John Van Reenen
Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE

2026
December 7 - University of Basel, Lecture on Innovation in the global economy
November 5 - Macroeconomics seminar, University of Oxford
October 22-23 - Talent Economics Conference, Global Talent Fund/EIEF, Rome
October 2-4 - IOG Programme Conference, University of Chicago
September 21-24 - London LSE Environment Week
September 20-23 - The Rhine Group Inaugural Meeting, Baden-Baden, Germany
July 17-23 - NBER Summer Institute Innovation Research Bootcamp, Boston
July 8 - Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Nottingham University, Keynote Policy Lecture, Productivity,
innovation and the future of growth, slides, video
July 1 - High-level roundtable on European competitiveness and the management quality impact, Renew Europe,
Brussels, slides
June 18 - British Academy, Ideas Festival: 10-minute Talks, "UK Productivity Growth", slides speech
June 4 - CEPR/RPN Conference on Growth, innovation and social model in Europe, College de France, Paris, "Growth
and Innovation Policy", slides, programme
May 27-31 - Empirical Management Conference, Stanford University, San Francisco
May 12 - City St George's University of London/CMA Workshop on Economics of Competition and Regulation, "When
trade drives markup divergence: An application to auto markets", slides
May 8 - CEPR STEG/PEDL Virtual Course on Private Enterprise, Productivity and Economic Growth, "Management and
the Wealth of Nations", slides
May 6 - Coase Project Conference, Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago, "Power to the Rooftops: Clean energy,
pollution and local development", slides
May 5 - Applications Seminar, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, Chicago, "Ray of Hope? China and the rise
of solar energy", slides
April 29 - LSE-Kiel-CEPR Conference on Defence Economics, Keynote, "Defence policy and innovation", slides,
April 24 - NBER Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Spring Meeting, Boston, "Estimating production functions
with expectations data", slides
April 14 - DICE Seminar, Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, "Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy",
slides
March 19-20 - Conference on Public Policies for Innovation, Bank of Portugal, "Ray of Hope? China and the
rise of solar energy", slides
March 10 - Economic Seminar, Bank of Portugal, "Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy", slides
February 13 - Productive and Inclusive Net Zero (PRINZ) Workshop, LSE, Panel on International evidence on net zero,
productivity and competitiveness, "Ray of hope? Chinese innovation, green industrial policy and the rise of solar energy", slides, programme
February 3 - Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2025-2026,University of Macerata,Keynote, "Growth, knowledge and the
role of a modern university", Commencement Address, video