Sándor Juhász

I am originally an economist interested in data magic, networks, innovation and (economic) geography.

Currently I am a member of NETI Lab at the Corvinus University of Budapest and ANET Lab at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In most of my projects I work with spatial and network data to study the dynamics of collaboration networks, geography of innovation and urban mobility.

news

Aug 2, 2021	New preprint on the concentration of individual social capital in space
May 5, 2021	New preprint about commuting and social assortativity in US cities
Apr 15, 2021	New paper published in European Planning Studies
Dec 18, 2020	Conference presentations 2020 autumn
Aug 18, 2020	New paper published in Papers in Regional Science

selected publications

SBE

Spinoffs and tie formation in cluster knowledge networks

Juhász, S.

Small Business Economics, 2021

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It is generally acknowledged that in order to have access to locally accumulated industrial knowledge, firms have to collaborate and take part in cluster knowledge networks. This study argues that the inherited capabilities of spinoff enable them to cooperate and exchange knowledge more easily and to gain more from positive knowledge externalities in clusters. The basis of the analysis is a relational dataset on a printing and paper product cluster in Hungary, and I use exponential random graph models to explain the formation of knowledge ties. I demonstrate that besides geographical proximity, ownership similarity and network structural effects, being a spinoff company enhances tie formation in the local network. Results suggest that spinoffs are indeed more likely to collaborate and take advantage of knowledge concentration.
PLOS

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

Juhász, S., Tóth, G., and Lengyel, B.

PLOS One, 2020

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In collaboration-based creative industries, such as film production, creators in the network core enjoy prestige and legitimacy that are key for creative success. However, core creators are challenged to maintain diverse access to new ideas or alternative views that often emerge from the network periphery. In this paper, we demonstrate that creators in the network core can increase the probability of their creative success by brokering peripheral collaborators to the core. The argument is tested on a dynamic collaboration network of movie creators constructed from a unique dataset of Hungarian feature films for the 1990–2009 period. We propose a new way to capture brokers’ role in core/periphery networks and provide evidence that being in the core and at the same time bridging between the core and the periphery of the network significantly increases the likelihood of award winning.