Applying LLMs and GenAI in Innovation Economics

Aalborg University Business School • 8–9 December 2025

Participant Resources

Why This Workshop

Large Language Models and Generative AI are reshaping how economists study innovation, enabling causal insights, richer measurement, and new views on technological change. This workshop convenes researchers who advance these methods in innovation economics, share practical playbooks, and surface emerging risks around data quality, reproducibility, and responsible deployment.

We are one week out. The full programme is live—please double-check your slot, discussant duties, and rooms. Presenters: upload your camera-ready paper or extended abstract via the form below so peers can prepare.

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Workshop Programme

8–9 December 2025 | AAU Innovate, Aalborg University

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Day 1 · Monday, 8 December 2025

Morning Programme

08:30 – 09:00

Registration & Coffee

📍 Innovate Pitch-area Foyer

09:00 – 09:20

Welcome & Housekeeping

📍 Pitch-area

Speakers: Roman Jurowetzki, Mette Vinther Larsen (Head of Business School)

09:20 – 10:50

Session 1: Methods I (Plenum)

📍 Pitch-area

Chair: Primoz Konda (covering for Stefano Bianchini)

Format: 15 min talk + 5 min Discussant 1 + 5 min Discussant 2 + 5 min Q&A

09:20 – 09:50

LLMs as Economic Measurement Tools: A Framework for Multi-Label Job Posting Classification

Presenter: Rentian Zhu (Copenhagen Business School)

Discussants: Björn Preuß & Tommaso Ciarli

09:50 – 10:20

From Scratch to Silver: Creating Trustworthy Training Data for Patent-SDG Classification Using Large Language Models

Presenter: Grazia Sveva Ascione (Polytechnic University of Turin)

Discussants: Roman Jurowetzki & Primoz Konda

10:20 – 10:50

Self-Building Benchmarks: Using AI generated exams to understand LLM work capabilities

Presenter: Johanna Einsiedler (University of Copenhagen)

Discussants: Egbert Amoncio & Erik Lang

10:50 – 11:10

☕ Coffee Break

📍 Innovate Pitch-area Foyer

Parallel Sessions

Track A: Web Data & Analysis

11:10 – 12:15

📍 Innovation Lab

Chair: Giacomo Damioli (covering for Björn Jindra)

11:10 – 11:30

Employing LLMs and Organisational Web Data for Innovation Research — the WebAI Paradigm

Presenter: Sebastian Schmidt (University of Salzburg)

Discussant: Leonardo Castro-Gonzalez

11:30 – 11:50

An Atlas of Economic Activities in the UK: Tapping into Web Archives for Social Science Research

Presenter: Leonardo Castro-Gonzalez (University of Bristol)

Discussant: Suyan Wu

11:50 – 12:10

A Study of Competitive Dynamics Analysis Report Generation Aided by LLMs

Presenter: Suyan Wu (Beijing Academy of Science and Technology)

Discussant: Sebastian Schmidt

Track B: Spillovers & Diffusion

11:10 – 12:15

📍 Meeting Room A.314 (3rd Floor)

Chair: Eskil Andersen

11:10 – 11:30

Extracting Innovation and Cost Metrics for Synthetic Fuels Using LLMs: A Scalable Pipeline

Presenter: Tobias Buchmann (ZSW) [Online Presentation]

Discussant: Saverio Barabuffi

11:30 – 11:50

Inter-regional Public Knowledge Spillovers and Patenting Performance

Presenter: Saverio Barabuffi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

Discussant: Johan Lausen

11:50 – 12:10

A LLM Analysis of European Environmental Policy Diffusion Networks

Presenter: Johan Lausen (University of Copenhagen - IFRO)

Discussant: Tobias Buchmann [Online]

Lunch & Keynote

12:15 – 13:15

🍽️ Lunch

📍 Innovate Faculty Club

13:30 – 14:30

🎤 Keynote Lecture

📍 Innovate Lab

Speaker: Johan Heinsen (Professor, Dept. of Politics and Society, Aalborg University)

Title: Transforming Historical Research with Language Models

Format: 45 min talk + 15 min Q&A

14:30 – 14:50

☕ Coffee Break

📍 Innovate Lab Foyer

Methods Fair

14:50 – 15:45

Methods Fair: Lightning Pitches & Hands-on Stations

📍 Innovate Lab

Part 1: Lightning Pitches (14:50 – 15:00)

Rentian Zhu: Claude Code for replication / Stata MCP integration
Milad Abbasiharofteh: Trademark data & NLP for diffusion research
Hamid Bekamiri: News-based diffusion pipeline
Sebastian Schmidt: Region Insights / WebAI for regional analysis
Jessica Birkholz: Embedding-based literature review pipeline

Part 2: Hands-on Rotation (15:00 – 15:45)

Participants rotate between stations every 15 minutes

Evening Social

Day 2 · Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Morning Programme

08:30 – 09:00

Arrival & Coffee

📍 Innovate Lab Foyer

09:00 – 10:30

Session 3: Methods II & Applications (Plenum)

📍 Innovation Lab

Chair: Hamid Bekamiri

09:00 – 09:30

Understanding Future AI-Green Technology Directions from Past Technological Trajectories

Presenter: Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT) [Online Presentation]

Discussants: Dorian Fildor & Alexandra Badort

09:30 – 10:00

Firm AI Adoption and Regional Public Discourse: Insights from Germany

Presenter: Alexandra Badort (LUISS Guido Carli)

Discussants: Ana Pastor-Merino & Johanna Einsiedler

10:00 – 10:30

Beyond the Pretty Face: Unmasking the True Power—and Limits—of Design Innovation

Presenter: Egbert Amoncio (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Discussants: Erik Lang & Jessica Birkholz

10:30 – 11:00

☕ Coffee Break

📍 Innovate Lab Foyer

11:00 – 12:00

🎤 Keynote: “Predicting Human Outcomes at Scale with Applications for Policy”

📍 Innovate Lab

Speaker: Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen)

Format: 45 min talk + 15 min Q&A

12:00 – 13:00

🍽️ Lunch

📍 Innovate Faculty Club

Parallel Sessions

Track A: Risk & Adoption

13:00 – 14:30

📍 Innovation Lab

Chair: Christian Nielsen

13:00 – 13:30

Applying LLM for Granular Innovation Assessment

Presenter: Dorian Fildor (University of Innsbruck / Zagreb)

Discussants: Alexandra Badort & Ana Pastor-Merino

13:30 – 14:00

Controlling LLMs' In- and Output to Mitigate Risks

Presenter: Björn Preuß (Copenhagen Business School) [Online]

Discussants: Tommaso Ciarli & Dorian Fildor

14:00 – 14:30

LLM-Based Web Mining for Firm-Level AI Adoption and Productivity

Presenter: Ana Pastor-Merino (Universitat Politècnica de València)

Discussants: Johanna Einsiedler & Egbert Amoncio

Track B: Dynamics & Emerging Tech

13:00 – 14:30

📍 Meeting Room A.314 (3rd Floor)

Chair: Jessica Birkholz

13:00 – 13:30

The Imitation Game: A Longitudinal Study of the Imitation–Performance Relationship in S&P 500 Firms

Presenter: Erik Lang (Norwegian School of Economics)

Discussants: Jessica Birkholz & Milad Abbasiharofteh

13:30 – 14:00

Using Large Language Models to Analyze the Impact of Advanced Digital Technologies on SDGs

Presenter: Kevin Michoud (University of Strasbourg) — TBC

Discussant: Milad Abbasiharofteh

14:00 – 14:30

Using Large Language Models in Policy Mix Analysis

Presenter: Christian Nielsen (Aalborg University)

Discussants: Primoz Konda, Giacomo Damioli

Final Sessions & Closing

14:30 – 14:50

☕ Coffee Break

📍 Innovate Lab Foyer

14:50 – 15:50

Session 5: Innovation Narratives (Plenum)

📍 Innovation Lab

Chair: Roman Jurowetzki

14:50 – 15:20

Narratives of Political Parties and Green Path Development in European Regions

Presenter: Jessica Birkholz (University of Bremen)

Discussants: Milad Abbasiharofteh & Rentian Zhu

15:20 – 15:50

Chatting Innovation: Bridging Invention and Market Innovation

Presenter: Milad Abbasiharofteh (Aalborg University)

Discussants: Rentian Zhu & Björn Preuß (online)

15:50 – 16:00

Closing Remarks & Departure

Speaker: Roman Jurowetzki & Organizing Team

Participant Resources

This space centralises everything presenters and reviewers need before arriving in Aalborg. Presenters, please upload your camera-ready PDF/extended abstract via the form below so peers can prepare.

Paper Library

Manuscripts of accepted contributions will be listed here with download links in late November (accessible to registred participants).

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Venue & Logistics

The workshop will take place at Aalborg University Innovation Hub in Aalborg Øst. Below you will find practical details for travel, accommodation, and on-site arrangements.

Location

AAU Innovate
Thomas Manns Vej 25
9220 Aalborg Ø, Denmark

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Travel

By air: Aalborg Airport (AAL) with direct train and bus into the city and fast plusbus 2 from the centre to AAU Innovate (~25 min).
By rail: Aalborg Station connects hourly to Aarhus, Copenhagen, and Hamburg. Plusbus line 2 departs outside the station.
Airport taxi to the city runs ~250 DKK; Rejsekort/Rejsebillet apps cover local transport. Rejsekort app / Rejsebillet.

Accommodation

These are just some recommendations that you can consider. Around 100 EUR/night and well located.
Four Points Flex by Sheraton (plusbus line 2 to campus infront of the door).
B&B Hotel Aalborg (central, plusbus line 2 to campus infront of the door).

A PDF with detailed logistics and local suggestions will be circulated in mid-November. Reach out via email if you require visa support letters.

Committees & Hosts

The workshop is hosted by Aalborg University Business School and the MASSHINE network (thanks to the MASSHINE and the SSH faculty at AAU for the generous funding), with contributions from partners at the University of Strasbourg, Copenhagen Business School, the University of Bremen, and UNU-MERIT. Together we curate an agenda that bridges methodological depth with policy relevance across innovation economics.

Scientific Committee

Stefano Bianchini (University of Strasbourg, FR)
Jessica Birkholz (University of Bremen, DE)
Giacomo Damioli (University of Strasbourg, FR)
Björn Jindra (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
Lili Wang (UNU-MERIT, NL)

Local Organizing Committee

Roman Jurowetzki (Aalborg University Business School & CAISA, DK)
Milad Abbasiharofteh
Eskil Andersen
Primoz Konda
Hamid Bekamiri

Timeline

17 October 2025 Closed

Deadline for full paper submission (Paper Development Track).

7 November 2025 Sent

Circulation of reviews to authors.

28 November 2025 Closed

Camera-ready uploads now circulating internally (late uploads still accepted via the form).

8–9 December 2025

Workshop at Aalborg University.

We look forward to seeing you on campus!

Contact Information

Questions about logistics, registration, or paper uploads? Get in touch with the organizing committee:

Roman Jurowetzki: roman@business.aau.dk Eskil Andersen: eoa@business.aau.dk Maja Vemmelund Rasmussen: mvr@adm.aau.dk