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Contact person: Benedikt Probst

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Contact person: Elisabeth Hofmeister

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Contact person: Elisabeth Hofmeister

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Contact person: Albert Roger

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Contact person: Marina Chugunova

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On 17/18 December 2024, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition will host the 7^th 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 Alexander Oettl (Georgia Tech)

Program RISE7 2024

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This research investigates the role of parental influence in the underrepresentation of women among inventors, despite a growing number of women graduating in STEM fields. Using Danish registry data on individuals born between 1966 and 1985 and an experimental design based on siblings' gender composition, we find that inventorship is less likely to be transmitted from parents to daughters if they have a younger brother (compared to a sister). We replicate these findings with Swedish registry data on individuals born between 1974 and 1988. In a second step, using the Swedish data, we examine and compare the career paths of potential female and male inventors who did not enter the inventive profession. Initial results reveal distinct patterns in the types of professions pursued by female and male non-inventors. Additionally, we observe gendered wage gaps between inventors and non-inventors. Our study offers insights into the factors that influence who becomes an inventor and explores the career outcomes of those who, despite having characteristics associated with inventorship, do not enter the inventive profession.

Contact person: Daehyun Kim

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This seminar will provide an overview of recent theory of the firm research in the setting of interorganizational collaborations.  We will emphasize some of the key parameters of alliance governance and design, and we will revisit some of the classic theoretical work in organizational economics on hybrid governance.  This will be followed by a presentation of an empirical project examining understudied facets of alliance contracting, using new theories to consider how firms might create and capture value in interorganizational relationships.

Contact person: Daehyun Kim

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If firms do less scientific research, and yet their innovation increasingly relies upon science, how do they gain access to scientific knowledge? To explore the role of interpersonal networks among corporate inventors and academic scientists in facilitating the transfer of scientific knowledge from academia to industry, we construct the collaboration network spanning all authors in PubMed and all inventors on U.S.patents. To isolate the influence of interpersonal networks from the inherent characteristics and commercial potential of scientific discoveries, we use paper twins − scientific papers with the same or nearly identical findings published around the same time by different academic teams − and analyze their citations in corporate patents. Although academic science is traditionally viewed as a public good, our findings underscore the critical role of interpersonal relationships in harnessing academic science for corporate innovation. Importantly, the ability of corporate inventors to leverage their interpersonal connections to academic scientists is fully contingent on their own active involvement in both scientific research and commercial technology  development, particularly when this scientific research closely aligns with the academic insights they use for industrial applications

Contact person: Daehyun Kim

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