Please see below a preliminary programme for the event. A PDF version is available here.
Day 1 - Thursday 13th September
09:00 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 10:00
Introduction to the event
Steve McGuire - University of Sussex Business School, Head of School
Michael Dietrich - ENEF coordinator
09:45 - 09:30
Introduction to ENEF and this year’s edition
Joanna Chataway - SPRU deputy director
Organising Committee
10:00 - 11:00
Keynote
Tera Allas - McKinsey Center for Government
The future of work: productivity and jobs in an era of digitization
Chair: Maria Savona - SPRU
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30
Sectors and Applications
Chair: Ed Steinmueller - SPRU
- Caroline Paunov - OECD (presenting) and Sandra Planes-Satorra
What are the Effects of Digital Transformation on Innovation Across Sectors?
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Laurence Saglietto, Dominique Fernandez Bonet - IPAG Business School (presenting),
Alban Quillaud, Gilles Paché
Supply Chain Management View of Human Capital-Intensive Firms
- Valeria Cirillo, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Stacciolo, Maria Enrica Virgillito - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (presenting)
Workers’ Awareness Context in Italian 4.0 Factories
- Rita Strohmaier - University of Graz (presenting), Marlies Schütz, Simone Vannuccini
On the Brink of a Fourth Industrial Revolution? A Systemic Perspective on Countries’ Readiness for Technological Transformation
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch
14:30 - 16:00
Employment and Wages
Chair: Simone Vannuccini - SPRU
- Tommaso Ciarli, Alberto Marzucchi, Edgar Salgado, Maria Savona
Firm Innovation and The Wage Premium Across Occupations and Gender
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
Skills and Tasks
Chair: Francesco Rentocchini - University of Milan
20:00
Workshop dinner
Day 2 - Friday 14th September
09:00 - 10:30
Industrial Dynamics: Entry, Exit and Failures
Chair: Josh Siepel - SPRU
- Elena Cefis, Alex Coad, Alessandro Lucini-Paioni - University of Bath (presenting)
Firms' innovation behaviour to survive the crises
- Elena Cefis, Riccardo Leoncini - University of Bologna (presenting), Luigi Marengo
Is an Innovation Failure Just a Dead End?
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00
The Regional Structure of Production and Employment
Chair: Alberto Marzucchi - SPRU
- Maximilian Goethner, Martin Kalthaus - University of Jena (presenting)
Digital Transformation of Regional Labor Markets: Evidence From Job Vacancy Data
- Gianluca Orsatti - University of Turin (presenting), Francesco Quatraro
Local Labor Market Impacts of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Evidence from European NUTS-3 regions
- Maximilian Goethner - University of Jena (presenting), Alina Sorgner, Simone Vannuccini
Run Away From Robots? Automation as Driver of Labor Mobility
- Roberto Antonietti, Sandro Montresor - Università Kore di Enna (presenting)
Key Enabling Technologies and (Un)related Diversification in Italian Regions
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Keynote
Guy Michaels - London School of Economics
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Chair: Tommaso Ciarli - SPRU
15:00 - 16:30
The Global Structure of Production and Employment
Chair: Maria Savona - SPRU
- Filippo Buonafede, Giulia Felice, Fabio Lamperti - Politecnico di Milano (presenting), Lucia Piscitello
Does Additive Manufacturing Impact Global Value Chains? A Country-level Empirical Study
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30
Final roundtable: Firm Automation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Ed Steinmueller
Professor of Information & Communication Technology Policy, SPRU
João Carlos Ferraz
Associate Professor, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ)
Luigi Marengo
Professor of Economics, LUISS University
Wim Naudé
Visiting Professor in Technology, Entrepreneurship and Development, RWTH Aachen University, Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University, Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT
