{"id":3888,"date":"2025-09-05T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/?page_id=3888"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:14:24","slug":"2025-2026-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/news-and-events\/2025-2026-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2026 Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/files\/2025\/12\/TPRI-Workshop-Header.png\" class=\"cmb-file-field-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #545454;\">TPRI\u2019s Spring 2026 Research Workshop Series is on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m. (ET) via Zoom<\/span>. \u00a0To be added to the list to receive announcements please e-mail tpri@bu.edu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><strong>Spring 2026 Seminar Series Schedule:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 28: \u00a0<\/strong>Michael Woeppel, Indiana University, \u201cHow Does Patent Protection Affect Venture Capital Investment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 4:<\/strong>\u00a0 Marek Giebel, Copenhagen Business School, \u201cWhen the Patent Quid Pro Quo is Distorted: Protection-Disclosure Imbalance and Follow-on Innovation\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 11: <\/strong>Zeyang Xue, Boston University Questrom School of Business, \u201cCommon Venture Capital and Start-Up Innovation\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 18: \u00a0<\/strong>Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School, \u201cRegulatory Reform and Market Evolution in the Spectrum Commons\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 25:\u00a0<\/strong> Verena Pl\u00fcmpe, Halle Institute for Economic Research, \u201cHigh Wage Firms and Robot Adoption\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 4:<\/strong>\u00a0 Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law, \u201cReinventing Patent Prosecution\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 18:<\/strong>\u00a0 Luca Fontanelli, University of Brescia, \u00a0\u201cFrom Bits to Atoms: 3D Printing, Physical Validation, and Firm Growth\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 25:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lucy Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, \u00a0\u201cHealth IT Diffusion and Physician Density\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Joseph Emmens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, \u00a0\u201cTeams and Text: Disentangling Team Knowledge Production\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 8:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tommaso Alba, K. U. Leuven,\u00a0 \u201cA Tale of Tolls and Fees: \u00a0The Role of Fee Shifting in IP Litigation\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 15: \u00a0<\/strong>Joyce Ma, Duke University, \u201cInnovators as Rulemakers: Technical Information and Firm Influence in Environmental Regulations\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 22:\u00a0<\/strong> Danfeng Yue, Toulouse School of Economics, \u201cPatent Ineligible Areas: Combinatorial Innovation as a Response to IP Loss\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 29:<\/strong> Stijn Kelchtermans, K. U. Leuven, \u201cSerendipity and Unequal Returns to Discovery&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TPRI\u2019s Spring 2026 Research Workshop Series is on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m. (ET) via Zoom. \u00a0To be added to the list to receive announcements please e-mail tpri@bu.edu. Spring 2026 Seminar Series Schedule: January 28: \u00a0Michael Woeppel, Indiana University, \u201cHow Does Patent Protection Affect Venture Capital Investment?\u201d February 4:\u00a0 Marek Giebel, Copenhagen Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13705,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3888\/revisions\/3948"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}