You can watch 25 of the previous talks that have been recorded. They are available on the IIPP YouTube channel or through the links below.
June 3:
Felix Pöge (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
"Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben" (video)
Discussant: Florian Ederer (Yale School of Management)
May 20:
Danny Kim (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
"Startup Acquisitions as a Hiring Strategy: Worker Choice and Turnover" (no video recording)
Discussant: Russ Coff (University of Wisconsin-Madison - Wisconsin School of Business)
May 6:
Aldona Kapacinskaite (London Business School)
"Keeping Invention Confidential: The Role of Strengthened Legal Protections in the Use of Trade Secrets" (video)
Discussant: Ashish Arora (Duke University - Fuqua School of Business)
April 22:
Lia Sheer (Duke University - Fuqua School of Business)
"Sitting on the fence: integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm" (no video recording)
Discussant: David Hsu (Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania)
April 8:
Yun Hou & Xi Xiong (National University of Singapore)
"Strategic Patenting: Evidence from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit" (video)
Discussant: Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management)
March 25:
Sarath Balachandran (London Business School)
"Innovation via Inter-firm Collaboration: The Role of Partner Organizational Design" (video)
Discussant: Brian Silverman (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management)
March 11:
Tatiana Rosa (CEMFI)
"Cooperation, Competition, and Patents: Understanding Innovation in the Telecommunication Sector" (video)
Discussant: Emanuele Tarantino (Luiss Guido Carli)
February 25:
Britta Glennon (Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania)
"Does offshoring production harm innovation? Evidence from Taiwan" (video)
Discussant: Stephen Yeaple (Pennsylvania State University)
February 11:
Matthias van den Heuvel (EPFL)
"Certification or Cash Prize: The Heterogeneous Effect of Venture Competitions" (video)
Discussant: Michael Ewens (Caltech)
January 28:
Gauri Subramani (UC Berkeley)
"Try, Try, Try Again? Persistence and the Gender Innovation Gap" (video)
Discussant: Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (LBS)
January 14:
Alex Xi He (University of Maryland)
"The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research" (video)
Discussant: Hans K. Hvide (University of Bergen and CEPR)
December 21:
Mike Andrews (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
"Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention" (video)
Discussant: Christian Helmers (Santa Clara University)
December 7:
Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach (Copenhagen Business School)
"Exploring-by-Hiring: High-Skilled Migration as a Source of Exploration?" (video)
Discussant: Dan Wang (Columbia Business School)
November 23:
Astrid Marinoni (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management)
"Immigration and Entrepreneurship: the Role of Enclaves" (video)
Discussant: Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
November 9:
Muly San (New York University - Department of Economics)
"Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Abrogation of the Bracero Program in 1964" (video)
Discussant: Ethan Lewis (Dartmouth College)
October 26:
Keith Pennington (University of Minnesota)
"Varying Serendipity Between Inventors" (video)
Discussant: Raj Choudhury (HBS)
October 12:
Ryan Hill (MIT / Northwestern Kellogg)
"Scooped! Estimating Rewards for Priority in Science" (video)
Discussant: Matt Marx (Boston University - Questrom School of Business)
September 28:
Chungeun Yoon (University of Notre Dame)
"Inventors and Firm Innovation: Evidence from the U.S. World War I Draft" (video)
Discussant: Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management)
September 14:
Chiara Spina (Bocconi University / INSEAD)
"Small Changes With Big Impact: Experimental Evidence of a Scientific Approach to the Decision-making of Entrepreneurial Firms" (video)
Discussant: Chuck Eesley (Stanford University)
August 31:
Maria Roche (Georgia Tech / HBS)
"Entrepreneurs (Co-)Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technology Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes" (video)
Discussant: Bill Kerr (HBS)
August 17:
Tristan Fitzgerald (Texas A&M University)
"Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams" (video)
Discussant: Francesco Lissoni (University of Bordeaux)
August 3:
Dennis Byrski (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
"Fire and Mice: The Effect of Supply Shocks on Basic Science" (video)
Discussant: Scott Stern (MIT Sloan)
July 20:
Maria Kurakina (Berkeley Haas / University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business)
"The Dark Side of Patents: Effects of Strategic Patenting on Firms and Their Peers" (video)
Discussant: Deepak Hegde (NYU Stern School of Business)
July 6:
Andreas Diemer (LSE)
"The Geography of Social Connectedness and Knowledge Flows in the United States: New Evidence from Patent Citations" (video)
Discussant: Adam Jaffe (MIT/Brandeis)
June 22:
Sara Signorelli (Paris School of Economics)
"Too Constrained to Grow. Analysis of Firms’ Response to the Alleviation of Skill Shortages" (video)
Discussant: Kirk Doran (University of Notre Dame)
June 8:
Enrico Berkes & Peter Nencka (Ohio State University)
"Knowledge Access: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovation" (video)
Discussant: Jeff Furman (Boston University - Questrom School of Business)
May 25:
Caroline Fry (MIT Sloan): "Viral Privilege: Evidence from the Ebola Epidemic" (video)
Discussant: Patrick Gaulé (University of Bath)