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Inclusion Week

What Makes an Inventor? Finding the Lost Einsteins and Marie Curies

John Van Reenen (LSE)


Monday 07 October 2024 18:00 - 19:00

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

About this event

John looks at the ways of raising growth and innovation through increasing the supply of inventors. The focus is on evidence that there are barriers by gender, class and race to becoming and inventor. Reducing these could quadruple the rate of innovation.

Find out more at LSE Economics "Inclusion Week".


LSE Department of Economics


Participants are expected to adhere to the Events Code of Conduct.


This event will take place in SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.

The building is labelled SAL on the map. Enter the building via Lincoln's Inn Fields.

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