Innovation Workshop

2023 Bristol Economics of Innovation Workshop

Organizer: Patrick Gaule, patrick.gaule@bristol.ac.uk

Date: Friday, November 3, 2023

Venue:  Music and Drawing Room, Clifton Hill House, Lower Clifton Hill, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1BX

Program:

9:00-9:25 Arrivals. Tea, coffee

 

9:25-9:30 Welcome remarks

 

9:30-10:15  Emeric Henry (Science Po) “From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers” (with Antonin Bergeaud, Arthur Guillouzouic & Clement Malgouyres)

 

10:15-11:00 Benjamin Balsmeier (University of Luxembourg) “Ideas do not travel free: geographic constraints of interpersonal knowledge flows in science” (with Sonja Lueck and Lee Fleming)

 

11:00-11:30 Mid-morning break. Tea and Coffee

 

11:30-12:15 Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol) “Innovation Begets Innovation and Concentration: The Case of Upstream Oil & Gas in the North Sea” (with Michele Fioretti, Aljoscha Janssen, Clement Mazet-Sonilhac & Robert Perrons)

 

12:15-13:00 Felix Poege (Bocconi University) “Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben”

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch (at the workshop venue)

 

14:00-14:45 Andreas Link (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) “The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the West”

 

14:45-15:30 Matias Cabello (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) “The Counter-Reformation, Science, and Long-Term Growth: a Black Legend?”


15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break. Tea and Coffee


16:00-16:45 Gaia Dossi (LSE) “Race and the Direction of Scientific Progress”


16:45-17:30 Hyejin Ku (UCL) “The virtuous cycle between education and technology" (with Sascha O. Becker and Christian Dustmann)

  

17:30 Adjourn

 

Early Evening: Workshop Dinner (for presenters), Venue TBA


2022 Bristol Economics of Innovation Workshop

Organizer: Patrick Gaule, patrick.gaule@bristol.ac.uk

Date: Friday, November 4, 2022

Venue:  Clifton Suite, Clifton Hill House, Lower Clifton Hill, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1BX

Program:

9:00-9:30 Arrivals. Tea, coffee

 

9:30-10:15  Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol) “Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence Over the Twentieth Century” (with Carlo Schwarz and Fabian Waldinger)

 

Discussant: Sarah Smith (University of Bristol)

 

10:15-11:00 Hyejin Ku (UCL) “The Rise of China and the Global Production of Scientific Knowledge” (with Tianrui Mu)

 

Discussant: Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol)

 

11:00-11:30 Mid-morning break. Tea and Coffee

 

11:30-12:15 Eugenie Dugoua (London School of Economics) “Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition” (with Todd Gerarden)

 

Discussant: Helen Simpson (University of Bristol)

 

12:15-13:00 Patrick Gaule (University of Bristol) “India’s Missing Billion” (with Ruchir Agarwal)

 

Discussant: Paul Hufe (University of Bristol)

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch (at the workshop venue)

 

14:00-14:45 Christian Ochsner (CERGE-EI) “Dying for mistrust? 1918-flu mortality, vaccination skepticism and vaccination behavior” (with Lukas Schmid)

 

Discussant: Christine Valente (University of Bristol)

 

14:45-15:30 Pere Arque-Castells (University of Groningen) “Does a Stronger Patent System Stimulate More R&D? Yes, in Firms That Rely on Patents as an Appropriation Mechanism”

 

Discussant: Ammon Salter (University of Bath)

 

15:30-16:00 Afternoon Break. Tea and Coffee

 

16:00-16:45 Sampsa Samila (IESE) "Robots, China and Polls: Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the U.S.” (with Marina Chugunova, Arnau Juanmarti and Klaus Keller)

 

Discussant: Leandro de Magalhaes (University of Bristol)

 

16:45-17:30 Chirantan Chatterjee (SPRU) “Cross-Border Environmental Regulation and Firm Labor Demand” (with Pavel Chakraborty and Anindya Chakrabarti)

 

Discussant: Eugenie Dugoua (London School of Economics)

  

17:30 Adjourn