CISS - Competition and Innovation Summer School

This workshop offers young researchers within the fields of the economics of innovation and competition the opportunity to intensively discuss their dissertation projects within a peer group of experienced and renowned scholars, as well as other PhD students and postdocresearchers in an inspiring environment.

Scientific Programme

The Summer School features lectures that provide 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 take place in the afternoon.

Faculty

• Ashish Arora (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, US)
• Michele Cincera (Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management, ULB, BE)
• Dirk Czarnitzki (K.U. Leuven, BE)
• Justus Haucap (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Ali Hortaçsu (University of Chicago, US)
• Hanna Hottenrott (DICE, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, DE)
• Katrin Hussinger (University of Luxembourg, LU)
• Tobias Klein (Tilburg University, NL)
• Georg Licht (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Cindy Lopes-Bento (KU Leuven, BE)
• Teoman Pamukçu (Middle East Technical University, TR)
• Bettina Peters (ZEW, Mannheim, DE)
• Cédric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
• Andrew Toole (U.S. Department of Agriculture, US)
• Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management, ULB, BE)
• Reinhilde Veugelers (K.U. Leuven, BE)