Kathrin Wernsdorf, M.Sc.
Doktorandin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
+49 89 24246-582
kathrin.wernsdorf(at)ip.mpg.de
Arbeitsbereiche:
Innovationsökonomik, Wissenschaftsökonomik, Digitalisierung, Arbeitskräftemobilität
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Seit 10/2019
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
Doktorandin an der LMU Munich Graduate School of Economics, Graduiertenkolleg ‘Evidence-Based Economics’
08/2018 - 10/2018
Praktikum im Zentralbereich Finanzstabilität, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
01/2018 - 01/2019
Studentische Hilfskraft, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
10/2017 - 09/2019
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
06/2016 - 08/2016
Praktikum im Bereich Risk Analytics, Barclays Bank, London
03/2015
Spring Insight Programme, Barclays Bank, London
09/2014 - 06/2017
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim
Ehrungen, Stipendien, wissenschaftliche Preise
03/2021
Ausgewählte Teilnehmerin am NBER Digitization Tutorial
09/2020
Nominierung für EPIP 2020 Young Scholar Award in Economics/Management
07/2014
Preis der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung
10/2012
Preis für akademische Exzellenz in Mathematik, Physik und Chemie der Lester B. Pearson High School, Montréal, Kanada
Publikationen
Artikel in referierten Fachzeitschriften
(2022). ICT, Collaboration, and Innovation: Evidence from BITNET, Journal of Public Economics 211. DOI
- Does access to technologies that reduce information and communication costs increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university-connected inventors increase patenting substantially. The effects are driven by collaborative patents by new inventor teams. The patents induced by ICT are closely related to science. In contrast, we neither find an effect on patents not closely related to science nor on corporate inventors unconnected to universities.
- Also published as: CESifo Working Paper No. 8646
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-18
Andere Veröffentlichungen, Presseartikel, Interviews
(2021). Wie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien die Zusammenarbeit fördern und innovative Ideen ermöglichen, Ökonomenstimme 2021.
Diskussionspapiere
(2020). ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET, CESifo Working Paper, No. 8646.
- Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university-connected inventors increase patenting substantially. The effects are driven by collaborative patents by new inventor teams. The patents induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we neither find an effect on patents not building on science nor on inventors unconnected to universities.
- Available at SSRN
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-18
- Also published in: Journal of Public Economics Volume 211, July 2022, 104678
Vorträge
27.09.2021
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik
Ort: online
27.08.2021
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
48th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE)
Ort: online
02.07.2021
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
Bavarian Young Economist Meeting
Ort: online
11.06.2021
Discussion of ICT’s Wide Web: A System-Level Analysis of ICT’s Industrial Diffusion with Algorithmic Links (by Ekaterina Prytkova)
19th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies
Ort: online
03.03.2021
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
14th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics
Ort: online
03.03.2021
Discussion of Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa (by Moritz Goldbeck and Valentin Lindlacher)
14th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics
Ort: online
16.02.2021
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
TUM BEWIP Seminar
Ort: online
01.02.2021
Downstream Demand And Upstream Innovation: Progress in the German Watch Industry
LMU Innovation Workshop
Ort: online
11.12.2020
ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
Joint PhD Workshop on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competition
Ort: online (Mannheim)
07.10.2020
Time for Progress: Does Demand Trigger Innovation?
EBE Research Strategy Seminar
Ort: online (München)
11.09.2020
The Impact of BITNET on Inventors
EPIP 2020
Ort: online (Madrid, Spanien)
07.09.2020
Time for Progress: Does Demand Trigger Innovation?
Forschungsseminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Ort: online
27.07.2020
The Value of Unpublished Projects
LMU Innovation Workshop
Ort: online (München)
04.03.2020
The Value of Unpublished Projects
Forschungsseminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Ort: Zugspitze
25.11.2019
The Impact of BITNET on Inventors
Innovation Workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Ort: München
03.09.2019
The Impact of BITNET on Inventors
Forschungsseminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Ort: Tutzing
14.03.2019
Digitization and Firm Innovation: Does the Degree of Digitization Exert A Different Influence on Product Innovation and Process Innovation?
IWH Halle
Ort: Halle
Lehrveranstaltungen
Sommersemester 2021
Multinationale Unternehmen
Übung (Bachelor)
Ort: LMU München
Sommersemester 2021
Globalisierung und Wettbewerb
Schwerpunktseminar (Bachelor)
Ort: LMU München
Sommersemester 2020
Multinationale Unternehmen
Übung (Bachelor)
Ort: LMU München
Sommersemester 2020
Wettbewerbs- und Regulierungspolitik im digitalen Zeitalter
Schwerpunktseminar (Bachelor)
Ort: LMU München