ECON 222/BUS AD 297T-1: SEMINAR ON INNOVATION


Fall 2003: Wednesday 12-2 PM, F-555 Haas School (bring lunch if you like)

Convenors: Professor Bronwyn H. Hall and Visiting Professor Daniel Elfenbein


The innovation seminar is open to graduate students, faculty, and visitors from Economics, Haas, ARE, and other departments in the university who have an interest in the economics of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property. Here are some lists of past presentations:

Fall 2001 Fall 2000     Fall 1999     1998 prior to 1998

We encourage presentation by graduate students in early stages of research, and have occasionally had students present discussion of a set of papers by others on a specific topic that is of general interest to the group. Anyone who wants an electronic link added for their presentation, please send us email. Also send us email if you would like to speak this Fall.

Date Speaker Title
August 27
 
None Organizational Issues
September 3
 
Dan Elfenbein, Harvard and UC Berkeley Contract Structure and the Performance of Technology Transfer Agreements:  Evidence from University Technology Licenses
September 10
 
Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley Patterns of Competition in Semiconductor Technology and Product Markets
(joint with Kwanghui Lim)
September 17
 
Beethika Khan, UC Berkeley Diffusion and Market Structure in the US Banking Industry
September 24
 
Otto Toivanen, Helsinki School of Economics (visiting UC Berkeley) Do Financial Constraints Hold Back Innovation and Growth? Evidence on the Role of Public Policy (joint with Ari Hyytinen)
September 30 (note change of day)
 
Alfonso Gambardella, Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies (visiting Stanford) Chandlerian Firms vs Entrepreneurship: Implications for Inequality and the Organization of Industries (joint with Marco Giarratana, Sant'Anna Schol of Advanced Studies)
October 8
 
Myriam Mariani, MERIT University of Maastricht & University of Camerino What determines technological hits?  Geography and firm competencies in biotechnology vs “traditional” chemicals
October 15
 
J. Lamar Pierce, UC Berkeley Does Organizational Structure Affect Firm Strategy and Performance? Evidence from Consumer Automobile Leasing
October 22
 
Dan Snow, UC Berkeley Extraordinary Efficiency Growth in Threatened
Technologies: Explaining the Carburetor's "Last Gasp" in the 1980s
October 29
 
Kira Markiewicz, UC Berkeley University Patenting and the Pace of Knowledge
Exploitation
November 5
 
Tim Simcoe, UC Berkeley Design by Committee? Organization and Performance in Technical Standard Setting
November 12
 
Jim Bessen, Research on Innovation and MIT An Empirical Look at Software Patents (joint with Robert Hunt, FRB of Philadelphia)
November 19
 
Ian Larkin (UC Berkeley) / Simon Wakeman (UC Berkeley) Larkin: Explaining Total IT Outsourcing by Global Banks / Wakeman: Organization and Management
of Research & Development
November 26
 
Thanksgiving Holiday, No meeting HAPPY TURKEY DAY
December 3
 
Xiao Hong and Gia Calvillo Quan:  Multinational Corporation technology:  transfer in developing countries - cases from China Calvillo: TBA
December 10
 
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Last updated November 5, 2003 by Bronwyn H. Hall