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Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy Vacation School - Speakers

Speakers

Irene Ng

Professor of Marketing and Service Systems, WMG, University of Warwick.

Research Interests: personal data, the digital economy trans-disciplinary understanding of value; creating, designing, pricing, contracting and innovating based on value, embedded within new economic and business models of complex service systems.

Preliminary title of the talk: The Internet-of-Things: Theoretical conceptualisations and what research questions we should be investigating.

Giuliana Battisti

Professor of the Economics of Innovation at Warwick Business School.

Research Interests: The generation of new ideas, R&D and Patents/IPR; the diffusion of innovations across households, firms and countries; the role of technological change; performance measurement; complementarities in diffusion processes; innovation and industrial policy; applied industrial economics/organization and applied econometrics TS and multivariate analysis.

Preliminary title of the talk: Generation and diffusion of innovations in the digital era.

Kim Scharf

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick.

Research Interests: Digital economy, public policy, social networks and international tax.

Preliminary title of the talk: Using Administrative Data in the Social Sciences.

John Naughton

Senior Research Fellow, CRASSH; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, Open University; Director, Wolfson College, Press Fellowship Programme; Columnist, the Observer; Adjunct Professor, University College, Cork.

Research Interests: TBC

Preliminary title of the talk: Big Data: be careful what you wish for.

Chris Speed

Senior Research Fellow, CRASSH; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, Open University; Director, Wolfson College, Press Fellowship Programme; Columnist, the Observer; Adjunct Professor, University College, Cork.

Research Interests: TBC

Preliminary title of the talk: Big Data: be careful what you wish for.

Lui Smyth

EdgeVerve Systems R&D Lab.

Research Interests: Bitcoin, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, open source culture, anthropology of money, digital identity.

Preliminary title of the talk: Distributed Ledgers - The challenge of striking a balance between control and resilience.

Ola Henfridsson

Professor of Information Systems, University of Warwick.

Research Interests: Digital innovation and entrepreneurship, platforms, and technology management.

Preliminary title of the talk: The Open-Ended Value Landscape of Digital Innovation

Glenn Parry

Associate Professor in Strategy and Operations Management, University of the West of England.

Research Interests: Organisational transformation, business models and value creation.

Preliminary title of the talk: Servitization of the home; the Internet of Things and measuring Use.

Vili Lehdonvirtay

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Research Interests: Virtual economies, online labour markets, the design and socioeconomic implications of digital marketplaces and platforms, virtual currencies, distributed-ledger technology, bitcoin.

Preliminary title of the talk: The Blockchain Paradox: Cooperation and Governance in the Digital Economy.

Sam Davies

Lead Technologist at Digital Catapult.

Research Interests: Blockchain, distributed collaboration, copyright, licensing.

Preliminary title of the talk: Distributed Collaborations: Creative Industries and Blockchains.