Data Science for Economic Analysis
Center for International Economics and Business

We analyze the internationalization of the Swiss economy with a focus on structural change, innovation and digital transformation.

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New article published

‘Moving On’—investigating inventors’ ethnic origins using supervised learning

In a newly published article in the Journal of Economic Geography, Matthias Niggli uses supervised learning to infer the ethnic origins of patent inventors from their names. He then shows how the composition of inventors at the global level, in different countries and technology fields has changed over the last 40 years. more

New InnoscapeTalk

Innoscape Talk #6.1 with Nick Bloom

Nick Bloom, professor at Stanford University, explains how home office and hybrid forms of work affect productivity and innovation in companies. We further discuss how the Covid 19 pandemic has fundamentally changed labor markets and which professional skills may be in greater demand in the future. more

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