Speaker: Morten Graugaard Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Keynote Speakers: Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, USA), Andreas Müller (College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Keynote Speakers: Jeniffer Blouin (University of Pennslyvania, USA), Niels Johannesen (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Keynote Speakers: Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School, Boston, USA), Canice Prendergast (Chicago Booth School of Business, USA), Steven Tadelis (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Clemens Schmid (Roche Deutschland Holding & Roche Diagnostics GmbH)

Keynote Speakers: Petra Moser (Leonard N. Stern School of Business (NYU University), USA), Carlos Javier Serrano (HEC Paris, France)

Speakers: Bruno Cassiman (IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain and KU Leuven, Belgium), Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven, Belgium and ZEW), Thorsten Doherr (ZEW), Pierre Fleckinger (MINES ParisTech, France), Paul Heidhues (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Jannis Kück (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Imke Reimers, PhD (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Warren Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA and ZEW), Mark J. Roberts, PhD (The Pennsylvania State University, USA and ZEW), Bettina Peters (ZEW), Jo Seldeslachts (KU Leuven, Belgium, and Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (DIW Berlin)), Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Leonard Treuren (KU Leuven, Belgium), Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Keynote Speakers: Claudia Diehl (University of Konstanz, Germany), Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan, Italia)

Keynote Speakers: Andrea Grifoni (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France), Carly Urban (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA), Carlo Di Chiacchio (INVAlSI (National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System))

Keynote Speakers: Susan Dynarski (Harvard University, USA), Fabian Pfeffer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Keynote Speakers: Ann M. Lipton (Tulane University, New Orleans, USA), Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)