Social Science and Technology Seminar Series























The Center on Employment and Economic Growth

Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

Wednesday 4:00-5:30 *

SIEPR
Landau Economics Building, 579 Serra Mall @ Galvez St.
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Previous Years Speakers

Date - Autumn Quarter Speaker
September 23, 2009
Room 225
 
"Bringing Ideas to Life: Integrating Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities" abstract joint with David Hsu and Edward Roberts
Chuck Eesley, Stanford MS&E
October 21, 2009
Room 225  
"The Outsourcing of Knowledge-Based Activities Over Time: Professional, Domain, and Context-Specific Knowledge"
Deepak Somaya, Univ. of Illinois
 
November 4, 2009
Conf. Room B  
"TBA"
Mary Tripsas, Harvard Business School
 
December 2, 2009
Conf. Room B  
"TBA"
Brian Silverman, University of Toronto
 
Date - Spring Quarter Speaker
April 29, 2009
(CANCELLED)
"Exploratory Search and the Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Investigation"
Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan
May 13, 2009
 
"The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered" (pdf)
Ben Jones Northwestern University
 
May 27, 2009
 
"Escape to Reality: Organizational Control and the Internet in a Total Institution"
Christine Beckman UC-Irvine
 
Date - Winter Quarter Speaker
January 14, 2009
 
"Examiner Characteristics and the Patent Grant Rate" (pdf)
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law
 
February 4, 2009
 
"The effect of industrial policy on corporate performance: Evidence from panel data" (abstract - pdf)
John Van Reenen and Chiara Criscuolo (London School of Economics)
 
February 18, 2009
 
"A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the Soviet Union and Russia, 1971 to 2006" (abstract - pdf)
Lisa D. Cook James Madison College & Michigan State University
 
March 4, 2009
 
"Why do entrepreneurs patent? Insights from the 2008 Kauffman-Berkeley Patent Survey."

Stu Graham, Georgia Tech

Date - Autumn Quarter Speaker
October 10, 2008
(***CANCELLED***)
(*talk moved to 4/29/09*)
 
"Exploratory Search and the Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Investigation"
Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan
October 22, 2008
 
"The Global Technology Collaboration Network: Structure, Trends, and Implications" (pdf)
Melissa Schilling, New York University
 
November 19, 2008
 
"Tracing the linkages between science and technology: An exploratory analysis of the research networks among scientists and inventors" (pdf) Stefano Breschi, University of Bocconi
 
December 3, 2008
 
"Community-Based Production of Open Source Software: What do we know about the developers who participate?" (pdf)
Paul David, Stanford University
 

 

* Coffee will be provided