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Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34All items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34All items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioFrom the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big scienceContributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advancing our fundamental understanding of the universe. It will delve into how groundbreaking scientific endeavours – ranging from understanding dark matter to exploring the early universe – not only push the boundaries of human knowledge but also necessarily catalyse technological innovation.
The discussion also will highlight the broader socio-economic impacts of Big Science, including skills development, and real-world applications. By fostering innovation, these large-scale scientific investments provide tangible benefits to the...
2025-03-031h 34Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoGrowth through investment: what should the UK's FDI strategy look like?Contributor(s): Lord Harrington, Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Laura Citron | The recently published Harrington Review of Foreign Direct Investment offers a set of evidence-based and achievable recommendations for the UK to provide a tailored, responsive and comprehensive offer that meets foreign investors’ expectations and factors in the speed of the modern world.
This panel discussion pushes the debate on FDI attraction and retention forward and consider how the Harrington Review’s recommendations can be put into practice and what impacts they will have. The panel discusses how best practices from around the world should inform new strategies to link...
2024-02-131h 33
LSE Research channel | VideoWhat are Global Value Chains and why they matter for economic and regional developmentContributor(s): Professor Riccardo Crescenzi | To understand Global Value Chains, consider the bicycle. Bicycles are not solely produced in one place, rather they are created across countries—a collection of regions delivering components and services bringing the bicycle to the end consumer. Each contributor, located and spread throughout the world, adds value to this end product. This end-to-end process is the Global Value Chain.
2023-07-2403 min
Governance Uncovered: Local Politics and DevelopmentGlobal Value Chains, Multiculturalism, and Civil Service Exams: Insights for Societal ProgressEPISODE TRANSCRIPTIn this episode, Oliver Harman, Cities Economist for the International Growth Centre's Cities that Work initiative based at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will be discussing their book "Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development: How to Upgrade through Regional Policy, FDI, and Trade." They highlight the significance of considering global value chains at the regional level and the importance of coordination between different levels of government for effective policy implementation.Next, we're j...
2023-06-2959 min
EducapEducap - Podcast 2 ABFM PacinottiCon i testi e le voci dei ragazzi e delle ragazze della 2 ABFM - a.s. 2020/21 - Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Crescenzi Pacinotti Sirani - BolognaDocente referente: Sara De AngelisFormazione laboratoriale: Riccardo Bacchi, Massimiliano Martines,Giacomo TarsitanoOspite: Silvia CalamandreiUn progetto di Dry-Art APS www.dry-art.comIn collaborazione con le associazioni Caracò e Radio CAPNell’ambito di Educalè / Comune di BolognaIl progetto "Narrare le mafie. Sguardi sul contemporaneo tra azioni di contrasto e valorizzazione della cultura della legalità 2020" è cofinanziato con i fondi della Legge Regionale 18/2016 "Testo unico...
2021-04-2749 min
EducapEducap - "Sana e robusta Costituzione" - 4 BS PacinottiCon i testi e le voci dei ragazzi e delle ragazze della 4 BS - a.s. 2020/21 - Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Crescenzi Pacinotti Sirani - BolognaDocente referente: Lucia FaillaFormazione laboratoriale: Riccardo Bacchi, Massimiliano Martines, Giacomo TarsitanoOspite: Silvia CalamandreiUn progetto di Dry-Art APS www.dry-art.comIn collaborazione con le associazioni Caracò e Radio CAPNell’ambito di Educalè / Comune di BolognaIl progetto "Narrare le mafie. Sguardi sul contemporaneo tra azioni dicontrasto e valorizzazione della cultura della legalità 2020" ècofinanziato con i fondi della Legge Regionale 18/2016 "Testo unico
2021-04-1337 min
Shaping the Post-COVID WorldInnovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunityContributor(s): Gordon Brown, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Lord Sainsbury, Tharman Shanmugaratnam | David Sainsbury’s book Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth came out just before COVID-19 forced the global economy into lockdown. This high-level panel looks at the pandemic as an opportunity to promote inclusive growth and innovation in a more sustainable way. In particular, it will examine the role of the emerging and developing world in creating new sources of growth and the role leadership plays in achieving structural transformation.
Gordon Brown (@OfficeGSBrown) is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Mi...
2020-09-161h 34Shaping the Post-COVID WorldInnovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunityContributor(s): Gordon Brown, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Lord Sainsbury, Tharman Shanmugaratnam | David Sainsbury’s book Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth came out just before COVID-19 forced the global economy into lockdown. This high-level panel looks at the pandemic as an opportunity to promote inclusive growth and innovation in a more sustainable way. In particular, it will examine the role of the emerging and developing world in creating new sources of growth and the role leadership plays in achieving structural transformation.
Gordon Brown (@OfficeGSBrown) is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Mi...
2020-09-161h 34Shaping the Post-COVID WorldInnovation and Inclusive Growth: COVID-19 as a window of opportunityContributor(s): Gordon Brown, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Lord Sainsbury, Tharman Shanmugaratnam | David Sainsbury’s book Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth came out just before COVID-19 forced the global economy into lockdown. This high-level panel looks at the pandemic as an opportunity to promote inclusive growth and innovation in a more sustainable way. In particular, it will examine the role of the emerging and developing world in creating new sources of growth and the role leadership plays in achieving structural transformation.
Gordon Brown (@OfficeGSBrown) is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Mi...
2020-09-161h 04
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfDevelopment Collective Know-how and Us [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Ricardo Hausmann | The difference between rich and poor countries is mostly explained by differences in “technology”. But what is technology and why does it not diffuse more quickly? This lecture will clarify the importance of collective know-how in technology diffusion and the importance of a sense of us in creating the needed cooperation to support the implementation of technology. Ricardo Hausmann (@ricardo_hausman) is Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank...
2018-01-291h 32Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Multinational World: how cities and regions win or lose in the global innovation contest [Slides]Speaker(s): Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Martin Sandbu | The process of technological development constantly opens windows of opportunity for new innovation centres to emerge around the world. What makes it possible for some cities and regions to join the exclusive ‘world innovation club’? Why are other places persistently excluded or lose their membership? Scholarly and policy debates attempt to identify factors at the national, regional or city level to ‘ignite’ innovation and boost productivity and employment in stagnating areas of the world. Our understanding is more limited of the transformative power of the flows of capital, skills and knowledge bundled into increasi...
2017-11-1500 minLatest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Multinational World: how cities and regions win or lose in the global innovation contest [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Martin Sandbu | The process of technological development constantly opens windows of opportunity for new innovation centres to emerge around the world. What makes it possible for some cities and regions to join the exclusive ‘world innovation club’? Why are other places persistently excluded or lose their membership? Scholarly and policy debates attempt to identify factors at the national, regional or city level to ‘ignite’ innovation and boost productivity and employment in stagnating areas of the world. Our understanding is more limited of the transformative power of the flows of capital, skills and knowledge bundled into increasi...
2017-11-151h 24
CJRES 2017 Globalisation in Crisis? ConferenceSession 2A: Cohesion Policy and ‘the Great Instability’Chair: Pete Tyler
Pierre-Alexandre Balland, David Rigby and Ron Boschma – ‘Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Technological Opportunities of Regions. A Framework for Smart Specialization’
Dieter F. Kogler, Peter Kedron, Greg Spencer (University of Toronto)– ‘Anchors Away! The Evolution of an ICT Cluster During and After the Sinking of its Flagship Company’
Gianni Betti, Federico Crescenzi and Francesca Gagliardi – ‘What was the Effect of the Economic Crisis on Fuzzy Measures of Poverty at the Regional Level?’
Raffaele Lagravinese and Riccardo Crescenzi – ‘Regional Recovery and the EU Structural Funds’
Round up Discussion
2017-09-201h 33
Department of Geography and EnvironmentMSc Local Economic Development at LSE [Video]Contributor(s): Dr Riccardo Crescenzi, Madalina Ursu, Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Professor Simona Iammarino, Marc LeBlanc, Professor Philip McCann, Oliver Harman, Dr Neil Lee, Arnaud Dyevre, Ayesha Cooray | Academics, students and alumni discuss the MSc Local Economic Development degree at LSE, the skills acquired on the programme, the learning environment, and career prospects for graduates.
2015-03-0506 min