The jury for the UAM-Accenture Award 2016 was composed by:
D. Juan Pedro Moreno, as President.
Prof. María Paloma Sánchez, as Secretary.
Mr. José Luis Sancho, Managing Director at Accenture Digital.
Prof. Alberto Bayo Moriones, Professor of Business Organization at the Public University of Navarra.
Prof. Marco Vivarelli, Director of the Institute of Economic Policy de la Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore de Milano.
Among the papers presented, which had been sent to the jury without name or affiliation of their authors, the following three were finalists:
“Productivity effects of ICTs and organizational change: A test of the complementary hypothesis in Spain”, by Dr. Alberto López Sebastíán, Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
“Polarization and the growth of low-skill employment in Spanish Local Labor Markets”, by Drs. Davide Consoli, Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia; and Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo, Joint Research Center, Unit of Human Capital and Employment (European Commission).
“How can ubiquity mitigate the disadvantages of mobile banking services?”, by Drs. Jana Prodonova, Sonia San-Martín and Nadia Jiménez, Department of Economy and Business Administration, Universidad de Burgos.
Finally, the jury chose by majority the paper:
“Productivity effects of ICTs and organizational change: A test of the complementary hypothesis in Spain”, by Dr. Alberto López Sebastíán, Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
AWARD CEREMONY:
The ceremony of the VIII Research Award (“Digital Revolution, Economy and Employment”, 2016) of the UAM-Accenture Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation took place on April 27th, 2017. The event, which was held at UAM, was chaired by the UAM´s Rector, José María Sanz, and attended by José M. Lasalle, Secretary of State for the Information Society and Digital Agenda; Juan Pedro Moreno, President of the Chair and President of Accenture Spain; Ana M. López, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Prof. Paloma Sánchez, Director of the Chair and Professor of Applied Economics at the UAM; and Prof. Alberto López Sebastián, the awardee.
During the event, Prof. Alberto López Sebastián presented the main points of his paper entitled “Productivity effects of ICTs and organizational change: A test of complementarity hypothesis in Spain”, which concludes that the impact of technological changes in productivity are more intense when are combined with organizational changes.
Juan Pedro Moreno then spoke about the importance of the changes that ICTs are generating and the positive effect of ICTs on the economy and employment.
After that, José M. Lasalle, intervened emphasizing the impact that new technologies are having on society. He highlighted the emergence of a new social class, the digital class, in front of other traditional classes. Then, citing the work of Richard Florida, he pointed out the importance of the so-called 3 Ts (technology, talent and tolerance) in shaping the future society.
The event was closed with a cocktail.
