2025 TIM Plenary

2025 TIM Distinguished Scholar

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Best Paper Award

Winner: “The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Innovation: Evidence from Software Products”, Erdem Doğukan Yilmaz (SKEMA) & Tim Meyer  (University of St Gallen)

Finalists:  “Igniting Innovation: Evidence from PyTorch on Technology Control in Open Collaboration” by Daniel Yue (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Frank Nagle (HBS)
“Migration and Local Problem-Solving” by Caroline Fry (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) & Gauri Subramani (Lehigh University)

Sponsored by Stockholm School of Economics: House of Innovation

Best Student Paper(s) Award

Winner: “Lean Thinking, Deep Impact? Exploration Strategies and Commercialization of Deeptech Ventures” by Vinay Subramanian (Wharton)

Finalists: “Artificial Intelligence and Resource Orchestration: Industry Leaders Amid Technological Change” by David Wagner (University of St Gallen), coauthored with Naomi Haefner (University of St Gallen), Vinit Parida (Luleå University of Technology) & Joakim Wincent (Hanken School of Economics & University of St Gallen)
“Opening AI: Selective Revealing of AI System Components” by Leonard Hanschur (Technical University of Munich), co-authored with Joachim Henkel (Technical University of Munich)
“The Interplay of Alliance and Knowledge Networks in Strategic Value Creation” by Dana Jongyoun Baek (INSEAD)

Best Dissertation Award(s)

Winners: “Three Essays on the Spillover Effects of Technological Change 
on Innovation Dynamics” by Jino Lu (Washington University in St. Louis); “Essays on Open Science and Open Software in Firm Innovation” by Daniel Yue (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Finalists: “Managing Secretive Innovation: A Historical Study of the Making of the Atomic Bomb” by Rohin Borpujari (UCL); “Corporate Strategic Patenting Behaviors: Evidence from Machine Learning Methods” by Yang Liu (Fordham University); “Three essays on heterogeneous network effects:  implications for firms and users” Joe Ploog (IE University) 

Sponsored by Lazaridis Institute

Emerging Scholar Award

Maria Roche (Harvard Business School)

Distinguished Speaker

Dr. Kwaku Atuahene-Gima (Nobel International Business (NiBS) University, Ghana)

Lifetime Achievement Award

None

Plenary Session

 "Universities and Innovation: Evolving Roles in Uncertain Times"

Moderation: Keld Laursen (Copenhagen Business School). Panelists: Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado), Michaël Bikard (INSEAD), Jerry Davis (University of Michigan), and Adam Jaffe(Brandeis University)

Reception sponsored by Stockholm School of Economics: House of Innovation.

Program Chair

Susan K. Cohen (University of Pittsburgh)