Tamás Sebestyén on Networks, Value Chains and Catching Up – Why Foreign Investment Alone Is Not Enough
In episode 10 of the RegInno podcast, Raj and Andra Riandita welcome Tamás Sebestyén, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Pécs and head of the EconNet research team.
Tamás explains how he moved from growth economics into network science, and why the structure of global value chains matters for regional development. Drawing on global input-output tables and Hungarian firm-level VAT transaction data, he discusses a central finding from his work on Central and Eastern Europe: attracting multinational firms is not by itself enough. Domestic firms gain in…
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