• Uwe Cantner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena und University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DK)
• Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven, BE, and ZEW, Mannheim)
• Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto Mississauga, CA)
• Fabian Gaessler (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES, and MPI for Innovation and Competition, Munich)
• Bernhard Ganglmair (ZEW, MaCCI, and University of Mannheim)
• Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US)
• Christoph Grimpe (Copenhagen Business School, DK)
• Hanna Hottenrott (Technical University Munich)
• Can Huang (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CN)
• Katrin Hussinger (University of Luxembourg, LU)
• Jordi Jaumandreu (Boston University, US)
• Ulrich Kaiser (University of Zurich, CH, and ZEW, Mannheim)
• Kornelius Kraft (TU Dortmund University and ZEW, Mannheim)
• Georg Licht (ZEW and MaCCI, Mannheim)
• Hans Lööf (KTH Stockholm, SE)
• Pierre Mohnen (University of Maastricht und UNU-MERIT, NL)
• Fabio Montobbio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, IT)
• Elisabeth Müller (IÉSEG School of Management, Paris, FR)
• Bettina Peters (ZEW and MaCCI, Mannheim, and University of Luxembourg, LU)
• Mark Roberts (Pennsylvania State University und NBER)
• Maikel Pellens (KU Leuven and ZEW, Mannheim)
• Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University, IL)
• Konrad Stahl (Universität Mannheim, MaCCI and ZEW, Mannheim)
• Otto Toivanen (Aalto University, FI, und KU Leuven, BE)
• Van Anh Vuong (University of Maastricht, NL)

Drivers of innovation

• Climate change, energy transition and innovation
• Corporate governance and innovation
• Migration and innovation

Digitalisation and innovation

• Novel AI-based innovation indicators
• Text as data
• Digitalisation as a driver of innovation

COVID-19 and innovation

• COVID-19-related patents
• Impact of COVID-19 on innovation activity
• COVID-19 and innovation cooperation

Intellectual property rights

• IPR strategies (patents, trademarks, copyrights)
• Standards, patent pools and innovation
• Reforms of the international patent system
• Markets for technology

Innovation and performance

• Returns to innovation and growth
• Innovation and employment
• Innovation and international trade

R&D and innovation policy

• Tax incentives and subsidies for R&D
• Patent box regimes
• Public procurement and innovation

Financing innovation

• Banking system and innovation financing
• Venture capital and crowdfunding
• Impact of changes in financial market regulation

Knowledge production and technology transfer

• Research collaborations
• Knowledge and R&D spillovers
• Industry-science linkages
• Scientist/inventor mobility and productivity

Interested researchers are invited to submit a paper or an extended abstract (min. 3 pages) in PDF format to innopat2022@zew.de

Submission deadline: 28 September 2022

Notifications of acceptance: by 7 October 2022

Participants presenting a paper are asked to submit a full text version no later than 21 October 2022.

Registration deadline: 21 October 2022

The conference fee is €235 (PhD students pay a reduced fee of €195). This covers lunches, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages, the conference dinner, and the conference package. A selected number of travel grants will be available (preferably for PhD students and young researchers). The organising committee will gladly provide you with further details upon request. Presenters may be asked to discuss another paper.

Please use the XING registration form.