CISS - Competition and Innovation Summer School

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is pleased to announce the Competition and Innovation Summer School 2012, sponsored by ZEW, K.U. Leuven, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), and the European Science Foundation (ESF).

This workshop offers young interested researchers within the field 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 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 (K.U. Leuven, BE)
• Andrea Günster (ETH Zurich, CH)
• Justus Haucap (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Katrin Hussinger (Maastricht University, NL)
• Adam Jaffe (Brandeis University, US)
• Tobias Klein (Tilburg University, NL)
• Georg Licht (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Francesco Lissoni (University of Brescia, IT & Bocconi University, IT)
• Hans-Theo Normann (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Bettina Peters (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Cédric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
• Jo Seldeslachts (University of Amsterdam, NL & K.U. Leuven, BE)
• Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University, IL)
• Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University, NL)
• Andrew Toole (U.S. Department of Agriculture, US)
• Reinhilde Veugelers (K.U. Leuven, BE)