KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jan Eeckhout
Jan Eeckhout is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and at the Barcelona School of Economics. His research focuses on the macroeconomic implications of market power, as well as the economics of labor markets and cities. His work has been widely featured in the media, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, and Bloomberg.
Prior to joining UPF, Jan held tenured positions at the University of Pennsylvania and University College London. He has been the Louis A. Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton University and held visiting positions at NYU and MIT. He holds an Engineering and Economics degree from KU Leuven and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Bruno Cassiman
Professor of Strategy at the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven in Belgium. Before joining KU Leuven full-time he was Professor of Strategy and the Nissan Chair of Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School in Barcelona.
His research interests have centred on the economics of strategy and innovation with a particular focus on the connections between science and industry in the innovation process and the complementarity between different innovation activities. His work has been published in the leading Economics and Management journals such as The American Economic Review, Management Science, The Strategic Management Journal, The International Journal of Industrial Organization, and many more.