Topic：Bringing It All Back Home: Knowledge Remittances, Relatedness and the Direction of Technical Change   

Speaker：ERNEST MIGUELEZ

Moderator: Jiao Hao, professor, Doctoral supervisor, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University.

Time: 15:30-17:00, November 18 

Venue: Conference Room 1620, Rear Main Building

Ernest MIGUELEZ is research fellow (Chargé de Recherche) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), attached to the GREThA – UMR CNRS 5113, University of Bordeaux.

His research interests cover economic geography, innovation economics, migration, and intellectual property. He received his PhD from the Department of Econometrics, Statistics, and Spanish Economy of the University of Barcelona (January 2013 – supervisors: Rosina Moreno & Francesco Lissoni).

He is research affiliate at the Regional Quantitative Analysis Research Group (AQR-IREA), external research fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and he have been Early Career Editor of the journal Regional Studies (2015-2018). He currently runs the TKC project, funded by the ANR, which includes a workshop series on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy.

Research website: https://ernestmiguelez.com/