Lund FRESH Meeting 2021 - Innovation in Economic History
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 25 SEPTEMBER
On November 24-25 (Wednesday to Thursday) the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden, will host a Frontier Research in Economics and Social History (FRESH) meeting. The goal of FRESH meetings is to gather researchers to present ongoing, especially early-stage, research in an environment especially focused on constructive feedback and support.
This meeting has the theme ‘innovation’. The keynote speaker will be Alessandro Nuvolari, Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute of Economics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, who specializes in the role of science and technology in the development of economic growth.
We welcome papers from a broad range of methodologies, and especially welcome papers which are connected to the theme of innovation and deal with topics such as:
- technological innovation
- organizational innovation
- agricultural innovation
- patents and other institutions
- artistic creativity and innovation
- entrepreneurship
- new (innovative) methods of production