April 17, 2015
The Mack Institute for Innovation Management and the Wharton School’s Management department co-sponsor an annual two-day event designed to encourage, cultivate, and profile management researchers studying technology-based industries and firms. Leading academics on technology and innovation present their findings and engage in discussion of leading-edge questions related to the management of innovation.
Organized by Saikat Chaudhuri and Rahul Kapoor
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. — REGISTRATION AND LUNCH
12:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. — WELCOME
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. — INDUSTRY CHANGE
Discussant: Lori Rosenkopf (Wharton)
The Disruptor’s Dilemma: TiVo and the U.S. Television Ecosystem
Shahzad Ansari (Cambridge), Raghu Garud (Penn State) and Arun Kumaraswamy (West Chester)
The Song Remains the Same? Technological Change and Search in the Recorded Music Industry
Mary Benner and Joel Waldfogel (Minnesota)
Two Birds with One Stone: How Appealing to Multiple Audiences Facilitates the Diffusion of Innovations
Natalya Vinokurova (Wharton)
2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. — BREAK
2:50 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. — COMPLEMENTOR & SUPPLIER STRATEGIES
Discussant: Harbir Singh (Wharton)
Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com
Feng Zhu (Harvard) and Qihong Liu (Oklahoma)
Supplier Innovation Strategy: Transactional Hazards and Innovation in the Automotive Supply Chain
Jennifer Kuan (Stanford), Daniel Snow (Brigham Young) and Susan Helper (Case Western Reserve)
Trading Capabilities: A Signaling Perspective
Michael R. Falk, Kwanghui Lim and Don O’Sullivan (Melbourne)
4:20 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. — BREAK
4:40 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. — IDENITIFING IMPACTFUL RESEARCH QUESTIONS
John Paul MacDuffie (Wharton)/Microsoft/IBM
7:00 p.m. — RECEPTION AND DINNER
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. — BREAKFAST
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — PATTERNS & MODES OF INNOVATION
Discussant: Dan Levinthal (Wharton)
The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact
Ashish Arora, Wesley M. Cohen (Duke) and John P. Walsh (Georgia Tech)
Independent Boards and Innovation
Benjamin Balsmeier (KU Leuven), Lee Fleming and Gustavo Manso (Berkeley)
Does Experience Imply Learning?
Jaideep Anand (Ohio), Louis Mulotte (Tilburg) and Charlotte Ren (UPenn)
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. — BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — IP APPROPRIABILITY
Discussant: David Hsu (Wharton)
Patently Secret? The Use of Hydraulic Fracturing Patents to Contain Public Risk Information, 2000-2014
Joel Gehman (Alberta), Zhen Lei, Daniel R. Cahoy and Siavash Varasteh (Penn State)
The Role of Organizational Mechanisms in Preventing Leakage of Unpatented Knowledge
Kannan Srikanth (SMU), Anand Nandkumar (ISB) and Prashant Kale (Rice)
Individual Versus Institutional Ownership of University-Discovered Inventions
Dirk Czarnitski (KU Leuven), Thorsten Doherr (ZEW), Katrin Hussinger (Luxembourg), Paula Schliessler (KU Leuven) and Andrew A. Toole (US Dept. of Agriculture)
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. — LUNCH AND ADJOURN