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After completing his PhD at the TU/e and a part-time post-doc position at Utrecht University, Matthijs Janssen is currently affiliated with Harvard. During the academic year 2015-2016, he was appointed as a Research Fellow at the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development (CID). The CID is part of the Harvard Kennedy School for Public Policy, known worldwide for the Atlas of Economic Complexity, which they have published several editions of in recent years (together with MIT). This atlas, available online at atlas.cid.harvard.edu, illustrates which products are produced in which countries. Much of the research conducted within the Growth Lab focuses on why some countries are able to produce more and more advanced products than others.
At CID, Matthijs is involved in industrial diversification; the process through which an economic structure transforms. His research primarily focuses on how intermediary sectors (such as knowledge-intensive service providers) contribute to spreading the knowledge present within an economy, and how this impacts the development of new economic activities. Throughout his tenure at Harvard, Matthijs remains active in various Dialogic projects.