MAKSI Workshop
Joint seminar with CBS’ Strategy & Innovation group
(internal event)
Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar: Using Computer Vision to Measure Design Similarity – An Application to US Design Rights
Egbert Amoncio (WIPO)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
Firms have increasingly been competing through design. We show how computer vision techniques can be leveraged to measure the visual similarity of design rights across large data sets of product design images. Thus we extract and standardize 611,810 unique design images embedded in US design rights (1976–2020), adapt the structural similarity index measure to quantify design similarities between images, and rigorously validate the resulting design rights similarity measure. We then use that measure to produce novel empirical evidence that the similarity density of a design space exhibits an inverted U-shape with respect to the likelihood of that space’s design rights being litigated—a relationship proposed previously but never tested. Our design rights similarity measure should facilitate the exploration of new research questions in the fields of design rights, innovation, and strategy. We grant open access to our code and data resources to encourage research in these areas.
(co-authored with Tian Cian and Cornelia Storz)
Contact person: David Heller
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Roundtable: Opening up Data for Research on Ukraine
hybrid (Room E10/Zoom)
Registration required.
Panel 1: Ukraine: The “Other” Science
Panel 2: Intellectual Property Data: the Case of Ukraine
Panel 3: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Industry in Ukraine: A Data-driven Perspective
Contact person: Liudmyla Petrenko
Munich Summer Institute 2024
Bavarian Academy of Sciences
The Munich Summer Institute (MSI) is hosted by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, HEC Lausanne, Northeastern University, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Chair for Economics of Innovation at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization (ISTO) at the LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
Further information on the website of the MSI.
Preview: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar with Vera Rocha
Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
Title and abstract will follow.
Contact person: Svenja Friess
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar: The Impact of Mobility Grants on Researchers
Pietro Santoleri (European Commission)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
The international mobility of researchers has been central to the agenda of policy-makers for several decades. Despite the growing presence of mobility grants within public funding agencies' portfolios, empirical evidence on their effects remains scant. In this paper, we contribute to the literature by studying the Marie Curie fellowships, the flagship program of the EU, providing competitive grants to early-stage researchers to spend a research period abroad. Based on data for the universe of applicants to the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013), we exploit the discontinuity in grant assignment to uncover causal effects on individual researchers. Results show that grants are indeed conducive to higher chances of experiencing mobility towards the scientists' country of choice. Conversely, we do not find systematic evidence that grants on average lead to increases in publication quantity or quality, nor improved career progression. Finally, we document interesting heterogeneous effects: grants supporting extra-European mobility, as opposed to those supporting mobility within Europe, generally yield more positive effects across most outcomes. This suggests that grants are most effective when targeting mobility flows subject to larger frictions. (co-authors: Stefano Baruffaldi, Yevgeniya Shevtsova)
Contact person: David Heller
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Preview: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar with Marina Schröder
Marina Schröder (University of Hannover)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
Title and abstract will follow.
Contact person: Svenja Friess
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Preview: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar with Koichiro Onishi
Koichiro Onishi (Waseda University)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
Title and abstract will follow.
Contact person: Marina Chugunova
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Preview: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar with Florian Ederer
Florian Ederer (Boston University)
hybrid (Room 313/Zoom)
Title and abstract will follow soon.
Contact person: Marina Chugunova
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RISE – 7th Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Keynote: Matt Marx (Cornell University)
On 17/18 December 2024, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition will host the 7th Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop (RISE7), an annual workshop for Ph.D. students and Junior Post-docs in Economics and Management.
The goal of the RISE7 Workshop is to stimulate an in-depth discussion of a select number of empirical research papers. It offers Ph.D. students and Junior Post-docs an opportunity to present their work and to receive feedback.
Keynote speaker of the RISE7 Workshop is Matt Marx (Cornell University).
See the Call for Papers RISE7.
For more information see RISE Workshop.