CfP: Workshop Series on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy

The “Workshop Series on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy  is meant to advance our understanding of high skilled migration and its relationship with knowledge creation, its diffusion, and its ultimate impact on innovation. It is a joint initiative of the Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), the Paris School of Economics (PSE), the College of Management of Technology (CDM) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Economic Urban Transitionsat Utrecht UniversityGREThA CNRS UMR 5113 at the Université de Bordeaux, and ICRIOS research group at Bocconi University. The Series consist on four workshops in as many cities, starting with Paris on November 28, 2018 and continuing in Utrecht (Spring 2019), Milan (Spring 2020) and Bordeaux (Fall 2020). The call for papers is open until 16 September 2018 and available here.

Each workshop will consist of a 1-day plenary session with presentations and discussions, opened up by a keynote speaker. The keynote speaker of the Paris workshop will beWilliam Kerr, from Harvard Business School.

We aim to attract both senior and junior scholars dealing with research topics such as the role of high-skilled migration in fostering innovation in receiving countries, the relationship between diversity and innovation, the role of skilled diasporas and return migrants in diffusing knowledge back to their home countries, the emerging role of MNC in shaping scientists’ and engineers’ migration flows as well as temporary migration and knowledge sharing, migration and innovation-based start-ups formation, and so forth.