Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Bypass the Home of the First?
Final session of 2017 Festival of Economics, Bristol, chaired by Rory Cellan-Jones
- Final session in #economicsfest now starting: Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Bypass the Home of the First? with Giuliana Battisti, Jonathan Haskel, Richard Jones, Maria Savona and Rory Cellan-Jones (chair) http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/events/will-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-bypass-the-home-of-the-first/ …
- .@RichardALJones : what's happening now isn't a new industrial revolution, but still a huge change: from mass production to mass customisation; blurring of products & services. #economicsfest
- Richard Jones at #economicsfest: fantastic technological process is real; but stagnation is real as well.
- Jones: technological change isn't translating to greatly improved living standards. UK in particular has problems reaping benefits of its excellent research. #economicsfest
- Haskel: current movement is from investing in tangible assets like machines to intangibles like data sets. #economicsfest
- Flexibility & agility needed to reap rewards of the intangible economy, @GraemeLeachEcon on @haskelecon book, #economicsfest http://www.cityam.com/275832/well-need-flexibility-and-agility-reap-rewards-intangible …
- Key foundations for a successful long-term industrial strategy, @IndStrategyComm #economicsfest @DianeCoyle1859 http://industrialstrategycommission.org.uk/2017/07/10/laying-the-foundations-the-first-major-report-by-the-industrial-strategy-commission/ …
- .@DianeCoyle1859 : UK still has excellent research but less willingness to invest in its research than in past eras. #economicsfest
- Coyle: to repeat success of Victorian era, we need to think like the Victorians: bold public and private investment; active role of government in creating conditions for innovation. #economicsfest
- The UK’s innovation deficit & how to repair it, @RichardALJones @SPERIshefuni #economicsfest http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2013/10/30/speri-paper-no-6-the-uks-innovation-deficit-repair-it/ …
- .@maria_savona : private sector is reluctant to make the bold, long term investments in new technology, hence public investment needed too. #economicsfest
- Industrial strategy roundup, @RichardALJones @IndStrategyComm #economicsfest http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=2159 …
- Question at #economicsfest: what should I study at university for success in the intangible economy? Engineering, economics & ethics?
- Capitalism without capital: new book on the rise of the intangible economy @haskelecon @stianwestlake, #economicsfest https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11086.html …
- Getting a grip on intangibles, @DianeCoyle1859 reviews Capitalism without Capital by @haskelecon #economicsfest http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2017/11/getting-a-grip-on-intangibles/ …
- The measurement that holds economic statistics back from reality, @DianeCoyle1859 #economicsfest https://www.ft.com/content/b4a4e236-c084-11e7-9836-b25f8adaa111 …
- Drivers of Britain's Industrial Revolution: development of markets that allowed division of labour, innovation & social change, @voxeu #economicsfest https://voxeu.org/article/origins-industrial-revolution …
- Final Report of the Industrial Strategy Commission, @IndStrategyComm #economicsfest @DianeCoyle1859 http://industrialstrategycommission.org.uk/2017/11/01/the-final-report-of-the-industrial-strategy-commission/ …
- The UK has the most regionally unbalanced economy in Europe: time for change - physics prof @RichardALJones #economicsfest https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/nov/01/the-uk-has-the-most-regionally-unbalanced-economy-in-europe-time-for-change …
- Towards a new UK industrial strategy - reminder of recent @CEP_LSE report, #economicsfest http://cep.lse.ac.uk/centrepiece/abstract.asp?index=5488 …
- Wonderful final session of @FestivalofIdeas #economicsfest brilliantly curated by @DianeCoyle1859 Well done Andrew, Chloe and Amy
- @FestivalofIdeas #economicsfest Thanks to everyone involved in the above, its been a great festival, thought provoking and very stimulating
- Another successful #economicsfest. Proud to be one of the sponsors. Congrats to participating @PrincetonUPress authors #jeantirole @haskelecon @MESandbu @gloriaoriggi and of course to @DianeCoyle1859 for a wonderful programme.
- Catching up with #strictly after a fab #Economicsfest & feeling a bit emotional seeing Tower ballroom in Blackpool where mum & dad danced
- Many congrats to the .@FestivalofIdeas team on a hugely successful Bristol #economicsfest with speakers incl #gordonbrown & lots of discussion on Trade, Trump, Brexit & UK plc growth https://twitter.com/FestivalofIdeas/status/932190170144825344 …
- Books at the Festival of Economics http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2017/11/reading-the-festival-of-economics/ … #economicsfest
- @FestivalofIdeas Thanks to @FestivalofIdeas for staging another fascinating and thought-provoking #economicsfest
- Fantastic to have so many #PrincetonUPress authors at the #economicsfest - #jeantirole,@DianeCoyle1859 @MESandbu @gloriaoriggi @haskelecon and friends. All full of stimulating ideas about how social science research can be harnessed to make the world a better place. https://twitter.com/dianecoyle1859/status/932511307156291585 …