Program – Munich Summer Institute

Monday, 17 June 2019

08:30 – 09:15      Registration
09:15 – 09:30      Conference Opening Statements
09:30 – 11:00      Presentations 1 + 2: Peer Effects
11:00 – 11:30      Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30      Poster Slam 1: Digitization, Strategy & Organization
12:30 – 13:45      Poster Session & Lunch
13:45 – 14:45      Keynote Speech 1: Robert Seamans (NYU)
14:45 – 15:15      Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45      Presentations 3 + 4: Sharing Economy
16:45 – 17:45      City Walk I & Coffee Break
17:45 – 19:15      Presentations 5 + 6: Music & AI
19:30 – Welcome Dinner

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

08:30 – 09:00      Registration
09:00 – 10:30      Presentations 7 + 8: Consumer Demand
10:30 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45      Presentation 9: Incentives
11:45 – 12:30      Poster Slam 2: Law & Economics of Innovation
12:30 – 13:45      Poster Session & Lunch
13:45 – 14:45      Keynote Speech 2: Catherine Tucker (MIT)
14:45 – 15:15    Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45      Presentations 10 + 11: Patents
16:45 – 17:45      City Walk II & Coffee Break
17:45 – 19:15      Presentations 12 + 13: Information Disclosure
19:30 – Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

08:30 – 09:00      Registration
09:00 – 10:30      Presentations 14 + 15: CRISPR & Migration
10:30 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45      Presentation 16: R&D Subsidies
11:45 – 12:30      Poster Slam 3: Innovation & Entrepreneurship
12:30 – 13:45      Poster Session & Lunch
13:45 – 14:45      Keynote Speech 3: Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi)
14:45 – 15:30      Presentation 17: Top Managers
15:30 – 15:45      Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15      Presentations 18 + 19: Startups & History
17:15 – 17:30      Conference Closing Statements

Program Monday, June 17

08:30-09:15	Registration
09:15-09:30	Conference Opening Statements Conference Organizers
09:30-11:00	Presentations 1+2: Peer Effects Reconsidering Optimal Peer Assignment: How Does Non-Cognitive Peer Difference Matter? Li Li (Toronto) Co-authors: Eric Mak (Toronto), Chunchao Wang (Jinan) Discussant: Oliver Falck (ifo Institute) Whom to Oppose If You Seek Support: Antecedents of Negative Peer Evaluations on Wikipedia Helge Klapper (Rotterdam) Co-authors: Henning Piezunka (INSEAD) & Linus Dahlander (ESMT) Discussant: Johannes Loh (ISTO, LMU)
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Poster Slam 1: Digitization, Strategy & Organization Storm Crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on Crowd Contribution Design Sandra Barbosu (Sloan Foundation) Co-author: Joshua Gans (Toronto) Performance in Contests – The Role of Risk and Confidence Karin Hoisl (Mannheim) Co-author: Jonas Heite (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) Creativity and Framed Incentives: An Experiment Marco Kleine (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) Privacy and Children: What Drives Digital Data Protection for Very Young Children? Vincent Lefrere (Mines Telecom) Co-authors: Garzia Cecere (Mines Telecom), Fabrice Le Guel (RITM), Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan) & Pai-Ling Yin (USC) For Which Incumbents Are Digital Platforms Really a Threat? The Role of Asset Ownership Tim Meyer (Bocconi) Co-autor: Carmelo Cennamo (Bocconi) Paradox of Middleware: Innovation Enabler and Creativity Constraint Hakan Ozalp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Man versus Machine: Targeting, Data and Externalities in Online News Christian Peukert (ETH Zurich & UCP Católica-Lisbon) Co-authors: Ananya Sen (MIT) & Jörg Claussen (LMU Munich) Getting On The Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance Gauri Subramani (UC Berkeley) Co-authors: Michael Luca (Harvard) & Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley) If it Bleeds, it Leads: Negativity in Online News Dainis Zegners (Rotterdam School of Management)
12:30-13:45	Poster Session & Lunch
13:45-14:45	Keynote Speech 1 The Variable Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Robert Seamans (NYU)
14:45-15:15	Coffee Break
15:15-16:45	Presentations 3+4: Sharing Economy Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis Meng Liu (Wash U.) Co-authors: Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) & Jason Dowlatabadi (Uber) Discussant: Pai-Ling Yin (USC) Cancellation Policy as a Signal of Trust and Quality in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Airbnb Lior Zalmanson (Haifa) Co-authors: Davide Proserpio (USC) & Irat Nitzan (Tel Aviv) Discussant: Milan Miric (USC)
16:45-17:45	City Walk I & Coffee Break
17:45-19:15	Presentations 5+6: Music & AI Where the Hits Have No Name: How Leading Incumbent Firms Successfully React to Digitization in the Music Business Paola Zanella (IE University) Co-authors: Paola Cillo & Gianmario Verona (Bocconi) Discussant: Ambre Nicolle (ISTO LMU) Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence Daniel Rock (MIT) Discussant: Christian Peukert (ETH Zurich & UCP Católica-Lisbon)
19:15-	Welcome Dinner Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition, Marstallplatz 1, Munich

Program Tuesday, June 18

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:30	Presentations 7+8: Consumer Demand Consumer Behavior and Firm Targeting after GDPR: The Case of a Telecom Provider in Europe Miguel Godinho de Matos (UCP Católica-Lisbon) Co-author: Idris Adjerid (Virginia Tech) Discussant: Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project Imke Reimers (Northeastern) Co-author: Abhishek Nagaraj (UC Berkeley) Discussant: Daniela Sele (ETH Zurich)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	Presentation 9: Incentives The Pecuniary Motivation to Create Alejandro Zentner (U. Texas at Dallas) Co-author: Stan Liebowitz (U. Texas at Dallas) Discussant: Alexander Cuntz (WIPO)
11:45-12:30	Poster Slam 2: Law & Economics of Innovation U.S. Intellectual Property Rights of New Corn Varieties Phoebe Chan (Wheaton) Allow or Block Optimal Strategies against Ad-blockers in Competitive Markets Gokhan Gecer (Mannheim) Co-Author: Florian Kraus (Mannheim) & Pinar Yildrim (Wharton) The Allocation of Patent Ownership in R&D Partnerships: Default Rules v. Contractual Practices Arina Gorbatyuk (KU Leuven) Patents, Litigation Strategy and Antitrust In Innovative Industries Steffen Juranek (Norwegian School of Economics) Co-authors: Thomas Quan & John Turner (Georgia) Monopoly Pricing under Industrial Design Protection Malwina Mejer (European Commission) Co-author: Benedikt Herz (European Commission) The Disciplinary Effect of Post-Grant Review – Causal Evidence from European Patent Opposition Markus Nagler (LMU Munich) Co-author: Stefan Sorg (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) Tell Me What Do You Think About Intellectual Property, I Will Tell You Who You Are Guichardaz Rémy (Strasbourg) The Right Sort? How Two-Tiered Patent Systems Induce Sorting Michael Verba (Tilburg) Co-author: Jussi Heikkilä (University of Jyväskylä) A Theory of NPEs and Patent Monetization Mingtao Xu (Purdue)
12:30-13:45	Poster Session & Lunch
13:45-14:45	Keynote Speech 2 Algorithmic Bias Catherine Tucker (MIT)
14:45-15:15	Coffee Break
15:15-16:45	Presentations 10+11: Information Disclosure The Surprising Value of Abandoned Applications to the Patent System David Schwartz (Northwestern) Co-author: Christopher Cotropia (Richmond) Discussant: Georg von Graevenitz (Queen Mary) IPOs and Patent Lawsuits Tolga Caskurlu (Amsterdam) Co-author: Yuahi Xuan (Urbana-Champaign) Discussant: David Schwartz (Northwestern)
16:45-17:45	City Walk II & Coffee Break
17:45-19:15	Presentations 12+13: Information Disclosure Information Disclosure and the Market for Acquiring Technology Companies Carlos Serrano (Pompeu Fabra) Co-authors: George Condrakis (ESADE) & Rosemarie Ziedonis (Boston) Discussant: Joachim Henkel (TU Munich) Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws Bernhard Ganglmair (ZEW Mannheim) Co-author: Imke Reimers (Northeastern) Discussant: Fabian Gaessler (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition and TU Munich)
19:30-	Conference Dinner Löwenbräukeller, Nymphenburger Str. 2, Munich

Program Wednesday, June 19

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:30	Presentations 14+15: CRISPR & Migration Running with (CRISPR) Scissors: Tool Adoption and Team Assembly Samantha Zyontz (MIT) Discussant: Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) What is the US Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Israeli Migration to the United States Annamaria Conti (Lausanne) Discussant: Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich)
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	Presentation 16: R&D Subsidies Effectiveness and Efficacy of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance Bettina Peters (ZEW Mannheim) Co-author: Philipp Boeing (ZEW Mannheim) Discussant: Rainer Widmann (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition)
11:45-12:30	Poster Slam 3: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Selection of Early-Stage Ventures: Social Influance and its Impact on Committee Performance Daniel Fehder (USC) Co-author: Fiona Murray (MIT) Founder’s Commitment and Firm Financing: Multiple “Skins in the Game” as a Signal to Investors Aleksandar Giga (USC) The Financing of R&D and the Global Financial Crisis: Is Innovation Becoming More Concentrated? Georg von Graevenitz (Queen Mary) Co-authors: Antanina Garanasvili (Bournemouth) & Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) Prioritized Examination and its Impact on Commercialization of Patents Taras Hrendash (CERGE-EI Prague) Experimenting Strategically: Inter-Firm Relationships and “In the Field” Innovation Aldona Kapacinskaite (London Busines School) Co-author: Colleen Cunningham (London Business School) The Innovation Effect of the Introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany: Interdependencies Between Different Types of Research Institutions Patrick Lehnert (University of Zurich) Co-authors: Curdin Pfister (University of Zurich), Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition) & Uschi Backes-Gellner (University of Zurich) Will Employees Try Again? – Contingencies of Serial Idea Submissions Tim Schweisfurth (Southern Denmark) The Effect of High-skilled Migrant Hires and Integration Capacity on Firm-level Innovation Performance: Is There a Premium? Mark Vancauteren (Hasselt) Co-authors: Keld Laursen (Copenhagen Business School), Bart Leten (KU Leuven) & Han Nguyen (Hasselt) Standing on the Shoulders of Science Martin Watzinger (LMU Munich) Co-author: Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich)
12:30-13:45	Poster Session & Lunch
13:45-14:45	Keynote Speech 3 A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision-Making Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi)
14:45-15:30	Presentation 17: Top Managers Top Managers in Entrepreneurial Firms: Who is Running the Show? Ana Venancio (Lisbon School of Economics & Business) Co-author: Elena Kulchina (North Carolina State) Discussant: Hanah Milanov (TU Munich)
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break
15:45-17:15	Presentations 18+19: Startups & History Spillover Effects of Startup Accelerator Programs: Evidence from Venture-Backed Startup Activity Daniel Fehder (USC) Co-author: Yael Hochberg (Rice) Discussant: Oliver Alexy (TU Munich) The Consequences of Radical Patent-Regime Change Alexander Donges (Mannheim) Co-author: Felix Selgert (Bonn) Discussant: Fabian Waldinger (LMU Munich)
17:15-17:30	Conference Closing Statements Conference Organizers