TPRI’s Fall 2026 Research Workshop Series is on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) via Zoom.  To receive announcements please e-mail tpri@bu.edu.

Fall 2026 Seminar Series Schedule:

September 9:  Janet Freilich, Boston University School of Law, “Who is Patent Disclosure For?”

September 16:  Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, “Green Entrepreneurship”

September 23: Ayfer Ali, University of Warwick, “Can Stock Market Reactions Identify Valuable Patents?”

September 30:  Nicola Melluso, LUISS University, “Scientific Ideas in Firm Innovation”

October 7:  Dafna Bearson, Harvard Business School, “Keep, License, or Sell? Value Uncertainty and the Path to Commercialization”

October 14:  Jim Bessen, Boston University, “Rising Obsolescence: Measuring Obsolescence and its Effect on R&D”

October 21:  Yang Yu, MIT Future Tech Lab, “AI Adoption in S&P 500 Firms”

October 28:  Samantha Zyontz, Boston University Questrom School of Business,  “Commercial Regulation and the Production of Science: Evidence from New Genomic Techniques in Agricultural Biotechnology”

November 4:  Michael Impink, HEC Paris,  “Data Regulation and Differentiation: Evidence from AI-producing Startups”

November 11:  Dominik Asam, Max Planck Institute of Competition and Innovation,  “Access to the Frontier: Open Source AI and Downstream Innovation”

November 18:  Thiago Soares, Insper, “Guarding Secrets, Losing Partners: Strengthening Trade Secret Protection and the Decline of Interfirm Collaboration”

December 2:  Yang Liu, Fordham University, “Protecting Secrets While Filing Patents: Trade Secret Reliance and Strategic Information Disclosure in Patent Drafting”

December 9: Jungkyu Suh, New York University, “Radio Silence: Scientific Disclosure and Appropriation at RCA Labs”