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The phenomenal speed of innovation during the COVID pandemic – lessons learned from the crisis

  • Conférencier  Prof. Dr. Dominique Foray – Professor of Economics and Management of Innovations, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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Prof. Dr. Dominique Foray – The phenomenal speed of innovation during the COVID pandemic – lessons learned from the crisis

Science of Science in the Spotlight (SciSci) is committed to provide a forum for multidisciplinary research exchanges in the field of Science of Science in Luxembourg through international collaborations with leading experts from complementary cognate research fields and disciplines.

One year ago, innovation economists predicted that the prospect for inventing or discovering COVID vaccines within a year was totally irrealistic. This prediction was based on two range of arguments : the classical argument about vaccine research market failures and the somewhat newer argument on the inelasticity of science. One year after, it looks like the prediction was wrong! In this talk we will discuss various reasons for the phenomenal speed of innovation during the COVID pandemic and some lessons learned from the crisis in the area of science and innovation policy.

Remote Webex session:

Meeting link:: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m3a0b19a2a33c1ca7c8959caa72576305

Meeting number: 163 346 1066

Password: SciSci

Please register by e-mail: scisci@uni.lu.

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