Asian Industrial and Economic Development Leaderboard

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Papers

1

The New Economics of Industrial Policy

Annual Review of Economics|2024

232 cit.

2

The Political Economy of Industrial Policy

The Journal of Economic Perspectives|2024

60 cit.

3

“Win-lose” globalization and the weaponization of economic policies by nation-states

Critical Perspectives on International Business|2024

43 cit.

4

“Open strategic autonomy” as an industrial policy compass for the EU competitiveness and growth: The good, the bad, or the ugly?

Journal of Industrial and Business Economics|2024

31 cit.

5

U.S.-China Technology Competition and the Emergence of Techno-Economic Statecraft in East Asia: High Technology and Economic-Security Nexus

Journal of Chinese Political Science|2024

30 cit.

6

The Political Economy of Industrial Policy

SSRN Electronic Journal|2024

11 cit.

7

High technology and economic statecraft: the emergence of techno-economic statecraft in South Korea

Business and Politics|2024

7 cit.

8

State power, Global Production Networks, and underdevelopment: examining South Carolina’s success in fostering strategic coupling

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography|2024

7 cit.

9

State–Firm Nexus, Indigenous Coupling, and Social Downgrading in the Aerospace Global Production Network: A Case Study of Embraer, Brazil

Economic Geography|2024

5 cit.

10

Territories as Practice for economic transformations. Insights from Latin American geography

Geoforum|2024

5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1

Langton Mukwereza

Unknown

2

Christian Binz

Lund University

3

Jeehoon Ki

Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning

4

Geoffrey C. Chen

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

5

Jesse Salah Ovadia

University of Windsor

6

Jonah Onuoha

University of Nigeria

7

Ha-Joon Chang

University of Cambridge

8

Shamel Azmeh

London School of Economics and Political Science

9

Hanna Asmussen

Technische Universität Berlin

10

Chaiyatorn Limapornvanich

National Science and Technology Development Agency

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

Exploring the Economic Geographies of Sustainability Transitions: Commentary and Agenda

Economic Geography|2025

38 cit.

2

Toward a normative turn in research on the geography of innovation? Evolving perspectives on innovation, institutions, and human well-being

Progress in Economic Geography|2024

31 cit.

3

How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions|2022

20 cit.

4

Automation and industrialisation through global value chains: North Africa in the German automotive wiring harness industry

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics|2022

20 cit.

5

The Role of Global Actors in Sustainability Transitions – Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Infrastructure Paradigm in the Sanitation Sector

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions|2023

19 cit.

6

Policy sequencing for early-stage transition dynamics – A process model and comparative case study in the water sector

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions|2023

15 cit.

7

Cumulative causation in regional industrial path development – A conceptual framework and case study in the videogame industry of Hamburg and Shanghai

Geoforum|2023

11 cit.

8

How Transformative Innovations Travel: Tracing the Diffusion of Circular District-Scale Sanitation Systems in Europe

Economic Geography|2025

10 cit.

9

The United States–China Race for Green Transformation: Institutions, Incentives, and Green Industrial Policies

Journal of Chinese Political Science|2023

9 cit.

10

Ambazonian Separatist Movement in Cameroon and the Dialectics of Cameroonian Refugee Crisis in Nigeria

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies|2022

8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

Canadian Public Policy|2003

3.7k cit.

2

Global production networks and the analysis of economic development

Review of International Political Economy|2002

2.2k cit.

3

Models of Consumer Satisfaction Formation: An Extension

Journal of Marketing Research|1988

1.8k cit.

4

The Effects of Strategic Orientations on Technology- and Market-Based Breakthrough Innovations

Journal of Marketing|2005

1.8k cit.

5

Cities and the Creative Class

City and Community|2003

1.5k cit.

6

The Economic Geography of Talent

Annals of the Association of American Geographers|2002

1.2k cit.

7

Toward the learning region

Futures|1995

1.1k cit.

8

Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy

Global Networks|2001

1.1k cit.

9

‘Spatial’ relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embedded ness

Progress in Human Geography|2004

975 cit.

10

Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward

Competition & Change|2005

896 cit.

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