Keynote speakers
Dr.
Frank Neffke is a Senior
Research Fellow at CID's
Growth Lab (Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University). His
research focuses on how economic actors
diversify from one productive activity to
another. Central in this research is that
activities can be more or less similar in terms
of the capabilities or skills they require. This
similarity is shown to affect diversification
processes throughout the economy, ranging from
individuals' career paths and corporate
diversification strategies, to structural change
in regional and national economies. Before
joining the CID, Frank Neffke worked as an
assistant professor at the Erasmus School of
Economics in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He
holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from Utrecht
University and Master degrees in Econometrics
and Philosophy from the University of
Amsterdam.
Dr.
Torsten Heinrich is a Postdoctoral
Researcher at
INET (University of Oxford),
where he works on agent-based modeling. His
research interests also include economic
complexity, industrial organization,
evolutionary economics, and economic aspects of
the information technology sector. Before
joining the INET, Torsten Heinrich worked as a
postdoctoral researcher at the University of
Bremen until 2016. He received his Ph.D. in
Economics from that latter university, with a
thesis on technological change and growth
patterns in the presence of network effects, and
a Master degree from the Dresden University of
Technology.