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 and non-LSE staff and research students (and by invitation) only.

We also co-host the PRINZ Seminars, you can find out more in this page.

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Public Events

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Research Seminars

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PRINZ Seminars

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Upcoming

Tuesday 03 October 2023 11:00 - 12:00

POID Research Seminar

Political Ideology and Innovation

We study the role of political ideology for a critical group of economic agents: inventors. We document that, in "politically polarizing" fields, inventors are likely to patent innovations that align with their political...Read more...

Marta Morando (LSE), joint with Gaia Dossi

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 05 October 2023 - Friday 06 October 2023

POID Public Event

Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets, Chicago Booth London

Economic Experts Conference 2023

POID Director John Van Reenen will participate at a session on "Artificial Intelligence and the Economy" at this event....Read more...

Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus

Sunday 08 October 2023 17:00 - 17:50

POID Public Event

SME4Labour and Community Union

Labour Party Conference 2023

Is Manufacturing Labour’s Future?

Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Anna Valero (CEP)

This event is both online and in person

Off Campus

Tuesday 17 October 2023 11:00 - 12:00

PRINZ Seminar

Inventor Supply Frictions

In order for innovation policy to function optimally, an increase in the demand for invention must be met with a corresponding increase in supply. In this paper we document the presence of a human capital friction that a...Read more...

Dennis Verhoeven (KU Leuven, Belgium)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:00 - 12:00

POID Research Seminar

Mafia and Firms

Rocco Macchiavello (CEP, LSE)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Thursday 16 November 2023 - Friday 17 November 2023

POID Public Event

Bank of England

7th annual workshop of the ESCB research cluster "International macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labour economics, competitiveness and EMU governance"

POID Director John Van Reenen will give a keynote speech at this event....Read more...

John Van Reenen (LSE)

Off Campus

Tuesday 21 November 2023 11:00 - 12:00

PRINZ Seminar

TBC

Francois Lafond (Oxford University), Xiyu Ren (Oxford University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 05 December 2023 11:00 - 12:00

POID Research Seminar

The machinery of progress: measuring innovation and diffusion of capital equipment, 1998-2023

In this paper we chart technological progress embodied in capital equipment used in production. To do this, we digitize archival statutory filings of 85 million transactions of capital equipment, across five large US St...Read more...

Peter Lambert (CEP, LSE), joint with Yannick Schindler (LSE, CfM)

This event is both online and in person

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Measuring daily CPI using computational methods and Chat GPT

Richard Davies (Economic & Social Research Council and CEP)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH