The Center on Employment and Economic Growth

Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

Wednesday 4:00-5:30 *

SIEPR A Conference Room B
Landau Economics Building, 579 Serra Mall @ Galvez St.
2004 Speakers


Date Speaker
January 28, 2004 "The other side of the story: seller perspective on acquisitions" (Joint with Melissa Graebner) (pdf)
Kathy Eisenhardt
Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University

February 18, 2004 "Voice Activated: The Psychology and Design of Interfaces that Talk and Listen" Speech Interfaces from an Evolutionary Perspective(pdf) Voice Activated (pdf)
Clifford Nass
Professor of Communication and, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Computer Science , Stanford University

March 3, 2004 "Which Property Rights Matter for Innovation?: Evidence from African American Inventors"
" Responses in Technical Change to Uncertainty: Evidence from Patenting Activity Among African Americans, 1821-1919 " (pdf)
Lisa Cook
2002-2003 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Instution, Stanford University

May 12, 2004 "The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and University-Industry Technology Transfer: A Model for Other OECD Governments?" (Joint with Bhaven Sampat) (pdf)
David Mowery
Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, Haas Business and Public Policy Group, UC Berkeley

May 19, 2004 "The Names Game: Tracing the Mobility of Inventors with Patent Data" (pdf) Power Point file (ppt)
Manuel Trajtenberg
Tel Aviv University

May 26, 2004 "The Effects of New Information Technologies on Workers' Skills and Establishment Productivity: An 'Insider' Econometric Analysis" (joint with Ann Bartel and Casey Ichniowski) (pdf)
Kathryn Shaw
Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics, Stanford University

* Coffee will be provided