Research Policy
Vol. 51, Issue 3, Pages 104450
April 2022
Abstract
Highlights
• Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time.
• This brief introduction to economic complexity summarizes key theoretical foundations and principles of economic complexity.
• It also reviews the tools and metrics developed in the economic complexity literature that exploit information encoded in the structure of the economy to find new empirical patterns.
• It finally aims is to highlight the insights from economic complexity to improve political decision-making.
Citation
Balland, Pierre-Alexandre, Tom Broekel, Dario Diodato, Elisa Giuliani, Ricardo Hausmann, Neave O'Clery, and David Rigby. "The new paradigm of economic complexity." Research Policy 51.3 (April 2022): 104450.