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:
- Daniel Rock, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Hyejin Youn, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Esteban Moro, Media Lab, MIT
- Yong-Yeol “YY” Ahn, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University Bloomington
- Marta Gonzalez, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
- Jiang Zhang, School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University
- R. Maria del Rio-Chanona, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
- Lü Linyuan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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!
