Leader: Lengyel Balázs
Description of research area
ANET Lab is an interdisciplinary research group of the Economic and Regional Science Research Center. The Laboratory was established with the support of the prestigious Momentum Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Our passion is to understand how social and communication networks facilitate the economic and technological development of cities and regions. In our research, we combine the approaches of economics, geography, network science and computer social science.
Group members: Czaller László, Elekes Zoltán, Ilyés Virág, Lőrincz László, Németh Brigitta, Tóth Gergő, Johannes Wachs
External collaborators: Juhász Sándor, Zádor Zsófia
News, events
Event date | Event name | Link |
2023 | Balázs Lengyel taught at the Oxford Summer School on Economic Networks. | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/summer-schools/economic-networks |
2022-2023 | An animation summarizing several of the group’s studies was presented at the Álmok Álmodói exhibition. | https://millenaris.hu/almokalmodoi/ |
2022 | Gergő Tóth won the Junior Prima Primissima award. | https://www.mfb.hu/kozlemenyek/tiz-fiatal-tudost-dijazott-a-magyar-fejlesztesi-bank-magyar-tudomany-kategoriaban-1-n1360 |
2022 | With the cooperation of Brigitta Németh and László Lőrincz, and under the leadership of Balázs Lengyel, the research report The Situation of Young People on the Academic Path was completed. | https://mta.hu/fka/elkeszult-a-fiatalok-az-akademiai-palyan-2021-cimu-felmeres-kutatasi-jelentese-112472 |
2021-2022 | The study by Gergő Tóth, Johannes Wachs and Balázs Lengyel was among the most read social science studies in the journal Nature Communications in 2021. | https://www.nature.com/collections/ccjddcabab |
2019 | Zoltán Elekes won the Outstanding Young Regionalist award of the Hungarian Regional Science Society. | http://www.mrtt.hu/kivaloregionalista.html |
Projects
Funder | Project title | Start date | Closing date | Research manager | Project code |
NKFIH | Structure and resilience of regional supplier networks | 2022.12.01 | 2025.11.30 | Elekes Zoltán | FK143064 |
NKFIH | Skills, matching and competition in large-scale labor markets: exploring the mechanisms behind the urban skill premium | 2022.09.01 | 2025.08.31 | Czaller László | FK142941 |
NKFIH | Mobility, social and economic relations, and inequality in cities during the pandemic | 2021.09.01 | 2025.08.31 | Lengyel Balázs | K138970 |
NKFIH | Spatial spread of innovation | 2018.12.01 | 2021.05.29 | Lengyel Balázs | KH130502 |
NKFIH | The effect of social and collaborative networks on performance | 2018.09.01 | 2022.08.31 | Lengyel Balázs | K129207 |
MTA/ELKH | Agglomeration and social networks – Momentum | 2017.09.01 | 2022.08.31 | Lengyel Balázs | LP2017-6/2017 |
Featured publications
Johannes Wachs: Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion in Ukraine
Czaller László, Hermann Zoltán: Return to skills and labour market size
Partners
Partner name | Partner type | Nature of relationship | Period | Link |
Umea University | university | basic research | 2014- | https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-geography/ |
University College Dublin | university | basic research | 2017- | https://www.ucd.ie/sdl/ |