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Homepage for Part II of the Course

"Industrial Organization and Economics of Innovation"

Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics Course KTTA720

Updated 17.Nov, 2010

These pages primarily contain material for Part II of the course, "Economics of Innovation", but the home assignments concerning Part I of the course, "Industrial Organization", can be found from here.

The main text book for Part II is Suzanne Scotchmer (2004) "Incentives and Innovation", MIT Press

See also her course homepage

The course is jointly taught with Heli Koski (Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)), Tanja Tanyama (National Audit Office of Finland) and Pekka Sääskilahti (Nokia)

LECTURES

Wed 27. Oct, Takalo: "Basic economics of innovation and IP" (2h)
Thu 28. Oct, Koski: "Diffusion of innovations" (4h)
Mon & Tue 1-2. Nov, Tanayama: "Technology policy (exluding IP)" (4h)
Tue 9. Nov, Takalo: "Basic IP law for economists and business people" (2h)
Wed 10. Nov, Takalo: "Designing optimal IP policy" (2h)
Tue 16 Nov, Takalo: "Competition policy, standardization, and IP" (2h)
Wed 17 Nov, Takalo: "Basics of corporate IP management" (2h)
Wed 30 Nov, Sääskilahti: "Management of innovation" (4h)

The lecture slides can be found from here.

Exam dates are December 10 and January 7 (2011). See Korppi/Koppa for details.