2021 Prize awarded annually by the RSAI (Regional Science Association International) for the Best Paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2020 (out of xx published papers) for the paper entitled Optimizing entrepreneurial development processes for smart specialization in the European Union, published in Volume 99, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1413-1457 (jointly awarded with László Szerb, Zoltan J. Acs, and Éva Komlósi).