Schedule

Forthcoming sessions

1. September 26, 2025: Yves Boulmer (BI Norwegian Business School, Norway)
   Mezzanotti, F., & Simcoe, T. (2023). Innovation and appropriability: Revisiting the role of intellectual property. National Bureau of Economic Research WP w31428. DOI: 10.3386/w31428.

2. October 10, 2025: Nina Zachlod (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)
   Yang, J., Criscuolo, P., & Sharapov, D. (2025). Autonomous inventions, problem formulation, and inventive outcomes. Research Policy, 54(7), 105271. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105271.

3. October 24, 2025: Martijn Stut (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

4. November 7, 2025: Fazli Shermatov (University of Turin, Italy)
   Justine Boudou and John McKeon (2025). Innovation Under Resource Constraints: Supercomputing in Scientific Research. SSRN Scholarly Paper 4868123. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4868123.

5. November 21, 2025: Germany

6. December 5, 2025: Andy Khootama (University of Bath, Great Britain)
   TBD.

7. December 19, 2025: France

8. January 16, 2026: Denmark

9. January 30, 2026: Spain

10. February 13, 2026: Sweden

11. February 27, 2026: Belgium-Luxembourg

12. March 13, 2026: Ireland

13. March 27, 2026: Great Britain

14. April 10, 2026: Baltic states

15. April 24, 2026: France

16. May 8, 2026: Greece

17. May 22, 2026: Turkey

18. June 5, 2026: Italy

19. June 26, 2026: Germany 

Past sessions

Season 4 [2024 – 2025]

1. June 20, 2025: Satyaki Chakravarty (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
   Byrski, D., & Wang, L. X. (2025). Marketing authorization and strategic patenting: Evidence from pharmaceuticals. Journal of Public Economics, 247, 105415. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105415.

2. June 6, 2025: Lou Zaccaron (Université de Bordeaux, France)
   Baruffaldi, S., & Poege, F. (2025). Like stars: How firms learn at scientific conferences. Management Science, 71(3), 2056-2078. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2022.01373.

3. May 23, 2025: Yves Boulmer (BI Norwegian Business School, Norway)
   Seminar cancelled

4. May 9, 2025: Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
   Brynjolfsson, E., Li, D., & Raymond, L. (2025). Generative AI at Work. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(2), 889–942. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjae044 

5. April 25, 2025: Astrid Ulv Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
   Abramitzky, R., Greska, L., Pérez, S., Price, J., Schwarz, C., & Waldinger, F. (2024). Climbing the ivory tower: How socio-economic background shapes academia. National Bureau of Economic Research No w33289. DOI: 10.3386/w33289.

6. April 11, 2025: Christina Logotheti (University of Piraeus, Greece)
   Corsini, A., Pezzoni, M., & Visentin, F. (2022). What makes a productive Ph.D. student? Research Policy, 51(10), 104561. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104561.

7. March 28, 2025: Angelo Augusto Caldas Bello (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
   Roche, Maria P. et al. (2025). ‘Proximate (Co-)Working: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions’, Management Science, 70(12), p. 8245-8264. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.03555

8. March 14, 2025:  Niamh Lenihan (University College Cork, Ireland)
   Chirico, F. et al. (2025). ‘Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?’, Research Policy, 54(1), p. 105106. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2024.105106.

9. February 28, 2025: Andres Madariaga Espinoza (KU Leuven, currently visiting Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
   Krieger, J. L., Myers, K. R., & Stern, A. D. (2023). How Important is Editorial Gatekeeping? Evidence from Top Biomedical Journals. Review of Economics and Statistics, in press. DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01340.

10. February 14, 2025: Paolo Carioli (KU Leuven, Belgium)
    Park, S., Piezunka, H., & Dahlander, L. (2024). Coevolutionary lock-in in external search. Academy of Management Journal, 67(1), 262-288. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2022.0710.

11. January 31, 20025: Ivan Napoli (Catholic University of Milan, Italy)
    Demirci, Ozge, Jonas Hannane, and Xinrong Zhu. (2025) Who is AI replacing? The impact of generative AI on online freelancing platforms. Management Science, forthcoming. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2024.05420

12. January 17, 2025: Selcan Zorlu (Middle East Technical University, Türkiye)
    Arque-Castells, P., & Spulber, D. F. (2022). Measuring the private and social returns to R&D: Unintended spillovers versus technology markets. Journal of Political Economy, 130(7), 1860-1918. DOI: 10.1086/719908

13. December 13, 2024: Zeyang Xue (Boston University, USA)
    Wang, Y. (2023). Trade secrets laws and technology spillovers. Research Policy, 52(7), 104794. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104794.

14. November 29, 2024: Felix Kurz (TU Munich, Germany)

Donges, A., Meier, J. M., & Silva, R. C. (2023). The impact of institutions on innovation. Management Science, 69(4), 1951-1974. 

DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.4403.

15. November 15, 2024: Sara Savini (University of Bordeaux, France)

Sohn, E., Seamans, R., & Sands, D. B. (2024). Technology adoption and innovation: The establishment of airmail and aviation innovation in the United States, 1918–1935. Strategic Management Journal, 45(1), 3-35. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3555

16. November 1,  2024: Jingze Wang (University College London, Great Britain)
    Peng, H., Qiu, H. S., Fosse, H. B., & Uzzi, B. (2024). Promotional language and the adoption of innovative ideas in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(25), e2320066121. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2320066121

17. October 18, 2024: Elona Lazaj  (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
    Babina, T., He, A. X., Howell, S. T., Perlman, E. R., & Staudt, J. (2023). Cutting the innovation engine: how federal funding shocks affect university patenting, entrepreneurship, and publications. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(2), 895-954. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjac046

18. October 4, 2024: Atin Aboutorabi (EPFL, Switzerland)
    Eloundou, T., Manning, S., Mishkin, P., & Rock, D. (2024). GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs. Science, 384(6702), 1306-1308. DOI: 10.1126/science.adj0998.

19. September 20, 2024: Stefania Scrofani (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy) .
    A. M. Danzer, C. Feuerbaum, F. Gaessler (2024). Labor supply and automation innovation: Evidence from an allocation policy. Journal of Public Economics, 235, 105-136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105136.

Season 3 [2023 – 2024]

20. June 7, 2024: Vikas Agarwal (IE Business School, Spain).
    Polidoro Jr, F., & Yang, W. (2024). Porting learning from interdependencies back home: Performance implications of multihoming for complementors in platform ecosystems. Strategic Management Journal, in press. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3601.

21. May 17, 2024: Marcelo Gonzalez (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France)
    Brieger, S. A., Hechavarría, D. M., & Newman, A. (2024). Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, in press. DOI:10.1177/10422587231221797.

22. May 3, 2024: Lorenzo Romero (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
    Noailly, J., Nowzohour, L., & Van Den Heuvel, M. (2022). Does environmental policy uncertainty hinder investments towards a low-carbon economy? National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper w30361.

23. April 19, 2024: Martina Pizzinato (University College London, Great Britain)
    Bruns, H. C., & Long Lingo, E. (2024). Tedious Work: Developing Novel Outcomes with Digitization in the Arts and Sciences. Administrative Science Quarterly, 69(1), 39-79. DOI: 10.1177/00018392231208190.

24. April 5, 2024: Francesco D'Alessandro (Catholic University of Milan, Italy)
    Bianchini, S., Müller, M., & Pelletier, P. (2022). Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention. Research Policy, 51(10), 104604. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104604.

25. March 22, 2024: George Spais (University of Piraeus, Greece)
    Po-Hsuan Hsu , Dongmei Li, Qin Li , Siew Hong Teoh , Kevin Tseng  (2022). Valuation of New Trademarks. Management Science, 68 (01), 257-79. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3887.

26. March 8, 2024: Veronika Kentosová (Aarhus University, Denmark)
    Lifshitz-Assaf, H., Lebovitz, S., & Zalmanson, L. (2021). Minimal and adaptive coordination: How hackathons’ projects accelerate innovation without killing it. Academy of Management Journal, 64(3), 684-715. DOI:10.5465/amj.2017.0712.

27. February 23, 2024: Doina Huso (University of Agder, Norway)
    de Rassenfosse, G., Pellegrino, G., & Raiteri, E. (2023). Do Patents Enable Disclosure? Evidence from the Invention Secrecy Act. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 103044. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2023.103044.

28. February 9, 2024: Lena Veretennik (KU Leuven, Belgium)
    Bikard, M., & Marx, M. (2020). Bridging academia and industry: How geographic hubs connect university science and corporate technology. Management Science, 66(8), 3425-3443. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3385. 

29. January 26, 2024: Anna Baturevich (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
    Farronato, C., Fong, J., & Fradkin, A. (2023). Dog Eat Dog: Balancing network effects and differentiation in a digital platform merger. Management Science. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2023.4675.

30. January 12, 2024: Amal Boughnim  (Bordeaux School of Economics, France)
    Sarsons, H., Gërxhani, K., Reuben, E., & Schram, A. (2021). Gender differences in recognition for group work. Journal of Political Economy, 129(1), 101-147. DOI:10.1086/711401.

31. December 15, 2023:  Alexander Ehrlich (ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Germany)
    Dechezleprêtre, A., Einiö, E., Martin, R., Nguyen, K. T., & Van Reenen, J. (2023). Do Tax Incentives Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D, Patents, and Spillovers. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15(4), 486-521. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200739.

32. November 24, 2023: Pearl Motha (University of Bath, Great Britain)
    Saylors, R., Lahiri, A., Warnick, B., & Baid, C. (2023). Looking back to venture forward: Exploring idea and identity work in public failure narratives. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(2), 398-429. DOI: 10.1177/10422587211057027.

33. November 10, 2023: Ayşe Işılak (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
    Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195–2217. DOI:10.1002/smj.3286.

34. October 27, 2023: Karen Tu (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
    Cao, Z., Jiang, F., & Wang, D. (2023). Performance Shortfalls, Response Directions, and Belief in the Effectiveness of Responses. Academy of Management Journal (In press). DOI: 10.5465/amj.2021.0241

35. October 13, 2023: Franziska Kaiser (HEC Lausanne, Switzerland)
    Watson, J., MacGarvie, M., & McKeon, J. (2023). It was 50 years ago today: Recording copyright term and the supply of music. Management Science, 69(1), 351-376. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.4343.

36. September 29, 2023: Eliana Diodati (University of Turin, Italy)
    Biasi, B., & Ma, S. (2023). The Education-Innovation Gap. No. 29853. NBER Working Paper No 29853. DOI: 10.3386/w29853.

Season 2 [2022 – 2023]

37. June 7, 2023: Guido Pialli (University of Turin, Italy)
    Arora, A., Belenzon, S., Kosenko, K., Suh, J., & Yafeh, Y. (2021). The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America. National Bureau of Economic Research WP 29260. DOI:10.3386/w29260.

38. May 26, 2023: Cancelled

39. May 12, 2023: Mehdi Ibn Brahim (SKEMA Business School, France)
    Sorenson, O., Dahl, M. S., Canales, R., & Burton, M. D. (2021). Do startup employees earn more in the long run? Organization Science, 32(3), 587-604. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2020.1371.

40. April 28, 2023: Matteo Devigili (Bayes Business School, United Kingdom)
    Nelson, A., Anthony, C., & Tripsas, M. (2023). “If I Could Turn Back Time”: Occupational Dynamics, Technology Trajectories, and the Reemergence of the Analog Music Synthesizer. Administrative Science Quarterly, DOI: 10.1177/000183922311631.

41. April 14, 2023: Dandan Xia (IESE Business School, Spain)
    Büttner, B., Firat, M., & Raiteri, E. (2022). Patents and knowledge diffusion: The impact of machine translation. Research Policy, 51(10), 104584. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104584.

42. March 31, 2023: Andrew Johnson (Universitetet i Stavanger, Norway)
    Acemoglu, D., Autor, D., Hazell, J., & Restrepo, P. (2022) Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies, Journal of Labor Economics, 40(S1). DOI: 10.1086/718327.

43. March 17, 2023: Afroditi Anagnosti (University of Piraeus, Greece)
    Shen, H., Coreynen, W., & Huang, C. (2022). Exclusive licensing of university technology: The effects of university prestige, technology transfer offices, and academy-industry collaboration. Research Policy, 51(1), 104372. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104372.

44. March 3, 2023: Yotam Sofer (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
    Myers, K. R., & Lanahan, L. (2022). Estimating spillovers from publicly funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy. American Economic Review, 112(7), 2393-2423. DOI:10.1257/aer.20210678.

45. February 17, 2023: Bernardo Caldarola (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Italy)
    P.A. Balland, T. Broekel, D. Diodato, E. Giuliani, R. Hausmann, N. O'Clery, D. Rigby (2022) Reprint of the new paradigm of economic complexity. Research Policy, 51(8), 104568. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104568.

46. February 3, 2023: Ruth Samson (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
    Kneeland, M. K., Schilling, M. A., & Aharonson, B. S. (2020). Exploring uncharted territory: Knowledge search processes in the origination of outlier innovation. Organization Science, 31(3), 535-557. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2019.1328.

47. January 20, 2023:  Qiujie Qiu (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
    Clement, J. (2022). Missing the Forest for the Trees: Modular Search and Systemic Inertia as a Response to Environmental Change. Administrative Science Quarterly, in press. DOI:10.1177/00018392221136267.

48. December 9, 2022: Filippo Grillo (TU Delft, Netherlands)
    Miller, C. D., and Toh, P. K. (2022). Complementary components and returns from coordination within ecosystems via standard setting. Strategic Management Journal, 43(3), 627-662. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3143.

49. November 25, 2022: Alberto Corsini (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
    Roche, M.P. (2022). Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees’ Outcomes. Organization Science. DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2022.1633.

50. November 11, 2022: Egbert Amoncio (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
    Pollok, P., Amft, A., Diener, K., Lüttgens, D., & Piller, F. T. (2021). Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games. Research Policy, 50(8), 104174. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104174.

51. October 28, 2022: Damiano Morando (Imperial College Business School, United Kingdom)
    Ciarli, T., Kenney, M., Massini, S., & Piscitello, L. (2021). Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges. Research Policy, 50(7), 104289. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104289.

52. October 14, 2022: George Abi Younes (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
    Kovács, B., Carnabuci, G., & Wezel, F. C. (2021). Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions. Strategic Management Journal, 42(5), 992-1023. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3271.

Season 1 [2021 – 2022]

53. June 17, 2022: Li Liu (Universidad Carlos III,  Spain)
    Melero, E., Palomeras, N., and Wehrheim, D.  "The effect of patent protection on inventor mobility". Management Science, 66(12), 5485-5504. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2019.3500

54. June 3, 2022: João Maria Jorge (Lund University, Sweden)
    Grillitsch, M. and Schubert, T., "Does the timing of integrating new skills affect start-up growth?" Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 15 (2021), 647-684. DOI: 10.1002/sej.1375 

55. May 20, 2022: Stefano Benigni (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
    Argote, L., Lee, S., and Park J., "Organizational Learning Processes and Outcomes: Major Findings and Future Research Directions" (2021). Management Science 67(9):5399-5429. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2020.3693

56. May 6, 2022: Federico Bignone (Université de Bordeaux, France):
    Moretti, E., "The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors", American Economic Review 111.10 (2021): 3328-75. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20191277 

57. April 22, 2022: Apoorva Gupta (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
    Ivus, O., Jose, M., & Sharma, R. (2021). "R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in India", Research Policy 50(1): 104128. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104128.

58. April 8, 2022:  Lorenzo Palladini (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
    Li, X., & Vermeulen, F. (2021). "High risk, low return (and vice versa): the effect of product innovation on firm performance in a transition economy". Academy of Management Journal, 64(5), 1383-1418. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2017.1311

59. March 25, 2022: Jason Deegan (University of Stavanger, Norway)
    Teplitskiy, M., Duede, E., Menietti M., & Lakhani, K.R. (2022). "How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited". Research Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104484

60. March 11, 2022: Enrico Bergamini (University of Turin, Italy)
    Mealy, P., Teytelboym, A., (In Press). "Economic Complexity and the Green Economy". Research Policy. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2020.103948

61. February 25, 2022: Pelin Atakan (Ege University, Turkey)
    Tjernström, E., Lybbert, T. J., Hernández, R. F., & Correa, J. S. (2021). "Learning by (virtually) doing: Experimentation and belief updating in smallholder agriculture". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 189, 28-50. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.03.001

62. February 11, 2022: Giacomo Marchesini (IESE Business School, Spain)
    Krieger, J. L. (2021). "Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors’ R&D Failures". Management Science 67(9):5525-5548. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2020.3775.

63. January 28, 2022: Louise Lindbjerg (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
    Eklund, J., & Kapoor, R., (2021). "Mind the gaps: How organization design shapes the sourcing of inventions", Organization Science (forthcoming). DOI:10.1287/orsc.2021.1483.

64. January 14, 2022: Alessandro Lucini Paioni (University of Bath, Great Britain)
    Franco, C., & Landini, F. (2022). Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility. Research Policy 51(2): 104423. DOI:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104423.

65. December 10, 2021: Cecilia Maronero (Université de Bordeaux, France)
    Mezzanotti, F. (2021). "Roadblock to innovation: The role of patent litigation in corporate R&D", Management Science, in press. DOI:10.1287/mnsc.2020.3816.

66. November 26, 2021: Bastian Krieger (University of Luxembourg and Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany)
    Czarnitzki, D., Hünermund, P., & Moshgbar, N. (2020). "Public procurement of innovation: Evidence from a German legislative reform", International Journal of Industrial Organization 71: 102620. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2020.102620.

67. November 12, 2021: Antoine Collin (KU Leuven, Belgium)
    Hottenrott, H., & Richstein, R. (2020). "Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter?", Research Policy 49(1): 103888. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.103888.

68. October 29, 2021:  Benjamin Buettner (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
    Gross, D. P., & Sampat, B. N. (2020): Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No w27375. DOI: 10.3386/w27375.

69. October 15, 2021:  Julia Mazzei (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
    Watzinger, M., Fackler, T., Nagler, M., & Schnitzer, M. (2020). "How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. DOI: 10.1257/pol.20190086.

70. October 1, 2021: Matthias van den Heuvel (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
    Cong, L., & Howell, S. (forthcoming). "Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from Initial Public Offering Interventions in China", Management Science. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3807.