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SUMMARY:Development Talk -  Banking on Colombia’s Development: Innovation and Growth at Bancoldex
DESCRIPTION: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.  	Speaker: Javier Díaz Fajardo\, President and CEO of Bancóldex 	Moderator: Juan Jimenez\, Lecturer in Public Policy\, HKS 	This session will focus on Innovation and Growth at Bancoldex\, Colombia’s entrepreneurial development and export-import bank.   	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Boxed lunch will be provided after the event. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	Speaker Bio: Javier Díaz Fajardo has thirty years of experience in financial markets. His work in this field includes management positions in New York\, Washington and Colombia. He has been president of Bancóldex\, Colombia’s business development bank\, since 2019. During this time\, he has led the growth of the entity\, exceeding $10 billion in total assets\, and has transformed the entity’s business model\, going from being a second-tier bank for commercial banking to one that provides direct credit to Colombian companies with an emphasis on innovation\, sustainability and digital transformation. 	In October 2023\, he was appointed co-president of the Development Banks Club (IDFC)\, an organization made up of 26 development institutions from around the world. Previously\, he was CEO of Renta 4 Global Fiduciaria\, an asset management startup (subsidiary of the Spanish bank Renta4). Until 2017 he was Commercial Vice President and Vice President Corporate of the Colombian Stock Exchange\, where he designed and completed the initial financing for a2censo\, a fintech that allows Colombian micro\, small and medium-sized companies to issue bonds to investors through crowdfunding.Diaz Fajardo holds a Master’s degree in International Business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a law degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. In addition\, he is a member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows\, the main venture capital and entrepreneurship network in Silicon Valley\, and is a founding member of the Colombian Institute of Corporate Governance. He has served on 10 boards of directors and taught the class “Financial System: History\, Strategy and Leadership” at CESA\, Colombia’s main business school. He also served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Grupo Aval\, Colombia’s largest financial group\, and was a director of Andes Capital\, a Colombian venture capital fund that he co-founded.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-banking-on-colombias-development-innovation-and-growth-at-bancoldex/
LOCATION:HYBRID R-306\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Labor Markets & Green Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Christophe Combemale\, Assistant Research Professor\, Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLocation: WEXNER W-434 A.B. (Harvard Community) / Zoom 	Whether attending in person or online please register in advance.  	About the Speakers:  	Christophe Combemale’s research focuses on the implications of technology choices and process design for skill demand\, and on workforce supply chain levers to meet industry skill demand needs. He is interested in how regional and national labor supply may constrain economic productivity and innovation\, and solutions that enhance outcomes for workers and firms.   	He co-leads the Workforce Supply Chains Initiative at the Block Center for Technology and Society. Last year\, he was the workforce research lead for an NSF-funded pilot program seeking to develop a National Network for Critical Technology Assessment. The program developed assessment capabilities for critical technologies for U.S. competitiveness\, to offer insights to U.S. legislators and other policy stakeholders. 	Combemale is also the CEO of Valdos Consulting\, a firm specializing in techno-economic modeling to support market\, technology\, and workforce strategy. Combemale and team currently apply these domains on behalf of federal\, academic and private clients in health and human services\, technology services as well as advanced manufacturing including semiconductors\, robotics\, electric vehicles\, and defense industrial applications.  	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-labor-markets-green-industrial-policy/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Economic Impact of Transport Infrastructure: A Review of Project-level vs. Aggregate-level Meta-Evidence
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Timo Välilä\, Honorary Professor\, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction\, UCL 	Location: HYBRID: WEXNER W-434 A.B. / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Abstract. This article undertakes a comparison of quantitative meta-studies at project level and at aggregate level to assess how well the economic impact of transport infrastructure is understood. Project-level analyses\, based on the so-called Flyvbjerg database\, have documented systematic cost overruns and\, less conclusively\, traffic demand shortfalls\, and they have interpreted these findings as being indicative of negative social welfare consequences of transport infrastructure investment projects. In contrast\, aggregate-level meta-analyses find consistently that there is a positive relationship between transport infrastructure and measured economic activity at the level of regions or countries\, especially in the long run and at higher levels of geographical aggregation. This seeming tension between the meta-results at different levels has been considered a paradox. However\, neither the project-level meta-results\, nor the available ex post evaluations of larger samples of transport infrastructure projects provide any conclusive evidence of their social welfare consequences\, and even if they did\, changes in social welfare and economic activity do not need to point in the same direction. There is therefore no paradox about the economic impact of transport infrastructure – we just do not understand its social welfare consequences at the meta-level as well as we understand its relationship with measured aggregate output.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-economic-impact-of-transport-infrastructure-a-review-of-project-level-vs-aggregate-level-meta-evidence/
LOCATION:WEXNER W-434 A.B. / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T120000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: Economic Gardening and Capitalism’s Conundrum
DESCRIPTION: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. This event is co-sponsored with the Taubman Center for State & Local Government. 	Speaker: Christian Gibbons\, founder of the National Center for Economic Gardening (NCEG) and creator of “Economic Gardening\,” an entrepreneurial approach to economic development. 	Moderator: Lara Gale\, Economic Development Program Manager\, Taubman Center for State & Local Government. 	This session will be an interactive discussion of capitalism’ conundrum and the role of Economic Gardening- an entrepreneurial\, grow-your-own approach to economic development.  Economic Gardening is based in part on the science of complex adaptive systems\, systems theory and Stage 2 companies with a focus on commodity traps.  	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. 	Speaker Bio: Chris Gibbons is the founder of the National Center for Economic Gardening (NCEG).  He is the creator of “Economic Gardening\,” an entrepreneurial approach to economic development.  The program\, created in Littleton CO in 1987\, is widely regarded as introducing the first entrepreneurial element into economic development.  It is a major strategy used in many economic development programs today.  	From the period 1990 to 2010 the number of jobs in Littleton doubled from 15\,000 to 30\,000 and sales tax revenues more than tripled from $6 to $21 million.  The city did not recruit one business during this period\, nor did it offer one cent in incentives or tax rebates. The NCEG was created in 2012 to assist communities across the country to start and operate Economic Gardening programs.  	  	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-economic-gardening-and-capitalisms-conundrum/
LOCATION:HYBRID T-520 NYE BC\, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T113000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004012Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Ruveyda Gozen\, Ph.D. – London School of Economics. 	Location: Online only. Please register in advance. 	Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5C4dMtp1toJ7AKAHnORAEZYgX5q84I5/view 	Abstract: How do stronger property rights for disadvantaged groups affect innovation? Dr. Ruveyda Gozen investigates the impact of strengthened property rights for women on U.S. innovation by analyzing the Married Women’s Property Acts\, which granted equal property rights to women starting in 1845 in New York State. She examines the universe of granted patents from 1790 until 1901\, exploiting the staggered adoption of the laws over time across states. The strengthening of women’s property rights led to a 39% increase in patenting activity among women in the long run\, with effects peaking about a decade after the laws were introduced. Importantly\, women’s innovations were not of lower quality (as measured by a novelty index based on patent text analysis)\, without generating negative effects on innovations by men. Therefore\, these findings suggest that there does not appear to be an equity and efficiency trade-off. Finally\, she shows that the main mechanism was through innovation incentives\, and higher human capital accumulation among women inventors rather than an increase in participation in STEM fields\, labor force participation\, or relieving financial frictions. 	Speaker Bio: Dr. Ruveyda Gozen is a research economist at the London School of Economics (LSE) at the Programme of Innovation and Diffusion (POID) directed by John Van Reenen. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on economics of innovation\, growth\, entrepreneurship\, institutions\, inequality\, and technological progress.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-property-rights-and-innovation-dynamism-the-role-of-women-inventors/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T113000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240312T180600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Contracting Frictions\, Geography\, and Multinational Firms: Evidence from Mexico
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Luis M. Espinoza Bardales\, Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan 	Location: Online only. Please register in advance.Abstract: This paper explores how contracting frictions and geography influence the trade costs faced by multinationals’ affiliates located in Mexico relative to domestic firms. Luis documents two key facts. First\, distance to firm’s home countries influences firms’ sourcing patterns. Second\, sectors with a larger presence of foreign affiliates are more intensive in relationship-specific inputs. He develops a small open economy model with multiple sectors\, imperfect contracting\, input relationship-specificity\, global sourcing and multinational production. Luis computes a set of counterfactual equilibria to gauge the relative importance of contracting frictions\, trade costs\, and productivity in the price advantage of multinationals over domestic firms. He finds small median differences between foreign and domestic firms regarding inward trade and contracting costs\, with high variability across industries and home countries. \nAbout the Speaker: Luis Espinoza is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from University of Michigan. He is also a former Growth Lab Fellow (2014-2016) and holds a MPAID (2014) degree from HKS. He will be joining the International Affairs faculty at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M this Fall. Luis’ research interest lies at the intersection of trade and development. His research focuses on economic development from a sectorial/macro perspective\, with an eye on potential lessons for policy.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-contracting-frictions-geography-and-multinational-firms-evidence-from-mexico/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20250303T201900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001621Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar: Strategies for Inclusive Growth
DESCRIPTION:Join Profs. Matt Andrews and Ricardo Hausmann for a one-hour webinar on the rapidly evolving paths to economic prosperity and how rethinking economic policy\, from design to implementation\, can advance shared prosperity for all.  	Registration is required.  	This free\, live webinar is a precursor to the upcoming Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program\, Strategies for Inclusive Growth. The recording will be distributed to all registrants. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-strategies-for-inclusive-growth/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T110000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003933Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Modelling Technological Change in the Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Bessie Noll\, Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich 	In this seminar\, Bessie  will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of  her research as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  	Location: HYBRID W-434 A.B. HKS (Harvard Community) / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	About the Speaker: Bessie Noll is a Postdoctoral researcher with the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zürich. In September 2023\, she successfully defended her PhD\, presenting a dissertation that aims to enhance our comprehension of how public policy can accelerate transformative change in the road transport sector towards low-carbon technologies. In particular\, the thesis argues that policymakers need up-to-date\, quantitative\, approaches to evaluate and project dynamic technology competition and to assess prospective policy impacts on the transition. 	Her current research explores two distinct areas. The first focuses on improving the representation of technological innovation in Integrated Assessment Models\, looking specifically at technology complexity to understand why some technologies learn faster than others. The second focuses on the low-carbon transport transition in Africa\, assessing the role of battery electric versus synthetic fuel vehicles as options for decarbonizing passenger transport.  	Paper: The effects of local interventions on global technological change through spillovers: A modeling framework and application to the road- freight sector 	Abstract 	To address global sustainability challenges\, (public) policy interventions are needed to induce or accelerate technological change. While most policy interventions occur on the local level\, their innovation effects can spill over to other jurisdictions\, potentially having global impact. These spillovers can increase or reduce the incentive for interventions. Lacking to date are computational models that capture these spillover dynamics. In this study\, we devise a conceptual and methodological approach to quantify ex ante the effects of local demand-side interventions on global competition between incumbent and novel technologies. We apply these frameworks to the case of commercial road-freight\, assessing global spillover effects due to different demand-pull interventions and shocks.  	The presentation will walk through the motivation\, methods\, and results of this study\, and as well expand on the question of why certain technologies learn faster than others using innovation and technology complexity theory as explanatory factors. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on how this work may impact or inform larger climate models.  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-modelling-technological-change-in-the-energy-transition/
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240215T211000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Economic Complexity\, Regional Development\, and Smart Diversification: Evidence from Brazil
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speakers: João Romero and Gustavo Britto\, Professors at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)	  	Location: HYBRID L-324 FAINSOD\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract.Following the increasing upsurge in the works that use economic complexity indicators (ECI) to devise smart diversification strategies\, this paper proposes a new method – Smart Diversification Score (SDS) – to be used by policymakers to rank promising activities for short\, medium and long-term diversification. After reporting the positive impact of regional complexity\, calculated using employment data\, on employment and GDP per capita growth for Brazilian regions\, the paper assesses the potential of SDS to increase ECI in the municipal level. Looking backwards (to data from 2007 and 2018)\, the paper finds that SDS can predict up to 39.4% of the diversification activities that happened in 1033 Brazilian cities that have increased their complexity. Looking forward\, the paper calculates the SDS for the city of Belo Horizonte\, suggesting a balanced portfolio of related and unrelated activities for diversification and estimates the potential gains to be obtained following different development paths. The main contribution of this paper is to conceive of a new method\, test its validity in the municipal level and exemplify its use for policy purposes. 	Gustavo Britto is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Awarded a PhD degree in Regional Growth\, Land Economy Department from the University of Cambridge in 2008. Vice-Director at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar-UFMG) (2018-2023)\, Editor of Nova Economia Journal (2018-2023)\, and a member of the board of Graduate Studies of the Postgraduate Programme in Economics at Cedeplar-UFMG (2014-2023). Researcher at the Center for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar). His main investigation theme is the multidimensional relationship between structural change and economic development over time and across the territory. Research results can be found in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Scientometrics\, Journal of Cleaner Production\, Journal Post Keynesian Economics\, Journal of Political Economy\, PSL Quarterly Review\, and Cepal Review\, among others. General Coordinator of the DataViva project. Currently working as a visiting scholar at SOAS (University of London). 	João Romero is a full-time professor at the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Cambridge (2015)\, his PhD thesis was awarded the BRICS Economic Research Award in 2016\, promoted by the Exim Bank of India. He was also twice winner of the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry Award\, in 2009 and 2015. He was Assistant Editor of Nova Economia Journal between 2018 and 2023. He is currently the coordinator of the International Economic Relations undergraduate course at UFMG. He is a member of the Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy (CCEPP)\, coordinator of the Research Group on Public Policies and Development (GPPD)\, at the Center for Regional Development and Planning (Cedeplar)\, and Research Coordinator of the DataViva project. His research is focused on the areas of economic complexity\, regional development\, international trade\, and economic growth. He has published in journals such as World Development\, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics\, Cambridge Journal of Economics\, Metroeconomica\, Journal of Political Economy and Cepal Review\, among others.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-economic-complexity-regional-development-and-smart-diversification-evidence-from-brazil/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240208T014000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Embedding Scientific Migrations
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Dakota Murray\, Research Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University 	Location: HYBRID / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract:  	Human migration and mobility drives major societal phenomena including epidemics\, economies\, innovation\, and the diffusion of ideas. Although human mobility and migration have been heavily constrained by geographic distance throughout the history\, advances\, and globalization are making other factors such as language and culture increasingly more important. Advances in neural embedding models\, originally designed for natural language\, provide an opportunity to tame this complexity and open new avenues for the study of migration. Here\, we demonstrate the ability of the model word2vec to encode nuanced relationships between discrete locations from migration trajectories\, producing an accurate\, dense\, continuous\, and meaningful vector-space representation. The resulting representation provides a functional distance between locations\, as well as a “digital double” that can be distributed\, re-used\, and itself interrogated to understand the many dimensions of migration. We show that the unique power of word2vec to encode migration patterns stems from its mathematical equivalence with the gravity model of mobility. Focusing on the case of scientific migration\, we apply word2vec to a database of three million migration trajectories of scientists derived from the affiliations listed on their publication records. Using techniques that leverage its semantic structure\, we demonstrate that embeddings can learn the rich structure that underpins scientific migration\, such as cultural\, linguistic\, and prestige relationships at multiple levels of granularity. Our results provide a theoretical foundation and methodological framework for using neural embeddings to represent and understand migration both within and beyond science. 	About the Speaker:  	Dakota Murray is a research assistant professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern Univeristy. Previously\, he worked as a Data Scientist with Digital Science to develop tools and deliver analysis to support decision making in funding agencies. He was also a postdoctoral research associate working at the Center for Complex Network Research with Albert-László Barabási. He received a Ph.D in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-embedding-scientific-migrations/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-102\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240208T011200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003532Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Jacob Moscona\, Harvard University 	Location: HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / ZoomWhether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: (Jacob Moscona\, Josh Lerner\, Junxi Liu & David Y. Yang) Global high-potential entrepreneurship was traditionally dominated by rich countries\, especially the US\, until the rise of China as a venture capital powerhouse. We explore the international ramifications of China’s rise\, using comprehensive data on global venture activities. We document three sets of findings. First\, as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance\, investment increased substantially in other emerging markets\, particularly in sectors dominated by Chinese companies. Using a broad set of country-level economic and social indicators\, we show that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China. Second\, turning to mechanisms\, we show that the increase in venture investments in emerging economies was spurred by local investors and new firms whose business models more closely resembled those of their Chinese counterparts. The findings are not driven by Chinese investors\, by countries politically connected to China\, or by sectors prioritized by the Chinese government. Third\, we find that this growth in emerging-market investment had positive spillovers on sectors in which China was not a global leader and had positive city-level effects on both business formation and patenting. Taken together\, our findings suggest that developing countries benefited from the rise of Chinese entrepreneurship\, especially where Chinese businesses and technologies were most “appropriate” for local economic conditions. 	About the Speaker: Jacob Moscona is a Prize Fellow in Economics\, History\, and Politics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT. In 2024\, he will start as an Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT. Jacob’s research focuses on development economics\, environmental economics\, and the economics of innovation. He received his PhD from MIT in 2021 and AB from Harvard in 2016. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-appropriate-entrepreneurship-the-rise-of-chinese-venture-capital-and-the-developing-world/
LOCATION:HYBRID WEXNER W-434 AB\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T120000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240213T193000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001613Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Webinar: Leading Green Growth
DESCRIPTION:As the world transitions to a lower carbon economy\, new industries\, markets\, and paths to economic prosperity are emerging. Join Harvard faculty Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag for a one-hour webinar on how the current energy transition is reshaping economic opportunity around the world—opening new doors for some and posing threats to others—and explore what this transition means for you. 	Please register in advance. The webinar will be recorded and distributed to all attendees. This presentation does not qualify for a certificate.  	HKS Executive Education is offering a one-week on campus program\, Leading Green Growth: Economic Strategies for a Low-Carbon World\, in April 2024. Under the direction of faculty chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag\, participants will gain a foundational understanding of decarbonization and its economic impact. Application deadline is February 26. 	The Growth Lab is researching how countries can leverage trends to develop green growth strategies. Our research involves understanding changes in technology\, patterns of demand\, and value chains for green industries. Learn more about our Green Growth research agenda. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/faculty-webinar-leading-green-growth/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Green Growth Models and National Decarbonization Capacity
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZtdpZP56QyOg8fOS1J0gHgSpeaker: Daniel Driscoll (Brown University) 	Abstract: This talk brings the study of growth models and climate change together under the assumption that the policy priority of economic growth will remain central. The relevant research question from a Growth Model perspective thus becomes ‘to what extent can existing Growth Models switch from carbon-based growth to green growth?’ To answer this question\, the presentation explores growth models and national decarbonization capacity from a number of comparative and international political economy perspectives. It starts with national energy systems and balance sheets and ends with international monetary and commodity flows.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-green-growth-models-and-national-decarbonization-capacity/
LOCATION:Location: HYBRID Wexner G-02 at HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T130000
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SUMMARY:Development Talk: How Can Wall Street Avoid Funding Dictators?
DESCRIPTION: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.Speaker: Marcos Buscaglia\, Economist\, Former Wall Street Analyst and Emerging Markets Expert 	Moderator: Javier Murcio\, Director\, Emerging Markets; Portfolio Manager and Senior Sovereign Analyst at Standish and ex-JP Morgan 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. About the Speaker: 	Marcos Buscaglia has more than 30 years doing research on the economies of Emerging Market countries and advising Wall Street companies. He is also emerging as a leading voice on the topic of markets and democracy. He is the founder of Alberdi Partners\, a consultancy firm dedicated to political\, economic and market analysis of Latin American countries. Buscaglia was for five years chief Latin America economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and ranked #1 in the Institutional Investor rankings in the categories Latin America economics and Argentina in 2015. He also served as chief economist for Latin America at Citibank in New York\, and as chief economist for the Southern Cone countries at Citibank\, based in Buenos Aires. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-how-can-wall-street-avoid-funding-dictators/
LOCATION:HYBRID Democracy Lab\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T140000
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CREATED:20240117T003200Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Summer Internship Informational Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Growth Lab offers students exciting opportunities to work with its research teams on applied projects around the world\, often embedded with local governments and project counterparts. Opportunities for summer 2024 include work on the Growth Lab’s Azerbaijan\, Morocco\, Hermosillo\, and Wyoming projects.  \n	We are hosting a pizza lunch on Wednesday\, January 31st at 12 pm to provide more information and answer any questions about this year’s internship opportunities. We look forward to seeing you there!  \n	Note: The Growth Lab Summer Internship is separate from CID’s Global Internship Program.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/2024-summer-internship-informational-lunch/
LOCATION:Wexner 434 AB
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T121500
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240126T022600Z
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SUMMARY:University-Industry Collaborations and the Burden of Knowledge: Evidence from the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Location: Online only Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UlEuxqQ5QTKINYHeR-xhhA 	Speaker: Federico Bignone (University of Warwick) 	Paper Abstract: (Coauthored with Russell Thomson) Research collaborations between universities and industry are an important channel of innovation. In this paper\, we provide a systematic overview of US university-industry collaborations\, drawing upon all US-based scientific publications from 1980 to 2013 in Web of Science\, matched to the relevant business characteristics in BvD Orbis. We find that university-industry collaborations increased from 2% to 6% of all indexed publications. A decrease in direct corporate involvement in scientific research accompanies this surge. Furthermore\, we show that this increase is influenced by factors related to the nature of science such as the burden of knowledge\, rather than companies’ commercial considerations. Specifically\, the likelihood of collaboration increases as the speed of scientific progress increases\, with differences by firm size. 	Bio: Federico Bignone is a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick Business School\, University of Warwick (UK). He recently earned his PhD in Economics from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and the University of Bordeaux (France). His research primarily focuses on economics of innovation and science\, as well as corporate finance. Specifically\, his projects explore various aspects of the much-discussed decline in corporate science. He examines how the burden of knowledge may affect the likelihood of university-industry collaborations. Additionally\, he investigates whether corporate science has become increasingly more applied and whether initial public offerings (IPOs) positively impact companies’ scientific research. Recently\, he has been involved in a UK government-funded project on AI new ventures and interactions with the science base.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/university-industry-collaborations-and-the-burden-of-knowledge-evidence-from-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20240122T202000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Is There a Way to Pick Winners
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. In this seminar\, Tristan Reed will discuss his new research on the product space. 	Speaker Tristan Reed\, Applied economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BqIFp594RUWa1H7dl0MJRQ
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-industrial-policy-in-developing-countries-is-there-a-way-to-pick-winners/
LOCATION:HYBRID zoom / WEXNER W-G02 (Harvard Community)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T121500
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231124T214700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T230107Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States\, with E. Rossi-Hansberg
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Adrien Bilal – Harvard University 	 	Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ORfldxS0QwaTky5BhjVUsw 	Website: https://sites.google.com/site/adrienbilal/ Paper: NBER Working Paper 31323 -https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31323/w31323.pdf 	Abstract: We evaluate how anticipation and adaptation shape the aggregate and local costs of climate change. We develop a dynamic spatial model of the U.S. economy and its 3\,143 counties that features costly forward-looking migration and capital investment decisions. Recent methodological advances that leverage the ‘Master Equation’ representation of the economy make the model tractable. We estimate the county-level impact of severe storms and heat waves over the 20th century on local income\, population\, and investment. 	The estimated impact of storms matches that of capital depreciation shocks in the model\, while heat waves resemble combined amenity and productivity shocks. We then estimate migration and investment elasticities\, as well as the structural damage functions\, by matching these reduced-form results in our framework. Our findings show\, first\, that the impact of climate on capital depreciation magnifies the U.S. aggregate welfare costs of climate change twofold to nearly 5% in 2023 under a business-as-usual warming scenario. 	Second\, anticipation of future climate damages amplifies climate-induced worker and investment mobility\, as workers and capitalists foresee the slow build-up of climate change. Third\, migration reduces substantially the spatial variance in the welfare impact of climate change. Although both anticipation and migration are important for local impacts\, their effect on aggregate U.S. losses from climate change is small. 	Speaker Bio: Adrien Bilal is a macroeconomist with interests in labor and spatial economics. Adrien received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the department of Economics at Harvard University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-anticipating-climate-change-across-the-united-states-with-e-rossi-hansberg/
LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T190000
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SUMMARY:Compass
DESCRIPTION:Do you seek to enrich your big-picture perspective on the most critical policy and leadership topics for our time? Join us for a Kennedy School tradition of Compass\, where Jason Furman\, Ricardo Hausmann\, Deb Hughes Hallett and Todd Rogers will share 3 big ideas that transformed their fields and discuss their implications for the world! 	Ricardo Hausmann will discuss “How not to talk to the Global South about decarbonization.” 	This TED-talk-style event is an opportunity for you to engage with the world-class expertise of our HKS faculty. A perfect way to deep-dive into the topics you are passionate about\, inquire our faculty and join the Compasslearning community that meets once a semester. 	When: Monday\, November 20 at 6 – 7:30 pm 	Location: JFK Forum 	RSVP: http://bit.ly/RegCompass 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/compass/
LOCATION:HKS JFK Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231109T013700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004752Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Why is South Africa Not Achieving Its Goals?
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab recently completed a two-year applied research project which diagnosed causes of South Africa’s economic challenges and and outlined a path forward. The project was a research collaboration centered with South Africa’s National Treasury and in coordination with the Centre for Development and Enterprise. 	Speakers:Ann Bernstein\, Executive Director\, Center for Development and EnterpriseRicardo Hausmann\, Director\, Growth Lab 	Please register in advance.  	This event is sponsored by the Centre for Development and Enterprise in South Africa. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/webinar-why-is-south-africa-not-achieving-its-goals/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T121500
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231107T205900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T001711Z
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SUMMARY:Firms in Product Space: Adoption\, Growth and Competition
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: John Morrow\, Reader in Economics at King’s Business School 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance.Paper Abstract: Which products are potentially produced together? Can any firm eventually supply any new demand? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms\, we recover a continuous cost based distance between products and firms. Product distance implies a product adoption path\, with each rank of distance decreasing adoption frequency. When export demand for unproduced products induces domestic adoption\, closer firms supply them. Counterfactual production costs imply measures of Revenue Potential and Competitive Pressure. These predict firm sales growth\, scope growth and core focus. If all firms produced all products linked by co-production\, consumer welfare would increase by 20-30%. 	About the Speaker: John Morrow is a Reader in Economics at King’s Business School and is affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Economic Policy Research. His main research studies firm responses to economic changes such as trade or industrial policies and the consequences for productivity and efficiency\, especially in developing countries. John completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a recipient of the FIW Young Economist Award and ETSG Chair Jacquemin Prize. John has taught at Kent State University\, London School of Economics\, University of Essex and Birkbeck College. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/firms-in-product-space-adoption-growth-and-competition/
LOCATION:HYBRID Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T121500
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UID:15040-1699268400-1699272900@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Growing Use of Economic Complexity in EU Policy
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University & AI Toulouse Institute) 	In this hybrid seminar\, Pierre-Alexandre Balland will review the growing use of economic complexity within different sections of the European Commission\, EU member states\, and EU regions. He will then highlight existing limitations and blindspots that the field seriously needs to address. Finally\, Pierre-Alex will delve into new policy use cases that could benefit from a complexity angle in the near future. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: Economic complexity offers a powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. By focusing on the underlying structure of the economy and systemic interactions it offers new insights on growth\, technological change\, regional evolution\, or inequality. As a result\, policy makers around the world are increasingly using economic complexity heuristics and metrics to guide their decisions. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-growing-use-of-economic-complexity-in-eu-policy/
LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T111500
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231023T194600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: New U.S. Industrial Innovation Policies
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Speaker: William B. Bonvillian\, Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning 	Despite longstanding opposition from mainstream economists and neoliberal perspectives to industrial policy\, the United States\, confronted by advanced technology competition from China\, climate change\, and a global pandemic\, adopted from 2020-2022 a series of major industrial policy programs. Although the U.S. Defense Department has long practiced industrial policy approaches\, and the U.S. has followed industrial economic policies in its agriculture\, transportation\, electric power and healthcare sectors\, the new programs focused on promoting technology innovation\, so can be labeled “industrial innovation policy.” The large scale of these efforts amounted to a new step for the U.S. in non-defense sectors. 	This talk will review six major examples of new U.S. industrial innovation policies. All involve federal government interventions into the post-research phases of innovation\, from development to prototyping\, testing\, demonstration\, and production.  	Summary Paper 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 			About the speaker:	 	William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at MIT\, and Senior Director for special projects at MIT’s Office of Open Learning\, leading research projects on workforce education and technology issues. From 2006 until 2017\, he was director of MIT’s Washington Office\, supporting MIT’s longstanding role in science policy at the national level. He served as an advisor to MIT’s major cross-campus national policy initiatives on advanced manufacturing\, energy technology\, life science convergence and online education. He was an MIT representative to President Obama’s industry-university Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) which formed U.S. manufacturing policies in the 2011-2016 period. He teaches courses on innovation systems and science and technology policy at MIT in the and Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments. Previously\, he worked for over 15 years on science and innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate\, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-new-u-s-industrial-innovation-policies/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T150000
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UID:14868-1698674400-1698678000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Development Talk: Building Inclusive Cities
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Speaker: Carel Kleynhans\, CEO of Divercity Property Group 	Moderator: LaChaun Banks\, Ash Center Director for Equity and Inclusion 	Divercity Property Group is South Africa’s leading investor in well-located affordable housing precincts: Divercity invests in affordable rental housing in well-located urban precincts with scale. In this talk\, Carel Kleynhans will discuss specifically what Divercity does in South Africa and why they think that a new vision for urban development that is scalable and commercially viable can really be an instrumental part of addressing  any one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals or any other developmental outcome.  	Location: HYBRID W434 A.B\, HKS / Zoom 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Refreshments will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-building-inclusive-cities/
LOCATION:HYBRID W434 A.B.\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231016T230300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175436Z
UID:14962-1698148800-1698152400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Navigating Crisis and Leading Change in Moldova with Former Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Speaker: Natalia Gavrilita\, Former Prime Minister of Moldova 	Moderator: Karen Donfried\, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the Speaker:  	Natalia Gavrilița is a member of the Supervisory Board of the National Bank of Moldova\, as well as member of the ECFR Board. Natalia Gavrilița served as the 15th Prime Minister of Moldova between August 2021 and February 2023. She led the Government through multiple overlapping crises caused by the war in neighbouring Ukraine\, while also advancing ambitious anti-corruption\, economic\, and governance reforms. During her time in office\, Moldova received the largest influx of Ukrainian refugees of any European country\, managed to diversify its energy market away from Russian gas\, and became a candidate country to the European Union. Gavrilița has had a long history in economics and politics. She served as finance minister from June 2019 to November 2019 when President Maia Sandu was Prime Minister. Earlier in her career\, she was Managing Director at the London-based Global Innovation Fund\, a hybrid investment fund supporting social innovation in developing countries. She has also worked within the Ministry of Education\, Ministry of Economy and for Oxford Policy Management. Throughout her career\, she has worked in a number of countries across Africa\, Central and South Asia. Gavrilița graduated from Moldova State University with a bachelor’s degree in International Law and also earned a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/navigating-crisis-and-leading-change-in-moldova-with-former-prime-minister-natalia-gavrilita/
LOCATION:HYBRID T520\, Allison Dining Room\, HKS / Zoom
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231016T195900Z
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UID:15073-1698084000-1698087600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Wild\, Wild West: What Can We Learn From The Cowboy State?
DESCRIPTION: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. 	Speaker: Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyoming) 	Governor Gordon serves as the current chair of the Western Governors’ Association\, which includes 19 western states and three U.S. territories in the Pacific region\, working across a range of policy issues to advance western priorities in a bipartisan way. Governor Gordon’s initiative as WGA Chair is entitled “Decarbonizing the West\,” and this initiative follows in a tradition of initiatives focused on energy opportunities\, effective land and water management\, and reimagining the rural west. 	This discussion is co-sponsored by the Growth Lab and its Pathways to Prosperity research engagement with the State of Wyoming. The conversation is expected to touch upon numerous challenges and opportunities facing Wyoming and western states. 	Moderator: Jeff Liebman\, Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government 	Please register if you would like the possibility of attending the Forum in person. If a seat is unavailable or you will not be attending in person\, viewers can stream the event live via the IOP’s YouTube page. You do not need to register for virtual attendance. 	About the speaker: \nMark Gordon was elected Wyoming’s 33rd Governor in 2018 and is now serving in his second term. In 2022\, Governor Gordon received 79% of the vote\, the largest margin of victory of any gubernatorial candidate in Wyoming’s history and the largest vote margin among governors elected in that year. Having successfully led Wyoming through some historically difficult times including the COVID-19 pandemic\, Governor Gordon is spearheading efforts to diversify Wyoming’s economy and continue to set Wyoming on a sustainable fiscal path — which he helped to strengthen as Wyoming State Treasurer from October 2012 to January 2019. He and his wife\, Jennie\, are dedicated to making Wyoming the best place in the nation to raise a family. 	Having grown up on a family ranch in Kaycee\, Wyoming\, worked in the oil and gas industry\, and ran several businesses spanning ranching\, outdoor recreation\, and tourism\, Governor Gordon is acutely aware of the challenge of global climate change and has been outspoken about the “climate opportunity” in Wyoming and across the West. He promotes an all-of-the-above energy strategy\, as Wyoming is a leader in coal\, wind\, oil\, gas and uranium production. At a recent Conservative Climate Summit\, Governor Gordon was quoted as saying\,  “As a mountaineer\, I know that glaciers are disappearing. As a rancher\, I can see what’s happening to our farms. As someone who cares about the world for our future\, as a conservative\, I feel very strongly that this country needs to get off its butt and do so with honesty and a respect for what’s happening.”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/the-wild-wild-west-what-can-we-learn-from-the-cowboy-state/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum / YouTube
CATEGORIES:Development Talks,Growth Lab
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T113000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175311
CREATED:20231007T013200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T003451Z
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar:  Dancing With the Stars -Innovations through Interactions
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	In this hybrid seminar\, Santiago Caicedo\, an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University will discuss his research on innovation\, which uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. 	Whether attending in person or virtually\, please register in advance. 	Paper Abstract: An inventor’s own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors’ productivity over the life cycle\, inventors’ research teams\, and interactions with other inventors. Among others\, most patents are the result of collaborative work. Inter- actions with better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model\, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of inventors using inventor knowledge. The evolution of an inventor’s knowledge is explained through the lens of a diffusion model in which inventors can learn in two ways: By interacting with others at an endogenously chosen rate; and from an external\, age-dependent source that captures alternative learning channels\, such as learning-by-doing. 	About the Speaker: Santiago Caicedo is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department and Finance Group at Northeastern University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research connects microdata with economic theory to study social interactions\, human capital formation\, economic growth\, and innovation.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-dancing-with-the-stars-innovations-through-interactions/
LOCATION:Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall\, HKS (Harvard Community) & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: Money\, Time\, and Grant Design
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speaker: Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business SchoolAbstract: The design of research grants might be a useful tool for incentivizing more socially valuable science. To better understand the value of grant design as a policy instrument\, we conduct two sets of thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First\, we test whether grants with randomized attributes induce different research strategies. Longer grants increase researchers’ willingness to take risks\, but only amongst tenured professors\, suggesting that job security and grant duration are complementary incentives. Larger grants increase researchers’ willingness to expand ongoing projects\, while smaller grants increase researchers’ focus on starting new projects. In our second experiment\, we estimate researchers’ willingness to trade off grant size and duration. We find that researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off the amount of funding a grant provides in order to extend the duration of the grant — more money is much more valuable than more time. 	Whether attending in-person or online\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Zoom attendance is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Wei Yang Tham is a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and Harvard Business School. He completed his PhD in Economics at Ohio State University in 2019. Dr. Tham studies innovation and knowledge production in the context of science. His recent work includes eliciting researchers’ preferences and responses to grant design\, studying how funding delays affect the movement of human capital across sectors and borders\, and estimating the knowledge production function to better understand the optimal distribution of resources in research.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-money-time-and-grant-design/
LOCATION:Weil Hall (Belfer L1) / Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. 	This seminar is online only. Please register in advance. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Get to Know the Growth Lab: Research and Student Engagement Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the Growth Lab’s mission and approach\, our academic research and policy engagements\, and student opportunities. You’ll hear directly from the Growth Lab’s senior leadership\, research fellows\, and staff. 	RSVP is required. Refreshments will be served. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/get-to-know-the-growth-lab-research-and-student-engagement-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse
CATEGORIES:Growth Lab
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