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[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge CANCELLED: Wes Cohen (Duke University)

"Academics’ motives, opportunity costs and commercial activities across fields" at Department of Economics and Statistics S. Cognetti de Martiis Abstract Scholarly work seeking to understand academics’ commercial activities often draws on abstract notions of the institution of science and of the representative scientist. Few scholars have examined whether and how scientists’ motives to engage in commercial…

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Carlos Serrano (UPF)

"How Redeployable are Patent Assets? Evidence from Failed Startups" ABSTRACT Entrepreneurial firms are important sources of patented inventions. Yet little is known about what happens to patents “released” to the market when startups fail. This study provides a first look at the frequency and speed with which patents originating from failed startups are redeployed to…

Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Nicolas Carayol (Université de Bordeaux)

"Team Work Complexity, Scientific Competition and Interdisciplinary Research" Abstract This paper aims at understanding the increasing complexity of researchprojects as one of the possible explanations for the fall in researchers’ productivity observedover decades. We conceptualize a research project as an idea and a team of researchers.Each idea is associated to a given knowledge production function…