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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Previous Years Speakers 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002


Date - Spring Quarter Speaker
April 9, 2008
"Attribution and Human Capital in the Twentieth Century: How Professional Reputation Became the New Intellectual Property" (pdf)
Catherine Fisk, Duke University
April 23, 2008 Rescheduled to May 28
TBD - Rescheduled to May 28
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business , Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
May 14, 2008
*Law School Rm 280A -2nd floor*
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"Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term" (pdf)
companion paper "Optimal Copyright Over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works " (pdf)
Rufus Pollock, Cambridge University
May 28, 2008
(***CANCELLED***)
TBD
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business , Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
June 11, 2008 " The Geographic Reach of Market and Non–Market Channels of University Research Commercialization" (pdf)
Arvids Ziedonis Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Date - Winter Quarter Speaker
January 9, 2008
"Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization" (pdf)
Toby Stuart, Harvard Business School
January 23, 2008
"Organizational Diseconomies of Scope and Creative Destruction" (pdf)
Rebecca Henderson, Eastman Kodak Professor of management at the Sloan School, MIT
February 7, 2008 **This is on a Thursday lunch**
"Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity" (pdf)
Book summary - Yale University Press
Bob Litan, Kauffman Foundation
March 5, 2008
at CERAS SCANCOR conf room
"Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS: How Public Policy, Technology and Globalization Shaped Drug Development" Abstract (pdf)
Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Date - Fall Quarter Speaker
October 10, 2007
" Inter-Firm R&D Networks in the Global Software Industry: An Overview of Major Trends and Patterns " (joint with Myriam Cloodt and Nadine Roijakkers) (pdf) Abstract (pdf)
John Haagedorn, Maastricht University
November 7, 2007
POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING
"Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility"
Arvids Ziedonis Assistant Professor of Strategy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
November 11, 2007 "Structure and modeling of large-scale social networks" Abstract
Related papers:
(1) Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks, J.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, J. Hyvönen, G. Szabó, D. Lazer, K. Kaski, J. Kertész, and A.-L. Barabási, PNAS 104, 7332-7336 (2007).
(2) Emergence of communities in weighted networks, J. M. Kumpula, J.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, K. Kaski and J. Kertész, Phys. Rev. Lett., in print (2007).
Links to these papers can be found on http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/Onnela/
Jukka-Pekka Onnela Junior Research Fellow, Oxford University
November 28, 2007 "Lock-in in Enterprise Software" (pdf)
Ian Larkin, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
December 12, 2007 " In or Out: Faculty Research and Consulting" (Joint with Richard Jensen and Jerry Thursby)
" US Faculty Patenting: Inside and Outside the University" (Joint with Jerry Thursby and Anne Fuller)
Marie Thursby, Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

* Coffee will be provided