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I was only once at the OECD before - as an observer (the topic was Big Data, with Annabelle Gawer and Hal Varian, great fun - my take here).
Next time soon (and determined to enjoy myself, whatever).
Some of the work I've done specifically on this topic (although I stealthily applied evolutionary/innovation arguments in almost everything I wrote):
- Early 2005 article with Wolfgang Kerber (already Doktorvater at that time): EU Competition Policy, Vertical Restraints, and Innovation: An Analysis from an Evolutionary Perspective
- My PhD Thesis in innovation economics started in a pre-digital (?) age: Zur Beurteilung vertikaler Beschränkungen in der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik aus evolutionsökonomischer Sicht (Münchner Schriften zum Europäischen und Internationalen Kartellrecht) (also second-hand)
- This article summarizing some results of my thesis in French: Une perspective économique évolutionniste à l'égard des restrictions verticales
- This short piece on Android in which I applied a spurious dynamic capabilities approach to ecosystems: Digital Platforms and Antitrust: Towards a More Techno-Economic Approach
- This article about incentives to innovate in the Microsoft EU decision The Incentives Balance Test in the EU Microsoft Case: A More 'Economics-Based' Approach?
- This draft paper with Wolfgang Kerber presented at Ascola 2019 on the concept of innovation spaces in Dow/Dupont: Dow/Dupont: Another Step Towards a Proper Assessment Concept of Innovation Effects of Mergers
- This with Luigi Marengo on IP and evolutionary economics: Dynamic Inefficiencies of Intellectual Property Rights from an Evolutionary/Problem-Solving Perspective: Some Insights on Computer Software and Reverse Engineering
- On an early killer acquisition in the digital sector Open Source and Merger Policy: Insights from the EU Oracle/Sun Decision
- On a dynamic approach for the assessment of buyer power Il potere verticale della domanda
- Short ProMarket piece on Gen AI and innovation: Next-Generation Antitrust Policy in an AI-Driven World
P.S. This topic is particularly dear to me. My interest for it started 30+ y. ago, as a young legal scholar in Milan. After many difficult and depressing years with my mentor at that time, Prof. Denozza, who didn’t understand/support my research interest for this topic and actually hampered me from pursuing it, I wrote to him that I was quitting his School (call it “Family”) to continue my research in Germany, where I did a PhD in economics on the topic of this week’s discussion in Paris (BTW, losing the support of Prof. Denozza's powerful Academic Family totally ruined my academic prospects in Italy but made me who I am. Reminder: Italy is a country in which you might even become a Competition Commissioner - especially if your father is a good friend of a former neo-fascist who happens to be the President of the Senate - not to mention becoming the AI Chief Technological Strategist because you love potatoes recipes)
