On Nov. 1-2, 2024, CDEP (along with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), the Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab of the Center for Political Economy (CPE), and the Institute of Global Politics (IGP)) hosted the 2nd annual conference on “New Thinking on Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries,” with keynotes by Alondra Nelson and Dani Rodrik, panels on semiconductors and green industrial policy, and fifteen research papers, all aiming to strengthen the knowledge base to guide smart industrial policy. The main conference page is here. The program is here. Video will be available soon.