9th Conference on Model-based Evidence on Innovation and Development
On June 16–17, 2016 the 9th MEIDE Conference "Model-based Evidence on Innovation and Development" will be held in Moscow, Russia.
The event is organized by UNU-MERIT (United Nations University — Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Institute on Innovation and Technology) and the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).
The conference will gather researchers from around the world to discuss various aspects of innovation and its relation to economic development. The organisers have slightly changed the title of the conference to stress the particular aspects of this year's edition, namely the topics of innovation and development and the model-based evidence approach.
In other words, the organisers have enlarged the scope of the conference to include papers based on macro or industry data. Priority will be given to empirical papers, but there is also room for methodological and theoretical papers as well as for case studies, so long as they address the issue of innovation and development. Here innovation is to be understood broadly as any kind of innovation linked to what firms, households, communities and governments do, or how they operate. It also includes knowledge creation, diffusion, measurement and evaluation issues. Development comprises growth but also welfare, poverty alleviation, environmental concerns and fairness in the distribution of wealth / income.
Sponsors: National Research University Higher School of Economics, UNU-MERIT, Inter-American Development Bank.
Conference venue: HSE, rooms 518, 428, 11 Myasnitskaya Street, 101000 Moscow, Russia.
Working language: English.
Additional information about the conference: http://www.merit.unu.edu/meide9.