Outline of the week

The second week of the Strasbourg session takes up the groundwork laid by the first week and introduces a focus on knowledge flows. Within a system of innovation, access to and dissemination of knowledge can be a key to overall performance. In recent years this has been modelled building on approaches and techniques social network analysis. This week includes general lectures on network analysis, as well as more focussed lectures applying ideas of network analysis and knowledge flows in specific situations.

Coordinators

Robin COWAN, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, NL and BETA, Strasbourg, France

Paola GIURI, University of Bologna, Italy

Teaching staff

Carlo ALTOMONTE, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy

Robin COWAN, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, NL and BETA, Strasbourg, France

Nicolas JONARD, Université de Luxembourg

Muge ÖZMAN-GOSSART, Telecom & Management SudParis, France

Julien PENIN, BETA, Université de Strasbourg, France

Natalya ZINOVYEVA, Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), Madrid, Spain

Monday, March 30th

9.00-9.30: Welcome by the coordinators of the week

9.30-11.00: Introduction to networks - Nicolas JONARD

11.15-12.45: PhD presentation n°1: Cornelia MEISSNER; Junior discussant: Lars ALKAERSIG; Senior discussant: Nicolas JONARD

14.00-16.00: Networks: Survey of the Literature - Müge ÖZMAN

16.15-17.45: PhD presentation n°2: Alexander van der VOOREN; Junior discussant:Özge DILVER KALKAN; Senior discussant: Müge ÖZMAN

Tuesday, March 31st

9.00-11.00: Inter-firm Relations and Network Formation: Simulations and Empirical Studies - Müge ÖZMAN

11.15-12.45: PhD presentation n°3: Viviane MUNOZ TELLEZ; Junior discussant:Jacob Rubaek HOLM; Senior discussant: Laurent BACH

14.00-15.45:Estimating total factor productivity under heterogenous firms - Carlo ALTOMONTE

16.00-17.45: Open Source Innovation: Overview and Empirical Evidence - Julien PENIN

Wednesday, April 1st

9.00-11.00: Measuring spillover effects from multinational enterprises : Carlo ALTOMONTE

11.15-12.45: PhD presentation n°4: Benjamin SCHÖN; Junior discussant: Tiana RAFANOMEZANTSOA; Senior discussant: Carlo ALTOMONTE

14.00-16.00: On the relations between universities and local industrial innovation - Natalia ZINOVYEVA

16.15-17.45:PhD presentation n°5: Lars ALKAERSIG ; Junior discussant: Anja DETTMANN; Senior discussant: Natalia ZINOVYEVA

Thursday, April 2nd

9.00-10.00: Summary session of the 2nd week

10.30-12.00: Joint Session with the ACCD (Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days) : session 2C

13.00-14.00: Joint Session with the ACCD: Keynote speech by TERRY SHINN (CNRS Paris) on "Science, technology and innovations: Limitations of transversality ?"

14.15-16.00: Strategic Use of Patents - Julien PENIN

16.15-17.45: PhD presentation n°6: Anja DETTMANN; Junior discussant: Roman MARTIN; Senior discussant: Julien PENIN

Friday, April 3rd