Program Meetings

 

Upcoming Meetings:

 


Feb. 2-3, 2024 - Works in Progress meeting - Switzerland

Pre-Reading Materials

Workplace Surveillance: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies on Workplace Experiences

The Push for Distributive Sensitive Innovation Policies in Israel and Korea

Comparative political economy of technology adoption: a micro-analysis

Investigating the transformative impact of AI and Robotics on Healthcare

Responsible Innovation in Green Mining for a Sustainable and Equitable Future

Industry specialization, social capital, & income inequality in US counties, 2010–2020


May 16 - 18, 2024 - Turin, Italy

Future Meeting:

We have decided to try an approach that has worked for other CIFAR programs. Going forward, we will be asking you to hold the same week each year for CIFAR meetings:

  • The first week of February
  • The third week of May
  • The second week of October

 

Past Meetings

 

November 2-4, 2023 - Industrial and Place-based Policies - Washington, DC

Pre-readings

 

October 20-22, 2022

Fall Meeting Agenda

Circulated on behalf of Anna Stansbury:
The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy

Circulated on behalf of Donald Siegel:
1.Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned and New Directions”
2.The Role of Justice Perceptions in Formal and Informal UniversityTechnology Transfer

Circulated on behalf of John S. Ahlquist:
1.Making Decent Jobs Prepared for Daedalus special issue on the new moral political economy April 23, 2022
2.Research frontiers in the institutional analysis of work*1

Circulated on behalf of Josh Lerner:
The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

Circulated on behalf of Olav Sorenson:
The Silicon Valley Syndrome

Circulated on behalf of Yochai Benkler:
Chapter 6, The Ends of Law  - Structure and Legitimation in Social Relations: The Role of Law  

 

May 13-15, 2022

Small Group Discussion Memos:

Climate/Green Economy (Andrew, Daniel A-C, David, and Ken) Link to Memo

Health, Gender, Identity, and Innovation Equity (Aldo, Amos, Baobao, Goldie, Jane and Yochai) Link to Memo

Tech, Markets, and Policy (Dan B., Keun, Ray, Ameet) Link to Memo

 

November 12-13, 2021

David Autor's paper: "New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018" - link to paper

Jim Bessen's related paper: "Firm Differences: Skill Sorting and Software" - link to paper

Vidar Hepso's pre-readings and slides:

  • recent report on the future of work in Scandinavia - link to overview. This is an executive summary which provides a good overview on the subject matter, and where I come from. 
  • The Future of Work in the Nordic Countries - link to full report. This work as been part of a number of ’ Future of Work Dialogues. The purpose of this project has been to look at the challenges and opportunities in the future of working life for the Nordic social models. I have not participated in this work myself but it is of high quality. 
  • From Integrated to Remote Operations: Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry as Infrastructuring - link to paper. 
  • Snake Robots - link to paper
  • Vidar's presentation slides - link to slides

 

September 10, 2021

  • David Yang talk
  • Daniel Aldana Cohen
    • Working paper - Gramsci Landscapes: Delimiting the Trenches of the Clean Energy Transition (view paper here)
    • Inspiration paper - The Long New Deal by Raj Patel & Jim Goodman (view paper here) 

 

September 13, 2021

  • Ameet Morjaria
    • Preliminary working paper that I will present at the meeting: Acquisitions, Management, and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry (view paper here) 

    • This project is inspired by Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry by Bragunisnky et al (AER 2015) (view paper here)

  • Baobao Zhang 
    • Public Opinion Toward Artificial Intelligence (view paper here). This is the working paper I have been writing for the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance this summer. I'm also editing the Handbook. It is a paper that reviews existing works on public opinion toward AI.
    • Mini book proposal (view proposal here). This is a short proposal for a book (750 words) I'm writing about institutional trust in AI. The handbook chapter has informed how I plan to write the book.
    • Inspiration Predictors of public climate change awareness and risk perception around the world (view paper here). This is actually the inspiration for my work. It's not about AI at all! I had previously worked with this team on public opinion toward climate change and best practices in climate change communication. I'm really inspired by their work and hope to do similar work in the AI policy space. In fact, my team is launching a survey in the US, EU, and China this fall. 

Based on the feedback we've received from everyone so far, our plan is to roll out a spring series using the same format we adopted for our fall meetings.  We are proposing to kick off the new year with sessions focused on ICTs and equity and will be reaching out to various folks to help shape and lead those meetings.

  • We assign one fellow to be the discussant 
  • The speaker will have 20 minutes to present her work and situate it within the literature and the framework of the program. 
  • The discussant/commentator then follows with 20 minutes to react to what was presented (both during the meeting and the pre-read materials).  Their role as commenter or discussant is to highlight alternate (complementary or opposing) approaches, findings, etc. coming from their own disciplines or perspectives. Commenters are asked to frame their remarks using a framework of: Oyster, Poetry, Picasso. 
  • Oyster: Something from the paper or presentation gave way to a new idea (a pearl!) for you. 
  • Poetry:  The value in a poem (or a paper) is what it evokes in the reader 
  • Picasso: Good artists copy; great artists steal - or the Banksy modified Bad version (the bad artists imitate, the great artists steal)! 

 

May 18, 2021 - Virtual Program Meeting (Spring workshop series):

 

May 17, 2021 - Virtual Program Meeting (Spring workshop series):

 

April 23, 2021 - Virtual Program Meeting (Spring workshop series):

 

March 29, 2021 - Virtual Program Meeting (Spring workshop series):

 

February 22, 2021 - Virtual Program Meeting (Works in Progress):

 

November 19, 2020 - Virtual Program Meeting (Fall workshop series): 

  • Speaker: Jane Gingrich 
  • Meeting Agenda 
  • Jane's memo
  • Working paper/draft: Ansell and Gingrich - Concentration and Commodification - The Political Economy of Postindustrialism in America and Beyond
  • Kathy Thelen and Christian Ibsen's paper - Diverging solidarity labor strategies in the new knowledge
  • Bill Lazonick comments on Jane Gingrich (presentation)

 

October 20, 2020 - Virtual Program Meeting (Fall workshop series): 

  • Guest speaker: Neil Lee, The London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Neil's working paper: Inclusive innovation as urban policy: A review and critique
  • Tom Scott-Smith's paper: Humanitarian neophilia: the ‘innovation turn’ and its implications
  • Neil's slide deck presentation

 

September 25, 2020 - Virtual Program Meeting (Fall workshop series): 

  • Meeting Agenda
  • Julie Shah et al's paper: Robotic assistance in the coordination of patient care
  • Julie Shah et al's paper: Robots join the care team: Making healthcare decisions safer with machine learning and robotics

 

September 24, 2020 - Virtual Program Meeting (Fall workshop series): 

  • Meeting Agenda
  • Keun Lee's paper: Kaldor and Kuznets Together in a Three-way Growth-Equity Nexus in Developed and Developing Countries
  • Riccardo Pariboni and Pasquale Tridico's paper: Labour share decline, financialisation and structural change

 

May 20, 2020 - Virtual Program Meeting: