On September 21st, 2023, the TIM Division (Technology and Innovation Management) of the Academy of Management and the highly ranked journal Organization Science organized a virtual research workshop. Ann Hipp attended the workshop and presented her joint research on inventor mobility in the project Mod-Block-DDR with Paul Hünermund (Copenhagen Business School). Based on the case of German reunification, the authors show that only a fraction of inventors from the former GDR continued to patent after this regime change, a quarter of them in West Germany and especially in urban regions. The decisive factor for continued patenting was that the inventors had previously been at the technological frontier and in communities with deviating attitudes toward the former regime. After an introduction to current publication topics, an intensive mentoring program was offered to young scholars to further develop and publish their projects.
