What’s new in industrial and business economics
In collaboration between DEM-University of Trento, DESP-University of Urbino and Associazione Amici di Economia e politica industriale
Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Via Inama 5, Aula seminari primo piano ex-Disa
Program Friday November 25th
14.00 Welcome and introduction
14.15-16.00 Session 1: Innovation and performance
Chair: Lorenzo Sacconi, Università di Trento
- Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe
Marco Vivarelli, UCS Milan (with Vincent Van Roy and Daniel Vertesy) - Innovation, Skills and Investment: A Digital Industrial Policy for Europe
Harald Gruber, EIB - Who solves whose problem in open collaboration?
Stefan Haefliger, City University London (with Albert Armisen and Sabine Brunswicker) - General discussion and commentaries: Sergio Mariotti, Silvia Massini, Alberto Nucciarelli, Alessandro Rossi, Salvatore Torrisi, Antonello Zanfei
16.00-17.15 Session 2: Industrial development at the local level
Chair: Harald Gruber, European Investment Bank
- Combining Universities’ third mission and place based industrial development
Marco Bellandi, Università di Firenze (with Annalisa Caloffi) - The creation of cleantech start-ups at the local level: The role of knowledge availability and environmental awareness
Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Politecnico di Milano (with Giancarlo Giudici and Massimiliano Guerini) - General discussion and commentaries: Toke Reichstein, Sandro Trento, Fabio Pieri, Lucia Piscitello
Break
17.30-18.45 Session 3: Modelling firm and consumer behavior in industries
Chair: Marc Goergen, Cardiff University
- Measuring consumer inertia in energy
Monica Giulietti, University of Loughborough (with David Deller, Joo Young Jeon, Graham Loomes, Ana Moniche Bermejo and Catherine Waddams) - Flexibility and Collusion with Imperfect Monitoring
Maria Bigoni, Università di Bologna (with Jan Potters and Giancarlo Spagnolo) - General discussion and commentaries: Carlo Cambini, Marc Goergen, Lorenzo Sacconi, Francesco Silva, Marco Vivarelli
20.00 Social dinner
Program Saturday November 26th
9.00-10.15 Session 4: Incentive structures and performance
Chair: Francesco Silva, Università di Milano Bicocca
- Why Board Gender Diversity Matters: The Role of Female Directors in Reining in Male CEO Overconfidence
Marc Goergen , Cardiff University (with Jie Chen,Woon Sau Leung,Wei Song) - Tournament in Workplaces and Transition to Entrepreneurship.
Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School (with Virgilio Faillaa and Francesca Melillo) - General discussion and commentaries: Massimo Colombo, Roberto Gabriele, Laura Rondi, Monica Giulietti, Enrico Zaninotto
10.15 Concluding remarks
Break
10.45-15.00 Editorial meeting and working lunch
(restricted to editorial board members)
Organizing committee: Roberto Gabriele, Sergio Mariotti, Fabio Pieri, Chiara Tomasi, Antonello Zanfei, Enrico Zaninotto, Federica Betta
Contact person for logistics and organisational details: Federica Betta 0461/282305 Dipartimento di Economia e Management Università di Trento.
Attendance is free but requires registration. To register please contact Federica Betta.
