ANETI Lab, in collaboration with the University of Szeged and the Regional Innovation Subcommittee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, has organised a special session titled “Innovation and Development Traps: Barriers and Breakthroughs”. It took place at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Regional Science Association (the Hungarian section of ERSA), held in Veszprém from 30th to 31st October 2025. Lab members gave talks on:

Plenary speech
- Who benefits from a larger market? Job search and adaptation in metropolitan labor markets - László Czaller

Parallel session presentations
- Clusters, firm performance and the geography of supplier and labour flow networks - Zoltán Elekes
- The network robustness of local labour flow networks - Gergely Magyar
- Spatial differences in employer skill requirements - László Czaller
- The spread of antidepressants in social networks - Gergő Tóth