ISA's 2024 Award Winners

In 2024, ISA welcomed a new award -- the Babbage Best Paper in Industrial Innovation -- created through the generous gift of the Cambridge (UK) Institute for Manufacturing under the leadership of Sir Mike Gregory.  Sir Mike joined us in Sacramento to give the award to first-time winner Prof. Canberk Ucel (now at HEC in Paris).  Many winners of our other awards (Dissertation, Giarratani Rising Star, Ralph P. Gomory Best Industry Studies Paper, and Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship) were also in Sacramento to receive their awards from President Tonya Boone, President-Elect John Gray, and Past President John Paul MacDuffie.  Congratulations to all the award winners for your impressive research and amazing accomplishments!

Conference Best Paper in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Stream Award

WINNER:

Demand-Driven Innovation and Spillover Effects on Adjacent Technological Domains: Evidence from Electric Vehicle Technologies

Jino Lu (University of Southern California)

RUNNER-UP: You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century US Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance

Maria Roche (Harvard)

Astrid Marinoni (Georgia Tech)

Dissertation Award

WINNER:

The Transparency Dilemma: Competition, Innovation, and Organizational Performance with Corporate Transparency

Shirley (Xiaoli) Tang, Ph.D.
(from Washington University, now at Bocconi)

RUNNER-UP: Craft Knowledge and the Advancement of Science: The Role of Scientific Support Occupations in Shared Research Facilities

Danielle Bovenberg, Ph.D.
(from UC Santa Barbara, now at Yale SOM)

Babbage Best Paper in Industrial Innovation 

WINNER: The Value of Advice: Evidence from Thousands of Smallholder Farms in the Philippines

Canberk Ucel (Bilkent University; now HEC)                     KC Diwas (Emory University)

Giarratani Rising Star Award 

WINNER: Sharing Solutions without Spilling Secrets: The Role of Technicians in the Diffusion of Knowledge at Innovation Frontiers

Danielle Bovenberg (Yale University)

RUNNER-UP (Tie): Unpacking the Expat Gap: Why and How Local Entrepreneurs Nonetheless Persist in Developing Countries Moral Markets