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# Bart Verspagen

Economics and other things

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://verspagen.nl/blog/)
- [Resources for Bart](https://verspagen.nl/resources-for-bart/) - These are just some things that are useful to have direct access to while on the road Mostly pptx's and so on For the 2026 ISS (Strasbourg) link here This is reserved for future use. link This also link And this too link
- [A tribute to the absence of borders](https://verspagen.nl/a-tribute-to-the-absence-of-borders/) - 25 December 2018 (slight update August 2025) All my life I have been living close to the (Belgian) border. When I was a kid, there was still (occasional) border control, and I was told stories of old times when smugglers were active, or when - during WWI - the Germans put an electric fence on
- [Sphinxpassage in Maastricht slaat historische plank mis](https://verspagen.nl/sphinxpassage-in-maastricht-slaat-historische-plank-mis/) - 23 december 2017 Het Sphinxkwartier aan de Boschstraat in Maastricht is volop in beweging. De oude industriewijk is bezig aan een tweede jeugd, en bruist volop. De voorlopige kroon op het werk had de 120 meter lange passage in het opgeknapte Eiffelgebouw moeten worden, waar een tegeltableau is verrezen waarin de geschiedenis van de Sphinx
- [Vertrek KMS uit Weert is geen economische ramp](https://verspagen.nl/vertrek-kms-uit-weert-is-geen-economische-ramp/) - 6 september 2011 De lobby die de Provincie Limburg en de Gemeente Weert inzetten om de KMS te behouden lijkt na de brief van Minister Hillen aan de Tweede Kamer goed op gang te komen. Opvallend is daarbij dat vooral de economische onderbouwing van die lobby erg zwak is. De brief die het Weerter college
- [New Perspectives on Structural Change](https://verspagen.nl/new-perspectives-on-structural-change/) - Oxford University Press just published the book "New Perspectives on Structural Change", which was edited by Neil Foster-McGregor, Ludo Alcorta, Eddy Szirmai and myself. We worked on this book for several years, with a large team of authors, who are all top scholars in the field. New Perspectives on Structural Change is a comprehensive edited
- [Innovation and Structural Transformation in Asia](https://verspagen.nl/innovation-and-structural-transformation-in-asia/) - Jesus Felipe, Neil Foster McGregor, Önder Nomaler and myself just published a book entitled "Innovation and Structural Transformation in Asia". It is a short volume that highlights some recent economic trends in the Asian global regions. The main source of the book is a database that we created that documents structural change, growth, technological change
- [Evaluation Dutch R&D tax credit policy published](https://verspagen.nl/evaluation-dutch-rd-tax-credit-policy-published/) - The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate just published our evaluation report on the R&D tax credit policy WBSO, for the period 2011-2017. The evaluation was done in a collaboration between Dialogic, APE and UNU-MERIT. I worked on the econometric part of the evaluation, together with the people at APE. We found that the
- [Perpetual growth](https://verspagen.nl/perpetual-growth/) - Can we think about economic growth without technology developing further? Perhaps we can, if the robots can take over… Önder Nomaler and I develop a model that was published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, in which we show how this may work. In short: instead of technology making work ever-more productive, it could
- [How I got from the author line to the footnote (and back)](https://verspagen.nl/how-i-got-from-the-author-line-to-the-footnote-and-back/) - Those of you following the literature on the economic effects of R&D may have seen a paper by Van Elk et al. on the economic effects of investment in public R&D. Those who really follow that literature well may have seen both the working paper version, and the officially published one, and have noticed a
- [Patent citation networks](https://verspagen.nl/patent-citation-networks/) - One important topic in my work is the analysis of patent citation networks. These networks are kind of special, because they are a-cyclical and directed (contrary to most other networks that economists analyze, which often contain cycles and are non-directed). This work started with a publication in Advances in Complex Systems, dealing with fuel cells.
- [Op bezoek in de programma's van L1](https://verspagen.nl/op-bezoek-in-de-programmas-van-l1/) - Ik trad ook een aantal keren op in de TV-programma's van L1: 10 januari 2024 over hoe Limburgs de Limburgse economie is 27 februari 2023 over de verkiezingen 16 november 2021 over Covid-19 18 december 2020 over de Limburgse economie en Covid-19 14 augustus 2020 over Covid-19 16 juli 2020 over Covid-19 26 maart 2020
- [Agent-based Macroeconomics](https://verspagen.nl/agent-based-macroeconomics/) - Evolutionary Selection and Keynes-Schumpeter macroeconomics Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola and myself published a small book in the Cambridge Elements series on Evolutionary Economics. In this new work, we report on a large agent-based model about how research and development (R&D) can be an emerge in a Keynesian economy with evolutionary selection of firms. The electronic
- [Catching up and falling behind](https://verspagen.nl/catching-up-and-falling-behind/) - The topic of growth rate differentials between countries has been a main theme in my work from the very beginning. It was the main topic of my PhD thesis of 1992. Chapter 6 of that thesis contains my model of catching up and falling behind (see picture below), which was also published in 1991 in
- [Paarden / Horses](https://verspagen.nl/paarden-horses/) - Een aantal jaren lang hadden we thuis of in de buurt een aantal paarden of ponies. Die tijd ligt inmiddels achter ons, maar de herinnering leeft voort! The horses that were once in our lives. Jumper Uschi Voberlina (Vi) Apache en Kio Gravin Kiolien (Kio)

## Pages

- [Home](https://verspagen.nl/) - Bart Verspagen Welcome to my page, where you can explore my scholarly work and some additional things and activities. Please select from the menu above or scroll down. New book on an macroeconomic agent-based model, free download My blogs:
- [PhD supervisions](https://verspagen.nl/242-2/) - Supervised candidates with completed PhD projects Bart Verspagen - Bart Los (degree from University of Twente, 1999, acted as second supervisor with Bert Steenge as first supervisor)- Marjolein Caniëls (degree from Maastricht University, 1999, acted as first supervisor with Luc Soete as second supervisor)- Machiel van Dijk (degree from Maastricht University, 2000, acted as second
- [About Bart Verspagen](https://verspagen.nl/about/) - My story I am economist working at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, with a main interest in macroeconomics of technological change. I work from an evolutionary economics perspective, focusing on structural change, the economy as a complex system, and long-run development. I am based at the research institute UNU-MERIT. In the past I worked at
- [Contact](https://verspagen.nl/contact/) - Contact information for Bart Verspagen Professional email: b.verspagen@maastrichtuniversity.nl No LinkedIn, no Insta, No Twitter/X... Strava: yes! Your Custom Hub for Bart Verspagen Connect with Bart to explore his latest blog posts, subscribe for updates, and join a community passionate about fresh insights and inspiration. Get in Touch
- [Academic Topics (publications and CV)](https://verspagen.nl/resources/) - Curriculum Vitae Details about my academic career Learn more Publication List Details about journal articles and other publications Learn more PhD supervisions (completed) The future of the field Learn more
- [Publications](https://verspagen.nl/publications/) - A list of academic publications Split into categories. Just scroll and explore... Journal articles Nomaler, Ö and B. Verspagen, 2024, Related or Unrelated Diversification: What is Smart Specialization?, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 70, pp. 503-515, link at publisher (open access) Nomaler, Ö, Spinola, D. and B. Verspagen, 2024, Demand-led industrialisation policy in a
- [Curriculum Vitae](https://verspagen.nl/curriculum-vitae/) - Bart Verspagen - Academic CV Education: • PhD in 1992: PhD from the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Faculty of Economics, University of Limburg (now Maastricht University). Title of dissertation: Uneven Growth Between Interdependent Economies. An Evolutionary View on Technology Gaps, Trade and Growth (published by Avebury). Supervisor: Luc Soete.• Studied

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://verspagen.nl/category/uncategorized/)
- [Limburg](https://verspagen.nl/category/limburg/) - Meningen en inzichten over Limburg
- [Economics](https://verspagen.nl/category/economics/) - All sorts of economics related things
- [Thuis/Home](https://verspagen.nl/category/thuishome/) - A set of more personal topics