Activities
- Special Sessions.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2016.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2015.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2014.
- Research Centre Brno Conference 2014.
- European Resources Forum.
- Inequality and the Future of Capitalism.
- 8th Welfare State Enquiry.
- Open Global System Science Conference.
- Open Days 2014.
- Young Economists Conference.
- WWWforEurope at UNA-Austria.
- Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014.
- 7th WIFO Regional Economics Workshop.
- Special Session Alpbach 2014.
- Special Session ERSA 2014.
- Press Conference at Alpbach.
- Special Session ISEE 2014.
- 2014 OECD NERO Meeting in Paris.
- NOeG Conference 2014.
- INET Conference 2014.
- Eco-social Day at BOKU.
- Meeting Mario Draghi.
- Meeting with Jeffrey Sachs.
- Progressive Economy Annual Forum 2014.
- Book Presentation Niko Paech.
- Student-organised WWWforEurope Class.
- Meeting with EU Commissioner Barnier.
- Horizon 2020 Kick-off Vienna.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2013.
- WWWforEurope Activities 2012.
Human After All – WWWforEurope at the INET Conference 2014
WWWforEurope at the INET Conference 2014
Conference topic: Human After All
Toronto, Canada, 10-12 April, 2014
For the programme click here
WWWforEurope's cooperation with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) - the think tank founded by George Soros - continues: Karl Aiginger was invited to the 2014 INET Conference in Toronto. The main focus of this year’s conference was innovation and its impact on economics and society, which was reflected in its title: "Human After All: Innovation, Disruption, Society".
Karl Aiginger gave a lecture on how Europe could restart economic growth, by following the vision of a new growth path with higher social inclusion and sustainability, a summary of which can be read here (PDF link). Such a new path of development, problems of the instability of the financial system, and increasing dispersion of incomes were core topics of the conference, in which Karl Aiginger had the opportunity to meet leading economists Joseph Stiglitz, James Heckman and Peter Temin, as well as policy experts Larry Summers, Thomas Heller and Adair Turner.
In a special meeting with young economists Karl Aiginger analysed the successful catching up process of new members of the European Union as well as neighbouring countries. Though the speed of catching up slowed down after the financial crisis and the catching up process is bumpy and different across countries, it continues. Europe can offer an attractive social economic model, and on the other side profit from its high growth potential. Together with its neighbours Europe will stay the largest economic area in the world for a long time.
WWWforEurope researcher Lisa De Propis also attended the INET conference and presented results from the WWWforEurope Working Paper on technological platforms in Europe, which she co-authored with Carlo Corradini in the session on "Innovation and Globalization: Playing Catch-up v. Pushing the Frontier".
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Download a summary of Karl Aiginger's presentation (PDF link)