IHP MEETING

Economic change:

Micro-Foundations of organizational and institutional changes in Europe

 IESE Business School, Barcelona – February 25th and 26th, 2005

Programme for the meeting

NOTE: Only the presenter listed, some of the presentations are coauthored

Friday February 25th

12:30 – 13:45

Lunch


13:45 – 14:00

<>Introduction to the meeting: Status of the project and future events, Walter Garcνa-Fontes (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

14:00 – 15:30

Investing in Open Source Software Products – Marco Giarratana, Universidad Carlos III

Skills and Openness of OSS Projects: implications for performance – Paola Giuri, Sant’Anna University and Salvatore Torrisi, University of Bologna.


15:30 – 17:00

Process Learning in Alliances Developing Radical versus Incremental Innovations: Evidence from the Telecommunications Industry -  Annaleena Parhankangas, Helsinki University of Technology

M&A and Technological Performance - Giovanni Valentini, IESE Business School


17:00 – 17:30

Coffee break


17:30 – 19:00

Regional policy in the creation of science based industry- a comparative analysis of Cambridge and Bangalore, Suma Athreye, Open University

Measuring the Performance of Oxford University, Oxford Brookes University  and the Government Laboratories Spin-Off Companies - Helen Lawton Smith, Oxford University

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21:15: Dinner

Saturday February 26thst

9:30-11:00

National Institutions and High Tech Industries:  A Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on the Failure of Germany's "Neuer Markt" - Sigurt Vitols, WZB.

A comparison of British and German IT Service and Software Initial  Public Offerings from 1996 – 2002 – Lutz Engelhardt, WZB.

11:00-11:30

Cofee Break


11:30-13:00

Modeling the tension between exploration and exploitation – Andrea Fosfuri, Universidad Carlos III.

Spillovers at the Research Unit level – Walter Garcia-Fontes, Universitat Pompeu Fabra


13:00 – 14:30

Lunch


14:30 – 16:00

Sponsored spin-offs in Europe and the US: Preliminary empirical results" – Annaleena Parhankangas, Helsinki University of Technology and Martin Wallin IMIT.

The Initial Public Offerings at EuroNMs: Why was the underpricing so high and so different? - Arif Khurshed, University of Manchester.

16:00-16:30

Cofee Break

16:30 – 18:00

Software enterprises in central and eastern Europe: first results of firm level

survey from five countries.- Slavo Radosevic and Helena Hannula

Evolution of productivity in the Indian software industry – Suma Athreye, Open University