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Program

Below you can find the preliminary program for the Workshop on the Funding of Science and Innovation 2025. Please note that this page will be updated as we get closer to the conference.

Monday, May 19

11:45 - 12:30

Registration and light lunch

  

12:30 - 12:45

Welcome

Valentina Tartari (Stockholm School of Economics)

   

12:45 - 13:00

Introductory speech

Daniel Goroff (Sloan Foundation)

  

13:00 - 14:00

Opening keynote

Peter Wallenberg Jr. (Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation)

   

14:00 - 14:30

Break

   

14:30 - 16:00

Panel: The role of private funding for universities

Panelists:

Lars Strannegård (Stockholm School of Economics), Marie Arsenian Henriksson (Karolinska Institutet), Maryann Feldman (Arizona State University), and Stefano Paleari (University of Bergamo)

Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven)

   

16:00 - 16:30

Break

   

16:30 - 18:00

Research presentations

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Charles Ayoubi, ESSEC Business School

How does Generative AI Standardization Impact Innovation Evaluation? (with Julian Just)

 

Johanna Schnier, Copenhagen Business School

From Rejection to Revival: How Creators Re-Propose Ideas to New Audiences (with Valentina Tartari)

 

Amanda Kvarven, UCL & RORI

Shadow experiment on desk review (with Tom Stafford & Theodore Hodapp)

 

Andola Stanaj, Politecnico di Milano

Expert predictions and errors in research funding decisions (with Paola Criscuolo & Chiara Franzoni)

 

Yotam Sofer, Copenhagen Business School

Being your own Master: How Constraints on Academic Freedom Affect Graduates’ Career Choices (with HC Kongsted and Valentina Tartari)

 

Ruggero Maria Barzon, Politecnico di Milano

Love at the same sight: The role of consolidator reviewers in science funding (with Chiara Franzoni)

 

Jian Wang, Lancaster University Leipzig

How novelty and feasibility inform research funding decisions (with Erin Leahey)

 

Stefano Baruffaldi, Politecnico di Milano

The impact of mobility grants on researchers (with Pietro Santoleri & Yevgeniya Shevtsova)

 

Thomas Feliciani, Politecnico di Milano

Addressing conservatism in research funding with lotteries, golden tickets, and novelty-dedicated panels (with Rikke Nørding Christensen & Chiara Franzoni)

 

Astrid Ulv Thomsen, Copenhagen Business School

Do women ask for less? Gender gaps in scientific funding (with Kris Gulati, Lorenzo Palladini, HC Kongsted & Valentina Tartari)

 

Sofie Cairo, Copenhagen Business School

Can't you take a rejection? (with Valentina Tartari)

   

19:15

Dinner

  

Tuesday, May 20

09:00 - 10:30

Panel: Advances in idea evaluations

Panelists:

David Sonnek (Navigare Ventures), Maria Thuveson (Swedish Research Council), Nando Patat (European Southern Observatory), and Paola Criscuolo (Imperial College London)

Chair: Chiara Franzoni (Politecnico Milan)

   

10:30 - 11:00

Break

   

11:00 - 12:15

Speed dating session

between funders and researchers on possible research ideas and collaborations

   

12:15 - 12:45

Closing remarks

   

12:45 - 13:30

Lunch

  

13:30 - 14:00

Art tour around SSE's premises

with Giada Baldessarelli (Stockholm School of Economics)

   

14:00 - 17:00

Dedicated event for funders