Team

Balázs Lengyel

Head | ANET - Agglomeration and Social Networks Research Lab
Senior Research Fellow | Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Research Fellow | NeTI Lab, Centre for Advanced Studies, Budapest Corvinus University

BIO

Balázs Lengyel is an economic geographer and works on topics at the intersection of economic geography, innovation studies, and network science. He aims to understand how social interaction facilitates economic and technological progress embedded in geographical space.
Balázs joined the Institute of Economics in 2013. Before establishing the ANET Lab, he was a visiting scholar at MIT Human Mobility and Networks Lab. Balázs completed his PhD in economics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2010 and holds a master degree from University of Szeged.

PUBLICATIONS

  • B Sziklai, B Lengyel
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • 2023

Finding early adopters of innovation in social networks

  • K M Kiss, L Lőrincz, Zs Csáfordi, B Lengyel
  • PLOS One
  • 2023

Related adjustment of firm production after demand shocks

  • M Abbasiharofteh, D Kogler, B Lengyel
  • Research Policy
  • 2023

Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks

  • S Juhász, G Pinter, Á Kovács, E Borza, G Mónus, L Lőrincz, B Lengyel
  • EPJ Data Science
  • 2023

Amenity complexity and urban locations of socio-economic mixing

  • D Kogler, A Whittle, K Kim, B Lengyel
  • Economic Geography
  • 2023

Understanding Regional Branching: Knowledge Diversification via Inventor and Firm Collaboration Networks

  • L Czaller, G Tóth, B Lengyel
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2022

Allocating vaccines to remote and on-site workers in the tradable sector

  • E Bokányi, M Novák, Á Jakobi, B Lengyel
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • 2022

Urban hierarchy and spatial diffusion over the innovation life cycle

  • K Kutasi, J Koltai, Á Szabó-Morvai, G Röst, M Karsai, P Biró, B Lengyel
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2022

Understanding hesitancy with revealed preferences across COVID-19 vaccine types

  • Á Kovács, S Juhász, E Bokányi, B Lengyel
  • Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
  • 2022

Income-related spatial concentration of individual social capital in cities

  • Gy Csomós, B Lengyel
  • PLOS One
  • 2022

Geographies of the global co-editor network in oncology

  • R Di Clemente, B Lengyel, LF Andersson, R Eriksson
  • PNAS Nexus
  • 2022

Understanding European integration with bipartite networks of Comparative Advantage

  • G Tóth, B Lengyel
  • The Journal of Technology Transfer
  • 2021

Inter-firm inventor mobility and the role of co-inventor networks in producing high-impact innovation

  • Zs Vida, I Járay, B Lengyel
  • F1000Research
  • 2021

PhD students in life sciences can benefit from team cohesion

  • G Tóth, J Wachs, R Di Clemente, Á Jakobi, B Ságvári, J Kertész, B Lengyel
  • Nature Communications
  • 2021

Inequality is rising where social network segregation interacts with urban topology

  • G Tóth, S Juhász, Z Elekes, B Lengyel
  • European Planning Studies
  • 2021

Repeated collaboration of inventors across European regions

  • L Czaller, R Eriksson, B Lengyel
  • Papers in Regional Science
  • 2021

Reducing automation risk through career mobility: where and for whom?

  • E Bokányi, S Juhász, M Karsai, B Lengyel
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2021

Universal patterns of long-distance commuting and social assortativity in cities

  • M Aquaro, G Damioli, B Lengyel
  • Regional Studies
  • 2021

Innovative mergers and acquisitions and the broker regions of European integration

  • Z Elekes, B Lengyel
  • Acta Oeconomica
  • 2020

Related trade variety, foreign-domestic spillovers and regional employment in Hungary

  • Gy Csomós, Zs V Vida, B Lengyel
  • PLOS One
  • 2020

Exploring the changing geographical pattern of international scientific collaborations through the prism of cities

  • L Lőrincz, G K Chihaya, A Hannák, D Takács, B Lengyel, R Eriksson
  • Applied Network Science
  • 2020

Global connections and the structure of skills in local co-worker networks

  • B Lengyel, E Bokányi, R Di Clemente, J Kertész, M C González
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2020

The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations

  • S Juhász, G Tóth, B Lengyel
  • PLOS One
  • 2020

Brokering the core and the periphery: creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry

  • Zs Csáfordi, L Lőrincz, B Lengyel, K M Kiss
  • The Journal of Technology Transfer
  • 2020

Productivity spillovers through labor flows: productivity gap, multinational experience and industry relatedness

  • Gy Csomós, B Lengyel
  • Journal of Information Science
  • 2020

Mapping the efficiency of international scientific collaboration between cities worldwide

  • J Wachs, T Yasseri, B Lengyel, J Kertész
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • 2019

Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns

  • Z Elekes, R Boschma, B Lengyel
  • Regional Studies
  • 2019

Foreign-owned firms as agents of structural change in regions

  • I Szakálné Kanó, B Lengyel, Z Elekes, I Lengyel
  • European Planning Studies
  • 2019

Agglomeration, foreign firms and firm exit in regions under transition: the increasing importance of related variety in Hungary

  • R H Eriksson, B Lengyel
  • Economic Geography
  • 2019

Co-worker networks and agglomeration externalities

  • B Lengyel
  • Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
  • 2018

J Glückler, E Lazega and I Hammer (eds.): Knowledge and Networks

  • S Juhász, B Lengyel
  • Journal of Economic Geography
  • 2018

Creation and persistence of ties in cluster knowledge networks

  • I Lengyel, Zs Vas, I Szakálné Kanó, B Lengyel
  • European Planning Studies
  • 2017

Spatial differences of reindustrialization in a post-socialist economy: manufacturing in the Hungarian counties

  • B Lengyel, R H Eriksson
  • Journal of Economic Geography
  • 2017

Co-worker networks, labour mobility and productivity growth in regions

  • B Lengyel, Á Jakobi
  • Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
  • 2016

Online social networks, location, and the dual effect of distance from the centre

  • B Lengyel, M Leskó
  • PLOS One
  • 2016

International collaboration and spatial dynamics of US patenting in Central and Eastern Europe 1981-2010

  • B Lengyel, L Leydesdorff
  • Regional Statistics
  • 2015

The effects of FDI on innovation systems in Hungarian regions: where is the synergy generated?

  • Á Jakobi, B Lengyel
  • Modern Trends in Cartography
  • 2015

Geovisualising unequal spatial distribution of online social network connections: a Hungarian example

  • B Lengyel, A Varga, B Ságvári, Á Jakobi, J Kertész
  • PLOS One
  • 2015

Geographies of an online social network

  • B Lengyel, T Sebestyén, L Leydesdorff
  • Science and Public Policy
  • 2015

Challenges for regional innovation policies in Central and Eastern Europe: spatial concentration and foreign control of US patenting

  • B Lengyel, I Szakálné Kanó
  • Acta Oeconomica
  • 2014

Regional economic growth in Hungary 1998–2005: What does really matter in clusters?

  • L Leydesdorff, H W Park, B Lengyel
  • Scientometrics
  • 2014

A routine for measuring synergy in university–industry–government relations: mutual information as a Triple-Helix and Quadruple-Helix indicator

  • B Lengyel, I Szakálné Kanó
  • Regional Statistics
  • 2013

Related variety and regional growth in Hungary: towards a transition economy approach

  • B Lengyel
  • Clusters in Automotive and Information & Communication Technology
  • 2012

The Hungarian ICT sector: a comparative CEE perspective with special emphasis on structural change

  • B Lengyel
  • Clusters in Automotive and Information & Communication Technology
  • 2012

Regional clustering tendencies of the Hungarian automotive and ICT industries in the first half of the 2000s

  • B Lengyel, L Leydesdorff
  • Regional Studies
  • 2011

Regional innovation systems in Hungary: the failing synergy at the national level

  • B Lengyel, B Ságvári
  • European Planning Studies
  • 2011

Creative occupations and regional development in Hungary: mobility of talent in a one-centred transition economy

  • B Lengyel, I Iwasaki, M Szanyi
  • Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics
  • 2010

Industry cluster and regional economic growth: evidence from Hungary

  • B Lengyel, V Cadil
  • Transition Studies Review
  • 2009

Innovation policy challenges in transition countries: foreign business R&D in the Czech Republic and Hungary