This one-day workshop will for a second year study FinTech, digital currency and blockchains, which has become one of the fastest growing research areas in Finance. We will examine research into the architecture of distributed ledgers, decentralized consensus protocols, and smart contracts, as...

The contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic prosperity has grown exponentially in recent years with the shift of development economies towards knowledge-based societies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Funding new ideas, Entrepreneurial finance, Venture...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the implications of the rise of intangible technologies. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between the rise of intangibles, firm dynamics, and industry-level and aggregate outcome. We...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

Continuous innovation, the basis for sustainable success, requires companies to combine continuity and innovation in several different ways. The objective of the CINet PhD seminar on “researching continuous innovation” is to help students mastering the process of getting from a research...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

Topics: Environmental policy; Natural resource economics; Food security and poverty; Spatial analysis; Chains and networks; Food quality and food safety; Price analysis; Agricultural policy analysis; International trade and trade policies; Consumer choices and agri-food marketing; Innovation and...

The workshop in Science and Innovation will cover all areas of Economics of Science and Innovation, but it will put special emphasis on topics related to the financing of entrepreneurial firms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Funding new ideas - Entrepreneurial finance -...

We invite papers that aim at a better understanding of the impacts of technological change, industry 4.0 on the economy and development. We call for papers in particularly (but not restricted to) the following fields: - de- and reindustrialization processes; - new business models; - governmental...

The main actor of innovation is the firm. First, innovative firms bring the scientific progress generated in universities and public research centres to the marketplace. Second, they take on the risks inherent in transforming scientific knowledge into financial returns. In this III Workshop on...