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Previous Talks

Watch previous talks

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)

Year 2020

• 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)