LEI & BRICK (University of Torino – Collegio Carlo Alberto) organise the5th annual workshop “The Organisation, Economics and Policy of Scientific Research” on27-28April, 2012 at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri (Torino).
The aim of the workshop is to bring together a small group of scholars interested in the analysis of the production and diffusion of scientific research from an economics, historical, organizational, and policy perspective.

Call for papers
As in previous workshops, we aim to attract contributions from both junior and senior scholars, a minimum number of slots are reserved for junior researchers (PhD students or scholars, who obtained their PhD in 2009 or later). The best junior scholar paper will be awarded with a special mention prize. See below for details.
16-20 papers will be selected from open submissions on the basis of peer review.
The workshop aims at includingpapers form various streams of research developed in recent years in and around the area of public and private scientific research. Contributions are invited on (but not limited to)one or more of the following topics:

• Organisation of research activities in HE, PRO and private R&D labs
• Scientific careers & mobility
• Public and private funding of scientific research
• Spillovers from scientific research
• Science research networks
• Teaching and research interaction

Special Session Academic Patenting in Europe: In cooperation with the ESF Research Networking Programme “Academic Patenting in Europe (APE-INV)”,we organize a special session on the empirical analysis of academic patenting and its economic and organizational implications.

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