Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting - VEAM

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HỘI THẢO VEAM 2025 Hội nghị thường niên các nhà kinh tế Việt Nam (Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting – VEAM) là một trong những sự kiện học thuật lớn và uy tín nhất trong lĩnh vự...

- 🌟 Round Table Discussion in Thai Nguyen 🌟

On December 8th, 2025, the 16th Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) successfully organized a high-impact Round Table Discussion on "Drivers and Policy Framework for Economic Growth in Thai Nguyen" at Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration (TUEBA).

We were honored to feature insightful speeches and expertise from our distinguished guests:

📊 Ms. Nguyet Anh Tran and Ms. Trang Hong Dao (World Bank Vietnam) - "Viet Nam’s High Tech and Semiconductor Future: Talent and Innovation Leading the Way"
📊 Dr. Cong S. Pham (Deakin University) - "Semiconductor Manufacturing:Key Characteristics & Policies of Selected Countries"
📊 Prof. Thanh Quang Le (University of Wollongong) - "Academia and Academic R&D for Economic Development in the New Era"
📊 Dr. Phu Viet Le (Fulbright University Vietnam) - "Energy Transition for Growth: Opportunities and Challenges"
📊 Prof. Dr. phil. Hans-Peter Benedikt (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development) - "Fostering Human Capital for Green Growth: The Eberswalde Transdisciplinary Model and the ‘Unlearning’ Paradigm in Business Education"

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☘ Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) 2025
☘ Time: December 09-10th, 2025
☘ Location: Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam.
☘ Conference website for more information: https://veam.org/category/announcement/

Call for papers - Special Issue of Review of Development Economics

VEAM 2025 is pleased to welcome submissions from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for a special issue of the Review of Development Economics (RDE), titled “Development Challenges in Asian Middle-Income Countries.”

📌 If you are an early career researcher (ECR), the paper accepted by VEAM 2025 will be considered for the Special Issue of Review of Development Economics, “Development Challenges in Asian Middle-Income Countries”, which specifically targets ECR authors.

📌 VEAM 2025 plans to organise a session where interested authors ask questions to guest editors. On the 10th and 11th of December, the third-round British Academy international writing workshop will be held at the same place to help ECRs publish papers in international journals. ECRs who plan to submit a paper to the special issue are encouraged to attend this workshop.

📌 Full call for paper: https://bit.ly/47ST7cS
📌 Submission Guidance: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679361/homepage/forauthors.html

📌 For further information, please contact:
- Dr Katsushi Imai, [email protected]; or
- Dr Minh Tam Bui [email protected].

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☘ Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM) 2025
☘ Time: December 09-10th, 2025
☘ Location: Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration, Thai Nguyen, Vietnam.
☘ Conference website for more information: https://veam.org/category/announcement/

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”

The laureates showed how new technology can drive sustained growth.

Over the last two centuries, for the first time in history, the world has seen sustained economic growth. This has lifted vast numbers of people out of poverty and laid the foundation of our prosperity. This year’s laureates in economic sciences, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.

Technology advances rapidly and affects us all, with new products and production methods replacing old ones in a never-ending cycle. This is the basis for sustained economic growth, which results in a better standard of living, health and quality of life for people around the globe.

However, this was not always the case. Quite the opposite – stagnation was the norm throughout most of human history. Despite important discoveries now and again, which sometimes led to improved living conditions and higher incomes, growth always eventually levelled off.

Joel Mokyr used historical sources as one means to uncover the causes of sustained growth becoming the new normal. He demonstrated that if innovations are to succeed one another in a self-generating process, we not only need to know that something works, but we also need to have scientific explanations for why. The latter was often lacking prior to the industrial revolution, which made it difficult to build upon new discoveries and inventions. He also emphasised the importance of society being open to new ideas and allowing change.

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt also studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth. In an article from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the companies selling the older products lose out. The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.

In different ways, the laureates show how creative destruction creates conflicts that must be managed in a constructive manner. Otherwise, innovation will be blocked by established companies and interest groups that risk being put at a disadvantage.

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