Josef Taalbi

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I focus on questions involving innovation, sustainability transitions, networks and history of technology.

My main research interest lies in the study of why, how and when people innovate, and what can be learnt about societal transitions from observing patterns in technological change in a long run perspective, focusing on the period from 1890 to today. Parts of this work has been to construct and further develop a Swedish innovation output database, SWINNO.

To study the driving forces of technological and structural change, I combine micro and macro analysis and statistical and qualitative analysis, drawing from economic history, network analysis and innovation studies. Of particular interest is how complementarities and obstacles emerge in technology shifts, shaping long run outcomes.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Lund University

Education

  • 2014 
    Lund University, PhD / Economic History

Publications

  • 2025
    Long-run patterns in the discovery of the adjacent possible, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • 2025
    On the gendering of the early American electric car, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • 2025
    Innovation with and without patents, Scientometrics
  • 2024
    The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance, Journal of Small Business Management
  • 2023
    Dynamic recombinant relatedness and its role for regional innovation, European Planning Studies
  • 2021
    Innovation in the long run: Perspectives on technological transitions in Sweden 1908–2016, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • 2021
    The role of energy infrastructure in shaping early adoption of electric and gasoline cars, Nature Energy
  • 2020
    Evolution and structure of technological systems-An innovation output network, Research Policy
  • 2019
    Origins and pathways of innovation in the third industrial revolution, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • 2017
    What drives innovation? Evidence from economic history, Research Policy

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