Location: Jon M. Hunstmann Hall, Room 245
Friday, April 17
11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. — Registration & Lunch
12:45 p.m.–1:00 p.m. — Welcome
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — Technology Evolution
Discussant: Dan Levinthal (Wharton)
Shifting Commitments: Technology-enabled Entry and Supplier Engagement Models
John Eklund (USC), Ankur Chavda (HEC Paris)
From Cessation Tool to Party Device: How Exaptations Become Embedded in Markets
Stine Grodal (Northeastern), and Elizabeth Hood (USC)
Antitrust Intervention and Innovation at a Dominant Platform Firm
Riitta Katila (Stanford), Cuehyon Kim (Stanford), Yuxian Liu (Stanford), Sruthi Thatchenkery (Vanderbilt)
2:30 p.m.–2:50 p.m. — Break
2:50 p.m.–4:20 p.m. — Entrepreneurial Strategy
Discussant: David Hsu (Wharton)
Entrepreneur as Preschooler: The Process Perspective on Entrepreneurial Performance
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford), Douglas Hannah (Illinois)
Scientific Entrepreneurial Decision Making in the Presence of Network Effects
Joe Ploog (IE), Henning Piezunka (Wharton)
Limits to the Value of Entrepreneurial Experimentation? Startup Scaling Under Varying Demand Conditions
Jingya You (Wisconsin-Madison), Deepak Somaya (Illinois)
4:20 p.m.–4:40 p.m. — Break
4:40 p.m.–6:10 p.m. — AI and Enabling Technologies
Discussant: JP Eggers (NYU)
Guarding Value or Growing the Pie? Interlacedness and Complementary Invention Timing in Enabling Technologies
Gautam Ahuja (Cornell), Tejas Ramdas (Cornell)
Software Startups’ Patenting and Venture Capital Responses to Computational Claims During the early years of Artificial Intelligence
Shinjinee Chattopadhyay (Illinois), Florence Honore (Wisconsin-Madison), Jinting Zhou (Wisconsin-Madison)
Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Performance
Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD), Rem Koning (HBS), Dahyeon Kim (INSEAD)
7:00 p.m. — Dinner
Dim Sum House by Jane G’s (University City Location)
3939 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Saturday, April 18
8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. — Breakfast
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. — Innovation Strategy
Discussant: Matt Marx (Cornell)
Rational Satisficing: How Exploration Erodes Competitive Advantage
Aseem Kaul (Minnesota), Yingjia Du (Minnesota)
Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions
Tim Simcoe (BU), Florian Ederer (BU), Regina Seibel (Toronto)
Serendipity in Innovation and the Knowledge Base Structure of Firms: Evidence from NIH Grants and Follow-On Patents
Sina Sokhan (Colorado), Janet Bercovitz (Colorado)
10:30 a.m.–10:50 a.m. — Break
10:50 a.m.–12:20 p.m. — Institutional Effects on Innovation
Discussant: Hong Luo (HBS)
Realignment of Innovative Knowledge-Sourcing Strategy in Response to Geopolitical Sanctions
Waverly Ding (Maryland), Shi Chen (SWUFE), Fenmian Wang (UIBE), Fiona Yao (Illinois), Jun Xia (Texas)
Free to innovate? Intellectual property (in)validation and standard development in wireless
Stephen Jones (Washington), Aija Leiponen (Cornell), Gurneeta Vasudeva (Minnesota), Hao Wan (Cornell)
From Bits to Atoms: 3D Printing, Physical Validation, and Firm Growth
Kristina McElheran (Toronto), Bernardo Caldarola (European Commission), Luca Fontanelli (UNIBS), Elena Verdolini (UNIBS)
12:30 p.m — Lunch and Adjourn