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Can Small Nations Compete and Win in the Age of AI? The Case of Wales
October 14 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The AI revolution is reshaping the terms of economic competition — and for small nations without Big Tech headquarters or deep capital markets, the question is whether size can be an advantage rather than a constraint. Wales is a sharp test case. It industrialized early, de-industrialized hard, and has important productivity challenges to overcome. Now Adam Price MS, Wales’s Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy, is betting on AI adoption, clean energy, and a rebuilt skills system to close the gap — all from a sub-national government with limited fiscal levers. Price joins the Growth Lab to discuss what Wales’s strategy reveals about the prospects for small nations in a world being reshaped by AI.
Speaker: Adam Price MS — Welsh Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Whether attending in person or virtually, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. Lunch will be served. The Zoom session is open to the public.
Speaker Bio:
Adam Price is a former Managing Director of Newidiem, a UK policy and economics consultancy, and former Executive Director of the Welsh economic development and cultural change agency, Menter a Busnes. Before being elected to the National Assembly, Price worked as a Senior Program Manager for a UK Innovation Foundation Nesta.
Price was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Harvard University where he studied a Masters in Public Administration. He went on to become a Fellow at the Centre for International Development at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2014 he won the Bronze Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival for his documentary on the 1984/1985 Miners Strike. In 2015 his 4-part series was recognized with 2 BAFTA Cymru Awards.
The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries, regions, states, and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy.