Fall 2011 Innovation Workshop (PHDBA279I)
Wednesdays, 12:10 – 2 p.m., C325, Haas School of Business

Professors David Mowery (Haas) and Brian Wright (ARE)

The workshop is open to PhD students, faculty, and visitors from Economics, Haas, ARE, and other departments in the university who have an interest in the economics of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property.

We encourage presentation by graduate students in early stages of research, and have occasionally had students present discussion of a set of papers by others on a specific topic that is of general interest to the group.

Anyone who would like to speak in Fall 2011 should contact Professors Mowery (mowery@haas.berkeley.edu) or Wright (bwright@berkeley.edu).

The course is offered on an S/U basis only.

Aug 31: Organizational meeting

Sep 7: Sebastian Pacher, University of Maastricht
Disagreement among stock market participants and the market value of patents and R&D

Sep 14: Ed Egan, Haas
The Economics of Patent Citations: Measures, Meanings and Implications for Research

Sep 21: Harry Bloch, Curtin Business School
Innovation, Real Primary Commodity Prices and Business Cycles

Sep 28: Petra Moser, Stanford University
Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 Industries in the 1930s

Oct 5: Sebastian von Engelhardt, Freidrich Schiller University
Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector

Oct 12: Nancy Gallini, University of British Columbia
Competitive Price Coordination in Technology Sharing Agreements

Oct 19: Sharat Raghavan, Haas
The Terms that Bind: Determinants and Consequences of Founder Friendly Rights in Venture Capital Investments

Oct 26: Amy Nguyen-Chyung, Haas
How Entrepreneurial Do You Choose to Be? Talent, Risk Attitudes and Self-selection into Different “Levels” of Entrepreneurship

Nov 2: Bryan Hong, Haas
The Cost of a New Boss: Supervisor Changes, Hierarchy, and Firm Performance

Nov 9: Grid Thoma, University of Camerino and Bocconi University
Which Patent Systems Are Better For Inventors?

Nov 16: Neil Thompson, Haas
Materials Transfer Agreements (MTAs), Licenses, and the Flow of Scientific Knowledge

Nov 23: NO SEMINAR

Nov 30: Deepak Hegde, NYU
Lobbying, Congressional Oversight and Agency Allocations in U.S. Science Policy: Evidence from Federal Funding for Rare Diseases
(with Bhaven Sampat)

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