Leading House Best Paper Award 2021
We congratulate the Winners of the Leading House Best Paper Award 2021!
The jury - consisting of the members of the Leading House Advisory Board - awarded the first prize to Curdin Pfister and Miriam Koomen for their paper "Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions" (with Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in Research Policy.
The runner-up prizes 2021 are awarded to Tobias Schlegel and Curdin Pfister for their paper "Innovation effects of universities of applied sciences: an assessment of regional heterogeneity" (with Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner), published in The Journal of Technology Transfer, and to Filippo Pusterla for his paper "Is technological change really skills-biased? Firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education" (with Thomas Bolli), published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
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