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