19 April 2022 ~ 0 Comments

Complex Networks in Economics Satellite @ NetSci22

For NetSci22, I will join forces once again with the great Morgan Frank to bring you the second edition of the “Complex Networks in Economics and Innovation” satellite (post and official website of the first edition).

Once again, we’re looking for contributed talks, giving you an opportunity to showcase your work. Topics that are more than welcome include:

  • Mapping the relationship of complex economic activities at the global, regional, and local level;
  • Tracking flows of knowhow in all its forms;
  • Creating networks of related tasks and skills to estimate knockoff effects and productivity gains of automation;
  • Investigating the dynamics of research and innovation via analysis of patents, inventions, and science;
  • Uncovering scaling laws and other growth trends able to describe the systemic increase in complexity of activities due to agglomeration;
  • In general, any application of network analysis that can be used to further our understanding of economics.

The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cnei22. The full call text is here. And this is the official website. You should send a one-page one-figure abstract before May 13th, 2022.

We have a fantastic lineup of invited speakers you’ll mingle with:

The event will be held online on Zoom. The organization details are still pending confirmation, but we should have secured the date of July 18th, 2022. We should start at 8AM Eastern time (2PM Europe time) and have a 6-hour program. This could still change, so stay tuned for updates!

I hope to see your abstract in my inbox and then you presenting at the satellite!

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15 March 2021 ~ 0 Comments

Networks in Economics Satellite @ Networks21 Conference

This year’s NetSci conference will be special. For the first time it will be held jointly with the other major network event of the year: Sunbelt, or the main network conference for social sciences. I could not miss an opportunity like this, and so I decided to organize a satellite event with the excellent Morgan Frank and Lingfei Wu. The topic of the satellite will be network applications on research about economic development and innovation.

We’re looking for contributors to send an abstract about their work in the area. If you’re unsure about what area that is, think about my research on the Product Space, or on the impact of business travel on economic growth, or economic convergence in Colombia, etc. Specifically, if you are interested in issues like:

  • Mapping the relationship of complex economic activities at the global, regional, and local level;
  • Tracking flows of knowhow in all its forms;
  • Estimating the relatedness of tasks and skills to estimate knockoff effects and productivity gains of automation;
  • Investigating the dynamics of research and innovation via analysis of patents, inventions, and science;
  • Uncovering scaling laws and other growth trends able to describe the systemic increase in complexity of activities due to agglomeration;

and you study them using networks and the tools of the science of complex systems, then you really should send us your abstract. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cnei21. You should send a one-page one-figure abstract before May 5th, 2021.

We have a fantastic lineup of invited speakers you’ll mingle with:

The event will be held online on Zoom. The exact date is still to be determined, but it will be between June 21st and July 3rd. So stay tuned for updates! You should bookmark the official website of the satellite, to get fresh news about it: https://mrfrank8176.github.io/Complex-Networks-in-Economics-and-Innovation/

I hope to see your abstract in my inbox and then you presenting at the satellite!

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