Tom Broekel

@tbroekel.bsky.social

Professor of Economic Geography, RWTH Aachen, #regional #economics, #geography, #innovation studies, #regional science, #complexity, #news, social network analysis, #EconSky

This new paper provides economic evidence for Humboldt's ideal of uniting research and teaching. Students exposed to courses closer to the research frontier are more likely to complete their degrees, earn higher grades, attend graduate school, and achieve higher earnings later on.

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Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Zahl der Firmen mit innovativen Spitzenleistungen ist erneut geschrumpft, während es mehr innovationsschwache Unternehmen gibt. Angesichts dessen braucht es eine klare Neuausrichtung der Innovationspolitik. makronom.de/die-innovati...

Die Innovationsdynamik der deutschen Unternehmen hat weiter nachgelassen

Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Zahl der Firmen mit innovativen Spitzenleistungen ist erneut geschrumpft, während es mehr innovationsschwache Unternehmen gibt. Angesichts dessen braucht es eine klare Neua...

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@IABnews.bsky.social : Nach anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten kommt die Arbeitsmarktintegration ukrainischer Geflüchteter voran. Das ist eine positive Entwicklung. Es ist schwer verständlich, warum die Bundesregierung durch den geplanten Rechtskreiswechsel für neu eingereiste ukrainische Geflüchtete…

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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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If the Nobel Committee truly intended to recognize the formalization of Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction, they might at least have included Sidney Winter, with Dick Nelson (sadly) no longer among us.

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, held local elections today. Support for AfD up but at 15% well below party's national polling. And lower among the young: 5th place on 11% among under-25s, who also delivered a smaller swing towards the party than did older generations.

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Published in JoEG: REGENS: a new index tracking regional economic sentiment in real time, based on millions of geolocated news headlines. Possibly the first up-to-date regional sentiment index linking media stories to regional development and Evolutionary Economic Geography. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

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