Events
The Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) events explore how to boost productivity through nurturing innovation - ideas that are new to the world - and how to diffuse these ideas across the economy.
Public Events are free and open to all but pre-registration is required.
Research Seminars are open to LSE staff and research students (and by invitation) only.
We also co-host the PRINZ Seminars, you can find out more in this page.
Upcoming
Friday 02 October 2026 - Sunday 04 October 2026 00:00
POID External Event
Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago
Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program (IOG) Conference
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John Van Reenen (LSE), Various speakers
Off Campus
Tuesday 06 October 2026 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
TBC
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SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 08 October 2026 - Friday 09 October 2026 00:00
POID External Event
Chicago Booth London Campus
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets
Economic Experts Conference
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John Van Reenen (LSE), Various speakers
Off Campus
Wednesday 14 October 2026 09:00 - 10:00
POID External Event
Policy Capital (previously ELGINAdvisory)
Roundtable on fiscal policy
This panel will examine the scope for fiscal policy to drive higher levels of growth across the U.K....Read more...
John Van Reenen (LSE), Various speakers
Off Campus
Thursday 22 October 2026 - Friday 23 October 2026 00:00
POID External Event
Global Talent Fund/Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Talent Economic Conference
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 03 November 2026 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
TBC
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SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Thursday 05 November 2026
POID External Event
University of Oxford
Department of Economics
Macroeconomics seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 17 November 2026 - 00:00
POID External Event
Imperial College London
Department of Economics
Seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 01 December 2026 - 00:00
POID External Event
University of Oxford
Department of Economics
Applied microeconomics seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Wednesday 02 December 2026 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Who captures the value of public innovation?
Publicly funded innovations create social value, but the welfare consequences depend on who captures that value. This paper develops a framework for measuring the incidence of public innovation and applies it to R&D fund...Read more...
Eugenie Dugoua (LSE), joint with Todd Gerarden, Kyle Myers, and Jacquelyn Pless
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 12 January 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Business Dynamism and Innovation: Evidence from a novel 19th century micro-data
We construct a novel establishment-level dataset combining the nineteenth-century U.S. Census of Manufactures (1850?1880) with patent records from CUSP to examine how innovation shaped firm performance in early industria...Read more...
Ruveyda Nur Gozen (Cardiff University)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 02 February 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
TBC
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Hadar Avivi (University College London)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 09 February 2027 - Wednesday 10 February 2027 00:00
POID External Event
University of Helsinki
Keynote, Kipina Forum
Kipina Forum (Kipina* for ?Spark? in Finnish) is the university?s biennial stakeholder event bringing together political leaders, business executives and the academic community in Finland. The aim is to create a setting ...Read more...
John Van Reenen (LSE), Various speakers
Off Campus
Monday 22 February 2027
POID External Event
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/Institute for Economic Analysis (UAB/IAE) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Wednesday 24 February 2027 - 00:00
POID External Event
University of Oxford
INET Complexity Economics Group
Seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 02 March 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Responsible sourcing in supply chains
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Rocco Macchiavello (LSE)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 16 March 2027 - 00:00
POID External Event
The University of Rochester
Department of Economics and Simon Business School
Seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 06 April 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
TBC
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SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 11 May 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Who leads the world technology frontier? National innovation system and global growth
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Paolo Surico (London Business School)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 19 May 2027 - 00:00
POID External Event
University of Bristol
Econometrics seminar
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John Van Reenen (LSE)
Off Campus
Tuesday 08 June 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Signal and noise in green industrial policy
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Jakob Schneebacher (Institute of Fiscal Studies)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Tuesday 06 July 2027 11:00 - 12:00
POID Research Seminar
Does lifting coercion lift the economy?
State coercion is often viewed as a fundamental barrier to development, yet coercive state capacity has also accompanied many episodes of rapid growth. This paper argues that understanding the economic effects of state c...Read more...
Noam Yuchtman (LSE)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH