PRESENTATION
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, ESSID 2007