Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE, explores in this talk the present and future of artificial intelligence and its role in regional economic development across Europe.
Drawing on data from 191 European regions between 2022 and 2024, the presentation will map the different geographies of AI invention and use. Which territories are creating these technologies, and which are simply adopting them? What does that divide mean for their economic prospects? The session will be chaired by Juan Viña Ribes, President of Fundación Cañada Blanch.
This public event is free and open to all. It will take place in room MAR.2.08 (Marshall Building, LSE).
For the online event: this event will be livestreamed on YouTube at this link.
More information about the event here.
The Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE sets out to achieve the Fundación Cañada Blanch’s goal of developing and reinforcing links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and undertaking joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom and at the LSE on the one hand, and Spain on the other hand.
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He is a past President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.
Juan Viña Ribes
Dr. Juan Viña is the President of the Cañada Blanch Foundation, the Centre’s partner institution. He is also a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Valencia. He previously served as director general at the University Hospital of Valencia’s Health Research Institute (2000-2012). He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Metabolic Research Laboratory, as assistant professor at Hershey Medical Center and as a visiting scholar at the Chicago Medical School’s Department of Physiology.
