2024 – 2025 Seminar Series
Spring 2025 TPRI’s Works-in-Progress Seminar Series will be on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) via Zoom. To be added to the seminar mailing list as an attendee, please email tpri@bu.edu.
Spring 2025 Seminar Series Schedule:
January 29: Kyle Myers, Harvard Business School, “Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science”
February 05: Garrett Johnson, Boston University Questrom School of Business, “Privacy-Enhanced versus Traditional Retargeting: Ad Effectiveness in an Industry-Wide Field Experiment”
February 12: Yoshiki Ando, TPRI, “Technifying Ventures”
February 19: David Grover, Grenoble École de Management, “Are technology adoption subsidies really so unfair?”
February 26: Luca Fontanelli, Università di Brescia, Italy, “Cloud technologies, firm growth and industry concentration: Evidence from France”
March 05: Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, “Bad Luck in Fundraising: Evidence from Failed Applications for Government Seed Funding in Korea”
March 19: Siying Cao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Fixing patent notice: the impact of regulation and litigation on innovation”
March 26: Nils Lehr, International Monetary Fund, “Does Monopsony Matter for Innovation?”
April 2: Anja Rösner, DICE, University of Düsseldorf, “Reaching for the Society: The Commercialization Effects of NASA Technology Transfer”
April 09: Jim Bessen and Yoshiki Ando, TPRI, “The Rise of Creative Destruction Technological Rivalry, Productivity, and Firm Growth”
April 16: Dominique Foray, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, “Defining innovatisation: The case of NewSpace and the changing space sector”
April 23: Ryan Shin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, “Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation”
April 30: Biwen Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, “Patent Protection and Disclosure”
May 07: Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, “Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata”
May 14: Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics, “Ideas and Firm Dynamics when It Takes Two to Tango”
Fall 2024 Seminar Series Schedule:
September 11: Stephen Glaeser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Is innovating risky? The effects of R&D on idiosyncratic and systematic firm risk”
September 18: Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, “Science knowledge localizes”
September 25: Charu Gupta, UCLA, “Beyond the Label: Regulatory Slack and Forum Shopping in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
October 2: Rodimiro Rodrigo, The George Washington University, “Robots and Inequality: Between and Within Occupations”
October 9: Larisa Cioaca, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, “Experimenting With High Tech: The Role of Government R&D Contracts”
October 16: Colleen Cunningham (Utah) and Jennifer Kao (UCLA), “Negative Information and Innovation”
October 23: Apoorva Gupta, Heinrich Heine University, “Gains from Patent Protection: Innovation, Market Power and Cost Savings in India”
October 30: Megan MacGarvie (Boston University Questrom School of Business) and Olena Ivus (Queen’s University), “Reclaiming Brain Power: The Impact of Global Strengthening of IPRs on the Movement of Inventors”
November 6: Kris Gulati, UC Merced, “How ‘Free’ is Free Speech in Academia? Effects on Researchers and their Research”
November 13: Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College) and Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University), “Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments”
November 20: Tesary Lin, Boston University Questrom School of Business, “Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of Dark Patterns”
December 4: Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics, “Digital Platform Acquisitions, Tying, and Growth”