Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days
Economics, Management, Finance, and Science & Technology Studies
Programme
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The scientific program includes keynote lectures of:
Dominique Foray (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
Prof. Dominique Foray is the Director of the "Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation" at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. His research interests include all topics and issues related to the economics and management of technology, knowledge and innovation at both the micro and macro levels. This broad field covers the economics of science and technology with a particular focus on high tech sectors, the management of large-scale technological projects, international comparisons of institutions, and systems of innovation within the context of the new economy. Intellectual property and competition policies, information technology and the new economy, capital market and entrepreneurship, national systems of innovation are fields of high relevance for his research. Prof. Foray is recognized as one of the leading academic experts in the economics of innovation and knowledge and economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy.
Jacob L. Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen)
Jacob Weisdorf is associate professor of economics at University of Copenhagen, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies at the European University Institute 2010-2011, a co-organiser of the FRESH Economic History Initiative, and an upcoming managing editor of Scandinavian Economic History Review. He is also an editorial board member of Cliometrica, Journal of Maltese History and Review of Economics and Institutions and Economics. He received his PhD from Copenhagen in 2004, and has taught in Copenhagen since then. He is currently studying for a PhD in economic history at University of Lund.
Jacob Weisdorf has published on topics in the fields of economic growth theory, economic history and development economics, including publications in journals such as Journal of Economic Growth, Economic History Review and Journal of Development Economics. His research interest concern economic growth and development over the very long run, from the time of the Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution, covering evolution in variables such as living standards, labour input, demography, and social mobility. His personal website can be accessed by clicking here: http://www.econ.ku.dk/okojwe/.
Luigi Marengo (St. Anna School for Advanced Studies)
Luigi Marengo is Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at St. Anna School for Advanced Studies, Pisa. He graduated in Economics at the University of Turin and got his PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. He had teaching and research appointments at the University of Trento, University of Strasbourg, Paris XIII, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria).His researchinterests are mainly in the fields of: organization economics, decision theory,agent-based models in economics, behavioural economics, economics of technological change and property rights.His personal website can be accessed by clicking here: https://mail.sssup.it/~l.marengo/ .