Keun Lee: Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution a Continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution or Something New Under the Sun?: Analysis of their Technological Regime using the US Patent Data Economics Department Seminar
Join the Economics Department for the seminar "Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution a Continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution or Something New Under the Sun?: Analysis of their Technological Regime Using the US patent Data" with Keun Lee on March 26th, 2021.
Keun Lee will present his paper Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution a Continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution or Something New Under the Sun?: Analysis of their Technological Regime Using the US patent Data, co-authored with Jongho Lee.
Due to COVID-19 regulations, the seminar will be held virtually. Please join us via Zoom from 4:00pm to 5:30pm. To attend the seminar, CLICK HERE.
Keun Lee is the Vice-chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council, which is a key advisory position for the President of Korea (Chairman of the Council). He is also a Professor of Economics at the Seoul National University (SNU), and Head of the Center for Comparative Economic Studies at SNU. He is also a Fellow of the CIFAR (Canada) program on Innovation, Equity and The Future of Prosperity, and founding director of the Center for Economic Catch-up.
He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press), as well as the 2019 Kapp Prize from the EAEPE, for his article on national innovation systems. He is also an editor of Research Policy, and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. He served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society (2016-18), a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN (2013-18), a council member of the World Economic Forum (2016-19).and the President of the Korean International Economic Association (2020).
He obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. One of his most cited articles is a paper on Korea’s Technological Catch-up published in Research Policy, with 1,350 citations (Google Scholar). His H-index is 45, with about 115 papers with more than 10 citations. He has a new book, China’s Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up, forthcoming from Oxford Univ. Press (2021).
