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PhD Event January 2014

The next IIDEOS PhD course will take place at Kassel and Marburg from 15th to 17th January 2014.

1. Program Overview

Below you can find the program for the PhD course.

Wed, 15th (Kassel)
15:00 - 17:00

17:00 - 18:30 
2 PhD Presentations
Room: 004/005 EG, ZUB

Lecture: "Inventor Data for Research on Migration & Innovation: A Survey and a Pilot"
Lecture by Prof. Francesco Lissoni
Room: 004/005 EG, ZUB
   
Thurs, 16th (Marburg)
10:00 - 18:00
Fri, 17th 
09:00 - 17:00
Phd Course: "Inventor data: methodological issues and applications"
Lecturer: Prof. Francesco Lissoni
Room: 00 A16 (Thurs.) & 00 A02 (Fri.), Carolinenhaus

2. Registration and course fees

If you are interested in attending the event, please contact iideos@uni-marburg.de, stating your full name, the university you are enrolled as PhD student, and which courses you would like to attend.

Some PhD presentations will be integrated in the program. If you would like to present your PhD project, please indicate this intention together with a very short outline of the project and the current status in your email.

The program fee is 25€ for external students.

 

Responsible for the PhD program IIDEOS:

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Brenner
Deutschhausstr. 10
35032 Marburg
Tel.: (0049) (0)6421 2824211
Fax: (0049) (0)6421 2828950

 

3. PHD presentations

Room:   to be announced
Time:   Wed, 15th, 09:00 - 17:00


Each presentation takes 25 minuntes and is followed by a discussion of half an hour. Speakers haeve to hand in a paper one week in advance which will be sent to all participants. These papers serve a better understanding as well as discussion basis. The working language is English.


4. PHD Course: "Inventor data: methodological issues and applications"

Lecturer:    Prof. Francesco Lissoni

Room:        00 A16 (Thurs.) & 00 A02 (Fri.), Carolinenhaus

Time:        09:00 - 17:00 (Thurs. & Fri.)
 
Course Content:


Patent data have come a long way from being used as simple indicators of R&D output, in a knowledge-production-function perspective. The wealth of information they contain has been exploited both to explore more complex aspects of knowledge production and diffusion, and to examine the inner functioning and weaknesses of the IP regime patents contribute to establish. One type of information that has attracted as great deal of attention concerns inventors, that is the physical persons who are considered responsible for conceiving and reducing to practice the ideas described in the patent documents. Inventor data are nowadays a key source of relational data as well as of biographical data to be matched with other archival sources. As such, they have lent themselves to applications in social network analysis, the geography of innovations, university-industry technology transfer, and immigration studies. The course will cover all of these applications, based on papers by the author and other scholars, with emphasis both on results and methodological problems concerning data creation and interpretation.