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Economics and Finance
Netherlands
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
74
Citations
21604
World Ranking
372
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Bart Verspagen is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their scholarly work intersects several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The main topics of Verspagen's research cover a range of areas within economic studies, notably:

  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Economic theories and models
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Economic Theory and Institutions

The scientist has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Related or unrelated diversification: What is smart specialization? (2024), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective (2021), Industrial and Corporate Change
  • R&D-based economic growth in a supermultiplier model (2021), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective (2021), Research Policy
  • Innovation-diffusion, the economy and contemporary challenges: a comment (2020), Industrial and Corporate Change

Bart Verspagen's work is published frequently in journals and venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics
  • Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
  • Research Policy

Significant co-authors in their research include Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola, Uwe Cantner, Neil Foster-McGregor, and Jan Fagerberg.

Among their book contributions is a forthcoming publication titled Evolutionary Selection and Keynes-Schumpeter Macroeconomics (2025), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Systems of Innovation

    Luc Soete;Bart Verspagen;Bas ter Weel;Bas ter Weel

  • Innovation studies—The emerging structure of a new scientific field

    Jan Fagerberg;Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Knowledge Spillovers in Europe: A Patent Citations Analysis

    Per Botolf Maurseth;Bart Verspagen

  • The Impact of EU Regional Support on Growth and Convergence in the European Union

    Aadne Cappelen;Fulvio Castellacci;Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen

  • The value of European patents

    Alfonso Gambardella;Dietmar Harhoff;Bart Verspagen

  • A NEW EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO CATCHING UP OR FALLING BEHIND

    Bart Verspagen

  • Technology-gaps, innovation-diffusion and transformation:an evolutionary interpretation

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey

    Paola Giuri;Myriam Mariani;Stefano Brusoni;Gustavo Crespi

  • Heading for divergence? Regional growth in Europe reconsidered

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and Economic Development

    Jan Fagerberg;Martin Srholec;Bart Verspagen

  • MAPPING TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AS PATENT CITATION NETWORKS: A STUDY ON THE HISTORY OF FUEL CELL RESEARCH

    B Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and Economic Development

    Jan Fagerberg;Martin Srholec;Bart Verspagen

  • Innovation and economic growth

    B Bart Verspagen

  • Intellectual property rights, strategic technology agreements and market structure : the case of GSM

    Rna Rudi Bekkers;GM Geert Duysters;B Bart Verspagen

  • Uneven growth between interdependent economies : an evolutionary view on technology gaps, trade and growth

    Bart Verspagen

  • Does it matter where patent citations come from? : inventor versus examiner citations in European patents

    Paola Criscuolo;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Technology, Growth and Unemployment across European Regions

    Jan Fagerberg;Bart Verspagen;Marjolein Caniels

  • Manufacturing and economic growth in developing countries, 1950-2005

    Adam Szirmai;Bart Verspagen;Bart Verspagen

  • Measuring intersectoral technology spillovers estimates from the European and US patent office databases

    Bart Verspagen

  • The Small worlds of Strategic Technology Alliances

    B Bart Verspagen;GM Geert Duysters

  • The role of technology in market shares dynamics

    Bruno Amable;Bart Verspagen

  • Systems of Innovation

    Luc Soete;Bart Verspagen;Bas ter Weel;Bas ter Weel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Fagerberg
Jan Fagerberg University of Oslo
Luc Soete
Luc Soete Maastricht University
Bart Los
Bart Los University of Groningen
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls
Marjolein C.J. Caniëls Open University in the Netherlands
Fulvio Castellacci
Fulvio Castellacci University of Oslo
Gustavo Crespi
Gustavo Crespi Inter-American Development Bank
Alfred Kleinknecht
Alfred Kleinknecht Delft University of Technology
Pierre Mohnen
Pierre Mohnen Maastricht University
Raouf Boucekkine
Raouf Boucekkine Aix-Marseille University
René Kemp
René Kemp Maastricht University

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