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How does data create value and who is it valuable for?

Data Dialogues Session 3

How does data create value and who is it valuable for?

ABSTRACT:
Data has become an essential fuel in economic growth but businesses and policymakers alike are grappling with how to use data to create value, and how to share the benefits. This talk will look at the policy questions and dilemmas raised by the economic characteristics of data and potential of data to contribute to innovation and growth.

26th May 2023

@ 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. IST
(10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. BST)

Meeting link: https://bit.ly/3O1mkZN

Speaker

Diane Coyle

Bennett Professor of Public Policy

Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Diane co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of place, progress, productivity, and decision making. Her new book ‘Cogs and Monsters’ looks at how economics needs to change, while her previous book, ‘Markets, State and People – Economics for Public Policy’ examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resources.

Diane is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, an expert adviser to the National Infrastructure Commission, and Senior Independent Member of the ESRC Council. She has served in public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the Natural Capital Committee. Diane was Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester until March 2018 and was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the public understanding of economics in the 2018 New Year Honours.

Diane’s research interests include economic statistics and the digital economy, competition policy and digital markets, economics of new technologies, natural capital, and infrastructure.

Her books include GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, The Economics of Enough, The Soulful Science, The Weightless World and Cogs and Monsters. Her recent papers have been published by Science, Review of International Political Economy, Nature, Antitrust Law Journal, and Regional Studies.