PRESENTATION
ESSID
Since 1998 ESSID, the European Summer School of Industrial Dynamics, has provided a forum for economic research contributing to a better understanding of how new industries appear, expand, and eventually disappear over time; and how these changes go along with innovation, changes in market structure, and performance. Throughout the years, contributions from economic geographers, business students, economic sociologists, and applied econometricians have extended the scope of the school to the study of many more facets of the technical change, such as: the diffusion of knowledge and innovation over time and in the geographical space; the creation and adoption of new organizational practices by new and established firms; the role of institutional settings and policy frameworks, at the national, regional, and sectoral level; the methodology of innovation measurement; and the role of science and scientific institutions in fuelling technical change.
ESSID provides participants with a unique opportunity for networking: PhD students and junior researchers will meet the leading experts in the field, share everyday life, and establish long lasting contacts with both fellow students and faculty members.
Lectures by leading scholars provide update overviews on research at the frontier of industrial dynamics, economics of innovations, economics of science and the geography of innovation.
Students present their PhD drafts and papers at small-group students' workshops, where they get comments from both the faculty and fellow students.
Workshops on research tools provide highlight on data sources, methods of analysis, and simulation techniques who students will find helpful for their ongoing research.
See programmes of past editions:
ESSID 2002, ESSID 2003, ESSID 2004, ESSID 2005, ESSID 2006
The Economics of Science
Due to the vast range of topics the school has become now identified with, each editions of ESSID from 2007 onward will be centred around one topic, and the participants (students and faculty) will be selected accordingly.
The 2007 edition will focus onthe economics of science and its implications for university-industry technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and the geography of innovation. Although ESSID participants interest in science was originally motivated with the impact of scientific research on innovation and industrial dynamics, recent research has highlighted the need of a deeper understanding of the economic determinants of scientific production. In particular, it has emerged the need to understand: how individualincentives shape scientists choice of research targets, and how they interact with demand from business companies and the government; how much knowledge is transferred from university to industry through different means such as scientific publications, consultancy, patents, and human capital; and how the geography of science and technology transfer is changing along with changes in the distribution of economics activities all over the world.
APPLICATIONS ARE WELCOME from advanced PhD students in economics and PostDoc researchers in economics, management studies and related fields of the social sciences, on the following topics
- The economics of basic scientific research, private and public
- Social studies on scientists careers in university and public labs
- The labour market for scientists
- Science systems in Eastern Europe
- Science systems in newly developed and developing countries
- The geography of scientific research and innovation
- University-industry technology transfer
- Commercialization of academic research
- Intellectual property right regimes in science
- Academic entrepreneurship
- Sponsors
- Board of Directors