Program

Keynote:

Corinne Autant-Bernard (Saint-Etienne School of Economics, Jean Monnet University)

Proximity and knowledge flows

Ever since the production and dissemination of knowledge were identified as central levers of economic growth and development, numerous empirical studies have attempted to quantify the extent of knowledge externalities and understand the conditions under which they arise. This presentation will question the results of these empirical studies that have been developed over the last 40 years: How does the literature account for knowledge externalities and the role of distance, both geographical and social? What are the difficulties encountered in identifying knowledge externalities and the role of proximity in the knowledge diffusion mechanisms? And what new research directions are emerging to better account for these phenomena?

1. Marija Stankova Medarovska (University American College Skopje)
   Predicting Digital Economic Diversification using Production Networks

2. Johannes Dahlke (Univeristy of Twente)
   Relational Relatedness and Inter-regional Collaboration: Analyzing Regional Firm Networks Using Hyperlinks

3. Christiana Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
   Spillovers Across Industries and Regions in Brazil’s Regional Economic Diversification

4. Diego Vallarino (Inter-American Development Bank / Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM))
   Breaking the Product Space: Rethinking Economic Complexity with GNNs and Synthetic Trade Networks in Emerging Economies.

5. Wei Luo (National University of Singapore )
   Spatio-Temporal Evolution of U.S. Labor Mobility and Industry Clusters: Insights from LinkedIn Employment Data

During the conference, lunch is not provided, but we highly recommend exploring local restaurants and bakeries:

La Rosa Negra is a great place to try the classic French lunch formula: Entree, Plat, Desert. Menus rotate daily.
Marcello is a Napolitian pizza place with a great lunch lasagna (which professor Hidalgo eats about three times a weak :-)
Grand Cafe Florida is a bit more of a walk, but it is the most reliable spot in place du Capitole. Try the Tartare de Beouf with frites or the duck burger.
Au Gascon solid local eatery with daily menus based on Gascony (the area immediately west of Toulouse, where the famous musketeer D’Artagnan comes from).
Les Passionnes great local restaurant a few steps from campus.

Also, in France it is very common to buy your lunch at a boulangerie. You should be able to find sandwiches, salads, and drinks at any local bulangerie if you decide to eat in a park.

1. Sosson Tadadjeu (University of Dschang)
   Does ethnic diversity reduce economic complexity?

2. Kuanysh Zhaikov (Desht Lab Ltd.)
   Complexity-Based Analysis of Economic Freedom

3. Alessia De Santo (Università di Milano Bicoca)
   Mapping Skill Specialization Across Europe

4. Manran Zhu (Corvinus University of Budapest)
   Economic Complexity and Social Mixing

5. Alex Gusev (CEMI RAS)
   Integral Index of Structural Complexity of Regional Economies

6. Anurag Panda (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
   Determining the complexity of a technology before its widespread commercialization based on patent data

1. Viktor Stojkoski ( University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje)
   Optimizing Economic Complexity

2. Lindinaldo Freitas de Alencar (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
   Convergence between Credit and Economic Complexity in Brazilian States between 2012 and 2022

3. Jesse Anttila-Hughes (University of San Francisco)
   Capital shocks persist in US regional economic complexity

4. Florian Hack (IAB/FAU)
   Displacement, Automation and Transferable Tasks

5. Philipp Koch (EcoAustria)
   How AI adoption shapes economic development through export performance

6. Xiong Yu (Power and Renewables Associates Ltd)
   Trading Forecasts under the New US restrictions with the use of tracing methods

Keynote:

Ernest Miguelez

(University of Barcelona)

Ernest Miguelez is an associate professor at the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics of the University of Barcelona and a member of the Regional Quantitative Analysis Research Group (AQR-IREA).

His research focuses on economic geography, innovation economics, migration, intellectual property, and the adoption of green technologies. He has led and participated in projects on migration and innovation, STEM doctoral graduates' patenting and publishing. As a consultant on economic geography, migration & innovation, and gender & innovation, he worked with the European Patent Office, the USPTO, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

1. Roberto Antonietti (University of Padova)
   The “dark green” side of economic complexity: evidence from Italian NUTS-3 regions

2. Sonali Singh (Indian Institute of Management)
   Ecological Footprint and Economic Growth Uncoupled: Economic Complexity and Its Moderating Effects

3. Semanur Soyyigit (Kirklareli University) & Kiymet Yavuzaslan (Adnan Menderes University)
   How Does Economic Complexity Affect E-waste Trade? Evidence from Network and Panel Data Analysis

4. Nils Rochowicz (University of Oxford, Chemnitz University of Technology)
   Attributing Increases in Green Patenting to Climate Policy Mixes

5. Madhuri Pal (Kyoto University)
   Integration of Economic Complexity and Criticality Assessment of Materials

During the conference, lunch is not provided, but we highly recommend exploring local restaurants and bakeries:

La Rosa Negra is a great place to try the classic French lunch formula: Entree, Plat, Desert. Menus rotate daily.
Marcello is a Napolitian pizza place with a great lunch lasagna (which professor Hidalgo eats about three times a weak :-)
Grand Cafe Florida is a bit more of a walk, but it is the most reliable spot in place du Capitole. Try the Tartare de Beouf with frites or the duck burger.
Au Gascon solid local eatery with daily menus based on Gascony (the area immediately west of Toulouse, where the famous musketeer D’Artagnan comes from).
Les Passionnes great local restaurant a few steps from campus.

Also, in France it is very common to buy your lunch at a boulangerie. You should be able to find sandwiches, salads, and drinks at any local bulangerie if you decide to eat in a park.

1. Natalia Doré (University of Porto)
   Economic complexity and real convergence: A counterfactual analysis of Brazil

2. Massimo Riva (LIUC - Università Cattaneo)
   Complexity and Competitiveness: Predicting Regional Cluster Evolution

3. Jonghyun Kim (INHA University)
   The Dual-Phase Trajectory of Urban Commercial Growth: Insights from Economic and Product Complexity

4. Znagui Zineb (HEM Business & Engineering School)
   Technopoles and Economic Complexity: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Growth Dynamics

5. Vieri Calogero (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
   The Complexity of Global Production Networks: Local and External Capabilities in European Regions

6. Keertana Subramani (Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government)
   Identifying Regional Growth Clusters and the role of the knowledge economy during periods of National Transformation

1. Md Quaisar Ali (BITS Pilani)
   Regional Economic Complexity in India: Analysing Shift Dynamics, Catch-up, and Convergence Patterns

2. Elina Amurlayeva (Desht Lab Ltd.)
   Methodological Extensions of Economic Complexity for Subregional Analysis: a case of Kazakhstan

3. Francisca Ortiz Ruiz (Universidad Mayor / Millennium Institute for Care Research (MICARE))
   Creating Informed Public Policies for Older People: A Network’s Study of a Community Centre with SAOMs

4. Ilia Zaitsev (University of Groningen)
   Entering the dancefloor: assesing the potential for development of creative industries in 238 EU subnational regions

5. Melanie Oyarzun (Corvinus University of Budapest)
   Unpacking Local and Global Collective Memory

6. Miguel Guevara Albornoz (Universidad de Playa Ancha)
   Create, Search, and Match Academic Teams: Building Academia-Industry Collaboration Through Data-Driven Technology

Closing remarks