Knowledge Resources and Heterogeneity of Entrants within and across Industries
Invited Session: Tuesday 11th June, 15:00-16:00
Theme
This session builds upon a forthcoming (January 2024) special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change edited by Gino Cattani (New York University), Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia & ICRIOS-Bocconi University), and Franco Malerba (Bocconi University), which is dedicated to the analysis of the role of pre-entry experience and the knowledge context of origin of entrants within and across industries. This invited session will first introduce the objectives and research contained in this ICC special issue. We will then host two presentations selected among the contributors to the SI, followed by comments by two scholars, who are knowledgeable about the topic but did not contribute to the SI. The main objective is to highlight and discuss the relevance of this topic for empirical studies of innovation and industrial dynamics within the Schumpeterian framework as well as to stimulate the scientific debate.
Speakers
Gianluca Capone, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, University of Parma, Italy.
Guido Buenstorf, Professor of Economics, University of Kassel, Germany.
Alex Coad, Professor, Waseda Business School, Japan.
Orietta Marsili, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol, UK. Status: TO BE CONFIRMED
Organizer
Roberto Fontana
Roberto Fontana is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Pavia and a fellow of ICRIOS-Bocconi University in Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (UK).
His research interests include innovation diffusion and standardization, product innovation, and demand and its implications for the dynamics and structural evolution of industries with reference to high-technology sectors. He is advisory editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and his research has been published in several journals such as: Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, The Review of Industrial Organization, The Journal of Economics, Management and Strategy, The Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization, and Organization Science.
