CISS - Competition and Innovation Summer School

This workshop offers young researchers within the fields of the economics of innovation and competition the opportunity to intensively discuss their dissertation projects within a peer group of experienced and renowned scholars, as well as other PhD students and postdoc researchers in an inspiring environment.

Scientific Programme

The Summer School features lectures that provide students with detailed knowledge on current topics of innovation, the economics of science and intellectual property rights, empirical competition analysis, and contemporary issues in theories of industrial organisation. Students' presentations and workshops on research methodologies take place in the afternoon.

Speakers

• Thomas Astebro (HEC Paris, FR)
• Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven, BE)
• Justus Haucap (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Ulrich Heimeshoff (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Hanna Hottenrott (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Katrin Hussinger (University of Luxembourg, LU)
• Tobias Klein (Tilburg University, NL)
• Georg Licht (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Bettina Peters (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Cédric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
• Jo Seldeslachts (DIW Berlin, DE & KU Leuven, BE)
• Jerry Thursby (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
• Marie Thursby (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
• Andrew Toole (U.S. Department of Agriculture, US)
• Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven, BE)
• Christian Wey (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)