At this workshop topics will cover cloud computing, industrial policy, patents and the aging of the scientific workforce.
Workshop Programme
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8.30am | Arrival Tea and Coffee | |
| 9.00am | Hidden Talent: the effect of schooling interventions on later-life scientific and inventive output? | Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame |
| 9.45am | Cloud computing and firm growth (with Timothy DeStefano and Jonathan Timmis) | Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham |
| 10.30am | Midmorning Tea and Coffee | |
| 10.45am | Financing Creativity: Crowdfunding in 19th-Century Fiction (with Chelsea Carter and Petra Moser) | Megan Macgarvie, Boston University |
| 11.30am | Why has Science become an Old Man's Game? (with Christian Fons-Rosen and Taras Hrendash) | Patrick Gaule, University of Bath |
| 12.30pm | Lunch break | |
| 1.30pm | The Impact of Regulation on Innovation (with Philippe Aghion and John Van Reenen) | Antonin Bergeaud, Banque de France |
| 2.15pm | The Long-run Impacts of Patents on Inventors: Evidence from Patent Interferences (with Jeffrey Lin and Nicholas Reynolds) | Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts |
| 3.00pm | Afternoon Tea and Coffee | |
| 3.15pm | Death and Turmoil in R&D Teams (with Tom Astebro and Olof Ejermo) | Otto Toivanen, Aalto University |
| 4.00pm | Distance (Still) Hampers Diffusion of Innovations (with Stuart Graham and Amanda Myers) | Georg von Graevenitz, Queen Mary University of London |
| 4.45pm | Rational Industrial Policy: Standing on the shoulders of Giant Gnomes? | Ralf Martin, Imperial College London |