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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2006 Speakers


Date Speaker
***CANCELLED***
October 19, 2005
Software Security
Ashish Arora
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy The Carnegie Mellon Heinz School

November 2, 2005 "Patenting Nanotechnology" (pdf)
Mark Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

November 16, 2005
"Academic Entrepreneurs: Organizational Change at the Individual Level" (pdf)
Janet Bercovitz
Assistant Professor, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

November 30, 2005
"Determinants of Patent Quality: An Empirical Analysis" (pdf)
Bhaven Sampat
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Columbia University

February 15, 2006
" What do Inventors Patent?" (pdf)
Petra Moser
Assistant Professor of Strategy, MIT Sloan School of Management

March 1, 2006
at CERAS 527 (SCANCOR conf room)
" National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878-1933" (pdf)
Gavin Wright
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford University

March 15, 2006
at CERAS 527 (SCANCOR conf room)
noon-1:30 with lunch provided
" Coordination, Property & Intellectual Property: An Unconventional Approach to Anticompetitive Effects & Downstream Access" (pdf)
Scott Kieff,
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Law Professor, Washington University, St. Louis

April 19, 2006
"THE EVOLUTION OF VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT NETWORKS" (joint with Toby Stuart) (pdf)
Olav Sorenson, CV (pdf)
London Business School, Professor of Strategy & International Management

May 3, 2006
"Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research" (joint with Scott Stern)(pdf)
Jeff Furman
Boston University, Assistant Professor, Strategy & Policy Department

May 31, 2006
"Release in haste and patch at leisure: The economics of software vulnerabilities, patches and disclosure" (pdf)
Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerability Disclosure (pdf)
Ashish Arora
Carnegie Mellon, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy

***CANCELLED***
June 7, 2006
"Technology transfer for vaccine production in developing nations; A historical perspective" (pdf)
John H. Barton
Stanford Law School, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Emeritus

* Coffee will be provided