2024 Bessemer Symposium in Economic Geography of Innovation
19th-20th September 2024
University of Sheffield, Workroom 3, The Diamond, 32 Leavygreave Rd, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7RD
PROGRAMME
Day 1 – Thursday 19th September
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome
13:15 – 16:00 Data Training by Dr Sergio Petralia (University of Utrecht): “Squeezing the Data Lemon: How to find your way around non-traditional sources of innovation data”
Session I: Brainstorm session and discussion of non-traditional data sources
• Patent Data Revisited
• Publication Data Revisited
• Exploring GitHub Data
Session II: Hands-on lab with R
• Text Mining Large Data Sources
• Managing API Requests
• Web Scraping Techniques
• Automated Data Collection with Robots
16:00 – 17:00 Publishing in Economic Geography of Innovation
17:00 – 19:00 Visit at the Sheffield Kelham Island Museum of Industry & Steelmaking History
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner
Day 2 – Friday 20th September
09:00 – 09:15 Coffee
09:15 – 10:45 ECR Presentations Session I
• Chris Dimos (University of Bath) - Innovation clusters, productivity and skills: Evidence from the UK
• Qian Zhou (KU Leuven) - Patents, Trademarks and Entrants’ Growth in European Industries and Regions
• Yang Zheng (Aston University) - Green Revenues, Low-carbon Technologies and Their Spillovers: Evidence from Global Firm Level Data
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 SCR Presentations Session I
• Tommaso Ciarli (University of Sussex) - The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies
• Rossella Salandra (University of Bath) - The impact of language translation on knowledge access and diffusion: Evidence from Cochrane’s translation programme
• Sergio Petralia (University of Utrecht) – Innovation complementarities in open-source software
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch Break & ECR Posters Session
13:15 – 14:15 Keynote Speech by Dr Neil Lee (LSE): “What would a pro-worker innovation policy look like?”
14:15 – 15:45 ECR Presentations Session II
• Nils Rochowicz (University of Oxford) - Network structure and link prediction in technological recombination
• Aida Garcia-Lazaro (University of Bath) - Artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity skills in the UK
• Jingyuan Zeng (LSE) - The making of high-tech clusters: Evidence from early-mover corporate labs in the American microchip breakthrough
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 SCR Presentations Session II
• Liza Jabbour (University of Birmingham) - The Diffusion of Environmental Innovations: The Role of International Co-Inventions
• Carlo Corradini (University of Reading) - Knowledge search and regional technological diversification
17:00 Concluding Remarks and Drinks