EMAEE 2011: 7th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics

"Evolutionary Perspectives on Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics"

February 14-16, 2011
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

List of Papers

Parallel sesssion 1A: Open Innovation (Discussant: D. Barberá)
- F. Landini Technology, property rights and organizational equilibria: An explanation of the co-existence of open and closed-source productions
- A. Barge-Gil Open strategies and innovation performance
- R. Casstevens What leads to innovation: an analysis of collaborative problem solving
Parallel session 1B: Demand and the evolution of consumer preferences (Discussant: A. Coad)
- A. Garcia The relevance of marketing in the success of innovations and creative destruction of consumer preferences
- B. Volland Private Prohibition: How concerns for health and social esteem shape consumption behavior
- V. Slavtchev (with S.Wiederhold) Government demand composition and innovative behaviour in industries
Parallel session 1C: Entrepreneurship (Discussant: F. Noseleit)
- K. Nielsen (with S.Sarasvathy) Who successfully re-enter entrepreneurship? A study of learning the right reason
- A. Rusakova (with M.Fritsch) Entrepreneurial choice across occupations
Parallel session 2A: Innovation and standards (Discussant: R. Fontana)
- T. Pohlmann (with M.Opitz) The patent troll business: An efficient model to enforce IPR? A typology of patent trolls, using empirical evidence from German case studies
- A. Martinelli (with R. Bekkers) Knowledge positions in high tech markets: trajectories, strategies, standards and true innovators
- T. Pohlmann (with K.Blind) Firms' cooperative activities as driving factors to declare patents on formal standards. Evidence from firm level analysis on cooperative agreements and business models
Parallel session 2B: Local network and geography 1 (Discussant: C. Guenter)
- E. Giuliani Network dynamics in regional clusters: The perspective of an emerging economy
- K. Fu Knowledge base of industrial cluster and start-ups' innovation performance
- M. Menzel (with J.Kammer) Pre-entry and post-entry experiences in the spatial evolution of the global wind turbine industry
Parallel session 2C: Universities and knowledge production (Discussant: B. Sanditov)
- V. Tartari (with A.Salter) Is it a man's world? Gender differences in university - industry collaboration activities
- V. Slavtchev (with F.Noseleit) Universities and the emergence and development of high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries
- B. Van Looy (with M.Du Plessis, M.Mayer and K.Debackere) The impact of legislative framework conditions on the technological performance of European universities: An empirical assessment (EU)
Parallel session 3A: The dynamics of firms (Discussant: N. Jacoby)
- A. Schimke (with T.Brenner) Temporal structure of firm growth and the impact of R&D
- J. Holm (with G.Bottazzi) The dynamics of firm size and wage costs: In the Danish manufacturing sector
- C. Guenther (with A.Coad) Age, growth and diversification in the German machine tool industry, 1936-2002
Parallel session 3B: Industry and productivity dynamics (Discussant: M. Grazzi)
- R. Ortega-Argilés (with M.Piva and M.Vivarelli) EU-US productivity gap: new insights based on recent corporate data
- A. Filippetti (with A.Peyrache) Labour productivity in 80 countries: sources of growth, convergence, distribution
- K. Safarzynska Energy: a missing dimension of evolutionary models of industry dynamics
Parallel session 3C: Networks and collaborations 1 (Discussant: M. Ozman)
- J. Lorentzen Multinational strategies, local human capital and global innovation networks in the automotive industry
- J. Jacob (with R.Belderbos and B.Lokshin) International technological alliances, technology based M6As and the innovative performance of EU and non EU Firms
- B. Schrempf EU:FP 6 Nanotechnology research networks
Parallel session 4A: Networks and collaborations 2 (Discussant: K. Frenken)
- A. Dettmann (with T.Brenner) Social processes in network formation and the impact of public funding - A case study
- M. Kudic (with K.Guhr) The impact of evolving ego-network structures on innovation output- empirical evidence from the German laser industry
- B. Sanditov (with F.Lissoni and P.Llerena) Inventors' small worlds: academic and CNRS researchers in networks of inventors in France
Parallel session 4B: Economic Growth (Discussant: J. Jacob)
- G. Barboni (with T.Treibich) On the Latin American growth paradox: An insight into the Golden Age
- A. Lorentz (with T.Ciarli) Openness to trade, convergence in tastes and growth rates differences in an evolutionary model of structural change
- T. Ciarli (with A.Lorentz) Product variety and economic growth. Trade off between supply and demand dynamics
Parallel session 4C: History (Discussant: A. Nuvolari)
- D. Barberá Hora and Tempus in the making: an historical approach to technological complexity
- E. O. Kimbrough Invasion, Self-Defense and Third-Party Enforcement: Modeling Emergent Property Rights with Application to Economic History
- Harald Degner Experience matters: analyzing the innovativeness of German firms during the second industrial revolution 1877-1932
Parallel session 5A: Firm's growth empirics (Discussant: F. Tamagni)
- A. Coad (with J.Frankish, P.Nightingale and D.Storey) Growth and survival of new businesses in the UK: an analysis of business current accounts at Barclay's Bank
- M. Capasso (with E.Cefis and S.Sapio ) Framing the empirical findings on firm growth
- F. Lillo (with J.T.Lunardi, S.Micciché, R.Mantegna and M.Gallegati) Do firms share the same functional form of their growth rate distribution? A new statistical test
Parallel session 5B: Trade and development (Discussant:V. Meliciani)
- M. Dosso Sectoral dynamics of international trade and technological change
- J. M. Natera (with F.Castellacci) The problem of missing data in cross-country analyses of national systems and development: a new multiple imputation method and a new set of indicators (CANA)
- F. Wang Foreign source of technology on the dynamics of Ttchnological capabilities: A latent transition analysis for firms in developing countries
Parallel session 5C: Modelling innovation process (Discussant: G. Fagiolo)
- P. Zeppini (with K.Frenken and L.Izquierdo) A branching and recombination model of innovation"
- M. Pádua (with L.Custodio and L.Gilson ) A problem centered approach to (radical) innovation: insights from an empirical study of the development of an HIV vaccine
- M. Korber Calibrating and validating an agent based model. The Vienna biotech innovation system
Parallel session 5D: Local network and geography 2 (E. Giuliani)
- A. Plunket (with L.Cassi) Co-patenting and inventive productivity: in search of the proximity paradox
- T. Brenner (with S.von Proff) The dynamics of inter-regional collaboration: An analysis of co-patenting
- S.von Proff (with A.Dettmann) Inventor collaboration over distance
Parallel session 6B: Entrepreneurship and human capital (Discussant: M. Vivarelli)
- P. Gjerløv-Juel (with M.S.Dahl) The effect of executive migration and spin-off on incumbent firms
- F. Noseleit Entrepreneurship, structural change and economic growth
- D. Curran (with M.Sensier) The spatiality of labour productivity across EU Regions
Parallel session 6C: Firm's innovative behaviour (Discussant: F. Quatraro)
- M. Coccia (with U.Finardi and D.Margon) Evolutionary trends in nanotechnology studies across worldwide economic players
- M. Wagner Determinants and dynamics of technology-related acquisitions: The informative case of software-based high technology industries
- M. Ozman (with A.Ozaygen) The role of technological and market complementarities in strategic alliances
Parallel session 7A: Knowledge and firm's performance (Discussant: G. Bottazzi)
- F. Quatraro (with A.Colombelli and J.Krafft) High growth firms and knowledge structure: Evidence from a sample of listed ompanies
- C. Li (with B.Tether, A. Mina and K.Wennberg) Drivers of international expansion amongst knowledge-intensive professional service firms: Insights from a longitudinal study of UK engineering consultancies
- F. Silva (with C.Carreira) Do financial constraints threat the innovation process? Evidence from Portoguese Firms
Parallel session 7B: Patterns of technival change (Discussant: A. Martinelli)
- S. Chai (with L.Fleming) Emergence of breakthroughs
- M. Epicoco Sources of knowledge generation and accumulation: mapping the semiconductor miniaturization trajectory
- D. Barberá (with D.Consoli) Uncertanty and hybridization in medical innovation: the artificial disc case
Parallel session 7C: Trust and experiments (Discussant: L. Marengo)
- Z. Meder Survival of altruistic preferences in the ultimatum game- An agent based approach
- M. Cortesi The social dynamics of learning and trust
- A. Schacht (with G.Riener) Discrimination in small markets
Parallel session 8A: Innovation in high-tech industries (Discussant: R. Bekkers)
- R. Fontana (with D.Moriniello) Technological leadership and innovation persistence: empirical evidence
- A. Querbes-Revier The Collective Construction of Digital Platforms for Mobile Services: the mobile OS for smartphones
Parallel session 8B: Structural change and growth (Discussant: J.Holm)
- T. Treibich (with G.Dosi, G.Fagiolo, M.Napoletano and A.Roventini) Heterogeneous banks and technical change in an evolutionary model of endogenous growth and fluctuations
- F. Vona (with F.Petrarca) Structural change and the income distribution: a post-Keynesian disequilibrium model
- A. Lorentz (with M.Savona) Structural Change and Business Cycles: An Evolutionary Approach