3. Motivating Invention: Financial Rewards, Reputation and Promotion, Altruism, and Curiosity Third EPIP Seminar Scuola Superiore Sant’anna, Pisa, Italy, April 2/3, 2004 This seminar will focus on the incentives that motivate inventors. Chief among these are the property rights to their fruits of their inventions (Intellectual Property Rights), but throughout history alternative mechanisms have existed and successfully promoted invention at various times and in various places. These mechanisms include invention awards and prizes, the incentive structures provided in the “Republic of Science,” including professional reputation, recognition, and advancement and the need for knowledge to exchange with others, open source software, and collective invention more broadly. We encourage papers on this range of topics, especially those with an empirical, historical, or sociological perspective. Conference website: http://sssup1.sssup.it/~LEM/epip

4. Motivating Invention: Financial Rewards, Reputation and Promotion, Altruism, and Curiosity Invited speakers (not all confirmed): Robert Allen, Paul David, Petra Moser, Alessandro Nuvolari, Suzanne Scotchmer, Edward Steinmueller, Eric Von Hippel Submission deadline (full papers): –31 January 2004 –gambardella@sssup.it Decisions: –28 February 2004 Register before –15 March 2004 –giovannoni@sssup.it