2023 DRUID Best Paper:
Eight Decades of Changes in Occupational Tasks, Computerization and the Gender Pay Gap (Shreyas Gadgin Matha, Ljubica Nedelkoska, James McNerney, Dario Diodato, Frank Neffke, Andre Assumpcao)
2023 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
How Scientific Organizations Adapt to Novel Methodological Advances: The Impact of AlphaFold v1 (Gabriel Cavailli)
2022 DRUID Best Paper:
A Numerical Revolution: The Diffusion of Practical Mathematics and the Growth of Pre-modern European Economies (Andrea Mina, Martina Iori, Raffaele Danna)
2022 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Knowledge Recombination in Teams with Female versus Male Stars (Leo Schmallenbach, Himani Singh)
2021 DRUID Best Paper:
When do Entrepreneurs Benefit from Acting Like Scientists? A Field Experiment in the UK (Elena Novelli, Chiara Spina)
2021 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Online Repositories, Search Costs and Cumulative Innovation (Thomas Schaper)
2019 DRUID Best Paper:
Migration and Invention in the Age of Mass Migration (Sergio Petralia, Dario Diodato, Andrea Morrison)
2019 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Same, but Different? Birth Order, Family Size, and Sibling Sex Composition Effects in Entrepreneurship (Theodor Vladasel)
2018 DRUID Best Paper:
Science is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (Neil C Thompson and Douglas Hanley)
2018 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Achieving Strategic and Financial Returns: The Challenge of Corporate Venture Capital Investors (Susanne Koster)
2018 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Trademark or Patent? The Effects of Market Concentration, Customer Type, and Venture Capital Financing on Start-Ups (Geertjan de Vries, Enrico Pennings, Jörn H Block and Christian Fisch)
Published in Industry & Innovation 24, 4: 325-345.
2017 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Is Wisdom of the Crowd a Positive Signal? Effects of Crowd-Financing on Subsequent Venture Capital Selection (Michael Maximilian Moedl)
2017 DRUID Best Paper:
How National Science Foundation Rotators Build Up the Ability of their Colleagues to Attract Research Resources (Christos Kolympiris and Sebastian Hoenen)
Published in Organization Science 30,3.
2016 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The evolutionary roots of adaptive capacity: How the past quirks of an organization’s environment influence its future latitude (Allard van Mossel)
2016 DRUID Best Paper:
Design myopia and vicarious learning from good versus bad examples: Evidence from creative design competitions (Christoph Riedl and Victor Seidel)
Later published in Organization Science, Articles in Advance, October 3, 2018
2016 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Collaboration in Innovation Between Foreign Subsidiaries and Local Universities: Evidence from Spain (José Guimón & Juan Carlos Salazar-Elena)
Published in Industry & Innovation, 22: 6: 445-466.
2015 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
IPR Proctection and Management Aproaches. Insights from the MNC’s Practices in the Automotive Industry in China (Anna Potekhina)
2015 DRUID Best Paper:
Entrepreneur’s Social Skills: Experience, Hackers and Haikus (Maria Halbinger and Toke Reichstein)
2014 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Generalists, Specialists, and the Direction of Inventive Activity (Florenta Teodoridis)
Later published in Management Science, 2017.
2014 DRUID Best Paper:
Participation Dynamics in Crowd-based Knowledge Production: The scope and sustainability of interest-based motivation (Henry Sauermann and Chiara Franzoni)
Later published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(3): 679-684.
2014 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization (Giulio Cainelli, Sandro Montresor and Massimiliano Mazzanti)
Published in Industry & Innovation, 19: 8: 697-734.
2013 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Community-Spanning, Network-Spanning, and Scientist Innovativeness (Martin C. Goossen)
2013 DRUID Best Paper:
Spatial Organization of Firms: Location Choices through the Value Chain (Mercedes Delgado and Juan Alcacer)
Later published in Management Science, 62(11): 3213-3234.
2012 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Are patents signals for the IPO market? Evidence for an empirical analysis of the US and the European software industry (Diego Useche)
Later published in Research Policy, 43(2014): 1299-1311.
2012 DRUID Best Paper:
Identifying Breakthroughs: Cognitive vs. Economic (Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 36(10): 1435-1457.
2011 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The Price of Silence: Scientists’ Trade-offs Between Publishing and Pay (Henry Sauermann and Michael Roach)
Later published in Research Policy, 43(1): 32-47.
2011 DRUID Best Paper:
Adaptation at Full Speed: Regulatory Changes in Fast Moving Industries (Karin Hoisl)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 38(7): 1371-1565.
2010 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
How much do we know about firms’ propensity to patent and should we worry about it? (Gaétan de Rassenfosse)
2010 DRUID Best Paper:
Organizing for Adaptation: Innovative Capabilities, Relational Stars, Coordination Costs, and Boundary Choices (Konstaninos Grigoriou and Frank T. Rothaermel)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 38(2017): 395-414.
2009 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Are the United States outperforming Europe in university technology licencing? (Annamaria Conti and Patrick Gaulé)
Later published in Research Policy, 40(1): 123-135.
2009 DRUID Best Paper:
Product Line Extension in Hypercompetitive Environments – Evidence From the US Video Game Industry (Thorsten Grohsjean and Tobias Kretschmer)
2008 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Academic Spin-Off’s Transfer Speed: Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture (Kathrin Mueller)
Later published in Research Policy, 39(2010): 189-199.
2008 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Effect of Knowledge Diversity on Technological Innovation in Scientific Research (Sotaro Shibayama)
Later published in Drug Discovery Today, 13(1): 86-93.
2008 DRUID Best Paper:
Product Innovation and Growth: The Case of Integrated Circuits (Marco Corsino)
Later published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(1): 29-56.
2008 DRUID Best Paper:
The Emergence of New Knowledge, Market Evolution and the Dynamics of Micro-Innovation Systems (Andrea Mina)
Later published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18(2009): 447-466.
2007 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The employment effects of innovation (Rekha Rao)
Later published in Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21(2): 255-283.
2007 DRUID Best Paper:
Proximity of Inventors and Knowledge Flows (Myriam Mariani and Paola Giuri)
Later published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(2013): 449-463.
2006 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence (Bettina Peters)
Later published in Journal of Technology Transfer, 34(2009): 226-243.
2006 DRUID Best Paper:
Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Ties and Quality of Innovative Output (Jasjit Singh)
Later published in Research Policy, 37(2008): 77-96.
2018 DRUID Best Paper:
Science is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial (Neil C Thompson and Douglas Hanley)
2018 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Achieving Strategic and Financial Returns: The Challenge of Corporate Venture Capital Investors (Susanne Koster)
2018 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Trademark or Patent? The Effects of Market Concentration, Customer Type, and Venture Capital Financing on Start-Ups (Geertjan de Vries, Enrico Pennings, Jörn H Block and Christian Fisch)
Published in Industry & Innovation 24, 4: 325-345.
2017 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Is Wisdom of the Crowd a Positive Signal? Effects of Crowd-Financing on Subsequent Venture Capital Selection (Michael Maximilian Moedl)
2017 DRUID Best Paper:
How National Science Foundation Rotators Build Up the Ability of their Colleagues to Attract Research Resources (Christos Kolympiris and Sebastian Hoenen)
Published in Organization Science 30,3.
2016 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The evolutionary roots of adaptive capacity: How the past quirks of an organization’s environment influence its future latitude (Allard van Mossel)
2016 DRUID Best Paper:
Design myopia and vicarious learning from good versus bad examples: Evidence from creative design competitions (Christoph Riedl and Victor Seidel)
Later published in Organization Science, Articles in Advance, October 3, 2018
2016 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Collaboration in Innovation Between Foreign Subsidiaries and Local Universities: Evidence from Spain (José Guimón & Juan Carlos Salazar-Elena)
Published in Industry & Innovation, 22: 6: 445-466.
2015 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
IPR Proctection and Management Aproaches. Insights from the MNC’s Practices in the Automotive Industry in China (Anna Potekhina)
2015 DRUID Best Paper:
Entrepreneur’s Social Skills: Experience, Hackers and Haikus (Maria Halbinger and Toke Reichstein)
2014 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Generalists, Specialists, and the Direction of Inventive Activity (Florenta Teodoridis)
Later published in Management Science, 2017.
2014 DRUID Best Paper:
Participation Dynamics in Crowd-based Knowledge Production: The scope and sustainability of interest-based motivation (Henry Sauermann and Chiara Franzoni)
Later published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(3): 679-684.
2014 Industry and Innovation DRUID Award:
Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization (Giulio Cainelli, Sandro Montresor and Massimiliano Mazzanti)
Published in Industry & Innovation, 19: 8: 697-734.
2013 DRUID Steven Klepper Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Community-Spanning, Network-Spanning, and Scientist Innovativeness (Martin C. Goossen)
2013 DRUID Best Paper:
Spatial Organization of Firms: Location Choices through the Value Chain (Mercedes Delgado and Juan Alcacer)
Later published in Management Science, 62(11): 3213-3234.
2012 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Are patents signals for the IPO market? Evidence for an empirical analysis of the US and the European software industry (Diego Useche)
Later published in Research Policy, 43(2014): 1299-1311.
2012 DRUID Best Paper:
Identifying Breakthroughs: Cognitive vs. Economic (Sarah Kaplan and Keyvan Vakili)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 36(10): 1435-1457.
2011 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The Price of Silence: Scientists’ Trade-offs Between Publishing and Pay (Henry Sauermann and Michael Roach)
Later published in Research Policy, 43(1): 32-47.
2011 DRUID Best Paper:
Adaptation at Full Speed: Regulatory Changes in Fast Moving Industries (Karin Hoisl)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 38(7): 1371-1565.
2010 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
How much do we know about firms’ propensity to patent and should we worry about it? (Gaétan de Rassenfosse)
2010 DRUID Best Paper:
Organizing for Adaptation: Innovative Capabilities, Relational Stars, Coordination Costs, and Boundary Choices (Konstaninos Grigoriou and Frank T. Rothaermel)
Later published in Strategic Management Journal, 38(2017): 395-414.
2009 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Are the United States outperforming Europe in university technology licencing? (Annamaria Conti and Patrick Gaulé)
Later published in Research Policy, 40(1): 123-135.
2009 DRUID Best Paper:
Product Line Extension in Hypercompetitive Environments – Evidence From the US Video Game Industry (Thorsten Grohsjean and Tobias Kretschmer)
2008 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Academic Spin-Off’s Transfer Speed: Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture (Kathrin Mueller)
Later published in Research Policy, 39(2010): 189-199.
2008 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Effect of Knowledge Diversity on Technological Innovation in Scientific Research (Sotaro Shibayama)
Later published in Drug Discovery Today, 13(1): 86-93.
2008 DRUID Best Paper:
Product Innovation and Growth: The Case of Integrated Circuits (Marco Corsino)
Later published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(1): 29-56.
2008 DRUID Best Paper:
The Emergence of New Knowledge, Market Evolution and the Dynamics of Micro-Innovation Systems (Andrea Mina)
Later published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18(2009): 447-466.
2007 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
The employment effects of innovation (Rekha Rao)
Later published in Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 21(2): 255-283.
2007 DRUID Best Paper:
Proximity of Inventors and Knowledge Flows (Myriam Mariani and Paola Giuri)
Later published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(2013): 449-463.
2006 DRUID Award for Best Young Scholar Paper:
Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence (Bettina Peters)
Later published in Journal of Technology Transfer, 34(2009): 226-243.
2006 DRUID Best Paper:
Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Ties and Quality of Innovative Output (Jasjit Singh)
Later published in Research Policy, 37(2008): 77-96.