Laboratory for Networks, Technology & Innovation (NeTI Lab)

The economy ischanging. Jobs are disappearing while creative careers are booming across theglobe. Today’s economy is more turbulent, technological, and connected thanever before. It is centered on knowledge intense teams, global connections, andnew modes of work and life that are reshaping the way in which people sourcetalent and do business.

Networks, Technology, & Innovation (NeTI) Lab is a group established in 2020 at theCorvinus Institute of Advanced Studies. Our research focuses on the impact of networks, innovation, and technologies on work andsociety.

Research Projects

Automation and development: we investigate how AIand automation threatens occupations, influences industry structure, businessopportunities and labour mobility in regions.
Diffusionand churn of innovation: we develop an empirical network-science framework topredict the adoption and disadoption of innovation at global and local scales.
Socialnetworks and inequality: we explore how network structures in cities contributeto income and educational inequalities.
Organizational networks, skills and performance: weanalyse the relationship between skills of employees, the network structure oftheir interactions, and firm performance.
Priceof contact reduction: we aim to understand the extent to which mobilityrestrictions in certain industries help slowing the spread of COVID-19 in thelight of consequent economic effects following plant closures.

Faculty

Balázs Lengyel

Balázs Lengyel

Senior Research Fellow

e-mail: balazs.lengyel@uni-corvinus.hu

Balázs Lengyel is aneconomic geographer; he completed his PhD in economics at Budapest Universityof Technology and Economics in 2010 and holds a master degree in Economics fromUniversity of Szeged. He was a visiting scholar at the Human Mobility andNetworks Lab of MIT in 2016-2017. He is a Lendület Research Grant holder andhead of the ANET Lab at Research Centre for Economic and Regional Studies. Hisresearch focuses on the dynamics of social networks, spatial diffusion ofinnovation, and on the technological and economic development of regions andcities.

Selectedpublications:

1. Eriksson RH,Lengyel B (2019) Co-worker networks and agglomeration externalities. EconomicGeography 95(1), 65-89.

2. Lengyel B, Eriksson RH (2017) Co-workernetworks, labour mobility and productivity growth in regions. Journal of EconomicGeography 17(3), 635-660.

3. Lengyel B, Varga A, Ságvári B, Jakobi Á, Kertész J (2015) Geographies of an online social network. PLoS ONE 10(9)e0137248

Balazs Lengyel CV

Publication List: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8dIF2-4AAAAJ&hl=hu

László Lőrincz

      László Lőrincz
      Senior Research Fellow
      e-mail:laszlo.lorincz@uni-corvinus.hu

László Lőrincz isa Sociologist (Ph.D, CorvinusUniveristy, 2009) / Economist (M.Sc., Corvinus University, 2002). Since 2013 heis member of the Economics of Networks research research group at ResearchCentre for Economic and Regional Studies. Between 2016-2019 he worked asassistant professor at Centre for Labor Economics at Corvinus Univeristy. His research portfolio includes adoption and collapseof online social networks, and network effects in labor mobility and migration.He taught courses on Social Network Analysis, Agent-Based Simulation, LaborEconomics and Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

Selectedpublications:

1. Lőrincz, L., Koltai, J., Győr, A. F., &Takács, K. (2019). Collapse of an online social network: Burning social capitalto create it?. Social Networks, 57, 43-53.

2. Csáfordi, Z., Lőrincz, L., Lengyel, B.,& Kiss, K. M. (2020). Productivity spillovers through labor flows:Productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness. TheJournal of Technology Transfer 45, 86–121.

3. Lőrincz, L. (2016). Interethnic datingpreferences of Roma and non-Roma secondary school students. Journal ofEthnic and Migration Studies, 42(13), 2244-2262.

Laszlo Lorincz Publications List

Laszlo Lorincz CV

Eszter Bokányi

Eszter Bokányi

Postdoctoral Fellow
e-mail:eszter.bokanyi@uni-corvinus.hu

Eszter Bokányi studied Physics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Humbolt Universität zu Berlin specializing in statistical physics. She’s graduated at the Physics Doctoral School of Eötvös Loránd University in 2019, where topic of her thesis was studying how social phenomena can be captured through statistical physical methods by using various digital fingerprints or social networks of individuals.

Selectedpublications:

1. Bokányi, E.,Szállási, Z., & Vattay, G. (2018). Universal scaling laws in metro areaelection results. PloS one, 13(2).

2. Bokányi, E., &Hannák, A. (2019). Ride-share matching algorithms generate income inequality. arXivpreprint arXiv:1905.12535.

Eszter Bokanyi CV

Sándor Juhász

Sándor Juhász

Postdoctoral Fellow
e-mail: sandor.juhasz@uni-corvinus.hu

twitter: @sandor_juhasz

github: https://github.com/sandorjuhasz

Sándor Juhász has earned his PhD at Utrecht University, Faculty ofGeosciences in 2019. His thesis focuses on the role of geography in theformation of network ties in various contexts. He is interested in data tricks,topics related to the geography of innovation, network dynamics and urbanmobility research.

Selectedpublications:

1. Juhász, S., Tóth,G., & Lengyel, B. (2020). Brokering the core and the periphery: Creativesuccess and collaboration networks in the film industry. PloS one, 15(2),e0229436.

2. Juhász, S. (2019).Spinoffs and tie formation in cluster knowledge networks. Small BusinessEconomics, 1-20.

3. Juhász, S., &Lengyel, B. (2018). Creation and persistence of ties in cluster knowledgenetworks. Journal of Economic Geography, 18(6), 1203-1226.

Publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xIQ6Wt8AAAAJ

Rebeka O. Szabó

Rebeka O. Szabó
Postdoctoral Fellow
e-mail: rebeka.o.szabo@uni-corvinus.hu

Rebeka O. Szabó is a sociologist-networkscientist. She is a finishing Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Network andData Science at Central European University. Before that, she earned her masterdegree at Universiteit Van Amsterdam in Sociology (Comparative Organizationsand Labor Studies). She was a visiting research fellow at Kellogg School ofManagement and The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems of NorthwesternUniversity in 2020. Her main scientific interests are social networks,teams, organizational behavior, development, and change.

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Rebeka O. Szabo CV

External Advisor

César A. Hidalgo

ProfessorHidalgo is a world renowned expert in the fields of economic complexity,international development, network science and data science. He holds an ANITIChair on Natural and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toulouse. Heis a honorary professor at Manchester University and a professor of practice atHarvard University. Prior to joining the University of Toulouse, ProfessorHidalgo was the director of the Collective Learning group at MIT (2010-2019)and a faculty associate at Harvard (2008-2012). He is the author of multiplehighly cited publications and books, including Why Information Grows (BasicBooks, 2015) and The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press, 2014).

Personal website: https://chidalgo.com/

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