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Technical Change: History, Economics and Policy
A Conference in Honour of Nick von Tunzelmann. The aim of the Conference is to re-assess the cornerstones of the theoretical and empirical understanding of technological change, economic growth and catching up, areas in which he has made major contributions throughout his career.
The conference program is available here: http://nickfest.freeman-centre.ac.uk/conference-program
Historical and institutional approaches to the analysis of economic growth and development have long been a persistent thorn in the side of ‘orthodox economics’, which tends to be a-historical and to regard the role of institutions as confined to being keepers of the ‘rules of the game’. Attempts to endogenise the effects of institutional and technological change and to recognise the time-dependency of most economic phenomena have now become a consolidated stream of literature.
Held in esteem by his peers, respected by his academic colleagues and loved by his students, Nick von Tunzelmann has helped to shape the field of the history of technical change as well as making many theoretical, empirical and methodological contributions to our understanding of the economics and policy of technical change. During his academic career, which will shortly be entering a new phase with his retirement, he has contributed substantially to the analysis of cycles of technical change, structural change and economic growth, to the impact of innovation on the economic performance of firms and sectors, and to science and technology policy tools for use in both developed and developing contexts.
In addition to his own research, he has also contributed to the development of these streams of research through his formal — and informal — supervision of a myriad of PhD and Master students. Many of his students have themselves become academics and policy advisers, further contributing to the diffusion of Nick’s vision of the theoretical and methodological priorities within the field of the economics of innovation.
Nick has been the editor of a number of renowned journals, which have also increasingly shaped these fields of research. Nick was the UK founding-editor of Industrial and Corporate Change (from 1991 to 2004), and has inherited the legacy of his friend and colleague, Keith Pavitt, as one of the editors of Research Policy (to August 2009). In addition, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics as well as other journals.
The conference was held on March 29th-30th, 2010 at The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex.
