ANETI Lab is an interdisciplinary research group operating at HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and at Corvinus University, Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies. We are sponsored by the prestigious Lendület Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
We are passionate about understanding how social and communication networks facilitate economic and technological development in cities and regions and combine approaches of economics, geography, network science and computational social science to explore this fascinating area of inquiry.
Collaborative knowledge production across space
Exploring how places are connected through the production of knowledge
Structural change and resilience in regions
Understanding the ability of regions to withstand shocks and develop new growth paths
Networks of creative and business success
Showing which network structures are conducive in success
Spatial diffusion in social networks
Revealing the role of spatial social networks in spreading ideas and knowledge
Labor markets and skills
Understanding labor mobility and matching between supply and demand of skills in cities
Open-source collaboration and business transactions
Mapping and analyzing networks of open-source and supply chain transactions
Selected Publications
- A Mancini, B Lengyel, R Di Clemente, G Cimini
- PNAS Nexus
- 2026
- B Lengyel
- EE Book Chapter
- 2026
- Z Elekes, E Hane-Weijman
- EE Book Chapter
- 2026
- S Juhász, Z Elekes, V Ilyés, F Neffke
- Journal of Economic Geography
- 2026
- D Yankova, M Abbasiharofteh
- Spatial Economic Analysis
- 2026
- S Daniotti, J Wachs, X Feng, F Neffke
- Science
- 2026
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