Spring 2026 Seminar Series

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

Spring 2026 Seminar Series Schedule:

January 28:  Michael Woeppel, Indiana University, “How Does Patent Protection Affect Venture Capital Investment?”

February 4:  Marek Giebel, Copenhagen Business School, “When the Patent Quid Pro Quo is Distorted: Protection-Disclosure Imbalance and Follow-on Innovation”

February 11: Zeyang Xue, Boston University Questrom School of Business, “Common Venture Capital and Start-Up Innovation”

February 18:  Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School, “Regulatory Reform and Market Evolution in the Spectrum Commons”

February 25:  Verena Plümpe, Halle Institute for Economic Research, “High Wage Firms and Robot Adoption”

March 4:  Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law, “Reinventing Patent Prosecution”

March 18:  Luca Fontanelli, University of Brescia,  “From Bits to Atoms: 3D Printing, Physical Validation, and Firm Growth”

March 25:  Lucy Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,  “Health IT Diffusion and Physician Density”

April 1:  Joseph Emmens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  “Teams and Text: Disentangling Team Knowledge Production”

April 8:  Tommaso Alba, K. U. Leuven,  “A Tale of Tolls and Fees:  The Role of Fee Shifting in IP Litigation”

April 15:  Joyce Ma, Duke University, “Innovators as Rulemakers: Technical Information and Firm Influence in Environmental Regulations”

April 22:  Danfeng Yue, Toulouse School of Economics, “Patent Ineligible Areas: Combinatorial Innovation as a Response to IP Loss”

April 29: Stijn Kelchtermans, K. U. Leuven, “Serendipity and Unequal Returns to Discovery”