Ariel Wirkierman (University of Sussex).
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Varieties of Growth Regimes, Innovation Systems and Structural Changes in Europe: Challenges for XXI Century
This paper aims to provide an empirically grounded, fine grained picture of the varieties of growth regimes in Europe, and how this has gone hand in hand with patterns of structural change and the dynamics of national innovation systems. We disentangle some key nexus between the evolution of innovation, medium-term changes of production, employment, and profitability structures and on their interactions. We focus particularly on disentangling intrinsic and structural factors in the description of growth regimes, shifts in distributive relations and the extent to which these processes have resulted from the European innovation systems falling behind the technological frontier.
Ariel Wirkierman is a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU, University of Sussex) working on the EU Horizon 2020 ISIGrowth Project. In particular, he applies and develops Input-Output techniques and simulation models of industrial dynamics to analyse innovation, technical progress, structural change and income distribution.
He has previously been a post-doc researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Finance and Econometrics (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy), designing and implementing algorithms and metrics in complex networks to study industry clusters and node centrality in interindustry networks.
Before his doctoral studies he worked as an economic officer at the Ministry of Economy and Production of Argentina, focusing on Regional Input-Output Analysis. Ariel holds a Licentiate in Economics (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Master in Economics (National Unviersity of La Plata, Argentina), PhD in Economics (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart).
Speaker(s): Ariel Wirkierman (University of Sussex), Gregor Semieniuk (SOAS)
Event Date:
22 March 2017
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SOAS Economics Podcast