Technology, Governance and Regulation
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The Technology, Governance and Regulation Conference in Jerusalem was hosted by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University and co-organized by Professor Yishay Yafeh of the Hebrew University and Professor Sharon Belenzon of Duke University.
The conference took place in Jerusalem as follows:
8 July 2019, Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem, Israel
9 July 2019, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Jerusalem, Israel
Supported by
The British Academy; the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Business Administration, the Hebrew University; the I-CORE Center on Empirical Legal Studies
Contact person
For questions or assistance please do not hesitate to contact:
Prof. Yishay Yafeh : yishay.yafeh@huji.ac.il
Programme
Session 1: Sources of Innovation
Welcome: Coffee and Greetings
Do Universities Substitute for Corporate Scientific Research?
Speaker
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find, or Have Firms Just Become Too Big?
Speaker
Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Academic Science: Evidence from Twin Discoveries
Speaker
Coffee
Session 2: Innovation and Labor Markets
The Effects of Automation on Workers, Firms and Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the US Telephone Industry in the Early 20th Century
Speaker
The Dark Side of Technological Progress? Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick & Mortar Retailers
Speaker
Automation, Jobs, and Competition
Speaker
Lunch
Session 3: Innovation and Governance
Corporate Governance with Diverse Ownership
Speaker
CEO Activism as Communication to Multiple Audiences
Speaker
Better Together? CEO Talent and Firm Performance
Speaker
Coffee
Evening walking tour in the old city (dinner at Jacko’s Restaurant in Mahne Yehuda afterwards)
Session 1: AI and Smart Contracts
The Fine Print of Smart Contracts
Speaker
A Penny for Your Data: Data Labor Compensation in a Two-sided Market
Speaker
Coffee
Adoption and Diffusion of AI in Healthcare
Speaker
The State of Open Source Server Software
Speaker
Coffee
Session 2: Organization and Entrepreneurship
Intra-firm Division of Innovative Labor and the Organization of Science and Invention
Speaker
A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Decision-making: Results from Three Randomized Control Trials
Speaker
Lunch
When Does AB Testing Affect Startup Performance?
Speaker
Collaboration’s Credit Premium and Detrimental Collaboration: Evidence from Economics
Speaker
Walking Tour of the Mount Scopus Campus
Coffee
Session 3: Policy Panel, Innovation and Inequality
Dinner (Mona Restaurant)
Speakers
Colin Mayer
