Academic Profile & Strategy
A. Innovation studies
- Organisation of innovation
- Appropriability of innovations and intellectual property studies
- Institutional environment for innovation
- University-industry relations
- Innovation management and strategy
- User-producer relationships.
Related business research centre: Biotech Business
B. Industrial dynamics
- Industry analysis
- Regional studies, industrial clustering and agglomeration studies
- Labour market dynamics
- The dynamics of market organisation
- Project-organised industries.
Related business research centre: Imagine … Creative industries
C. Forms of organisation
- Make-or-buy decisions
- Outsourcing
- Corporate/technology strategy
- IPR strategy
- Theory of the company
- Resource-based theories.
D. Law and Economics
- Contract theory
- Industrial economics
- Intellectual property theory.
Related business research centre: LEFIC
E. Research methods
- Theory of science
- Economic modelling
- Statistical/econometric methods
- Case studies.
Last updated by Kirsten Suhr Jacobsen 10/03/2009
INO News
PhD scholarships in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics at the Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a number of vacant PhD scholarships within the fields of innovation and/or entrepreneurship. Research proposals could, for example, investigate topics relating to technology licensing, the organization of innovative activities, external knowledge sourcing, open innovation, appropriation of benefits from innovation, survival of newly established ventures, and transition to self-employment.
Open Innovation Search
A new Danish research unit will conduct research on open innovation at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics. The research unit, entitled Open Innovation Search has been awarded 8 million Danish kroner by the Danish Council for Independent Research | Social Sciences. The research unit is funded over the period 2010-2014.
CBS receives significant PhD grant
The Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics has also been granted five studentships. These studentships are intended for the study of open innovation, i.e. the businesses’ inclusion of external parties in the innovation processes, and entrepreneurial activities.
Change of name
As from 01/09/2007, the department changed the name from "Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy" (IVS) to "Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics" (INO).
INO Events
INO Seminar
01.06.2010Seminar by Reddi Rayalu Kotha. Affiliation: Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
"BRIDGING THE MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE GAP: COORDINATION AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF RADICAL SCIENCE"