Dime Workshop RAL 2-WP 2.9
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, May 6-7 2010

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
(call for papers)

THURSDAY 6TH MAY

Chair (morning): Pietro Dindo

• 9.30-9.45 Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) -
  Welcome
• 9.45-10.30 Paolo Zeppini (University of Amsterdam)
  “Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation”
• 10.30-10.45 Coffee break
• 10.45-11.30 Arianna Martinelli (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
  “A genetic approach to patent citation networks. A case study of telecom switches”
• 11.30-12.15 Bart Los (University of Groningen)
  “Are New ‘Silicon Valleys’ Emerging? The Distribution of Superstar Patents across US States”
• 12.15-14.00 Lunch

Chair (afternoon): Luigi Marengo

• 14.00-14.45 Gerald Silverberg (UNU-Merit)
  “The Statistical Phenomenology of Innovation in the Longue Durée”
• 14.45-15.30 Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna School of Advance Studies)
  “Technical change as an evolutionary process”
• 15.30-16.00 Tea break
• 16.00-16.45 Paul A. David (Stanford University)
  "Rivalry and the Rules of the Game in Processes of Collective Invention"

FRIDAY 7TH MAY

Chair (morning): Roberto Fontana

• 9.30-10.15 Koen Frenken (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  “A branching-and-recombination model of innovation with positive externalities”
• 10.15-11.00 Davide Pirino (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
  “Null-model analysis of technological corporate coherence”
• 11.00-11.15 Coffee break
• 11.15-12.00 Jessika Trancik (MIT)
  “The Role of Design Complexity in Technology Improvement”
• 12.00-12.45 Paolo Saviotti (INRA GAEL, Université Pierre Mendès-France)
  “Discontinuities in technological evolution”
• 12.45-14.00 Lunch

Chair (afternoon): Giulio Bottazzi

• 14.00-14.45 Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
  Title to be announced
• 14.45-15.30 Attila Varga (University of Pecs)
  “Agglomeration and interregional network effects on European R&D productivity"
• 15.30-16.00: Tea break
• 16.00-16.45 Sandro Mendonça (University of Lisbon)
  “How did large and complex capital goods of the industrial past evolve? The measurement of technological change in steamships from the 1810s to the 1850s”
• 16.45-17.30 “Modelling, measuring and mapping technical change: future research directions”
  Round table (Moderator: Patrick Llerena, University of Strasbourg)