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INSITE Seminars & Lectures Archive

Policy Lecture Series 
Co-sponsored with WAGE and the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship

Fall 2008

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM in 1180 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

Dec. 2, 2008

David Audretsch, Professor

Indiana University, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy

Talk: "The Knowledge Filter and Economic Growth: The Role of Scientist Entrepreneurship" [paper]

Biography

 

Spring 2008

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 1175 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

February 21, 2008

G. Steven Burrill , Founder

Burrill & Co.

Talk: Wisconsin Life Sciences Transformations: World Perspectives and Wisconsin Advantage [presentation]

Biography

Canceled due to illness

David Audretsch, Professor

Indiana University, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy

Talk: The Knowledge Filter and Economic Growth: The Role of Scientist Entrepreneurship

Biography

 

Fall 2007

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:30 in 2165 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

Forthcoming

Carl Schramm, President

Kauffman Foundation

Biography

November 14, 2007

Ashok Vasudevan

Tasty Bite

Red Gym at Noon

Spring 2007

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 1170 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday, March 28

European Research and Innovation: The Impact of Union

Panel, moderator: Anne Miner

** PLEASE NOTE LOCATION**

4:00 PM
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

Co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence

Tuesday, May 1

Uzi de Haan, Professor

Technion, Industrial Engineering & Management

4:00 PM
Grainger Hall: Room 1170

Background reading

Paper 1

 

Biography

Fall 2006

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 2185 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, November 21

Lorie Keating Heinemann, Secretary

State of Wisconsin

Department Financial Institutions

Wednesday, December 6

Frederick Schilling, Founder

Dagoba Chocolate (link)

The New Paradigm of Business: Planet, People and Profit

NEW ROOM & Time:

Grainger 5120 at 12 PM

 

Summer 2006

Coordinator: John Surdyk

The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:30 in 4151 Grainger unless otherwise noted.

None scheduled    

 

Spring 2006

Friday, April 28

Kenneth Hendricks
ABC Supply Company
1 to 3 pm

2165 Grainger Hall

Topic: TBA

Webpage
Tuesday, May 2 Rajiv Vinnakota
Co-founder of The SEED Foundation
6 to 8 pm

2165 Grainger Hall

"Humility, Stubbornness, and Improvisation"

Webpage

Fall 2005

October 4

Dr. Ed Coyle
Purdue University
Room 3070 Grainger, 4:00pm

Topic: Technology Roadmapping

Biography Presentation
October 25 Dr. Carl Schramm
Kauffman Foundation
Room TBA, 4:00pm
Biography

 

 

Spring 2005

Tentative Date: April 14

G. Steven Burrill
Burrill & Co.
3070 Grainger, 4:00pm

Topic TBA
Homepage

Date:

April 26

Walter Plosila
Battelle Memorial Institute
3270 Grainger, 4:00pm

"State Science- and Technology- Based Economic Development Policy: History, Trends and Developments, and Future Directions"

Homepage Paper

Date:

May 5

Eric Cox
Pfizer Research and Development
2170 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Pharmaceutical Discovery: From Idea to Market to Political Whipping Post"

Curriculum Vitae

 

Fall 2004

October 7

Stephen C. Hall
New York Times Magazine Contributor

4:00pm, 3270 Grainger Hall

"Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension"
 
December 7

Dr. Bob Goodman
Professor, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
 
December 14 Dr. Robert McCarthy
Management of Technology Innovation Fellow

Subject: Technology Road Mapping

 
Curriculum Vitae

 

Spring 2004

February 13

 

Alex Stajkovic
(UW-Madison, Managment and Human Resources)

Entrepreneurship Meta-Analysis
 

Dept Homepage
February 20 Larry Ribstein
(University of Illinois)
Dept Homepage
February 27 Masako Ueda
(UW-Madison, Finance)
Dept Homepage
March 5 Randy Dimond
Promega
 
March 12 Marinne Brow
3rd Wave
 
March 26

Anne Miner
(UW-Madison, Management)

Dun & Bradstreet Dataset

 
April 2 Sanjay Jain
(UW-Madison, Management)
 
April 9 TBA  
April 16 Gordon Smith
(UW-Madison, School of Law)
 
April 23 TBA  
April 30 TBA  

 

Spring 2003

January 28

 

Scott Shane 
(Smith Business School, U-Maryland)
12:30-2:00 PM 
3070 Grainger

"University Start-Ups"

Dept Homepage
February 24

Dan Burk 
(U-Minnesota Law School)
12:00 - 1:00 PM
3070 Grainger

"Patenting DNA for fun and profit"

(Abstract)     (Slides)

Dept Homepage
March 24

Michael Darby &
Lynne Zucker
(UCLA)
12:00-1:00 PM
3070 Grainger

"Growing by leaps and inches: Creative destruction, real-cost reduction and inching up"

(Paper)    (More details from biotech studies)

Bio Homepage
Bio Homepage