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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.<\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>Registration by email: <a href=\"mailto:scisci@uni.lu\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">scisci@uni.lu<\/a><\/p><p>Remote Webex Session<\/p><p>Meeting number: 163 346 1066<\/p><p>Password: SciSci<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8563,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2021-04-28 17:00:00","event_end_date":"2021-04-28 18:30:00","event_speaker_name":"Dr. Dominique Foray, Professor of Economics and Management of Innovations, Ecole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Switzerland","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[],"events-type":[],"organisation":[147,226],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The phenomenal speed of innovation during the COVID pandemic \u2013 lessons learned from the crisis - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One year ago, innovation economists predicted that the prospect for inventing or discovering COVID vaccines within a year was totally irrealistic. 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