The questions we want to address at the workshop are: -What are the key factors for understanding total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the disaggregate level (e.g. information and communication technology (ICT) capital/human capital/organizational structure/competition). - What are the...

The background to the workshop is the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm that has taken place during the last 35 years. In spite of all the progress in the field the traces in microeconomic and industrial organization textbooks are scant.

Topics: - National and European Legal Regimes’ Evolution - Litigation and Enforcement - The Quality and Value of Patents - University Patents in Europe - Software , Biotech Patents in Europe - Industrial Dynamics, Clusters and IPR - The governance of the Patent System in Europe - Competition...

The theme of the 8th CINet conference is "Continuous Innovation – Opportunities and Challenges”. Continuous innovation is the ongoing process of initiating, developing, operating and improving new and existing configurations of products, market approaches, processes, technologies and...

We especially welcome papers dealing with the following areas: - Industrial dynamics and firm demography - Portfolio, serial and novice entrepreneurship - Institutions and entrepreneurship - Productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship policy

Topics: - Problems in defining multi-sided markets - Complementarity and substitutability between platforms - Vertical integration and exclusivity in multiproduct platforms - Standards and compatibility - Bundling with multiproduct platforms.

Four categories of research are of interest for the workshop: 1) Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the specific sub-theme of “Entrepreneurial families and family firms”. 2) Review of the family business research field: state-of-the-art papers that allow to discuss the knowledge...