Beata Javorcik on Global Collaboration and the Future of Work │ Mission Imagination

How has the way we work changed over the years? How are companies conducting global research and development activities? And what are the implications on global and local innovation?

The tenth episode of WIPO's Mission Imagination series features Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, who shares insights into the ways technology has transformed global R&D collaboration, and what challenges and opportunities we face in a world where remote work has become the new normal.

In conversation with WIPO Chief Economist Carsten Fink, Beata discusses the findings of her study on how researchers part of the same company but in different physical locations work with one another, the ways time zone differences affect collaborative innovation, and why cross-border collaborations will become “irresistible” for companies.

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