8 - 12 July 2024
Economic Fitness & Complexity
summer ScHOOL 2024
Second edition
UNU-MERIT (Maastricht, the Netherlands)
A five-day Summer school on economic fitness and complexity for phd students, early career researchers, and practitioners
Organised by UNU-MERIT (Maastricht), Enrico Fermi Research Centre (CREF, Rome), and the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI-INET)
An extensive introduction to the economic complexity framework, with theoretical and practical classes, and presentations of state-of-art applications of economic complexity methods in different areas of social sciences
TOPICS
Using complexity analysis for...Economic Development and Growth
Economic Geography and Labour
Firm Dynamics
Policy
Sustainability
Science and Innovation
oVERVIEW
Courses and labs
The first three days of the school will focus on theoretical and practical classes covering the following topics: economic complexity measurement, network theory, machine learning, measurement of relatedness. Theoretical lectures will be followed by coding labs, where participants will apply the methodologies introduced in class to carry on assigned group projects.
PRESENTATIONS
In the last two days of the school, many world-wide renowned scholars have been invited to present their frontier research, linking economic complexity with economic development, economic geography, labour economics, sustainability, economics of science, and innovation policy. At the end of the school, students will also get a chance to present their group projects, and to get feedback on them.
Speakers
Chiara Burlina
Assistant Professor, University of Padova
Masud Cader
Country Analytics Lead at International Finance Corporation – World Bank
Bernardo Caldarola
Researcher at UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
Davide Consoli
Research Fellow, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia
Carolina Castaldi
Chair in Geography of Innovation, Utrecht University
Dario Diodato
Economist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
François Lafond
Deputy Director of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford
Nanditha Mathew
Research Fellow at UNU - MERIT, United Nations University
Robert Marschinski
Growth and Innovation Circular Economy and Industrial Leadership - European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Seville)
Dario Mazzilli
Researcher at CREF
Ljubica Nedelkoska
Senior Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, Harvard University
Frank Neffke
Team leader Science of Cities at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Neave O'Clery
Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London
Aurelio Patelli
Researcher at CREF
Luciano Pietronero
President at CREF
Emanuele Pugliese
Research Fellow at UNU - MERIT, United Nations University
Angelica Sbardella
Researcher at CREF and Research Associate at SOAS-University of London
Andrea Tacchella
Researcher at CREF
Bart Verspagen
Full Professor at UNU - MERIT, United Nations University
Fabiana Visentin
Assistant Professor of Economics of Innovation at UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
Reinhilde Veugelers
Professor in the department of management, strategy and innovation at KU Leuven
Andrea Zaccaria
Researcher at Institute of Complex Systems – CNR
The Venue
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PRevious editions
The first edition of the EFC Summer School was held at Enrico Fermi Research Centre (Rome) in June 2023, and was attended by 40 participants.