Johan Norberg’s online lecture “New & improved: How innovations happen»

Johan Norberg’s online lecture “New & improved: How innovations happen»

Dear students, postgraduates and teachers!

As part of the cooperation between Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University and Ukraine Global Faculty, we invite you to join the online lecture by writer, teacher and director, senior researcher at the Cato Institute (Washington) and the European Center for International Political Economy (Brussels) Johan Norberg «New & improved: How innovations happen».

Date: December 16, 2022.

Time: at 2:00 p.m.

At the lecture you will learn:

  • why innovation is the key to growth and prosperity;
  • why for innovation freedom, creativity, collaboration are needed;
  • why we are often skeptical of everything new.

Johan Norberg:

  • specializes in a wide range of issues: from freedom and progress to entrepreneurship, globalization and the hidden dichotomies that shape the world;
  • an experienced and renowned speaker from Stockholm to Sydney, from Buenos Aires to Beijing and from Cairo to Capitol Hill;
  • received the Walter Judd Freedom Award (2018), previously awarded to such luminaries as Garry Kasparov and Ronald Reagan;
  • has written over 20 books on the global economy, entrepreneurship, progress;
  • regularly writes and hosts documentaries on development, economics and current events;
  • For his international work, Norberg received the Distinguished Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award from the American Atlas Foundation and the Gold Medal from the German Hayek Stiftung

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