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Matheus E. Leusin awarded Best Paper Award by EMAEE for his research on the global competition for artificial intelligence

On June 4, 2019, Matheus Leusin presented his research results on artificial intelligence at the European Conference on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE) in Great Britain at the University of Sussex and received the Best Paper Award endowed with 1,000 euros for his scientific achievements.

The young scientist from Bremen, Matheus E. Leusin, is researching the worldwide economic competition for the leading role in artificial intelligence as part of his dissertation. At present, there are no reliable empirical findings available in the field of economics. However, an understanding of the global distribution of technological knowledge is of great strategic importance. The research work therefore makes it its task to analyze this forward-looking field of technology. To this end, information is processed, extracted from millions of patent documents and scientific publications according to a certain pattern and assigned to the regions of the world. Previous results show the great importance of Europe, the USA and China and in particular the strong development dynamics of research on artificial intelligence in China. The results are highly relevant for science, policy and business, and the analytical methods are an important step for empirical innovation research.

Matheus Leusin studied engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in his home country, Brazil. In 2017, he was active as an international guest researcher at the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics (BIBA) as part of his master's thesis. After completing his studies, he moved back to Germany and to the University of Bremen. Since November 2018, he has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate in Professor Dr. Jutta Günther's "Innovation and Structural Change" working group and a member of the "Diginomics" graduate group in the Economics Department of the University of Bremen. The research of key technologies in their impact on the economy is a research area of the working group "Innovation and Structural Change" and requires an interdisciplinary approach at the interface between technology and economics. The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the University of Bremen - recently awarded a central place in AI research - offer an excellent environment for this. 

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