Winter Workshop in the Geography of Innovation
January 27 and January 28
The SEG team will host a workshop to convene leading young scholars of the geographical dynamics of innovative activities. Speakers will have 25 minutes to present, discussants will be allocated 5 minutes, and there will be 5 minutes for open Q&A.
Attendance is open to the public. Please register for the SEG mailing list via the SEG homepage to receive the Zoom links. The links will be distributed to mailing list members before the first session.
Session 1: January 27
9am Chicago | 10am NYC | 3pm London | 4pm CET
Complementarity, Knowledge Similarity, and Locational Relatedness in Regional Technological Diversification
Louis Knupling, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Discussant: Dieter Kogler, UCD
Green Complexity and Relatedness: Challenges and Diversification Opportunities for Regional Economies in Argentina
Andrea Belmartino, GSSI
Discussant: Kerstin Schaefer, LSE
Being Together in Place as a Catalyst for Scientific Advance
Eamon Duede, U. Chicago
Discussant: Andrea Ascani, GSSI
Session 2: January 28
9am Chicago | 10am NYC | 3pm London | 4pm Central Europe
Do Open Social Networks Foster High-Tech Growth?
Augustin Boey, LSE
Discussant: Fengli Xu, U. Chicago
Transportation Networks and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy in 19th Century France
Georgios Tsiachtsira, U. Barcelona
Discussant: Carolin Ioramashvili, U. Manchester
Consequences of Lab Closures: Understanding Worker Mobility, Technological Trajectory, and Productivity
Raphael Martins, NYU
Discussant: Melissa Haller, UCLA