TechSpace Workshop: Advancing Indicators of Regional Structural Change

Workshop: Advancing Indicators of Regional Structural Change

March 17 -19, 2021, Jena, Germany

Amplified by the recent pandemic and crises, innovation is more crucial than ever. Being able to produce the next vaccine can decide about the life and death of thousands; developing the next digital communication tool shapes the learning experience of an entire generation; coming up with a radically new solution to sustainable development lays the foundation for environmental conditions the human race will face in the foreseeable future.

Yet, the conditions for the development of both radical and of incremental innovations differ substantially among organizations and places. In light of tight resource and institutional constraints, place-based policies still require the identification of essential players and an assessment of places to focus on and guide resources accordingly.

For a long time, patent numbers or simple survey insights, such as the share of turnover attributed to newly developed products, have been the gold-standard in such evaluations. However, in recent years, the development of new theoretical concepts (radicalness, complexity, sustainability, etc.), data sources (text documents, webpages, etc.), and methods (machine learning, network analytics, etc.) has opened a whole new realm of alternative indicators which allow us to better capture the innovation process and provide a more nuanced picture of its characteristics.

• The workshop is co-organized by
  
  • the Center of Regional and Innovation Economics at the University of Bremen,
  • the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at the Leibniz University Hannover, and
  • the Chair of Microeconomics at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena.

• We want to bring together scholars to discuss novel ideas concerning the measurement of innovation processes beyond the contemporary standard. We invite contributions from all disciplines whereby, in particular, contributions to novel applications or advances in the empirical measurements of innovation quantities and qualities are preferred.

Application

• Submission deadline: January 31, 2021
• Please send your extended abstract (less than 1,000 words) to tecspace@uni-bremen.de
• Decisions on acceptance for the workshop will be emailed by February 14, 2021

Program

The workshop program is now available: TechSpace 2021 Programpdf, 323 kb

Organization

The workshop will be organized in an online format. Access information is provided for registered participants. Please register by email to tecspace@uni-bremen.de