6th Annual Technology Mini-Conference 

 April 21-22

The Mack Center was delighted to once again co-host (with the Management Department) this unique annual event, designed to help encourage, cultivate and showcase the next generation of management researchers studying technology-based industries and firms.  Faculty presenters discussed their research and working papers with a group of peers and senior faculty who provide valuable input to their projects in progress.  This year's event was especially insightful.  Here are a few of the photos of the young scholars and senior faculty discussants in action (more photos will be posted this weekend):

 

First row: Conference organizers Mary Benner, Anita Tucker and Davis Hsu; Corey Phelps; Michael Fern; Second row: New Product Development speakers (left to right: Carliss Baldwin, Michael Fern, Scott Turner, Karl Ulrich, Sebastian Fixon and Won Hee Lee); Lori Rosenkopf, Nicolaj Siggelkow, Won Hee Lee and Aija Leiponen; Third row: Jonathan Eckhardt; Pai-Ling Yin; Deepak Somaya and Harbir Singh; Fourth row: George Day; Ashish Arora and Joel Waldfogel; and Sebastian Fixson.

 

                                    Link to last year's conference

Agenda

Location: 250 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

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12:00   Registration and lunch (MBA Café, Huntsman Hall, 2^nd Floor) 

12:45   Opening remarks

1:00     Panel 1:  New Product Development (Moderator: Anita Tucker)

          “Organizing for new product development: Aligning project environment and design”
          (Michael Fern, Laura Cardinal, Richard Burton, Scott Turner))
        

  “The dynamic role of knowledge relatedness at industry birth: The evolution of 
  the automotive airbag industry” (Won Hee Lee, Sebastian Fixson)

   Panel 1 Discussants: Carliss Baldwin (HBS), Karl Ulrich (Wharton)

3:00    Break

3:30    Panel 2: Networks (Moderator: Anita Tucker)

     “Technological exploration: A longitudinal study of the role of recombinatory
    search and social capital in alliance networks” (Corey Phelps)

   “Component modularity, team network structure and the attendance to technical
    interdependencies in complex product development” (Manuel Sosa, Martin
    Gargiulo, Craig Rowles)

    Panel 2 Discussants: Lori Rosenkopf (Wharton), James Wade (Rutgers)

5:30    Free time

7:00    Dinner at the University Club (Inn at Penn, 2^nd Floor, 36^th and Walnut)

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8:30   Continental breakfast (MBA Café, Huntsman Hall, 2nd Floor)


9:00   Panel 3: Technology adoption and protection (Moderator: David Hsu)

         “Economic and technical drivers of technology choice: Browsers” (Timothy
           Bresnahan, Pai-Ling Yin)

         “Vermeers and Rembrandts in the same attic: Complementarity between
          copyright and trademark in software firms’ IP leveraging strategies” (Stuart
          Graham, Deepak Somaya)

          Panel 3 Discussants: Ashish Arora (Carnegie Mellon), Joel Waldfogel
          (Wharton)


11:00 Break


11:30 Panel 4: Standards (Moderator: David Hsu)

         “Cooperative strategies in the standardization of wireless telecommunications”
         (Aija Leiponen)

          Panel 4 Discussant: Harbir Singh (Wharton)


12:30 Lunch


1:30   Panel 5: Public/private innovation interface (Moderator: Mary Benner)

         “A study of the relationship between public innovation and commercial 
          entrepreneurship in nascent technology markets” (Jonathan Eckhardt)

         “Restructuring research: Communication costs and the democratization of university
          innovation ” (Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb)


          Panel 5 Discussants: Connie Helfat (Tuck), Dan Levinthal (Wharton)


3:30 – 4:30  Reception
 

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