Dieter F Kogler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dieter F Kogler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dieter F |
| FAMILY NAME | Kogler |
| SIGNATURE | KOGLER D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6744-5632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bridging industry and technology: The spatial and sectoral embedded dynamics of green technology diversification
Green technology innovation is essential to addressing environmental degradation and climate change. Within the Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) paradigm, regional trajectories of technological specialization are known to drive green diversification, yet the underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. We introduce green technology embeddedness to capture the degree to which green technologies are integrated within a region's inno…
The geography of artificial intelligence in European regions: Innovation, exposure and use
This paper maps the geography of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, exposure and use across European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions using six complementary indicators. Findings reveal a spatial paradox: while AI exposure and worker-level use are relatively widespread, innovation and firm-level adoption remain concentrated in high gross domestic product (GDP), human capital-intensive hubs. A persistent implementation gap separates structural expo…
Creating path breakthroughs with skill endowment and complementarity: Evidence from the regional industrial evolution of China, 2000–2015
This study explores how skill endowments and complementarity influence industrial development trajectories, particularly those leading to path-breaking economic activities. By drawing on the multidimensional cross-relatedness approach of evolutionary economic geography (EEG), industry-occupation cross-relatedness networks were constructed for 264 Chinese prefecture-level cities on the basis of Chinese industry and occupation data, and subsequentl…
Mapping regional knowledge spaces via Bertopic and Bert similarity: The semantic proximity of quantum science in the overall scientific publication landscape
Rethinking regional development under the imperative of environmental and socio-economic sustainability
This editorial frames regional development under the imperative of environmental and social sustainability, arguing that competitiveness and sustainability must be pursued jointly through innovation that reshapes regional trajectories. It situates emerging policy approaches–Smart Specialisation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (S3+), and Partnerships for Regional Innovation (PRI)–and calls for challenge-oriented, experimental, and pla…
The symbolic value of megaprojects in urban and regional development
Identifying interdisciplinary emergence in the science of science: Combination of network analysis and Bertopic
Global scientific output is expanding exponentially, which in turn calls for a better understanding of the science of science and especially how the boundaries of scientific fields expand through processes of emergence. The present study proposes the application of embedded topic modeling techniques to identify new emerging science via knowledge recombination activities as evidenced through the analysis of research publication metadata. First, a …
New collaborations and novel innovations: The role of regional brokerage and collaboration intensity
In this paper, we investigate the role of brokers in the regional innovation network and its influence on innovative and collaborative outcomes. For this purpose, we make use of data from the European Patent Office and Eurostat in the period 1986–2015. We first build the regional collaboration network based on co-inventorship ties, and then we identify the brokerage roles played by each region, using the original taxonomy proposed by Gould and Fe…
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: How to bridge vision and reality
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are implemented across European regions. However, investigations into whether S3 initiatives adequately match local knowledge capabilities are very scarce. This work analyses to what extent S3 policies are coherent with the local knowledge space of 164 European regions, respectively. We show to what extent regional S3 policies target 'central' technologies, and to what degree S3 policies also target 'potential…
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography, EEG, paradigm, conceptual elements, ontology, development, policy, cities, regions
Inventors, firms and localities: Insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces
The present investigation aims to provide insights into the nexus between firms and localities that ultimately shapes the evolution of regional knowledge spaces. The ‘inventive footprint’ of firms, indicated by the spatial distribution of associated inventors across regional economic settings, provides the foundation to analyse whether firms’ external knowledge sourcing contributes to their own evolution, and by extension to their home region’s t…
Beer, brewing, and regional studies
Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification are rather limited, external knowledge that spills over from neighboring regions or from farther away might become an important driver of regional diversification. Despite the relative importance of interregional knowledge flows via collaborative work, …
The effects of regional capacity in knowledge recombination on production efficiency
Knowledge recombination, combining knowledge existing (exploitation) or new knowledge capacity (exploration) for creating knowledge collaboration, is one of the important ways of achieving innovation. However, little has known about how the knowledge recombination types affect differently to production efficiency at a regional level. This study explores the relationship between the knowledge recombination types of exploitation and exploration and…
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles
Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent mappings of technologies in terms of technological relatedness and complexity suggest a useful cost–benefit framework. We extend these ideas, locating European Union cities in a Smart Specialisation space and tracking their developme…
Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions
This article 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 betwee…
Identifying the technological knowledge depreciation rate using patent citation data: A case study of the solar photovoltaic industry
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions
Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in shaping regional economic performances during economic downturns. This article explores the relationship between a region’s technological profile and its resilience to exogenous shocks. To identify the determinants of regional economic resilience, we perform panel analyses of EU 15 NUTS II level data covering the years before an…
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: Implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies
With a sample of 268 European Union (EU) regions and multilevel modelling, we demonstrate that different technological diversification measures measured as coherence and entropy-variety have different non-linear effects on regional productivity growth. These non-linear effects work in opposite directions to each other. Our analysis shows that higher regional productivity returns can be found in regions investing both around their existing technol…
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: Long-term trends in turbulent times
The interplay between related and unrelated varieties and diversification processes as a driver of economic growth dominates contemporary discussions in the evolutionary economic geography (EEG) literature. This study provides further insights into these debates by exploring Poland, a nation of predominantly less developed regions, in the turbulent period between 1931 and 2000 which covers the Second World War and Communism. It is confirmed that …
Following the paper trail: The UK scientific and technological knowledge space and its reliance on international knowledge spillovers
Knowledge is an essential ingredient for economic development, growth and gaining a competitive advantage. In order to produce novel and valuable knowledge, it is advantageous, perhaps vital, to rely on insights gained from prior research efforts. Those knowledge spillovers (KS) provide the rationale for sustained economic growth and produce unique place-based knowledge spaces. Due to the spatial embeddedness and stickiness of knowledge, most inv…
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Mind the gap: Advancing evolutionary approaches to regional development with progressive empirical strategies
Explaining the persistently uneven spatial patterns of development remains a central goal of economic geography and regional science. Recognizing that regional development is a process of ongoing change, many scholars now approach the topic from an evolutionary perspective that identifies knowledge recombination processes and institutions as key drivers of change. However, research has not yet fully integrated the various theoretical perspectives…
OK Computer: The creation and integration of AI in Europe
This article investigates the creation and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) patents in Europe. We create a panel of AI patents over time, mapping them into regions at the NUTS2 level. We then proceed by examining how AI is integrated into the knowledge space of each region. In particular, we find that those regions where AI is most embedded into the innovation landscape are also those where the number of AI patents is largest. This sug…
Related to what? Reviewing the literature on technological relatedness: Where we are now and where can we go
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles
Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent mappings of technologies in terms of technological relatedness and complexity suggest a useful cost–benefit framework. We extend these ideas, locating European Union cities in a Smart Specialisation space and tracking their developme…
Related to what? Reviewing the literature on technological relatedness: Where we are now and where can we go
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: A research agenda – a commentary
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda – a commentary. Regional Studies. This is a commentary to Ron Boschma’s Regional Studies Annual Lecture entitled ‘Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda’ (2016). Its objective is primarily to highlight the suggested research priorities, as well as to point to potential avenues for further enquiry into this line of research
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions
Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in shaping regional economic performances during economic downturns. This article explores the relationship between a region’s technological profile and its resilience to exogenous shocks. To identify the determinants of regional economic resilience, we perform panel analyses of EU 15 NUTS II level data covering the years before an…
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: Long-term trends in turbulent times
The interplay between related and unrelated varieties and diversification processes as a driver of economic growth dominates contemporary discussions in the evolutionary economic geography (EEG) literature. This study provides further insights into these debates by exploring Poland, a nation of predominantly less developed regions, in the turbulent period between 1931 and 2000 which covers the Second World War and Communism. It is confirmed that …
Rethinking regions in turbulent times
We live in turbulent times, but when has this not been the case? The history of regions and the ‘regional studies project’ has always had at its core concerns relating to new and increased social and spatial inequalities resulting from economic and political change. Whatever change has occurred to cause this turbulence, some people and places have taken advantage and raced ahead, while others were disadvantaged and left behind. The difference tod…
The evolution of specialization in the EU15 knowledge space
Significant attention has been directed to processes of knowledge production, but little consideration has been given to the type of technological knowledge produced within specific places. Patent co-classification data are employed to measure the distance between all pairs of International Patent Classification categories in order to visualize and to trace the evolution of the EU15 knowledge space from 1981 to 2005. Technological relatedness mea…
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography, EEG, paradigm, conceptual elements, ontology, development, policy, cities, regions
On the Relationship between Innovation and Wage Inequality: New Evidence fromCanadian Cities
In this article, we examine the link between innovation and earnings inequality acrossCanadian cities over the 1996-2006 period. We do so using a novel data set that combines information from theCanadian long-form census and theUnitedStatesPatent andTrademarkOffice. The analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between innovation and inequality: cities with higher levels of innovation have more unequal distributions of earnings. Othe…
Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions
This article 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 betwee…
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: Implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies
With a sample of 268 European Union (EU) regions and multilevel modelling, we demonstrate that different technological diversification measures measured as coherence and entropy-variety have different non-linear effects on regional productivity growth. These non-linear effects work in opposite directions to each other. Our analysis shows that higher regional productivity returns can be found in regions investing both around their existing technol…
The core in the periphery? The cluster organization as the central node in the Apulian aerospace district
Cluster policy is often ineffective in peripheral regions with weak institutions and significant barriers to knowledge production and exchange. Nonetheless, many peripheral regions have pursued such policies in recent years, an example being technology districts in southern Italy. This paper examines one such district – the aerospace district in Apulia – where policy has focused on indirect support for networking through coordination. This has le…
OK Computer: The creation and integration of AI in Europe
This article investigates the creation and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) patents in Europe. We create a panel of AI patents over time, mapping them into regions at the NUTS2 level. We then proceed by examining how AI is integrated into the knowledge space of each region. In particular, we find that those regions where AI is most embedded into the innovation landscape are also those where the number of AI patents is largest. This sug…
Global reversal, regional revival
Regional Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special issue. This introductory article reflects back on developments since the journal was started and offers signposts for urban and regional research looking ahead. It outlines the changing global context for regional studies and identifies some of the ways in which the need for regional research is enhanced by the extraordinary challenges currently confronting the world. It also intr…
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: How to bridge vision and reality
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) are implemented across European regions. However, investigations into whether S3 initiatives adequately match local knowledge capabilities are very scarce. This work analyses to what extent S3 policies are coherent with the local knowledge space of 164 European regions, respectively. We show to what extent regional S3 policies target 'central' technologies, and to what degree S3 policies also target 'potential…
Inventors, firms and localities: Insights into the nexus that forms and alters the evolution of regional knowledge spaces
The present investigation aims to provide insights into the nexus between firms and localities that ultimately shapes the evolution of regional knowledge spaces. The ‘inventive footprint’ of firms, indicated by the spatial distribution of associated inventors across regional economic settings, provides the foundation to analyse whether firms’ external knowledge sourcing contributes to their own evolution, and by extension to their home region’s t…
Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks
The diversification of regions into new technologies is driven by the degree of relatedness to existing capabilities already present in the region. In cases where opportunities for diversification are rather limited, external knowledge that spills over from neighboring regions or from farther away might become an important driver of regional diversification. Despite the relative importance of interregional knowledge flows via collaborative work, …
Following the paper trail: The UK scientific and technological knowledge space and its reliance on international knowledge spillovers
Knowledge is an essential ingredient for economic development, growth and gaining a competitive advantage. In order to produce novel and valuable knowledge, it is advantageous, perhaps vital, to rely on insights gained from prior research efforts. Those knowledge spillovers (KS) provide the rationale for sustained economic growth and produce unique place-based knowledge spaces. Due to the spatial embeddedness and stickiness of knowledge, most inv…
Beer, brewing, and regional studies
Mind the gap: Advancing evolutionary approaches to regional development with progressive empirical strategies
Explaining the persistently uneven spatial patterns of development remains a central goal of economic geography and regional science. Recognizing that regional development is a process of ongoing change, many scholars now approach the topic from an evolutionary perspective that identifies knowledge recombination processes and institutions as key drivers of change. However, research has not yet fully integrated the various theoretical perspectives…
Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Mapping Knowledge Space and Technological Relatedness in US Cities
The accumulation of knowledge is a key driver of technological change and economic growth. Significant attention has been directed to the processes of knowledge production in a spatial context, but little attention has been given to the type of knowledge produced within specific places. The objectives of the present study are to map the US technology/knowledge space, to examine the evolution of that space over the time period 1975–2005, and to in…
RKnowledge: The Spatial Diffusion and Adoption of rDNA Methods
Feldman M. P., Kogler D. F. and Rigby D. L. rKnowledge: the spatial diffusion and adoption of rDNA methods, Regional Studies. The 1980 patent granted to Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer for their development of rDNA technology played a critical role in the establishment of the modern biotechnology industry. From the birth of this general-purpose technology in the San Francisco Bay area, rDNA-related knowledge diffused across sectors and regions of…
On the Relationship between Innovation and Wage Inequality: New Evidence fromCanadian Cities
In this article, we examine the link between innovation and earnings inequality acrossCanadian cities over the 1996-2006 period. We do so using a novel data set that combines information from theCanadian long-form census and theUnitedStatesPatent andTrademarkOffice. The analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between innovation and inequality: cities with higher levels of innovation have more unequal distributions of earnings. Othe…
Relatedness and technological change in cities: The rise and fall of technological knowledge in US metropolitan areas from 1981 to 2010
This article investigates by means of US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent data whether technological relatedness at the city level was a crucial driving force behind technological change in 366 US cities from 1981 to 2010. Based on a three-way fixed-effects model, we find that the entry probability of a new technology in a city increases by 30% if the level of relatedness with existing technologies in the city increases by 10%, while th…
The evolution of specialization in the EU15 knowledge space
Significant attention has been directed to processes of knowledge production, but little consideration has been given to the type of technological knowledge produced within specific places. Patent co-classification data are employed to measure the distance between all pairs of International Patent Classification categories in order to visualize and to trace the evolution of the EU15 knowledge space from 1981 to 2005. Technological relatedness mea…
Global reversal, regional revival
Regional Studies celebrates its 50th anniversary with this special issue. This introductory article reflects back on developments since the journal was started and offers signposts for urban and regional research looking ahead. It outlines the changing global context for regional studies and identifies some of the ways in which the need for regional research is enhanced by the extraordinary challenges currently confronting the world. It also intr…
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: A research agenda – a commentary
Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda – a commentary. Regional Studies. This is a commentary to Ron Boschma’s Regional Studies Annual Lecture entitled ‘Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda’ (2016). Its objective is primarily to highlight the suggested research priorities, as well as to point to potential avenues for further enquiry into this line of research
The Principle of Relatedness
Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
The core in the periphery? The cluster organization as the central node in the Apulian aerospace district
Cluster policy is often ineffective in peripheral regions with weak institutions and significant barriers to knowledge production and exchange. Nonetheless, many peripheral regions have pursued such policies in recent years, an example being technology districts in southern Italy. This paper examines one such district – the aerospace district in Apulia – where policy has focused on indirect support for networking through coordination. This has le…
OK Computer: The creation and integration of AI in Europe
This article investigates the creation and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) patents in Europe. We create a panel of AI patents over time, mapping them into regions at the NUTS2 level. We then proceed by examining how AI is integrated into the knowledge space of each region. In particular, we find that those regions where AI is most embedded into the innovation landscape are also those where the number of AI patents is largest. This sug…
Related to what? Reviewing the literature on technological relatedness: Where we are now and where can we go
Rethinking regions in turbulent times
We live in turbulent times, but when has this not been the case? The history of regions and the ‘regional studies project’ has always had at its core concerns relating to new and increased social and spatial inequalities resulting from economic and political change. Whatever change has occurred to cause this turbulence, some people and places have taken advantage and raced ahead, while others were disadvantaged and left behind. The difference tod…
Regions in a time of pandemic
This paper contributes to the current debate in the field of critical urban and regional studies on the meanings of the "regional" and the "urban".From a political science perspective, we focus on the European case.Firstly, we argue that the conception of the regional scale is not the same in various languages and traditions.Regions in Europe carry meanings and connotations that are not always easy to translate without losing their specific histo…
Mind the gap: Advancing evolutionary approaches to regional development with progressive empirical strategies
Explaining the persistently uneven spatial patterns of development remains a central goal of economic geography and regional science. Recognizing that regional development is a process of ongoing change, many scholars now approach the topic from an evolutionary perspective that identifies knowledge recombination processes and institutions as key drivers of change. However, research has not yet fully integrated the various theoretical perspectives…
Identifying the technological knowledge depreciation rate using patent citation data: A case study of the solar photovoltaic industry
Technological knowledge spaces and the resilience of European regions
Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in shaping regional economic performances during economic downturns. This article explores the relationship between a region’s technological profile and its resilience to exogenous shocks. To identify the determinants of regional economic resilience, we perform panel analyses of EU 15 NUTS II level data covering the years before an…
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: Implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies
With a sample of 268 European Union (EU) regions and multilevel modelling, we demonstrate that different technological diversification measures measured as coherence and entropy-variety have different non-linear effects on regional productivity growth. These non-linear effects work in opposite directions to each other. Our analysis shows that higher regional productivity returns can be found in regions investing both around their existing technol…
Successful economic diversification in less developed regions: Long-term trends in turbulent times
The interplay between related and unrelated varieties and diversification processes as a driver of economic growth dominates contemporary discussions in the evolutionary economic geography (EEG) literature. This study provides further insights into these debates by exploring Poland, a nation of predominantly less developed regions, in the turbulent period between 1931 and 2000 which covers the Second World War and Communism. It is confirmed that …
Following the paper trail: The UK scientific and technological knowledge space and its reliance on international knowledge spillovers
Knowledge is an essential ingredient for economic development, growth and gaining a competitive advantage. In order to produce novel and valuable knowledge, it is advantageous, perhaps vital, to rely on insights gained from prior research efforts. Those knowledge spillovers (KS) provide the rationale for sustained economic growth and produce unique place-based knowledge spaces. Due to the spatial embeddedness and stickiness of knowledge, most inv…
The effects of regional capacity in knowledge recombination on production efficiency
Knowledge recombination, combining knowledge existing (exploitation) or new knowledge capacity (exploration) for creating knowledge collaboration, is one of the important ways of achieving innovation. However, little has known about how the knowledge recombination types affect differently to production efficiency at a regional level. This study explores the relationship between the knowledge recombination types of exploitation and exploration and…
Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles
Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent mappings of technologies in terms of technological relatedness and complexity suggest a useful cost–benefit framework. We extend these ideas, locating European Union cities in a Smart Specialisation space and tracking their developme…
Technology Network Structure Conditions the Economic Resilience of Regions
This article 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 betwee…
Re-imagining evolutionary economic geography
Evolutionary Economic Geography, EEG, paradigm, conceptual elements, ontology, development, policy, cities, regions
Economic geography (26 works) · Geography (25 works) · Business (18 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (18 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Economics (17 works) · Regional resilience and development (17 works) · Regional science (17 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (11 works) · Political science (10 works)