MIOIR Seminar Series with Professor Andrei Yakovlev
| Dates: | 2 March 2026 |
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| Times: | 15:30 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Manchester Institute of Innovation Research |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Andrei Yakovlev |
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War in Europe and the World Economy: How does the competition between different models of capitalism affect global economic and political development?"
Full abstract will be available closer to the date.
Andrei Yakovlev is an economist whose main research interests include state-business relations in Russia, political economy of development, industrial policy, public procurement, and incentives for bureaucracy (with comparative study of Russia and China). From 1993 to 2023 he worked at the HSE University in Moscow as director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies. In 2011-2022 together with Timothy Frye of Columbia University he led HSE's International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID). In 2015-2019 he served as president of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT). In 2017 he was awarded the Gaidar Memorial Prize in economics. He is the author of "Agents of Modernization" (HSE, 2006) and the paper "Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order" (Post-Soviet Affairs, 37(5), 417–434). In 2022-2023 he worked at the Davis Center in Harvard as a visiting scholar. In 2023-2024 he was a fellow of Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) and from November 2024 he is visiting researcher at Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Seminar Details:
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research runs a series of regular seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester. These seminars are open to anybody who is interested in science, technology and innovation policy and management.
Refreshments will be available for networking from 3:15 pm, before the seminar.
We encourage AMBS and UoM staff and students to join us in person. An online option will be available via Microsoft Teams Online (see below). Please feel free to share this invitation with your networks.
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32241911602783?p=apcQELz1MRLuNn74aB
Meeting ID: 322 419 116 027 83
Passcode: cJ7QD2Wp
Speaker
Professor Andrei Yakovlev
Role: Former Director
Organisation: Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, HSE University, Moscow
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9.041 AMBS (Hybrid)
Aliiance Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
Manchester
