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14:45-17:40

Social Hierarchies as Optimal Cost-Adjusted Productivity Organisations,

D. Sornette, ETH Zurich

Session III: Optimal Economy,

Chair: Th. Lux

16:45-15:25

15:25-16:05

Technological spillovers and innovation networks – agent-based modelling of

industrial Research and Development,

Andreas Pyka, Hohenheim University,

Stuttgart, Germany

16:05-16:45

Economic and Wealth growth in Modern societies: a scientific approach to diagnose

and foster healthy growth,

Didier Sornette, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

17:25-18:05

The Topology of the Bank – Firm Credit Network and its Role as Channel of Financial Contagion,

Thomas Lux, University of Kiel, Germany

18:30-22:00

Conference banquette

16:45- 17:25

Optimal development (Skype talk)

Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex

Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA. USA