Date

June 26, 2025

Location

GIS NTU Convention Center, B1, No. 85, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei City Management

Regular sessions: Locke Hall

Keynote speech: Socrates Hall

Agenda

09:15 – 09:30

Opening Remark:

Shing-yang Hu, Dean of College of Management (National Taiwan U.)

Chialin Chen, Associate Dean & CEO of EMBA (National Taiwan U.)

Yanzhi Wang, Professor (National Taiwan U.)

09:30 – 11:00

Human Capital and Innovation (Chair: Matthew Grimes (U. Cambridge))

Waverly Ding (U. Maryland): Going Public, Going Inclusive: Diversity Messaging in Job Postings

Discussant: David Hsu (U. Pennsylvania)

Ashlee Li (Georgia Institute of Technology): Scrambling for Talent: U.S. Startups’ Reactive Strategy to Cope with Visa Restrictions

Discussant: Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon U.)

Elvira Sojli (UNSW):The Under-Disclosure of Environmental Innovation

Discussant: Hunghhua Pan (National Tsing Hua U.)

11:30 – 12:30

Keynote speech: Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi U.): Causal Reasoning and Performance

Moderator: David Hsu (U. Pennsylvania)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Innovation Strategies (Chair: Waverly Ding (U. Maryland))

Myriam Mariani (Bocconi U.): Where Do Strategies Come from? Individual Domains and the Generation of Strategic Alternatives

Discussant: Daniel Mack (Singapore Management U.)

Yufeng Yao (UNSW): How Scientists on Corporate Boards Drive Innovation by Bridging Research and Development

Discussant: Kevin Tseng (Chinese U. Hong Kong)

Donghyun Kang (Erasmus School of Economics): Wealth Protection in Bankruptcy and Serial Entrepreneurship

Discussant: Sung Kwan Lee (Chinese U. Hong Kong - Shenzen)

16:00 – 17:00

Patents and Green Innovation (Chair: Po-Hsuan Hsu (National Tsing Hua U.))

Tao Shu (Chinese U. Hong Kong - Shenzen): The Salience of Climate Change and Green Patents Review

Discussant: Qifei Zhu (Nanyang Technological U.)

Michael Woeppel (Indiana U.): Knowledges Spillover Absorption and Corporate Innovation

Discussant: Shenje Hshieh (City U. Hong Kong)

Dinner

Date

June 27, 2025

Location

GIS NTU Convention Center, B1, No. 85, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei City Management

Regular sessions: Locke Hall

Keynote speech: Socrates Hall

09:30 – 11:00

IPO and VC (Chair: Jeffrey York (U. Colorado - Boulder))

Chuck Eesley (Stanford U.): Navigating Regulatory Change: Institutional Logics and Venture Capital in the Semiconductor Industry

Discussant: Po-Hsuan Hsu (National Tsing Hua U.)

Alexander Tuft (U. Wyoming): Why Do Private Equity Firms Co-invest With Their Limited Partners?

Discussant: Ben Charoenwong (INSEAD)

Yongwook Paik (KAIST): How Incumbent Firms Cope with Economic Policy Uncertainty: The Case of Corporate Venture Capital Investments in Innovative Startups as a Real Option

Discussant: Bo Li (Peking U.)

11:30 – 12:30

Keynote speech: Gustavo Manso (UC Berkeley): Incentives for Innovation

Moderator: Yanzhi Wang (National Taiwan U.)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Knowledge Spillovers and Diffusion (Chair: Chuck Eesley (Stanford U.))

Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National U. Singapore): The Value of Trade Secrets: Evidence from Economic Espionage

Discussant: Ivan Png (National U. Singapore)

Jeffrey York (U. Colorado - Boulder): Catching the Wave or Wiping Out? The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Ocean Energy in the United Kingdom

Discussant: Matthew Grimes (U. Cambridge)

15:30 – 16:30

Patents and FinTech (Chair: Yongwook Paik (KAIST))

Stephen Yang (Pace Academy): Understanding Disparities via Causal Human+Machine Learning: Framework and An Application to Patenting

Discussant: Kenneth Huang (National U. Singapore)

Daniel Rabetti (National U. Singapore): Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups

Discussant: ChiShen Wei (Hong Kong Polytechnic U.)

16:30

Concluding remark