John Van Reenen
Programme on Innovation and Diffusion, LSE

2026
December 7 - University of Basel, Lecture on Innovation in the global economy
November 5 - University of Oxford, Macroeconomics seminar
October 29 - Federal Reserve Washington DC, Talk
October 22-23 - Global Talent Fund/EIEF, Rome, Talent Economics Conference
October 2-4 - University of Chicago, IOG Programme Conference
September 21-24 - London LSE Environment Week
September 20-23 - Baden-Baden, The Rhine Group Inaugural Meeting
July 17-23 - NBER Summer Institute Innovation Research Bootcamp, Boston
July 8 - Nottingham University, Royal Economic Society Conference on Productivity, innovation and the future of growth,
Headline lecture, slides
July 1 - Renew Europe Group, Brussels, High-level roundtable on European competitiveness and the management
quality impact
June 18 - British Academy, Ideas Festival: 10-minute Talks, "UK Productivity Growth", slides speech
June 4 - College de France, Paris, CEPR/RPN Conference on Growth, innovation and social model in Europe, "Growth
and Innovation Policy", slides , programme
May 27-31 - Stanford University, Empirical Management Conference, 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 - Becker Friedman Institute, Chicago, Coase Project Conference, "Power to the Rooftops: Clean energy,
pollution and local development", slides
May 5 - Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, Chicago, Applications Seminar, "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 - Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, DICE Seminar, "Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy",
slides
March 19-20 - London School of Business, Conference on Public Policies for Innovation, "Ray of Hope? China and the
rise of solar energy", slides
March 10 - Bank of Portugal, Economic Seminar, "Ray of Hope? China and the rise of solar energy", slides
February 13 - LSE, Productive and Inclusive Net Zero (PRINZ) Workshop, 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 - University of Macerata, Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2025-2026, Keynote, "Growth, knowledge and the
role of a modern university", Commencement Address, video