Workshop Details

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a shaping force across economic activity, organizational practices, and scientific inquiry. Within private firms and public agencies, AI adoption offers prospects for productivity gains through streamlined processes, greater adaptive capacity to shifting markets and user demands, and strengthened access to external knowledge bases. It may also widen the space for discovery by enabling new forms of combinatorial exploration in innovation and R&D. In public research institutions, the growing use of generative systems and machine learning is poised to alter how scientific tasks are structured, how methodological options are evaluated, and how rapidly new findings are produced and circulated.

The IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca invites scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and doctoral candidates to a two-day workshop examining three interrelated themes:

• AI and R&D Dynamics

• AI-Enabled Developments in Scientific Research

• AI and Organisational Change in Research Settings

We welcome theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions from economics, management, computer science, data science, science and technology studies, and related fields. The workshop has no participation fees.

For additional details and submissions, please see the Call for Papers page

The workshop will take place at IMT Lucca, Piazza San Francesco 19. It will feature paper sessions, discussant feedback, and roundtable discussions designed to encourage cross-disciplinary exchange. The program is available here.