2024 – 2025 Seminar Series

TPRI Works-in-Progress 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”