Taking place 16 September at the Royal Society of the Arts in London, UK, this conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of the economics of growth, development and technological change, including but not limited to: innovation in clean technologies (including fiscal and regulatory incentives for clean technology development), technology diffusion (including the role of intellectual property rights), growth and environmental policy, technology agreements and global environmental policy. The conference will be will be of interest to both researchers and policy makers working on issues related to the areas of the economics of innovation, growth and the environment.
The conference will be hosted by the Grantham Research Institute and the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics and Political Science), together with other members of the Sinergia research network: ETH (Zurich), Graduate Institute (Geneva) and EPFL (Lausanne). Funding gratefully acknowledged from the Swiss National Foundation (SNF).
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Philippe Aghion, Harvard University
Prof. David Popp, Syracuse University
Prof. Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University
Registration will open on 1st June 2015. Registrations for conference presenters are due by 20th June 2015. Registration for all other participants closes on the 20th August 2015. More information can be found here.