On July 8-12, the United Nations University of Maastricht hosted the 2nd edition of our Economic Fitness and Complexity Summer School, co-organised with CREF, in collaboration with the Young Scholars Initiative and the Institute for New Economic Thinking)

Economic Fitness and Complexity (EFC) methods and metrics describe economies as evolutionary processes of globally interconnected ecosystems of industries, technologies, and infrastructures. They have gained increasing popularity across multiple disciplines and fields in social sciences, such as economic development, evolutionary economics, economic geography, economics of science, and technological change. 

Fifty-four participants joined the School for an engaging five-day programme. In the first part, participants have been offered training on the main tools of the fitness toolbox, such as the economic fitness and complexity algorithm, measures of relatedness, and network inference using random graphs and multilayer networks. In the second part, the School has featured speakers presenting cutting-edge, frontier contributions from the fitness and complexity literature, covering topics such as economic development, technological and scientific production, sustainability, labour markets, and industrial policy.

The next edition will be held at CREF. The website has updates and further details on the programme.