Institute Seminar: Big Data and Profiling in the Digital Age: Is there a Need for Legislative Changes?
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Klaus Wiedemann, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10
Brown Bag Seminar: Using Crowds to Crack Algorithmic Problems
Rinat Sergeev (Harvard University)
- Introduction to Crowd Innovation Lab at Harvard, the Lab with a mission to study the contests, the crowds, and to use the crowds to crack challenges for NASA and Academia
- The insights on crowdsourcing - advantages, trade-offs and niches
- Algorithm and Data Science challenges as a sweet-spot of crowdsourcing - examples, results and stories
Dr. Rinat Sergeev is Senior Data Scientist & Chief Scientific Advisor at the Crowd Innovation Lab/NASA Tournament Lab at Harvard University. Rinat works as a head of data science team, and a lead science and technical expert on exploring and utilizing crowdsourcing approaches in application to the data science and algorithmic challenges, coming from NASA, Business, or Academia. Rinat received his PhD in Quantum Mechanics in Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg. His research interests include conceptual analysis, analytical approaches and models in multiple areas.
Brown Bag Seminar: Fostering Public Good Contributions with Symbolic Awards: A Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia
Jana Gallus (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Abstract:
This natural field experiment tests the effects of purely symbolic awards on volunteer retention in a public goods context. The experiment is conducted at Wikipedia, which faces declining editor retention rates, particularly among newcomers. Randomization assures that award receipt is orthogonal to previous performance. The analysis reveals that awards have a sizeable effect on newcomer retention, which persists over the four quarters following the initial intervention. This is noteworthy for indicating that awards for volunteers can be effective even if they have no impact on the volunteers’ future career opportunities. The awards are purely symbolic, and the status increment they produce is limited to the recipients’ pseudonymous online identities in a community they have just recently joined. The results can be explained by enhanced self-identification with the community, but they are also in line with recent findings on the role of status and reputation, recognition, and evaluation potential in online communities.
Kartellrechtsvortrag: Sektoruntersuchung e-Commerce
7:00- 9:00 p.m., Thomas Kramler (European Commission), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10
Am Dienstag, 20. September 2016, 19:00 Uhr, wird in Saal E10 des Max-Planck-Instituts Thomas Kramler von der Europäischen Kommission, Leiter der Sektoruntersuchung e-commerce, zu den Zwischenergebnissen der Sektoruntersuchung vortragen.
Vorab wird in der Aktuellen Viertelstunde Dr. Ingo Brinker, LL.M. (Chicago) von Gleiss Lutz Rechtsanwälte über aktuelle fusionskontrollrechtliche Fragen (insbesondere Staatsunternehmen und Prioritätsprinzip) sprechen, die sich anlässlich der Neuordnung in der Saatgutbranche ergeben haben (ChemChina/Syngenta; Dow/Dupont; Bayer/Monsanto).
Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum 16. September 2016 bei delia.zirilli(at)ip.mpg.de.
Wir freuen uns auf interessante Diskussionen und Begegnungen.
Institute Seminar: Gesetzliche Vergütungsansprüche in den Schranken des Urheberrechts (§§ 44a ff. UrhG) - vertragliche und außervertragliche Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten unter Berücksichtigung des höherrangigen Recht
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Claudius Pflüger, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10
Institute Seminar: Protection for Information and Data under Patent Law
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Franziska Greiner, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10
Brown Bag Seminar: Patent Oppositions in Networks: An Analysis of the Cosmetics Industry?
Malte Doehne (LMU Munich)
Abstract:
This paper examines patent oppositions as firm-level responses to newly-granted patents. We present a citation-based construct for measuring the technological lineage to which a newly granted patent lays claims. This network-analytic construct, which we label technology trees, allows us to develop a refined explanation of patent oppositions by taking into account the ownership structures of the technology to which a particular patent relates. An application to the cosmetics industry reveals that the technology tree measure, which is calculated on the level of individual patents, usefully complements established network measures at the industry level, such as triplet counts for measuring patent thickets. This suggests a need for further and more fine grained analyses of technology trees as context in which patent oppositions play out.
Brown Bag Seminar: Knowing Me, Knowing You: Inventor Mobility and the Formation of Technology-Oriented Alliances
Stefan Wagner (European School of Management and Technology)
Institute Seminar: Copyright Challenges of Open Participatory Cultures
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Riccarda Lotte, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10
Brown Bag Seminar: Cross-Licensing and Competition
Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse School of Economics)
Abstract
We study bilateral cross-licensing agreements among N (> 2) competing firms. We find that the industry-profit-maximizing royalty can be sustained as the outcome of bilaterally efficient agreements. This holds regardless of whether agreements are public or private and whether firms compete in quantities or prices. We extend this monopolization result to a general class of two-stage games in which firms bilaterally agree in the first stage to make each other payments that depend on their second-stage non-cooperative actions. Policy implications regarding the antitrust treatment of cross-licensing agreements are derived.