Carles Méndez Ortega

Professor/a Lector/a Economics and Business Studies Department

"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." (Tobler, 1970). Currently Assitant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I got the PhD in Economics at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). I am an urban and regional economist interested on firm location processes. My thesis, entitled "Location of the Software and Videogames industry in Metropolitan Areas" was trying to understand what determines the location of Software and Videogames firms within cities and the agglomeration processes with other creative firms using a wide range of methodological tools.

Expert in::

  • applied economy
  • evolutionary economic geography
  • multivariate analysis
  • data analysis
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • regional studies
  • urban studies
Research group
I2TIC
Area
Social sciences
Area of specialization
Internet technologies and artificial intelligence, Collaborative economy, Creativity and Digital Culture,
Membership Center
Faculties
UNESCO codes:
5401, 5404, 5308, 5302

ODS:

  • 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • 8 - Decent work and economic growth
  • 11 - Sustainable cities and communities

He holds a PhD in Economics and Business from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He is the holder of an Official Master's Degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Economics and Business Administration, from the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED), and an Official Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He is currently a member of the teaching staff of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's Faculty of Economics and Business. He has previously taught and conducted postdoctoral research at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and been a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States).

He participates in a European project on coworking, which aims to classify these emerging work spaces, identify their spatial distribution and explain their location patterns. It is funded by the European Union through COST. He has also formed part of the research team on a number of projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness on the location of production activities and the relocation, tertiarization and clusterization of economic activities.

His research interests lie in regional and urban economics, specifically demographics and business locations with a focus on technological and creative companies, industrial organization, and business growth.