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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2007 Speakers


Date - Spring Quarter Speaker
April 11, 2007
"The Diffusion of Development"
Romain Wacziarg, Associate Professor of Economics, Moghadam Family Faculty Scholar for 2006-07
Stanford Graduate School of Business

April 25, 2007
(***CANCELLED***)
"TBD"
James Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago


May 2, 2007 "Trade Marks and Performance in UK Firms" (pdf)
Dr. Christine Greenhalgh, Economics Research Director, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, St. Peter's College, Oxford UK

May 16, 2007
***Room 225 of the Econ (SIEPR) building***
"Standard Setting Committees" (pdf)
Tim Simcoe, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto


Date - Winter Quarter Speaker
January 17, 2007
"Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation " (pdf)
Ajay Agrawal, Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship
Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto

February 7, 2007 "Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking" (pdf)
Mark Lemley William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford University
Carl Shapiro Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

March 7, 2007 "Where Excludability Matters: Material v. Intellectual Property in Academic Biomedical Research" (pdf)
John Walsh, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Date - Fall Quarter Speaker
October 11, 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

October 25, 2006 "Swimming with sharks: Technology ventures and corporate relationships" (pdf)
Kathy Eisenhardt Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Riitta Katila Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

November 8, 2006 "Managing Research in Industry: A Conversation with IT R&D Executives"
Jeffrey Welser, Director, Next Generation Technology Components, IBM Almaden Research Center
Roy Levin, Distinguished Engineer and Director, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

These executives will participate in in an interactive conversation about the incentives and challenges of managing research in industry
November 29, 2006 "On the 'Data Anti-Commons' Problem in Science: What is it, and can it be fixed by contracting?" (pdf)
Paul A. David, Professor, Stanford University

December 6, 2006
(***CANCELLED***)
"TBA"
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)

* Coffee will be provided