Pedro Miguel Ferreira Marques
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About
Current position
Pedro is a Research Fellow (Científico Titular) at INGENIO, where he conducts his research on regional development, innovation and governance in the peripheral regions of the European Union.
Please visit this page for more information: https://sites.google.com/view/pedromarques/home
Education
Pedro has a degree in Sociology from ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal, and an MA and PhD from Newcastle University (UK). He has also atended the Université Paris VII for an academic year, as an Erasmus student, and was a visiting PhD student at Cornell University for one semester.
Academic experience
Pedro has worked as a Research associate at Newcastle University (UK), the University of Kiel (Germany), Cardiff University (UK) and the University of Sussex (UK). He has done fieldwork in the UK, Portugal, Germany and Slovenia, as part of different research projects, where he has interviewed a variety of stakeholders from the private, public and third sectors.
As a result of his research Pedro has published in several high-ranking journals and wrote policy reports for policy and third sector organisations in the UK, Portugal and at the EU level.
Research areas
Pedro´s research interests are in the following areas: innovation in less developed regions, innovation in low and medium tech sectors, the political economy of development, governance and politics, social innovation.
Projects
Innovación y desarrollo sostenible
2023 - 2025
Innovación y desarrollo sostenible
2023 - 2025
Policies for Smart Specialisation (POLISS)
2019 - 2024
Ayudas Ramón y Cajal - Pedro Marques
2019 - 2024
Le policies for smart specialisation (POLISS)
2019 - 2024
Publications
Why did the Portuguese economy stop converging with the OECD? Institutions, politics and innovation
- 15 - 10.1093/jeg/lbv012
Rethinking Public Economic Geographies: The Politics of Relevancy
- 66 - 10.1080/00330124.2012.757818
- 31 - 10.1068/c11249r
- 12 - 10.1093/jeg/lbr047
Social innovation in question: The theoretical and practical implications of a contested concept
- 36 - 10.1177/2399654417717986
Localised technological change: towards the economics of complexity * Cristiano Antonelli
- 9 - 10.1093/jeg/lbn036
The Public Animateur: mission-led innovation and the “smart state” in Europe
- 12 - 10.1093/cjres/rsz002
Spaces of novelty: Can universities play a catalytic role in less developed regions?
- 46 - 10.1093/scipol/scz028
The Heroic Assumptions of Smart Specialisation: A Sympathetic Critique of Regional Innovation Policy
- 46 - 10.1007/s10961-020-09834-1
Innovating but still poor: The challenges of regional development in regions with mature industries
- 47 - 10.1111/tran.12507
