On April 20-21, 2007, the
Mack Center co-hosted (with
the Management Department) the Tech
Mini-Conference, a very special annual event designed to
encourage, cultivate and showcase exciting management
research involving technological innovation. Faculty
presenters discussed their current research projects and
shared working papers with a group of peers and senior
faculty, who provided valuable input to their projects in
progress.
This year's presentations
included 21 projects grouped in 7 categories: Technology
Commercialization, Innovating By Learning from Errors,
Innovating Via Organization and Network Design, System
Performance and Innovation, Human Capital and innovation,
Stakeholders' Reactions and Innovation, and Knowledge Flows
and Innovation. This year's event was organized by
Wharton faculty members Gary Dushnitsky, David Hsu, and
Anita Tucker.
Prof. George Day, Co-Director
of the Mack Center, welcomed the scholars to the Wharton
campus. He observed that this year's presentations
represent some of the strongest and most interesting
research since the Tech Mini conference was started, almost
a decade ago. The impressive list of papers (see
below) confirms his observation. Presenters traveled
here from he world's leading business schools to present
their research in progress, for comment and discussion.
Prof. Day also expressed appreciation to the distinguished
senior faculty discussants who traveled here to comment on
the research presentations.
The agenda is included below - to
see the papers presented, click on the title.
Click
here to view last year's (2006) conferencepapers
2007 Tech Mini-Conference
Agenda
April 20-21, 2007 - Jon M.
Huntsman Hall - The Wharton School - Philadelphia
(Note: Click on title of the paper to download papers)
Friday, April 20
11:00 - 11:15 Registration,
Welcome (George Day, Wharton) and Introductions
11:15 - 12:30 pm
Technology Commercialization
Left to Right: Presenters Henrik
Bresman, Tim
Simcoe, Rob Salomon; discussant Lori
Rosenkopf
12:30 - 1:45
Lunch
Left to Right: Presenters David
Hoffman, Ranga
Ramanujam, Eitan Naveh; discussant Amy
Edmondson
1:45 - 3:00 pm
- Innovating by Learning from Errors
3:00 - 3:30
Break
Left to Right: Presenters Raul
Chao, Jeho
Lee, Kevin Boudreau; discussant Olav
Sorenson
3:30 pm - 4:45
Innovating via Organization and Network Design
4:30-5:00pm
Break
Left to Right: Presenters Xin
Wang and John
Gray; discussant Lawton
(Rob) Burns
5:00 - 6:00 pm
System Performance and Innovation
7:00 pm Dinner &
Informal Networking
Saturday, April 21
Top left to right: Presenters Lee
Fleming (shown at far right with Mary
Benner, Lori Rosenkopf and Nicolaj Siggelkow), and Andrew
Toole; Bottom left to right: Pierre Azoulay, Robert Huckman; discussant Scott
Stern
8:30 - 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:40 am
Human Capital and Innovation
10:40 - 11 am
Break
Left to Right: Presenters Mary
Benner and Sriram
Thirumalai; discussant Harbir
Singh.
11:00 - Noon
Stakeholders’ Reactions and Innovation
