Jordan Bisset, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
+49 89 24246-402
jordan.bisset(at)ip.mpg.de
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Arbeitsbereiche:
Innovationsökonomie, Organisationsökonomie, Mobilität, Arbeitsproduktivität
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Seit 06/2025
Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
Seit 01/2025
Affiliated Researcher, KU Leuven, Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation
2024 – 2025
Research Fellow, IGIER, Bocconi University
2020 – 2024
Ph.D. in Business Economics, KU Leuven
Herbst 2023
Visiting Researcher, Centre for Industrial Economics (CERNA), École des Mines de Paris
2018 – 2019
Pre-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
2017 – 2018
M.Sc. in Economics, KU Leuven
2013 – 2017
M.A. (Hons) in Management, University of Edinburgh
Publikationen
(2023). Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty, Research Policy, 53 (1). DOI
- Previous work suggests a general uncertainty surrounding the migration process acts as a barrier to outmigration. In this paper, we argue that this barrier is exacerbated when relative economic policy uncertainty is higher in the target country and mitigated when relatively higher in the origin country. We create an inventor career panel to observe inventor migration between 12 European countries between 1997 and 2012. This allows us to test the premise that a higher relative uncertainty in the origin country raises the probability of inventor outmigration. Our results suggest a 1 standard deviation increase in the relative uncertainty of the home country is associated with a near 20% increase in the probability of inventor outmigration. The relationship is highly non-linear, with relative uncertainty values in the top centile leading to an increase of over 70%. The observed effects can be amplified or dampened by inventor specific characteristics, as would be expected given the prior art.
(2025). Intellectual Mobility Frictions, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 25-15.
- Despite repeated findings that intellectually mobile inventors-those with experience in multiple technological fields-have a comparative advantage in the production of the highest value inventions, aggregate evidence suggests that the share of intellectually mobile inventors is falling. In this paper, we propose the presence of allocation frictions which increase the cost a firm must pay to allocate inventors to a technological field in which they have not previously invented. We create a simple framework to estimate these frictions at the micro-level and find them to be very high in magnitude, and heterogeneous across firms and the technological space. Counterfactual estimates suggest that even moderate decreases in these allocation frictions could increase idea generation by 50%.
- Available at SSRN
Ehrungen, Stipendien, Preise
2024
Heinz Koning Award 2024
2022
Best Paper Award (for Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty), 10th Summer School on Knowledge Dynamics, Industrial Evolution, and Economic Development
2013 – 2017
Merit Scholarship, ICAS Foundation
2013
Bursary, University of Edinburgh
Vorträge
28.05.2025
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
Munich Summer Institute 2025
Ort: München
26.09.2024
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
Tenth ZEW MaCCI Conference on Innovation Economics and Patent Research
Ort: Mannheim
14.06.2024
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
2024 DRUID Conference
Ort: Nizza, Frankreich
19.10.2023
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
Doktorand*innenseminar, KU Leuven
Ort: Löwen, Belgien
17.10.2023
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
PRINZ Seminar, London School of Economics
Ort: London, UK
02.10.2023
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
Competition and Innovation Summer School
Ort: Ulcinj, Montenegro
04.07.2023
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
11th Summer School on Knowledge Dynamics, Industrial Evolution, and Economic Development
Ort: Nizza, Frankreich
23.05.2023
Intellectual Mobility Frictions
Munich Summer Institute, Ph.D. Workshop
Ort: München
03.11.2022
Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty
Ninth ZEW MaCCI Conference on Innovation Economics and Patent Research
Ort: Mannheim
18.10.2022
Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty
Internes Seminar, KU Leuven
Ort: Löwen, Belgien
27.07.2022
Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty
INNO group research retreat
Ort: Château du Lac, Genval, Belgien
05.07.2022
Inventor Mobility Under Uncertainty
10th Summer School on Knowledge Dynamics, Industrial Evolution, and Economic Development
Ort: Nizza, Frankreich
Lehrtätigkeit
2023 – 2024
Lehrassistent
Advanced Applied Econometrics, KU Leuven
2020 – 2024
Betreuungen von Masterarbeiten in Angewandter Ökonometrie oder Industrieorganisation, KU Leuven