2025 Bessemer Symposium in the Economics of Innovation

17th September 2025 - University of Sheffield, The Wave Seminar Room 2, 2 Whitham Rd, Sheffield S10 2AH.

PROGRAMME

• 10:15 – 10:30 Welcome & Coffee

• 10:30 – 12:00 Presentations Session I:

  • Suleyman Faruk Gozen (University of Bristol) “Managerial Incentives and Intangibles: Rethinking the Firm Response to Tax-Induced Shocks”

  • Glory Chinaza Okutue (University of Nottingham) “Litigation cost and risk taking in innovation”

  • Çiğdem Ekiz (UNU-MERIT) “Buyer-Supplier Interactions, R&D Spillovers and Firm Productivity”

• 12:00 – 12:45 Policy Roundtable: Antonia Custance-Baker (IPO), Carolin Ioramashvili (Cabinet Office & University of Sussex), Halima Jibril (University of Warwick)

• 12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break

• 13:30 – 14:15 Keynote Speech: Prof. Carolina Castaldi (Utrecht University)

• 14:15 – 15:15 Presentations Session II:

  • Ruveyda Gozen (Cardiff Business School & CEP LSE) “Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors”

  • Gaia Dossi (UCL & EIEF) “Race and Science”

• 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee

• 15:30 – 17:00 Presentations Session III:

  • Manfredi Aliberti (Einaudi Institute for Economics & Finance) “The Effect of PhD Programs on Innovation: Evidence from the 1983 Introduction of PhDs in Italy”

  • Luu Duc Toan Huynh (Queen Mary University of London) “Sanctions and Knowledge Spillovers”

  • Stefania Scrofani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) “The diffusion of digital services in the Public Administration: The leadership role of Mayors”

• Closing remarks and social dinner