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


Fall 2002: Wednesday 12-2 PM, F-318 Haas School (bring lunch if you like)

Convenor: Professor Bronwyn H. Hall 


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 me email. Also send me email if you would like to speak this Fall.


Aug. 28: Raffaele ORIANI (Universita di Bologna/LUISS) and Federico MUNARI
       "Privatization and R&D Performance: An Empirical Analysis Based on Tobin's Q"

Sept. 4:   Greg Graff (ARE, UC Berkeley)
                "The Sources of Biological Innovation for Agriculture: the Comparative Advantages of
             Public, Entrepreneurial, and Corporate R&D "

Sept. 11: No Meeting

Sept. 18: Giovanni PERI (UC Davis)
                "Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Externalities"

Sept. 25:  Carmine ORNAGHI (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, visiting UC Berkeley)
                  "Spillovers in Product and Process Innovation: Evidence from Spain"

Oct. 2:     Gwendolyn LEE (Haas School, UC Berkeley)
                 "The Competitive Consequences of Technological Convergence in the Era of Innovations -
              Telephony Communications and Data Networking, 1989-2001"

Oct. 9:     Yann MENIERE (Cerna – Center of Industrial Economics, ENSMP, France)
             "Novelty and Complementary Innovations"

Oct. 16:   Stuart GRAHAM (Haas School, UC Berkeley)
                 "Secrecy in the Shadow of Patenting:  Firms' Use of Continuation Patents, 1975-94"

Oct. 23:   Brian WRIGHT (ARE, UC Berkeley)
                 "Dynamics of Patenting Research Tools and the Innovations That Use Them" (with Bonwoo Koo)

Oct. 30:    Bronwyn H. Hall (Econ, UC Berkeley)
                   "Intellectual Property Strategy in the Global Cosmetics Industry" (with Dietmar Harhoff, Muenchen)

Nov. 6:    Tim SIMCOE and Daniel SNOW (Haas School, UC Berkeley)
                   "
Disease Management: The Impact of Information Technology in Managing Chronic Health Conditions"

Nov. 13:   No meeting

Nov. 20:   Olga KHESSINA (Haas School, UC Berkeley)
                  
"Effects of Entry Mode and Incumbency Status on the Rates of Firm Product Innovation in the Worldwide Optical Disk Drive Industry, 1983-1999"

Nov. 27:   No meeting

Dec. 4:     Valerie CLAUDE-GAUDILLAT (HEC, France and Haas, UC Berkeley)
                   "Disruptive Innovation and Development of New Capabilities: The Case of the Online Brokerage Industry"

Dec. 11:    Megan MACGARVIE (Economics, UC Berkeley)
 


Last updated December 2, 2002 by Bronwyn H. Hall