Welcome and Keynote Address 1
Regional Resilience in Today’s Evolving Economy, Mercedes Delgado (Copenhagen Business School, MIT Innovation Initiative and Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School)
Session 1: Measurement
Economic Growth Goes Fractal: The Changing Structure of UK Venture Capital, Anna Valero (LSE)
A Bottom-up Industrial Taxonomy Using Web-data, Juan Mateos-Garcia (Nesta and ESCoE)
Work2Vec: Learning a Latent Representation of Labor Demand, Daniel Rock (Wharton) Slides to follow
Keynote Address 2
How Complexity Economics can Give us Guidance in an Evolving Economy, J. Doyne Farmer (Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford)
Session 2: Modelling
Is Innovation a Process of Combination? A Roundup of Recent Evidence, Matt Clancy (Institute for Progress)
Pathway of Innovation: Micro to Macro, Hyejin Youn (Northwestern / Santa Fe Institute)
Measuring Exploration and Exploitation Patterns in Technological Innovation, Mirko Draca (Warwick-CAGE)
Session 3: Informing
Data Science for STI Policy: On Realistic Opportunities and Major Hurdles, Caroline Paunov (OECD)
The Policy Implications of Economic Complexity, Viktor Stojkosi (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Panel Session
Panel Chair: Rebecca Riley (ESCoE and King’s College London)
Panel Members: Cosmina Dorobantu (The Alan Turing Institute), Grant Fitzner (Office for National Statistics), Stian Westlake (Royal Statistical Society)