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Frank Moulaert

Frank Moulaert

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
52
Citations
17213
World Ranking
2379
National Ranking
23

Overview

Frank Moulaert is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their research spans across multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. The scholar's work addresses key topics such as Community Development and Social Impact, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Innovation, Technology, and Society, Rural Development and Sustainability, Disaster Management and Resilience, and Urban and Rural Development Challenges.

Recent publications by Frank Moulaert include the following papers:

  • Social innovation & governance: a scoping review, 2021, Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research
  • Can pro-equity hybrid governance shape an egalitarian city? Lessons from post-Katrina New Orleans, 2020, Territory Politics Governance
  • Housing systems in the Global South, 2021, plaNext - Next Generation Planning
  • Relational Planning as a Collective Critical Inquiry. Socio-Environmental Justice, Critical Moments and Reflective Responses in Six Years of Studio Teaching, 2022, Planning Practice and Research
  • Book review: Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England, 2023, Urban Studies

Frank Moulaert has contributed a book titled Bottom-linked Governance and Socio-political Transformation published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2022.

Frequent co-authors in Moulaert's collaborations include:

  • Pieter Van den Broeck
  • Liana Simmons
  • Constanza Parra
  • Sofia Saavedra Bruno
  • Matthias Bussels

The scholar's work commonly appears in publication venues such as:

  • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research
  • Territory Politics Governance
  • plaNext - Next Generation Planning
  • Planning Practice and Research
  • Urban Studies

The subfields of Frank Moulaert's research include Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Management of Technology and Innovation, Urban Studies, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarship often integrates interdisciplinary approaches to address socio-economic challenges through an analysis of governance, innovation, and development in both urban and rural contexts.

Best Publications

  • Territorial Innovation Models: A Critical Survey

    Frank Moulaert;Farid Sekia

  • Neoliberal Urbanization in Europe: Large–Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy

    Erik Swyngedouw;Frank Moulaert;Arantxa Rodriguez

  • Towards alternative model(s) of local innovation

    Frank Moulaert;Flavia Martinelli;Erik Swyngedouw;Sara Gonzalez

  • The International Handbook on Social Innovation: Collective Action, Social Learning and Transdisciplinary Research

    Frank Moulaert;Diana MacCallum;Abid Mehmood;Abdelillah Hamdouch

  • Social economy, third sector and solidarity relations: A conceptual synthesis from history to present

    Frank Moulaert;Oana Ailenei

  • The Globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities

    Frank Moulaert;Arantxa Rodríguez;Erik Achille Marie Swyngedouw

  • Introduction: Social Innovation and Governance in European Cities: Urban Development Between Path Dependency and Radical Innovation

    Frank Moulaert;Flavia Martinelli;Sara González;Erik Swyngedouw

  • The International Handbook on Social Innovation

    Frank Moulaert;Diana MacCallum;Abid Mehmood;Abdelillah Hamdouch

  • Social Innovation and Territorial Development

    Diana MacCallum;Frank Moulaert;Jean Hillier;Serena Vicari Haddock

  • Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities

    Frank Moulaert

  • Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?: Community Development and Social Innovation

    Frank Moulaert

  • The Social Region: Beyond the Territorial Dynamics of the Learning Economy

    Frank Moulaert;Jacques Nussbaumer

  • Social Innovation: Institutionally Embedded, Territorially (Re)Produced

    Frank Moulaert

  • Trois essais sur le rôle de l'innovation sociale dans le développement territorial

    Jean Hillier;Frank Moulaert;Jacques Nussbaumer

  • Defining the Social Economy and its Governance at the Neighbourhood Level: A Methodological Reflection:

    Frank Moulaert;Jacques Nussbaumer

  • Survey 15. A Regulation Approach to the Geography of Flexible Production Systems

    Frank Moulaert;E Swyngedouw

  • Social Innovation research: A New Stage in Innovation Analysis?

    Bob Jessop;Frank Moulaert;Lars Hulgård;Abelillah Hamdouch

  • Social innovation as a trigger for transformations - the role of research

    Frank Moulaert;Abid Mehmood;Diana MacCallum;Bernhard Leubolt

  • The Changing geography of advanced producer services : theoretical and empirical perspectives

    P. W. Daniels;Frank Moulaert

  • Social innovation: intuition, precept, concept, theory and practice: Collective Action, Social Learning and Transdisciplinary Research

    Frank Moulaert;Diana MacCallum;Jean Hillier

  • Social Innovation: intuition, precept, concept, theory and practice

    F. Moulaert;Diana MacCallum;J. Hillier

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Franz Tödtling
Franz Tödtling Vienna University of Economics and Business
Allen J. Scott
Allen J. Scott University of California, Los Angeles
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Sako Musterd
Sako Musterd University of Amsterdam

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