Andres Gomez-Lievano +1
Economic transformation -- change in what an economy produces -- is foundational to development and rising standards of living. Our understanding of this process has been propelled…