Monday, 2 July 2012

1.30pm - 3.00pm
Session 1
SESSION: 1A

FINANCE AND EVOLUTION I

Chair:

Parris

Dosi

A contribution to the opening up of the black-box of the relationships between

finance and the real side of the economy
Discussant: Lazonick

Mina

The Demand and Supply of External Finance for Innovative Firms

Discussant: Dosi

Lazonick

The Risk-Reward Nexus in the Innovation-Inequality Relationship. Who Takes the

Risks? Who Gets the Rewards?
Discussant: Hughes

SESSION: 1B

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Chair:

Sanidas

Maggi

A dynamic countries-interaction model based on technology for the study of

European growth and stability
Discussant: Pakrashi

Pakrashi

Take-Offs, Landing and Economic Growth

Discussant: Maggi

SESSION: 1C

ENERGY AND ECONOMIC EVOLUTION

Chair:

Schrempf

Bruns

The Role of Energy in Economic Production - Empirical Evidence from a Biophysical

Perspective: A Preliminary Assessment
Discussant: Pedersen

Gross

The rise and fall of the service economy -about the energy paradox in economic
growth
Discussant: Bruns

Pedersen

The importance of basic research for inventions and innovations in wind energy:
Some experiences from Denmark and China 1973 - 2011.
Discussant: Gross

SESSION: 1D

THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIRM I

Chair:

Eliasson

Bloch

Restless Knowledge, Capabilities and the Nature of the Modern Firm

Discussant: Murmann

Falk

Impact of R&D Activities on Productivity and Exporting at the Firm Level

Discussant: Bloch

Murmann

The impact of functional background and executive mobility in firm survival

Discussant: Falk

SESSION: 1E

MANAGING INNOVATION I

Chair:

Robertson

Balsmeier

How important is industry-specific managerial experience for corporate innovative

activity?
Discussant: Tee

Habtay

From Disruptive Technology to Disruptive Business Model Innovation: In Need for an

Integrated Conceptual Framework
Discussant: Balsmeier

Tee

Modular Components, Integrated Practices: Managing Complexity and

Interdependence in Temporary Organizations
Discussant: Habtay

SESSION: 1F

EDUCATION AND INNOVATION

Chair:

McKelvey

D'Amore

How do the institutions involved in scientific collaboration deal with spatial and
institutional distance? An analysis of the co-autorships of scientific publications
Discussant: Palcano

Polcano

Innovation in higher education driven by structural change in the learning process:

A case study of Economic Faculty at the University of Colima, Mexico.
Discussant: DAmore

SESSION: 1G

TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGMS AND EVOLUTION

Chair:

Engelbrecht

Jin

Challenging the Myth of the Automatic Link between Capitalism and Innovation
Discussant: Suenaga

Le

Impacts of High-tech Research on High-tech Manufacturing Growth: Evidence

from Supercomputer Data
Discussant: Jin

Suenaga

A Diagrammatic Model of Technological Paradigms and Technological

Trajectories: The Emergence and Hierarchy of Technological Paradigms
Discussant: Le

Monday, 2 July 2012

5.00pm 6.00pm
Session 2
SESSION: 2A

SCHUMPETER REVISITED

Chair:

Hanusch

Kobayashi

Sociology of invention and Schumpeter's schema underlying evolutionary

explanation
Discussant: Mackenzie

MacKenzie

What is an Entrepreneur? Re-assessing Schumpeter 100 years after The Theory of

Economic Development
Discussant: Kobayashi

SESSION: 2B

THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIRM II

Chair:

Falk

Lerch

An evolutionary model for service innovations in industrial firms

Discussant: Mina

Mina

Organizing knowledge flows: internal, external 'openness' and the innovative

performance of business services.
Discussant: Lerch

SESSION: 2C

MANAGING INNOVATION II

Chair:

Hirao

Cerulli

Managerial capacity in the innovation process and firm profitability

Discussant: Peredes-Frigolett

Paredes-Frigolett

Distal embedding as an innovation network formation strategy

Discussant: Cerulli

SESSION: 2D

INDUSTRY LINKAGES

Chair:

Hall

Baptista

Industry Linkages in Agglomeration: The Collocation of the Plastics and Molds

Industries in Portugal
Discussant: Bzhalava

Bzhalava

The Inter-relationships between R&D Acquisitions, Informal Partnerships and

Innovation Performance
Discussant: Baptista

SESSION: 2E

PATENTS I

Chair:

Moir

Delanote

Intellectual Property Rights and the Growth of Innovative Youngsters

Discussant: Ferreira

Ferreira

How Innovation can be measured using Patents and Trademarks: A regionalbased analysis for Portugal
Discussant: Delanote

SESSION: 2F

ENERGY INNOVATION: CORPORATE STRATEGY

Chair:

Schmidt

Mignon

Entrepreneurial investors in renewable electricity production: motives and

investment processes
Discussant: Ricard

Ricard

Corporate strategizing in early EU technology policy: The role of systems thinking

versus market failure in EU technology policy
Discussant: Mignon

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

9.00am 10.30am
Session 3
SESSION: 3A

DEMAND AND CONSUMPTION I

Chair:

Saviotti

Chai

Accounting for the Kuznets curve relationship between Income and the diversity of
household consumption patterns
Discussant: Kaus

Cialowicz

The role of households in the Schumpeterian innovative evolution -an axiomatic

set-up
Discussant: Chai

Kaus

Do Engel Curves Express Human Universals? A Cross Country Analysis

Discussant: Cialowicz

SESSION: 3B

THE EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON KNOWLEDGE

Chair:

Potts

Choo

Comparing Productivity Impacts of Knowledge Spillovers from Network and Arm's

Length Industries: The Case of Business Groups in Korea
Discussant: Vannuccini

Martin

Exploring the emerging knowledge base of the knowledge society

Discussant: Choo

Vannuccini

Problem-solving and Generality as Sources of Growth and Heterogeneity

Discussant: Martin

SESSION: 3C

PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH

Chair:

Los

Peyrache

Labour productivity and technology gap in European regions: a non-parametric

approach
Discussant: Soames

Robert

The effects of feedbacks on firms productivity growth. Micro, macro, and meso
determinants of productivity growth in Argentinian firms
Discussant: Peyrache

Soames

An analysis of competition, innovation and productivity in Australia

Discussant: Robert

SESSION: 3D

ENERGY INNOVATION: POLICY

Chair:

Pedersen

Matveenko

Effectiveness of ecological policies in developing countries

Discussant: Schrempf

Schmidt

Uncertainty of Technological Performance and Patterns of Learning - Implications

for Energy Innovation Policy
Discussant: Matveenko

Schrempf

Is Irish innovation policy appropriate for a renewable energy transition?

Discussant: Schmidt

SESSION: 3E

INNOVATION NETWORKS

Chair:

Niosi

Graf

Policy induced innovation networks: the case of the German 'Leading-Edge

Cluster competition'
Discussant: Sousa

McKelvey

Research Network Position and Innovative Performance: Evidence from the

Pharmaceutical Industry
Discussant: Graf

Sousa

Building innovation networks: the process of partner selection by young

knowledge-intensive firms
Discussant: McKelvey

SESSION: 3F

SPILLOVERS

Chair:

Martin

Cantner

Gates or Geek? - Innovation, personality traits and entrepreneurial failure in highly

innovative industries
Discussant: Shibayama

Goethner

From "parent" to "progeny": knowledge transfer linkages, research quality, and the
early performance of academic spin-off companies
Discussant: Cantner

Shibayama

Academic entrepreneurship and academic cooperation

Discussant: Goethner

SESSION: 3G

INNOVATION CASE STUDIES I

Chair:

Rosiello

Adams

The magnitude of innovation by demand in a sectoral system: the case of

semiconductors
Discussant: Timmermans

Rio

Organizational innovation in agricultural research institutes of the State of So

Paulo (Brazil)
Discussant: Adams

Timmermans

Rock 'n Roller Coaster: An Explorative Study on the Evolution of the European Steel
Roller Coaster Industry
Discussant: Rio

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

1.30pm 3.00pm
Session 4
SESSION: 4A

ADVANCES IN EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC THEORY I

Chair:

Dosi

Ballot

The fateful Triangle: Complementarities between Product, Process and

Organizational Innovation in the UK and France
Discussant: Niosi

Engelbrecht

Towards a General Model of the Innovation - Subjective Well-Being Nexus in

Knowledge-Based Economies
Discussant: Ballot

Niosi

Innovation and development through imitation

Discussant: Engelbrecht

SESSION: 4B

LONG WAVES, FINANCE AND GLOBAL CRISES

Chair:

Andersen ES

Caiani

Schumpeter in a Matrix: A Stock Flow Consistent Analysis of Technological Change

Discussant: Knell

Knell

Technology, financial fragility and the instability of capitalism: An exploration into

Schumpeter, Keynes and Minsky
Discussant: Robertson

Robertson

Innovation, Diffusion and Schumpeter's Business Cycles Today

Discussant: Caiani

SESSION: 4C

BEHAVIOURAL PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC EVOLUTION

Chair:

Gerschlager

Boente

Gender Differences in Competitiveness, Risk Tolerance, and other Personality Traits:

Do they contribute to the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship?
Discussant: Witt

Wilfling

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Personality and various motives of entrepreneurial exit in
highly innovative industries
Discussant: Boente

Witt

Economic Behavior and Evolutionary vs. Behavioral Perspectives

Discussant: Wilfling

SESSION: 4D

FINANCE AND EVOLUTION II

Chair:

Lazonick

Lahr

Coaching or Selection? Venture Capital and Firms' Patenting Performance

Discussant: Silva F

Parris

Does finance support SME innovation in the UK environmental sector?

Discussant: Lahr

Silva F

Subsidies to Innovation and Firms' Financial Constraints

Discussant: Parris

SESSION: 4E

CHINESE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Chair:

Chen

Deng

China's Western Development Strategy at Ten: Achievements, Lessons and

Challenges
Discussant: Zhang

Kriz

China: hegemonic heir apparent, or another pretender?

Discussant: Deng

Zhang

Study on The Global Compensation Strategy in Transnational Mergers and

Acquisitions of Chinese Enterprises
Discussant: Kritz

SESSION: 4F

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

Chair:

da Silveira

Castro

Science, technology and innovation policies for climate change in Brazil

Discussant: Huenteler

Legros

Will the Biosphere become a prime mover of the "economic sphere"?

Discussant: Castro

Huenteler

Compulsive Policy-Making The Evolution of the German Feed-in Tariff System for
Solar Photovoltaic Power
Discussant: Legros

SESSION: 4G

PATENTS, STARTUPS AND DISRUPTION

Chair:

Godinho

evikarslan

Patent life and height with evolving consumer preferences: multi agent modelling
Discussant: Prasetio

de Rassenfosse

Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions?
Discussant: Cevikarsian

Prasetio

Investigating firm's acceptance of cloud computing as disruptive information

system: a conceptual model
Discussant: de Rassenfosse

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

3.30pm 5.00pm
Session 5
SESSION: 5A

COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Chair:

Potts

Alghamdi

The Emergence of Small Worlds in a Network of Research Joint Venture

Discussant: Kastelle

Harper

Property as a complex adaptive system; how entrepreneurship transforms

intellectual property structures
Discussant: Alghamadi

Kastelle

The Evolution of Innovation Systems

Discussant: Harper

SESSION: 5B

CATCH UP

Chair:

Lahr

Kang

The effects of external knowledge acquisition on the speed of technological

catch-up
Discussant: Wang

Ki

An evolutionary model of the changes in industrial leadership and catch-up: A

simulation model for a theory of catch-up cycle
Discussant: Kang

Wang

Exploitation and Exploration of Sectoral Systems of Innovation in Catch-up of

China's Car Industry
Discussant: Ki

SESSION: 5C

OVERCOMING SOCIO-CULTURAL OBSTACLES TO INNOVATION

Chair:

Piegler

Filipiak

Financial Literacy, Information Flows, and Caste Affiliation: Empirical Evidence from
India
Discussant: Shimizu

SadreGhazi

Innovations to Make Enterprise-based Approaches Work in the Context of Poverty:

Evidence from Inclusive Business Initiatives
Discussant: Filipiak

Shimizu

Management of Science, Serendipity, and Research Performance: Evidence from

Scientists' Survey in the US and Japan
Discussant: SadreGhazi

SESSION: 5D

NEW VENTURES

Chair:

Mina

Capone

In the Right Place at the Right Time: Submarkets and Entry Advantages in the US
Comic Books Industry
Discussant: Guenther

Coad

Schumpeter's babies: Business Experience, Founder Characteristics, and Start-up

Size
Discussant: Capone

Guenther

Heroes today - but what about tomorrow? Gazelles and their long run
performance
Discussant: Coad

SESSION: 5E

INNOVATION CASE STUDIES II

Chair:

Adams

Kudic

Determinants of evolutionary change processes in innovation networks conceptual framework and empirical evidence from the German laser industry
Discussant: Rosiello

Lopes Bento

Value for money? New microeconometric evidence on the input additionality of

R&D grants in Flanders
Discussant: Kudic

Rosiello

Pursuing a Biotechnology System of Innovation in Lithuania: A Conceptual

Framework for Effective Policy Intervention
Discussant: Lopes Bento

SESSION: 5F

EVOLUTION OF THE GREEN ECONOMY

Chair:

Fonseca

Andersen MM

Into the green economy evolutionary perspectives on green economic change

Discussant: Pulkka

Pulkka

Innovation space for sustainability in built environment

Discussant: Andersen

SESSION: 5G

PATENTS II

Chair:

de Rassenfosse

Godinho

Patents as measure of innovation: EU regions

Discussant: Schrempf

Moir

The evolution of patent policy II: redefining inventiveness

Discussant: Godinho

Schrempf

Nanotechnology in Ireland an analysis of the patent co-classification network

Discussant: Moir

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

9.00am 10.30am
Session 6
SESSION: 6A

EAST ASIAN GROWTH

Chair:

Lee

Hanusch

Patterns of Future-Orientation in East-Asian and Pacific Countries. An IndicatorAnalysis

Discussant: Sanidas

Irawan

Intra-region and extra-region foreign direct investment inflow in South East Asian
countries
Discussant: Hanusch

Sanidas

Government, big business, and crises: the Korean experience of development

Discussant: Irawan

SESSION: 6B

SPIN-OFFS

Chair:

Coad

Cantner

Academic Spin-offs in Contest: The selective role of own resources and regional
network embeddedness
Discussant: Malerba

Malerba

Spin-offs are not the Only Story: Demand Start-ups in High-tech Industries
Discussant: Cantner

SESSION: 6C

INNOVATION POLICY

Chair:

Hughes

Holmen

How do innovation systems interact: Schumpeterian innovation in seven Australian

sectors
Discussant: Herrmann

Diamond

The Creative Destruction of Labor Policy

Discussant: Holmen

Herrmann

Impacts of direct financial support for R&D

Discussant: Diamond

SESSION: 6D

EMERGENCE IN COMPLEX ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Chair:

Kastelle

La Rovere

Emergence and Institutions in an evolutionary and complex approach to

economics
Discussant: Zaring

Munoz

Intentionality and the emergence of complexity in economics: an analytical

approach
Discussant: La Rovere

Zaring

Innovation Governance: A model for complex systems of innovation and

economic emergence
Discussant: Munoz

SESSION: 6E

SPATIAL PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC EVOLUTION

Chair:

Lapova

Brunner

Policy exploration with agent-based, economic geography models of regional

integration in South Asia
Discussant: Hitzschke

Canello

Regional resilience and evolutionary trends in Marshallian Industrial districts: an

empirical investigation using Italian micro-data
Discussant: Brunner

Hitzschke

Growth and Structural Change in German Cities: A Multilevel Investigation

Discussant: Canello

SESSION: 6F

DEMAND AND CONSUMPTION II

Chair:

Chai

Lades

Behavioral and Evolutionary Perspectives on Impulsive Consumption: Nudging

Ethical Consumer Behavior
Discussant: Volland

van Rijnsoever

Preference dynamics in labeled and unlabeled energy alternatives: applying

stated choice experiments to the demand side of innovation
Discussant: Lades

Volland

Differential Satiation and Habit Persistence in Consumer Demand

Discussant: van Rijnsoever

SESSION 6G

INNOVATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE

Chair:

Murmann

Jacoby

Dynamics of Investment and Firm Performance: Comparative evidence from

manufacturing industries
Discussant: Rake

Kolossovski

Talking Past Each Other: The Meanings of Commercialisation

Discussant: Jacoby

Rake

Determinants of Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Role of Technological

Opportunities Revisited
Discussant: Kolossovski

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

1.30pm 3.00pm
Session 7
SESSION: 7A

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Chair:

Diamond

Carlsson

The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

Discussant: Yun

Eliasson

Entrepreneurial Catch Up in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)

Discussant: Carlsson

Yun

Unraveling the relationship between entrepreneurship and open innovation: A

Study on one of Modern Technology Evolution Channel
Discussant: Eliasson

SESSION: 7B

ADVANCES IN EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC THEORY II

Chair:

Metcalfe

Fagerberg

Technological Dynamics and Social Capability: Comparing U.S. States and

European Nations
Discussant: Saviotti

Lazonick

Who Needs a Theory of Innovative Enterprise?

Discussant: Fagerberg

Saviotti

Variety, product quality, population growth and long run economic development
Discussant: Lazonick

SESSION: 7C

ENERGY AND GREEN INNOVATION

Chair:

Andersen MM

Da Silveira

Energy programs and research networks: lessons from the Brazilian energy program
Discussant: Lazaric

Da Silveira

The Evolution of the Bioethanol Industry in Brazil: could Brazilian ethanol production
stay competitive without innovating?
Discussant: Andersen MM

Lazaric

Strong or Weak Sustainable Consumption? Characterizing

heterogeneity in consumers green behavior
Discussant: Da Silveira

SESSION: 7D

POLITICAL ECONOMY, LAW AND INNOVATION

Chair:

Zaring

Gerschlager

Agents of Change (Part Two): Innovation in Politics

Discussant: Morichika

Mardiasmo

Why Stagnant? Behind the Scenes in Indonesia's reformed State Asset

Management Policies
Discussant: Gerschlager

Morichika

The Coordination of Stakeholders in Japanese Science, Technology and

Innovation Policy at the Cabinet Level
Discussant: Mardiasmo

SESSION: 7E

HISTORY FRIENDLY MODELING

Chair:

Malerba

Pereira

A History-friendly model of the internet access market

Discussant: Yoon

Silva T

Verticalization of sugar cane industry in Brazil through a History-Friendly-Model

Discussant: Pereira

Yoon

The Crystal Cycle and Co-evolution of Demand and Technology: a "Historyfriendly" Model of the TFT-LCD Industry
Discussant: Silva T

SESSION: 7F

THE LABOUR MARKET

Chair:

Dal-Poz

Holm

Consequences for labour market structure of asymmetric information: An

evolutionary signalling model
Discussant: Venancio

Scellato

Patterns of international mobility of researchers: evidence from the GlobSci survey

Discussant: Holm

Venancio

New Beginnings: Involuntary Dismissals and Entrepreneurial Activity

Discussant: Scellato

SESSION: 7G

COMPETITION AND SELECTION

Chair:

Witt

Dalitz

Explaining the dynamics of the industry life cycle: signal based competition in
multi-attribute product space
Discussant: Lipieta

Hall

Speciation in Technological Evolution: The Effect of Differential Selection

Environments on a Military Technology
Discussant: Dalitz

Lipieta

Price versus Quality Competition: In Search for Schumpeterian Evolution

Mechanisms
Discussant: Hall

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

3.30pm 5.00pm
Session 8
SESSION: 8A

ADVANCES IN EVOLUTIONARY MODELING

Chair:

Allen

Andersen E S

Extensions of Price's equation for evolutionary economics

Discussant: Peneder

Peneder

Competition, R&D and innovation: testing the inverted-U in a simultaneous system

Discussant: Anderson E S

SESSION: 8B

UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION

Chair:

DAmore

Beaudry

Impact of university-industry contracts resulting in patents on the quality of

patenting in biotechnology
Discussant: Yarime

Ljungberg

Revisiting technology centrality in university-industry Interaction: A study of firms'

academic patents
Discussant: Beaudry

Yarime

Transforming University-Industry Collaboration to a Multi-Stakeholder Platform for

Sustainability Innovation: A Case Study of Emerging Practices at Research
Universities
Discussant: Ljungber

SESSION: 8C

PERSISTENCE, INERTIA AND PATH DEPENDENCE

Chair:

Harper

Claussen

Market leadership through technology -Backward compatibility in the U.S.

Handheld Video Game Industry
Discussant: Stuerz

Onufrey

Path dependency in industries with multiple technological trajectories

Discussant: Claussen

Stuerz

Imprinting and Inertia -Density Delay Revisited

Discussant: Onufrey

SESSION: 8D

COMPLEX EVOLVING NETWORKS

Chair:

Lane

Andriani

Exaptation and modular systems

Discussant: Los

Gussen

On the Problem of Scale (I): Hayek, Kohr, Jacobs, and the

Complexity Ansatz
Discussant: Andriani

Los

Job Dynamics and Global Supply Chains

Discussant: Gussen

SESSION: 8E

RESEARCH COLLABORATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF CAPABILITIES

Chair:

Carlsson

Bascavusoglu

Do R&D and marketing investments enhance the benefit of collaborating with

customers for innovation performance?
Discussant: Montanari

Isabelle

Triple Helix collaborations: Success factors and capitalization of knowledge in

international scientific collaborations
Discussant: Bascavusoglu-Moreau

Montanari

Technological and Market Related Capabilities and Competitiveness in the

Brazilian Computer Industry: a Case Study.
Discussant: Isabelle

SESSION: 8F

HUMAN CAPITAL

Chair:

Fagerberg

Dal-Poz

Growth, Development and the relative importance of human capital

Discussant: Toner

Gibson

Scientific Mobility and Knowledge Networks in High Emigration Countries: Evidence

from the Pacific
Discussant: Dal-Poz

Toner

Vocational Education and Training: the 'terra incognita' of Australian Innovation

Policy
Discussant: Gibson

Thursday, 5 July 2012

9.00am 10.00am
Session 9
SESSION: 9A

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY

Chair:

Cantner

Savin

Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: revising the theory

Discussant: Cantner

SESSION: 9B

DEVELOPMENT: INDUSTRIALIZATION

Chair:

Holmen

Guadagno

The Determinants of Industrialization in Developing Countries, 1960-2005

Discussant: Lapova

Lavopa

Manufacturing and economic development

Discussant: Guadagno

SESSION: 9C

COMPLEX EVOLVING NETWORKS

Chair:

Andriani

Kale

In search of the missing hand of the 'state'? The case of the Indian medical device
industry
Discussant: Gimenez

Gimenez

A simulation of technology diffusion in the Brazilian sugar-cane industry

Discussant: Kale

SESSION: 9D

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON INNOVATION

Chair:

Lopes bento

Ebersberger

Bridging the global and the local? Multinational enterprises, labor market mobility
and localized learning
Discussant: Smrkolj

Smrkolj

In Defense of Trusts: R&D Cooperation in Global Perspective

Discussant: Ebersberger

SESSION: 9E

HEALTH

Chair:

Rake

Silber

Becoming Poor and the Cutback in the Demand for Health Services.
Discussant: Rake

SESSION: 9F

THE EVOLUTION OF THE FIRM III

Chair:

Bloch

Coad

Simulating the causal implications of firms as bundles of discrete resources

Discussant: Corradini

Corradini

Small serial innovators in the UK: does size matter?

Discussant: Coad

SESSION: 9G

TECHNOLOGICAL SPILLOVERS

Chair:

Goethner

Fukugawa

Impacts and channels of university spillover in Japan

Discussant: Hirao

Hirao

Technological Trajectory and Business Ecosystem in the Global Mobile Phone

Industry
Discussant: Fukugawa