ECON 222/BUS AD 297T-1:
SEMINAR ON INNOVATION
Fall 2003: Wednesday
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 |
|
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, |
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 |
Larkin: Explaining Total IT
Outsourcing by Global Banks / Wakeman: Organization and Management of Research & Development |
|
November 26 |
Thanksgiving Holiday, No meeting |
|
|
December 3 |
Xiao Hong and Gia Calvillo |
Quan: Multinational
Corporation technology: transfer in developing countries - cases
from China Calvillo: TBA |
|
December 10 |
??? |
|
Last updated November 5, 2003 by Bronwyn H. Hall