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Program and Papers

Program:

"Organizing for Internal and External Knowledge Creation and Innovation: Looking within or Searching Beyond?"

October 30-31, 2008, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Thursday, 30 October 2008
09:15 - 09:45
Registration (Room: Ks43)
09:45 - 10:00
Opening the Conference
Welcome Speech by Organizing Committee Representative
10:00 - 11:15
Keynote – Organizing for Innovation: Looking Within
Massimo G. Colombo, Politecnico di Milano: The Innovation Impact of the Acquisition of High-Tech Start-Ups: Combining the Incentive and Competence-Based Perspectives
Facilitator: Keld Laursen, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
11:15-11:45
Coffee Break
11:45-13:15
Parallel Session 1
1.a – Cross Border Strategic Investments and Performance
(Ks 43)
Chair: Mie Harder, Copenhagen Business School (SMG)
John A. Cantwell & Roger Smeets: FDI Motives and Host Country Productivity Effects of US MNEs
Discussant: Lucia Piscitello, Politecnico di Milano
Wu Zhan: Capability Exploitation and Upgrading in IJVs: A Contingency Approach
Discussant: Larissa Rabbiosi, Copenhagen Business School (SMG)
Torben Juul Andersen: Multinational Innovation and Risk-Return Dynamics: Effects of Capital Structure and Slack Resources
Discussant: Serden Ozcan, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
1.b – Value creation through internal and external sources (Ks 48)
Chair: Monica Masucci, Bocconi University
Arie Y. Lewin, Silvia Massini & Carine Peeters: The Configuration of Internal and External Practiced Routines of Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective
Discussant: Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School (SMG)
Christian Geisler Asmussen, Nicolai J. Foss & Torben Pedersen: Knowledge Complementarity and Transfer Thresholds in the Differentiated MNC
Discussant: Fabrice Galia, Burgundy School of Business Dijon-Paris & University of Paris II
Keld Laursen, Francesca Masciarelli, Toke Reichstein: "Social Capital and the Liability of Newness"
Discussant: Grazia D. Santangelo, University of Catania
13:15-14:15
Lunch (at Solbjerg Plads 3)
14:15-15:45
Plenary Session: Human Resources and Innovation (Ks43) Chair: Lars Bo Jeppesen, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Paolo Pini & Grazia Santangelo: The role of organizational structure and workers' competences in the introduction of exploitative and explorative innovation
Discussant: Serden Ozcan, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Marco S. Giarratana & Myriam Mariani: In & Out: Inventing with firm internal and external knowledge spillovers
Discussant: Christoph Grimpe, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted & Thomas Rønde: Labor Mobility and Patenting Activity
Discussant: Fulvio Castellacci, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Castellacci - Paper Discussion
Castellacci - Presentation
15:45-16:15
Coffee Break
16:15-17:30
Keynote – Openness and External Knowledge Sources: Searching Beyond (Ks 43)
Georg von Krogh, ETH Zürich: Open Source Software: What We Know (And Do Not Know) About Motivations To Contribute
Facilitator: Marco Giarratana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
20:00-
Dinner for Invited Participants, Presenters, Co-authors, Discussants, and Session Chairs
Friday, 31 October 2008
09:30-10:45
Keynote - Organizing for Internal and External Knowledge Creation and Innovation
John A. Cantwell, Rutgers Business School: Blurred boundaries between firms, and new boundaries within (large multinational) firms: the impact of decentralized networks for innovation
Facilitator: Ulf Andersson, Uppsala University & Copenhagen Business School
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Parallel Session 2
2.a - Open Innovation (Ks 43) Chair: Larissa Rabbiosi, Copenhagen Business School (SMG)
Christopher Grimpe & Ulrich Kaiser: Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Discussant: Silvia Massini, Manchester Business School
Mattia Bianchi, Vittorio Chiesa & Federico Frattini: Exploring the microfoundations of External Technology Commercialization: a dynamic capabilities perspective
Discussant: Marco Giarratana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Dario Lorenzi & Cristina Rossi Lamastra: Openess and innovation: comparing Free/Open Source and proprietary solution
Discussant: Francesco Rullani, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Susan S. S. Wong: Formation of Value-Creating Inter-Firm Network
Discussant: Bo Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School (SMG)
2.b – Drivers of Innovation (Ks 48)
Chair: Keld Laursen, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Cedric Schneider: External knowledge sourcing: Science, market and the value of patented inventions
Discussant: Christoph Hienerth, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Fulvio Castellacci & Jinghai Zheng: Technological Regimes, Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation and Firm Level Productivity Growth
Discussant: Ammon Salter, Imperial College London
Fabrice Galia & Sanja Pekovic: From Quality to Innovation: Evidence from two French Employer Surveys
Discussant: Thomas Rønde, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
12:30-13:15
Lunch at Kilen (K 1.30)
13:15-14:15
Plenary Session: & Round Table Contemplations (Ks 43)
Organizing for Internal and External Knowledge Creation and Innovation: Looking Within or Searching Beyond?
Chair: Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School (INO)
Presenters:
Nicolai J. Foss, Keld Laursen & Torben Pedersen: Linking Customer Interaction and Innovation: The Mediating Role of New Oganizational Practices
Facilitator: Massimo Colombo, Politecnico di Milano
Paola Criscuolo, Linus Dahlander & Ammon Salter: Outside In, Inside Out: The Impact of Knowledge Heterogeneity, Intra- and Extra Organizational Ties On Innovative Status
Facilitators: John A. Cantwell, Rutgers Business School
14:15-15:00
Round Table: Complementarities versus Substitutability: External and Internal Knowledge Sources
Chair: Toke Reichstein
Panel: John A. Cantwell, Massimo G. Colombo, Nicolai J. Foss, Ammon J. Salter
15:00-15:15
Closing the Conference

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