5th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) are pleased to announce their conference on the economics of innovation and patenting. We aim at stimulating discussion between international researchers conducting related empirical, and theoretical analysis. In addition, the conference will focus on policy implications of recent research. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions from all areas of the economics of innovation and patenting are welcome. The conference is sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

A non-exhaustive list of topics is:

Innovation and Firm Performance

• Returns to R&D and innovation
• Corporate governance of innovative firms
• R&D in young and small firms

Financing of Innovation

• Public vs. private funding of innovation
• Sources of finance: banks, venture, capitalists, business angels and crowd funding

Generation of Knowledge and Innovation

• Sources of knowledge and R&D spillovers
• Science-industry linkages
• Role of inventors

Markets for Technology

• Trade of patents and technology
• Licensing strategies and policies

Globalisation and Innovation

• Internationalisation of R&D processes
• International diffusion of innovation
• Externalities and technology adoption
• Innovation in emerging countries

Intellectual Property Rights

• IPR strategies (patents, trademarks, copyrights)
• Reform of the international patent system
• Standards and innovation
• Open innovation and IPRs
• Impact of IPR on competition

R&D and Innovation Policy

• Economics of public research institutions
• Tax incentives and subsidies for R&D
• Public procurement and innovation