CISS - Competition and Innovation Summer School

This workshop offers young researchers within the fields of the economics of innovation and competition the possibility to intensively discuss their dissertation plans or drafts within a peer group of experienced and renowned scholars, as well as other PhD students and post-doc researchers in a great environment.

Scientific Programme

Formal lectures will be held every morning, providing students with detailed knowledge on current topics of innovation, the economics of science and intellectual property rights, empirical competition analysis and contemporary issues in theories of industrial organization. Students' presentations and workshops on research methodologies and tools will take place in the afternoon.

Faculty

• Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven, BE)
• Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
• Justus Haucap (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Katrin Hussinger (University of Luxembourg, LU)
• Tobias Klein (Tilburg University, NL)
• Georg Licht (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Bettina Peters (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Mark Roberts (Pennsylvania State University, US)
• Cédric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
• Yuya Takahashi (University of Mannheim, DE)
• Andrew Toole (U.S. Department of Agriculture, US)
• Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Solvay Brussels School ofEconomics & Management, ULB, BE)
• Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven, BE)
• Christine Zulehner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, AT)