The Center on Employment and Economic Growth

Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

Wednesday 4:00-5:30 *

SIEPR - Conference Room B
Landau Economics Building, 579 Serra Mall @ Galvez St.
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2005 Speakers







Date Speaker
October 13, 2004 The Future of Work (joint seminar with the GSB Center for Electronic Business and Commerce Seminar)
Tom Malone
Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

November 3, 2004 "The Economic of Geography of Internet infrastructure in the United States"
Shane Greenstein
Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Dist. Prof of Mgmt and Strategy; Chair of Mgmt & Strategy Dept.

November 17, 2004
Rescheduled from Nov. 10
"Exploring the Patent Explosion"
Bronwyn Hall
Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley

December 1, 2004
at noon in CERAS 527 (note the time and location change from the usual).
"TBA "
Manuel Trajtenberg
Tel Aviv University

January 19, 2005
" Organizing Far From Equilibrium: Discontinuous Change in Organizational Fields " (pdf)
Alan Meyer
University of Oregon

February 2, 2005
" Chandlerian Firms vs Entrepreneurship " (pdf)
Alfonso Gambardella (pdf)
University of Bocconi, Italy

February 16, 2005
" The Geography of Organizational Knowledge "
Steven Klepper
Carnegie Mellon University

March 2, 2005 "An Evolutionary Approach to Institutions and Social Construction: Process and Structure" (pdf)
"Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology" (pdf)
Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby
UCLA

April 6, 2005 " Entrepreneurial Geographies: Support Networks in Three High-Tech Industries" (pdf)
Martin Kenney
UC Davis

April 20, 2005 " The Role of Hostages in Establishing Venture Capital Networks " (pdf)
Jenny Kuan
SIEPR, Carnegie Mellon

May 11, 2005 " Innovation through Optimal Licensing in Free Markets and Free Software " (pdf)
Marshall Van Alstyne
Boston University, MIT

June 1, 2005 " Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-Commons Hypothesis " (pdf)
Fiona Murray
MIT

* Coffee will be provided