Transforming Economies Lab

The Transforming Economies Lab studies how individuals, firms, cities, and countries learn to do new things. It investigates how workers change careers, how firms diversify, how regions transform their economies, and how global forces like migration and investment reshape capabilities for transformation in local economies. Using large-scale structured and unstructured datasets, the lab analyzes the digital traces of individuals, firms and economies and applies tools from network science, statistics, natural language processing, and machine learning to understand the mechanisms that drive economic transformation and the coordination of distributed expertise in modern societies.