Research Title: The Geographic Location and Mobility of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the US I have compiled the descriptive statistics for all 283 Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States for 2000 and 2011 including number of immigrant entrepreneurs, as well as by their racial/ethnic status, industrial sectors, and educational levels. Comparable statistics for the native-born […]
Research Title: Innovation and global production networks: two case studies of traditional industries in Portugal Dr Pedro Marques on How the RSA Early Career Grant helped his career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eOZzKxx0MA&feature=emb_title To combine the concepts of innovation and global production networks in order to understand the development trajectories of two traditional sectors in Portugal: the wine and […]
Research Title: Leveraging the Economic Benefits of Cultural Diversity in Cities I learned about the RSA Early Career Grant Scheme at the RSA Annual Lecture as part of the 2011 Association of American Geographers conference in New York. There are limited funding opportunities in the U.S. supporting research in regional development and economic geography; this […]
Researcher at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Associated Researcher the Institute for Business and Economic History Research (EHFF), Stockholm, Sweden Teacher of Introductory Economics at Södertörn University, Sweden Institution: Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden EHFF, Stockholm, Sweden Södertörn University, Sweden Research Title: Regional Migration Motives and the Urban Hierarchy As a first part of the research that was supported by the RSA, I’ve studied economic outcomes […]
Research Title: ‘It’s hard everywhere, but this place is different’: Regional Difference in Non-Standard Work in the UK “The Regional Studies Association Early Career grant scheme provides opportunities both to gain experience of being a principal investigator, and to explore emerging themes — in my case regional differences in non-standard work in the UK — […]
“I am delighted to be awarded a RSA Early Career grant. It opens up fantastic opportunities to conduct policy-relevant research including a workshop with senior stakeholders in economic development that would have been difficult within other research grants/projects. The grant will also facilitate networking opportunities within and beyond RSA’s extensive membership at conferences and seminars.” […]