Economics of Science and Innovation

The BSE Summer Forum Workshop on the Economics of Science and Innovation explores the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic prosperity, which has grown exponentially in recent years with the shift of development economies towards knowledge-based societies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Funding new ideas
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Venture capital
• Funding schemes and panel evaluation
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Academic networks and team work
• Innovation policy instruments such as intellectual property rights
• New data and methods for measuring innovation
• Relationship between innovation and organization or market structures
• Relationship between innovation and broader economic outcome