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.
Pedro has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University, since 2012. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Regional Studies, Regional Science and has been a peer reviewer for several high-ranking journals.
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.
Governing industrial policy: the scope and limits of the ‘good governance’ agenda
Marques, P., Morgan, K., 2023. In: Handbook of Industrial Development .
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379091
The challenges of implementation of smart specialisation strategies in less developed European regions
Marques, P., 2023. In: Public Policy Portuguese Journal.
gdoc.uevora.pt/826027
The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Ensuring the Effectiveness of Innovation Policy
Marques, P., Morgan, K., 2023. In: Territorial Innovation in Less Developed Regions: Governance, Technologies, and Sustainability.
10.1007/978-3-031-20577-4
Innovating but still poor: The challenges of regional development in regions with mature industries
Pedro Marques, David Barberá-Tomás, 2022. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
10.1111/tran.12507
Getting to Denmark: The Dialectic of Governance & Development in the European Periphery
Marques, P., Morgan, K., 2021. In: Applied Geography.
doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102536
Innovation without Regional Development? The Complex Interplay of Innovation, Institutions, and Development
Pedro Marques, Kevin Morgan, 2021. In: Economic Geography.
10.1080/00130095.2021.1972801
Fiction Lagging Behind Or Non-Fiction Defending The Indefensible? University-Industry (et al.) Interaction In Science Fiction,
Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Laura González-Salmerón & Pedro Marques , 2020. In: The Journal of Technology Transfer.
10.1007/s10961-020-09834-1
New industrial policy and the role of executive agencies at the subnational level
Pedro Marques, 2020. In: Ingenio Working Paper Series.
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Moving beyond Anglo-American economic geography
Robert Hassink, Huiwen Gong, Pedro Marques, 2019. In: International Journal of Urban Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2018.1469426
Spaces of novelty: Can universities play a catalytic role in less developed regions?
Pedro Marques, Kevin Morgan, Adrian Healy, Paul Vallance, 2019. In: Science and Public Policy.
doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz028
The Public Animateur: mission-led innovation and the “smart state” in Europe
Kevin Morgan, Pedro Marques, 2019. In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz002
University-industry technology transfer within the context of RIS3 North of Portugal
Ana Vanessa Marques, Carla Marques, Vitor Braga, Pedro Marques, 2019. In: Knowledge Management Research & Practice.
10.1080/14778238.2019.1589397
Book review of 'Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe'
Pedro Marques, 2018. In: Journal of Economic Geography.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby037
Book Review of 'Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe: Spatial Disparities and Human Capital'
Pedro Marques, 2018. In: Papers in Regional Science.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12400
Intra- and inter-firm dynamics in combinatorial knowledge bases
Pedro Marques, 2018. In: European Urban and Regional Studies.
DOI: 10.1177/0969776418779116
Moving beyond Anglo-American economic geography: authors’ response
Robert Hassink, Huiwen Gong, Pedro Marques, 2018. In: International Journal of Urban Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2018.1538812
The Heroic Assumptions of Smart Specialisation: A Sympathetic Critique of Regional Innovation Policy
Pedro Marques, Kevin Morgan, 2018. In: .
From toys to automobiles: foreign investment, firm heterogeneity and intermediaries in a Portuguese industry
Pedro Marques, 2017. In: European Planning Studies.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2017.1303822
Governing System Innovation: Assisted Living Experiments in the UK and Norway
Markus Bugge, Lars Coenen, Pedro Marques, Kevin Morgan, 2017. In: European Planning Studies.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2017.1349078
Human capital and university–business interactions: an example from the wine industry
Pedro Marques, 2017. In: Regional Studies, Regional Science.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2017.1341818
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The 5th Geography of Innovation Conference
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14th Regional Innovation Policies Conference 2019: Technological change, social innovation, and regional transformation
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2018 SMARTER Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development
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5TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 2018
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International Symposium NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES (ISTH2020)
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Radical Geography Seminars 2018
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DeST2018 Conference - Territorial Dynamics and Inequality: the contribution of inter and transdisciplinary approaches
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Second Meeting of the Working Group on RIS3 Governance