Economics of Innovation and Patenting
ConferenceThe Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim is pleased to announce its 3rd conference on the economics of innovation and patenting. We aim at stimulating the discussion between international researchers conducting related empirical and theoretical analysis. In addition, the conference will focus on policy implications of recent research.
Topics of Interest:
Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions from all areas of the economics of innovation and patenting are welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics is:
Knowledge Generation and Diffusion
- Sources of Knowledge and R&D Spillovers
- Inventors and R&D Collaborations
- Corporate Governance of Innovative Firms
- Academic Patenting and Technology Transfer
Impacts of Innovation
- Productivity and Firm Performance
- Returns to R&D and Innovation
- Globalisation and Innovation
- Innovation and Competition
Financing of Innovation
- Public vs. Private Funding of Innovation
- VC, Equity and Debt Funding
- Evaluation of Technology Policy
- Tax Incentives for R&D
Patents, Trademarks & Secrecy
- IPR Strategies
- IPRs and Diffusion of Technologies
- Welfare Effects of IPRs
- Patent Litigation
Invited Speakers:
Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Paul David, Telecom-ParisTech and l'Ecole Polytechnique; Stanford University
Dominique Foray, EPF Lausanne
Aldo Geuna, SPRU University of Sussex, Brighton
Dietmar Harhoff, LMU Munich
Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Université Libre de Bruxelles and ECARES, Bruegel
John van Reenen, London School of Economics
Frederic M. Scherer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel-Aviv University
Scientific Committee:
Uwe Cantner, University of Jena
Dirk Czarnitzki, KU Leuven
Irwin Feller, Penn State University, PA
Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California at Berkeley and University of Maastricht
Jordi Jaumandreu, Carlos III University of Madrid
Ulrich Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Georg Licht, ZEW, Mannheim
Francesco Lissoni, CESPRI, Bocconi University, Milano
Pierre Mohnen, University of Maastricht
Thomas Roende, University of Copenhagen
Attila Varga, University of Pécs
Call for Papers, PDF file, 761 KB
The final program (including links to the papers), PDF File, 579 KB