About: The Global Talent Fund and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance invite submissions for the Talent Economics Conference, which will bring together leading researchers in Rome to discuss frontier research on the economics of talent. The conference will focus on three questions:
How does exceptional STEM talent develop, and what role do cognitive ability, effort, environment, and noise in measurement play in producing the right tail of the distribution?
How can high-potential young people be identified earlier and more reliably, particularly outside the rich-country institutions that currently capture them?
How do exceptional individuals shape scientific discovery, productivity, and growth: through their own output, through spillovers to peers, and through the networks they help form?
Talent Economics Conference 2026
A conference in Cambridge, MA on the Economics of Talent
About: Discovering and nurturing individuals with high potential to excel in STEM fields is critical to scientific progress, innovation, and growth. To showcase and promote research on economic aspects of this process, the National Bureau of Economic Research hosted the 2025 Economics of Talent Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday, November 7, 2025. The meeting was organised by Glenn Ellison, Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaule, and Britta Glennon, and featured research presentations and discussion on talent and entrepreneurship, AI talent, talent identification and nurturing, and the role of exceptional individuals in science, innovation, and economic growth.
Talent Economics Conference 2025
A conference in Cambridge, MA on the Economics of Talent
About: Discovering and nurturing individuals with high potential to excel in STEM fields is critical to scientific progress, innovation, and growth. To showcase and promote research on economic aspects of this process, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will convene a hybrid conference on the economics of talent, with presenters in-person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday, November 15, 2024. The conference, which will feature seven research presentations, will be co-organized by Ruchir Agarwal (Harvard Kennedy School), Glenn Ellison (MIT and NBER), and Patrick Gaule (University of Bristol). Research topics that may be examined at the conference include, but are not limited to:
How to identify at an early stage individuals with potential to excel in STEM (“talent”)
Measuring the effectiveness of interventions to nurture talent
Participation, persistence and excellence in high-school STEM competitions
The role of high-talent individuals in contributing to science and innovation
The interplay between talent and human capital accumulation
Migration patterns of talented individuals and the factors that affect them
How talented individuals are allocated across different sectors of the economy
Barriers that may prevent talented individuals from realizing their potential
2024 NBER ECONOMICS OF TALENT CONFERENCE
2024 ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION WORKSHOP
An annual workshop on the Economics of Innovation at the University of Bristol
About: This workshop brings together economists interested in science, innovation, productivity, and technological change to present their research findings and discuss each other's work. Recent topics include the role of AI's impact on creativity, STEM talent discovery, diversity in innovation, and academic career dynamics.
2023 ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION WORKSHOP
An annual workshop on the Economics of Innovation at the University of Bristol
About: This workshop brings together economists interested in science, innovation, productivity, and technological change to present their research findings and discuss each other's work. Themes discussed include the consequences of diversity among patent inventors, gender gaps in academia, and spillovers from public labs to private firms.
