The best working paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best working paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. A call for this award is posted in the TIMES Connect forum in spring of the same year. You must be a TIMES member to be eligible for this award. Please refer to the call in this link for further information on deadlines and criteria of eligibility. Please contact the TIMES Chair Elect if you have any questions.
2020
First Place:
Sidika Tunc Candogan, Gizem Korpeoglu, Chris Tang. Team Collaboration in Innovation Contests
Second Place:
Ming Hu, Yao Cui, Jingchen Liu. Values of Traceability in Supply Chains
2019
First Place:
Wang, X., S.-H. Cho, A. Scheller-Wolf Green. Technology Development and Adoption: Competition, Regulation, and Uncertainty-A Global Game Approach
Second Place:
Agrawal, V., B. Toktay, S. Yucel. Non-Ownership Business Models for Solar Energy
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Singh, S., C. Kemerer, N. Ramasubbu. Dominant Design in Complex Assembled Digital Products: A Longitudinal Analysis of Television Components
Bhaskaran, S., S. Erzurumlu, K. Ramachandran. Sequential Product Development and Introduction by Cash-constrained Start-ups
van Angeren, J., A. Karunakaran. Impact of Platform Venture Capital Investments on the Introduction and Withdrawal of Complementary Products
2018
First Place:
Panos Markou, Stelios Kavadias and Nektarios Oraiopoulos. Project Selection and Success in the Drug Development Process
Second Place:
Ersin Korpeoglu, C. Gizem Korpeoglu and Isa Emin Hafalir. Contest among Contest Organizers
Finalists (tied in no particular order):
Tian Chan, Jurgen Mihm, Manuel Sosa. Revisiting the Role of Collaboration in Creating Breakthrough Inventions
Jiri Chod, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Mark Weber. Blockchain and The Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance
Morvarid Rahmani and Karthik Ramachandran. The Effect of Flexibility in Delegating Innovation