Harvard WorldWide Week: Urban Innovation Hubs: a Strategy for Developed Countries to Boost Economic Prosperity and Strengthen Employment Resilience

Date: 

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

The Urban Innovation Research group at Harvard SEAS addresses a major societal challenge in Developed Countries: how to envision economic eco-systems which unleash both the individual and communitarian potential, enabling the creation of high quality, stable employment within urban areas, thus providing a societal response to foreseen mass job destruction due to the emergence of automation, AI, and robotics.

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The Urban Innovation study group will share their research on how Complexity Science and Network Theory-driven Machine Learning mathematical models can be deployed to support Urban Design criteria, by liberating the potential non-linear benefits of strategic aggregation of talent and knowledge-intensive activities in Innovation Campuses, operating in synergy with high value-added export hubs within metropolitan areas.

The presentation, with Students and Faculty, will be followed by a post-event discussion, of ongoing research developed by Urban Innovationscholars Ramon Gras and Jeremy Burke at Harvard SEAS.

Speakers: Ramon Gras, Urban Innovation Researcher at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Jeremy Burke, Urban Innovation Researcher at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Sponsors: RCC, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.