The Center on Employment and Economic Growth

Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

Wednesday 5:15-8:00 *

SIEPR A Conference Room A
Landau Economics Building, 579 Serra Mall @ Galvez St.

2002 - 2003 Speakers

Date Speaker
October 16, 2002 Stephen R. Barley
Charles M. Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering
Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
The Contracting Lifestyle
(pdf) Please note: the book chapters contained in this .pdf file are very preliminary --access requires password

November 13, 2002 Suzanne Scotchmer
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Department of Economics and Goldman School of Public Policy, UC-Berkeley
The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering (joint with Pam Samuelson)
(pdf)

December 4, 2002 Paul A. David
Professor (and by courtesy, Professor of History)
Economics, Stanford University
Cooperation, Creativity and Closure in Scientific Research Networks:
Modeling the Simpler Dynamics of Invisible Colleges
(pdf )

February 5, 2003 Olav Sorenson
Assistant Professor
The Anderson School, UCLA
Liquidity Events and the Geographic Distribution of Entrepreneurial Activity
(pdf)

February 26, 2003 Lee Fleming
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
Invention as a Process of Recombinant Search
(pdf)

March 12, 2003 Peter Cowhey
joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
UC San Diego
The Peculiar Evolution of 3G Wireless Networks: Institutional Logic, Politics, and Property Rights
(pdf)

April 29, 2003 Diane Bailey
Assistant Professor
Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Knowledge at Work: A Study of Engineers and the Knowledge They Employ
(pdf)
(joint work with Julie Gainsburg, Stanford School of Education)

May 14, 2003 Joseph Farrell
Professor of Economics
UC Berkeley
Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity

with Richard Gilbert and Michael Katz

* An informal dinner will be brought in after the speaker's remarks