Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years
Thursday 26 February, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Convener(s): Roger Goodman and Yosuke Buchmeier
Speaker(s): Hugh Whittaker (Nissan Institute, Oxford), with commentaries from Simon Deakin (Cambridge), Mari Sako (Oxford) and Tim Sturgeon (MIT)
From microelectronics in the 1980s to AI in the 2020s, technological innovation has played a major role in reshaping economies and employment. As have financialization and its ideological partner neoliberalism. Reflecting on 40 years of research focused especially on Japan, this presentation will also consider possible futures.
