Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel
Seminar Innovation Economics
Dr. Dirk Christian Dohse
SS 2015
Seminar Innovation Economics, SS 2015
Dozent/in
Dr. Dirk Dohse
Angaben
Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: n.V.
Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: Das Seminar findet als Blockseminar am 12.06. und am 13.06.
(ganztägig) statt. Teilnahme an beiden Terminen ist erforderlich. Ort n.V.
Voraussetzungen/Organisatorisches
Anmeldungen: 12.01.2015 – 06.02.2015 [Email to dirk.dohse[at]ifw-kiel.de]
Vorbesprechung: 03.02, 9.45 Uhr (OS40 - R.13).
Inhalte/term paper topics
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Innovation and long waves of economic development
The measurement of innovation
The value of patents and R&D
Entrepreneurship and innovation
Agglomeration and the location of innovative activity
Mobility of the highly skilled and innovation
The evolution of innovation policy in Germany
The economics of open source software
The international regulation of intellectual property and the TRIPS agreement
Innovation and exporting: a two-way relationship?
High tech clusters in emerging economies: The case of Bangalore, India
From imitation to innovation? China’s evolving role in the global knowledge economy
Students are required to write a seminar paper and to make two presentations, consisting of an oral
presentation on their chosen topic and a 5 minutes discussion of another topic which will be randomly
assigned.
Link to further information:
http://www.vrcom.ifw-kiel.de/education-communities/innovation-economics
Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Institution: Innovations-, Wettbewerbs- und Neue Institutionenökonomik
Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel
Seminar Innovation Economics, SS 2015
Einstiegsliteratur für die Erstellung der Seminararbeiten
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Innovation and long waves of economic development
Basic literature
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Aghion, P. and P. Howitt (1998): Endogenous Growth Theory, Cambridge (MA), ch. 8.
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Freeman, C. (ed.) (1984): Long Waves in the World Economy, London.
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Neumann, M. (1990): Zukunftsperspektiven im Wandel: Lange Wellen in Wirtschaft
und Politik, Tübingen.
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The measurement of innovation
Basic literature
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Grupp, H. (1997): Messung und Erklärung des Technischen Wandels, Heidelberg:
Springer.
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Patel, P. and K. Pavitt (1995): Patterns of Technological Activity: their Measurement
and Interpretation, in: Paul Stoneman (ed.): Handbook of the Economics of Innovation
and Technological Change, Oxford und Cambridge (MA), 14–51.
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Griliches, Z. (1990): Patent statistics as economic indicators: A survey. Journal of
Economic Literature XXVIII: 1661–1707.
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The value of patents and R&D
Basic literature
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Lanjouw, J.O., Pakes, A. and J. Putnam (1998): How to count patents and value
intellectual property: the uses of patent renewal and application data. Journal of
Industrial Economics 46 (4): 405–432.
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Reitzig, M. (2003): What determines patent value?: Insights from the semiconductor
industry. Research Policy 32 (1): 13–26.
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Lanjouw, J.O. (1998): Patent protection in the shadow of infringement: simulation
estimations of patent value. Review of Economic Studies 65: 671–710.
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Schankerman M. and A. Pakes (1986): Estimates of the value of patent rights in
European countries during the post-1950 period. Economic Journal (96): 1052–1076.
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Scotchmer, S. (2004): Innovation and Incentives, Cambridge (MA), chapter 9.
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Entrepreneurship and innovation
Basic literature
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Baumol, W. J. (1990): Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive,
Journal of Political Economy, 98 (5): 893–921.
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Kirzner, I. M. (1999): Creativity and/or alertness: a reconsideration of the
Schumpeterian entrepreneur, Review of Austrian Economics 11 (1-2):5–17.
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Hitt, M.A., R.D. Ireland, S.M. Camp and D.L. Sexton (eds.) (2001): Strategic
Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Wealth Creation, Strategic
Management Journal 22(6-7): 521–543.
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Lerner, J. and S. Kortum (2000), Assessing the Contribution of Venture Capital to
Innovation, RAND Journal of Economics 31(4), 674–692.
Newspaper articles
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The Economist (March 9, 2006), Searching for the invisible man.
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The Economist (Sept. 14, 2006), Giving ideas wings.
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The Economist (March 1, 2007), Out of the dusty labs.
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Agglomeration and the location of innovative activity
Basic literature
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Audretsch, D. B. (1998): Agglomeration and the location of innovative activity, Oxford
Review of Economic Policy, 14 (2): 18–29.
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Audretsch, D. B. and D. Dohse (2007): Location: A Neglected Determinant of Firm
Growth. Review of World Economics 143 (1): 79–107.
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Audretsch, D. B. and M. Feldman (1996): R&D Spillovers and the Geography of
Innovation and Production. American Economic Review, 86 (3): 630–640.
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Baptista, R. and P. Swann (1998): Do firms in clusters innovate more? Research Policy
27: 525–540.
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Glaeser, E. L., Kallal, H. D., Scheinkman, J. A., and A. Shleifer (1992). Growth in
Cities. Journal of Political Economy, 100 (6), 1126–1152.
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Mobility of the highly skilled and innovation
Basic literature
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Almeida, P. and B. Kogut (1999): Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of
Engineers in Regional Networks, Management Science 45(7): 905–917.
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Saxenian, A. (1999): Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Public Policy
Institute of California,
http://www.ppic.org/publications/PPIC120/PPIC120.PDF/index.html.
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Saxenian, A. (1994): Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley
and Route128, Harvard University Press.
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Fallick, B, Fleischman, C. and J. Rebitzer (2006): Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some
Evidence Concerning the Microfoundations of a High-Technology Cluster. Review of
Economics and Statistics 88 (3): 472–481.
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The evolution of innovation policy in Germany
Basic literature
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Fier, A. and D. Harhoff, D. (2002): Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungsund Technologiepolitik: Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme, Perspektiven der
Wirtschaftspolitik 3 (3): 279–301.
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Dohse, D. (2000): Technology Policy and the Regions: The Case of the BioRegio
Contest, Research Policy, (29): 1111–1133.
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Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (2006), High-Tech Strategie für
Deutschland, Berlin.
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Hoppe, H.C. und Pfähler, W. (2001): Ökonomie der Grundlagenforschung und
Wissenschaftspolitik, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 2 (2): 125–144.
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Rammer, C. et al. (2004): Internationale Trends der Forschungs- und
Innovationspolitik, Schriftenreihe des ZEW 73, Baden-Baden.
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The economics of open source
Basic literature
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Lerner, J and Tirole, J.. (2003): Some simple economics of open source. The Journal of
Industrial Economics 50 (2): 197–234.
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Bitzer J. and Schröder P. (eds.) (2006): The Economics of Open Source Software
Development. Elsevier Books, Amsterdam.
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The international regulation of intellectual property and the TRIPS agreement
Basic literature
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Scotchmer, S. (2004): Innovation and Incentives, Cambridge (MA), chapter 11
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Maskus. K.A. (1998): The international regulation of intellectual property, Review of
World Economics 134 (2): 186–208.
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Samuelson, P. (1999), Challenges for the World Intellectual Property Organization and
the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Council in regulating IPR in
the information age, European Intellectual Property Review, 21 (11): 578–591.
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Stiglitz, J.E. (2006), Making Globalization Work, New York: W.W. Norton, chapter 4.
Innovation and exporting: a two-way relationship?
Basic literature
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Girma, S., Görg, H., Hanley, A. (2008). R&D and exporting: A comparison of British
and Irish firms. Review of World Economics, 144(4): 749–772.
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Wagner, J. (2007). Exports and productivity: a survey of the evidence from firm-level
data. The World Economy 30 (1): 60–82.
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Bernard, A. and B. Jensen (2004). Why some firms export. Review of Economics and
Statistics 86 (2): 561–569
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Bleaney, M. and K. Wakelin (2002). Efficiency, Innovation and Exports. Oxford
Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 64: 3–15.
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High tech clusters in emerging economies: The case of Bangalore, India
Basic literature
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Basant, R., Chandra, P. (2007). Role of Educational and R&D Institutions in City
Clusters: An Exploratory Study of Bangalore and Pune Regions in India. World
Development 35: 1037–1055.
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Yusuf, S., Nabeshima, K., Yamashita, S. (2008). Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia:
Serendipity and Science. The World Bank, Washington DC.
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Chaminade, C. und J. Vang (2008). Globalization of knowledge production and
regional innovation policy: Supporting specialized hubs in the Bangalore software
industry, Research Policy 37: 1684–1696.
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Cabos, K., Dohse, D., Rentzsch, O. (2014). Drugs made in India: Struktur und
Entwicklung des Bangalore Biotech Clusters. ImpulsE 12: 47–52.
(12) From imitation to innovation? China’s evolving role in the global knowledge
economy
Basic literature
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Hu, A. , Jefferson, G. ( 2009). A great wall of patents: What is behind China's recent
patent explosion? Journal of Development Economics, 90(1): 57–68.
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Liu, W., (2013). The Role of Proximity to Universities for Corporate Patenting Provincial Evidence from China. The Annals of Regional Science 51: 273–308.
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OECD OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: China. Electronic Resource.
URL: www.oecd.org/sti/innovation/reviews/china
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Liu, W., (2014). Relevance of Own R&D and Sources of Knowledge Transfer for
Industrial Innovation in China. The Developing Economies 52(1): 1–25.