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Course |
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| Economics of Ideas, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship | ||
Faculty |
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| Professor Scott Stern, MIT, Copenhagen Business School and NBER - and | ||
Course Coordinator |
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| Professor H.C. Kongsted | ||
Prerequisites |
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| Participants must be at PhD level (or the equivalet) and enrolled in a PhD School | ||
Aim |
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| This three-day course develops a synthetic framework and overview of the economics of ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship. | ||
Course content |
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The first day of the course provides an overview of the economics of cumulative innovation systems, with a specific focus on the role of institutions (such as open science and intellectual property rights) play in shaping the innovation production function. The second day of the course will focus on the foundations of entrepreneurial strategy, with a specific focus on the role of entrepreneurial choice under uncertainty. The final day of the course will focus on emerging empirical methods for conducting research on innovation-driven entrepreneurial systems and the drivers and consequences of entrepreneurial strategy. |
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Teaching style |
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| The sessions include a mixture (and explicit comparisons of) both theoretical and empirical research, as well as opportunities for feedback on specific research projects and proposals. | ||
Lecture plan |
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| 9 am - 5 pm all three days | ||
Learning objectives |
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| The course emphasizes how the unusual characteristics of ideas can result in social inefficiency, and how the microeconomic and institutional environment influences the gap between private and social welfare. | ||
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Start date |
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| 12/09/2016 | ||
End date |
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| 14/09/2016 | ||
Level |
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| PhD | ||
ECTS |
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| 2 | ||
Language |
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| English | ||
Course Literature |
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| TBA | ||
Fee |
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| DKK 2600 | ||
Minimum number of participants |
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| 15 | ||
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Maximum number of participants |
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| 25 | ||
Location |
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Kilen Kilevej 14A, room K3.41 2000 Frederiksberg |
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Contact information |
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PhD Support Bente S. Ramovic bsr.research@cbs.dk Tel.: +45 3815 3138 |
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Registration deadline |
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| 08/08/2016 | ||