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The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation is an academic conference held by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. It promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of view. This is achieved through the combination of compelling keynote speakers and the presentation of a selection of leading research papers.
Special interest is devoted to the analysis of innovation activities in the Spanish economy, the development of new analytical and empirical tools, and the evaluation of policy tools.
Over the years, keynote speakers have included:
- Dirk Czarnitzki (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
- Fernando Galindo-Rueda (OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry)
- Alfonso Gambardella (Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi")
- Ivan Hascic (OECD, Environment Directorate)
- Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Univerisité Libre de Bruxelles)
- John von Reenen (London School of Economics)
2011 Edition: Innovation economists present 20 new papers
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