Swedish Schumpeter Lectures – Entreprenörskapsforums föreläsningsserie om entreprenören, entreprenörskapets funktion och roll för den ekonomiska utvecklingen. Varje år presenterar en internationellt erkänd forskare sitt arbete och välrenommerade svenska företrädare för akademi, näringsliv och politik ges möjlighet att kommentera forskningen.
Årets föreläsare är Ashish Arora, Senior Associate Dean for Strategy och Rex D. Adams Professor of Business Administration vid the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Inventing Prosperity: Science, Technology, and the Future of American Innovation
Evidence of slowing productivity growth has led some to argue that the era of rapid technological advance is ending. Critics contend that scientific research has become too incremental and detached from practical needs, no longer delivering the transformative ideas that once drove productivity and economic prosperity.
In his lecture, professor Arora argues that this interpretation is flawed. Private returns to R&D have grown, and science now contributes more, not less, to innovation. The difficulty lies elsewhere. In many technology fields, the translation of new scientific knowledge into commercial products has become harder.
Drawing on his extensive research of the U.S. innovation ecosystem, Arora demonstrates how this bottleneck arises from increasing fragmentation between the activities of universities, startups and corporations. He concludes by offering policy prescriptions for revitalizing the innovative our economies.
The seminar is organized by Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Stockholm School of Economics.
Program:
10.00 Coffee and registration
10.30 Introduction
Anders Broström, Managing Director/Professor Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
Karl Wennberg, Professor at Stockholm School of Economics
10.35 Inventing Prosperity: Science, Technology, and the Future of American Innovation
Ashish Arora, Rex D. Adams Professor Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
11.15 Comments and questions
Björn Ekelund, Research Fellow Ericsson
Sara Mazur, Executive Director Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
11.45 Lunch wrap
