Miscellaneous  |  09/30/2019

Call for Papers: 14th Workshop “The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research”

The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Technical University of Munich and BRICK, Collegio Carlo Alberto, are jointly organising the 14th workshop on “The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research” which will take place on 23–24 April 2020 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. Researchers who would like to present a paper are invited to submit it until 15 January 2020.

We aim to attract contributions from both junior and senior scholars on topics related to the organisation, economics and policy of scientific research. A minimum number of slots are reserved for junior researchers (PhD students or Postdocs who obtained their PhD since 2017).


Contributions are invited on (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics:

  • Evaluation of science policy
  • Role of gender and family in scientific research
  • Organising research activities in universities, PROs and private R&D labs
  • Spillovers from scientific research
  • Collaboration and research networks
  • Scientific careers and mobility
  • Role of ethics, trust and replicability in science


Please submit unpublished papers or extended abstracts (min 3 pages) by 15 January 2020 via

easychair.org/cfp/woepsr2020. We strive to notify submitters by

29 February 2020.


Up to 18 contributions will be selected by a scientific committee based on novelty, academic quality and relevance. All presentations will have a discussant.


See Workshop Website.