Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Taalbi, J. (2025) Long-run patterns in the discovery of the adjacent possible. Industrial and Corporate Change.

Taalbi, J. (2025) Innovation with and without patents. Scientometrics, Vol. 130, 4879-4897.

Taalbi, J. (2025) On the gendering of the early American electric car, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Vol. 54, 100934.

Bucaioni, V., Murgia, G., & Taalbi, J. (2024). The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance. Journal of Small Business Management, 63(2), 463–494.

Hegelund, E.; Taalbi, J. (2023) “What determines unemployment in the long run? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 64, 144-167

Martynovich, M.; Taalbi, J. (2022) “Dynamic recombinant relatedness and its role for regional innovation”, European Planning Studies

Taalbi, J.; Nielsen, H. (2021) “The role of energy infrastructure in shaping early adoption of electric and gasoline cars” Nature Energy, Vol. 6 (10), 970-976

Taalbi, J. (2021) “Innovation in the long run: Perspectives on technological transitions in Sweden 1908-2016.” Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.  Vol. 40, pp.  222-248

Taalbi, J. (2020) “Evolution and structure of technological systems” Research Policy, Vol. 49(8), 104010

Taalbi, J. (2019) “Origins and pathways of innovation in the third industrial revolution.”  Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 28(5), pp. 1125-1148

Kander, A.; Taalbi, J.; Oksanen, J.; Sjöö, K.; Rilla, N. (2018) “Innovation trends and industrial renewal in Sweden and Finland, 1970-2013.” Scandinavian Economic History Review

Taalbi, J. (2017) “What drives innovation? Evidence from economic history” Research Policy, Vol. 46 (8), pp. 1456-1472

Taalbi, J. (2017) “Development blocks in innovation networks”. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol 27(3), pp. 461-501 

PhD dissertation (monograph)

Taalbi, J. (2014) Innovation as creative response. A study of the determinants of innovation in the Swedish manufacturing industry, 1970-2007. PhD thesis. Lund University

Book chapters 

Taalbi, J. (2022) Creative response in economic history. In Antonelli, C. (ed) 2022) Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation (pp. 71-80)

Taalbi, J. (2022) Technological systems and development blocks. In Antonelli, C. (ed) 2022) Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation (pp. 477-486)

Taalbi, J. (2016) Development blocks and structural analysis. In Ljungberg, J. (ed) (2016) Structural analysis and the process of economic development. Essays in memory of Lennart Schön. Routledge.

Taalbi, J. (2015) Lönebildning, omvandlingstryck och innovationer. In Johansson, T. (ed) (2015) Lönebildning bortom NAIRU. Landsorganisationen i Sverige. Stockholm

Working papers

Taalbi, J. (2022) Long-run patterns in the discovery of the adjacent possible, arXiv [econ]

Martynovich, M.; Taalbi, J. (2020) Related variety, recombinant knowledge and regional innovation. Evidence for Sweden, 1991-2010, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography #20.15, Utrecht University

Hegelund, E.; Taalbi, J. (2019) What determines unemployment in the long-run? Band spectrum regressions on ten countries, 1913-2016, Lund Papers in  Economic History, No. 203

Taalbi, J. (2019) Innovation waves and technological transitions. Sweden, 1909-2016. Lund Papers in Economic History, No. 196

Taalbi, J. (2018) Evolution and structure of technological systems, ArXiv [econ]

Taalbi, J. (2017) “Origins and pathways of innovation in the third industrial revolution. Sweden, 1950-2013” Lund Papers in Economic History, No. 156

Taalbi, J.; Ljungberg, J. (2017) “Innovation and economic growth in the Swedish engineering industry, 1914-2014” (latest version here)

Taalbi, J. (2015)  “Causality and endogenous structural change in economics and history”

SWINNO database:

Sjöö, K.; Taalbi, J.; Kander, A.; Ljungberg, J. (2014) SWINNO – A Database of Swedish Innovations. Lund Papers in Economic History. No 133

Reports and miscellaneous (2014-)

Taalbi, J., Nielsen, H. (2021) The New Deal came too late for electric vehicles, Lack of energy infrastructure explains the rise of the gasoline car, Scientific American

Taalbi, J.; Karlsson, L. (2018) Regionala innovationsmönster. Perspektiv från en ny innovationsdatabas, 1970-2013. Region Skåne.

Taalbi, J. (2016) Realistisk ekonomisk teori? In Hylmö, A. & Borgnäs, K. (eds) Fronesis, no 54-55 (“Ekonomiskt vetande”), p. 143-160. See more about this issue here

Scocco, S.; Taalbi, J. (2014) Lägre skatter, färre personal, större behov. Arena Idé. Stockholm