Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

ALL SEMINARS TAKE PLACE IN SIEPR CONFERENCE ROOM B UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE

Fall Quarter, 2009

9/23Chuck Eesley, Stanford University, MS&E

"Bringing Ideas to Life: Integrating Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities"
(joint with David Hsu and Edward Roberts)
Location: CONFERENCE ROOM 225
10/21
Deepak Somaya, University of Illinois

"The Outsourcing of Knowledge-Based Activities Over Time:   Professional, Domain, and Context-Specific Knowledge"
Location: CONFERENCE ROOM 225
11/4Mary Tripsas, Harvard Business School

"The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras"
(joint with Mary Benner)
12/2Brian Silverman, University of Toronto

"The Effect of Markets for Technology and Vertical Integration on Exit, Entry, and Price:  An Empirical Analysis of the Laser Printer Industry"
(joint with John de Figueiredo)

Winter Quarter, 2010

1/6Andrew Hargadon, UC-Davis

"From Impossible to Invisible: Design, Innovation, and the emergence of structural glass"
1/20

Paul David, Stanford University

"Rivalry and the Rules of the Game in Processes of Collective Invention"

2/3Gerry McDermott, University of South Carolina

"Public-Private Institutions as Catalysts of Upgrading in Emerging Market Societies"
(joint with Rafael Corredoira and Gregory Kruse)
2/10Petra Moser, Stanford University
POSTPONED to 5/19
3/3

Fabian Waldinger, London School of Economics 

"Peer Effects in Science: Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany"

Joint with the Social Science History Workshop

Spring Quarter, 2010

3/31

Dietmar Harhoff, Maximilians-Universität, Visiting Stanford (joint with Marc Gruber and Karin Hoisl)

Abstract

Invention Processes and Knowledge Recombination across Technological Boundaries

4/21

Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan

Paradigm - Changing Versus Paradigm-Deepening Innovation:  How Firm Scope Influences Firm Technological Response to Shocks

5/19

Petra Moser, Stanford University

How much did the United States gain from the arrival of German-Jewish Emigres? Nazi expulsions and American scientific innovation
6/2Erica Fuchs, Carnegie-Mellon University