VATT Day 2024: The return of growth policy - the promises and challenges of RDI funding

Time: 19 September 2024, 13.00-19.00

Location: Kulttuurikasarmi (Narinkka 2, 00100 Helsinki)

Keynote speaker: Ufuk Akcigit (Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago) 

Presentation materials:

Growth through reallocation and inclusive innovation in Finland (Elias Einiö, Chief Researcher, VATT)

Supplementary materials:

The Innovation Paradox. Article published in IMF: Finance & Development Magazine, September 2024. (Ufuk Akcigit, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago)

Programme

13.00–13.10

Opening words

Tuulia Hakola-Uusitalo, Acting Director General, VATT

Part 1: Innovation policies and growth

Host: Otto Toivanen, Professor of Economics, Aalto University

13.10–14.00

Growth policy keynote

Ufuk Akcigit, Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Questions and discussion

14.00–14.30

Growth through reallocation and inclusive innovation in Finland

Elias Einiö, Chief Researcher, VATT

Questions and discussion

14.30–15.00 Coffee break

More information:
VATT Communications ([email protected])