Program Overview
The full program is now available online:
Oxford Abstracts
Conference Handbook (with detailed program)
Detailed Program (Pdf)
We recommend to log into the Oxford Abstracts portal to follow the recent changes in the program. We will also update the Detailed Program pdf before the conference but will not modify the Handbook.”
We look forward to welcoming you to Budapest!
Program
Day 0
- 27/01/2026
Day 1
- 28/01/2026
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Plenary session #1
Beata Javorcik – EBRD & University of Oxford
Lars Coenen – HVL and University of Bergen
chair: Cesar Hidalgo
Coffee break
Parallel sessions #1
Lunch
Parallel sessions #2
Coffee break
Panel #1 – “EURADA-ULB Panel on Open Strategic Autonomy and Industrial Innovation”
Moderator: Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Corvinus)
Participants: Raquel Ortega-Argilés (University of Manchester), Cesar Hidalgo (TSE & Corvinus), Francesco Molica (EURADA & ULB), Alexandre Lembcke (OECD), Anabela Santos (ULB)
Parallel sessions #3
Welcome Reception
Welcome:
László Kollár – Secretary, HAS
Péter Ignácz, KPMG
Host: Veronika Hamar
Day 2
- 29/01/2026
Registration
Plenary session #2
Luisa Gagliardi – Bocconi University of Milan
Lee Fleming – University of California, Berkley
chair: Iris Wanzenböck
Exhibitors’ introduction
Coffee break
Parallel sessions #4
Lunch
Meet the Editors
Participants: Carolina Castaldi (EG & ICC), Camilla Lenzi (ARS), Dieter Kogler (Regional Studies), Iris Wanzenböck (RRR), Shiri Breznitz (PEG), Ugo Fratezi (SEA), Raquel Ortega-Arguiles (GCRS), Betsy Donald (CJRES), Andrea Morrison (I&I), Zoltán Elekes (REGION)
Parallel sessions #5
Coffee break
Panel #2 “AI in Innovation”
Moderator: Frank Neffke
Participants: Carolina Castaldi (Utrecht), Yufang Hua (IT:U and IBM Research), Péter Ignácz (KPMG), Johannes Wachs (Corvinus), Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT and SPRU), Vasco de Oliveira Janiero (EIT)
Parallel sessions #6
Gala Dinner (Hotel InterContinental Budapest)
Day 3
- 30/01/2026
Registration
Parallel sessions #7
Coffee break
Panel #3 – “The Dark Side of Innovation”
Moderator: Rune Dahl Fitjar
Participants: Arianna Martinelli (Sant’ Anna Pisa), Hillary Vipond (CSH), Jiri Blazek (Charles University), Johannes Glückler (LMU), Markus Grillitsch (Lund University)
Closing ceremony
Lunch – brown bag
Social events, and thematic walks