INSITE Seminars & Lectures Archive
Inter Disciplinary Research Series
Spring 2009
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM in 2167 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Tues., Feb. 17 | F. Scott Kieff , Professor Washington University, Law 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2167
Talk: Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition [paper] Research interests: Technology law and business, intellectual property and technology transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation |
| Tuesday, March 10 | Saras Sarasvathy, Associate Professor University of Virginia, Business Administration 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2167
Talk: Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise Research interests: Cognitive science, behavioral economics and entrepreneurship |
| Tuesday, March 24 | Darian Ibrahim, Assistant Professor UW-Madison, Law School 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2167
Talk: Financing the Next Silicon Valley Research interests: Law and entrepreneurship, financing of high-tech start-ups |
| Tuesday, April 7 | Brian Wright, Professor UC-Berkeley, Agricultural and Resource Economics 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2167
Talk: "Why Weak Patents? Rational Ignorance or Pro-“Customer” Tilt?" Research interests: Intellectual property rights, economics of genetic conservation |
Friday, April 17 (Please note date) |
Andrew Van de Ven, Professor University of Minnesota, School of Management 1:00 PM, Grainger Hall: 1140 [Please note NEW time, location and date]
Talk: "Entrepreneurial Boundary Spanning in Distributed Innovation Network" Research interests: Management of innovation and change, organization theory |
Fall 2008
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 3:30 PM - 5:25 PM in 1180 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Tues., Oct. 21 | Dietram Scheufele, Professor UW-Madison, Life Sciences Communication & Journalism and Mass Com. 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1180
Talk: "Religious beliefs and public attitudes to nanotechnology in Europe and the U.S." [background paper] Research interests: public attitudes toward science and technology |
| Tuesday, Nov. 4 | Shubha Ghosh, Professor & Associate Director, INSITE UW-Madison, Law 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1180
Talk: "Open Borders, Intellectual Property & Federal Criminal Trade Secret Law" [paper] Research interests: Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property as a Business Asset, Competition Policy, Comparative Institutional Analysis of Law and Business |
| Tuesday, Nov. 18 | Guanming Shi, Assistant Professor UW-Madison, Agricultural & Applied Economics 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1180
Talk: "An Analysis of Bundle Pricing: The Case of the Corn Seed Market" [paper] Research interests: industrial organization and intellectual property rights, agricultural biotechnology |
| Date Forthcoming | F. Scott Kief , Professor Washington University, Law School 3:30 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1180
Talk: Forthcoming [paper] Research interests: Technology law and business, intellectual property and technology transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation |
Spring 2008
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 1175 Grainger unless otherwise noted
| January 29, 2008 | Raghu Garud , Professor Penn State, Management and Organization 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1175
Talk: "Conferences as Venues for the Organization of Emerging Organizational Fields: the Case of Cochlear Implants." [paper] [presentation] Research interests: Emergence of novelty |
| March 4, 2008 | Alva Taylor, Assistant Professor Dartmouth, Business Administration 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1175
Talk: "The Push and Pull of Technological Resources: When do Scientist Entrepreneurs Start New Ventures." [paper] Research interests: Entrepreneurship, technology management and decision-making |
| March 11, 2008 | Frank Rothaermel, Associate Professor Georgia Tech, Strategic Management 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1175
Talk: Ambidexterity and Innovative Performance: The Role of Intellectual Human Capital and Strategic Alliances" [paper] [presentation] Research interests: Strategy in high-tech startups |
| April 1, 2008 | Zur Shapira, Professor New York University, Entrepreneurship and Management 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 1175
Talk: "Finding the Right Balance: Decisions under Uncertainty and Venture Capital Syndicate Size" [paper] Research interests: managerial risk taking, organizational decision-making, and innovation and entrepreneurship |
| April 25, 2008 | Laura Cardinal , Associate Professor Tulane University, Strategy 10:00 AM, Grainger Hall: Room 2294 <-- Please note time and location
Talk: "Technological Domains and New Product Development Prcoesses" [paper forthcoming] Research interests: managing innovation and R&D capabilities, evolution and adaptation of control systems |
Fall 2007
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:30 in 2165 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| September 25, 2007 | Manju Puri, Professor Duke University, Finance 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2165
Talk: "On the Life-Cycle Dynamics of Venture Capital and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms" [paper] Research interests: financial intermediation, particularly commercial banking, investment banking, and venture capital |
| October 9, 2007 | Shubha Ghosh, Professor Southern Methodist University, Law 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2165
Talk: "Patenting, Venture Capital, and the Brave New Markets for Race-Specific Pharmacogenomics" [paper, handout] Research interests: intellectual property and policy |
| November 6, 2007 | Fiona Murray, Associate Professor MIT, Management of Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2165
Talk: "Learning to live with patents: The changing role of intellectual property rights among life scientists" [paper] Research interests: the effect of academic and industry collaborations of scientific fields, gender differences in life science faculty patenting |
| November 13, 2007 | Arvids Ziedonis, Assistant Professor U. Michigan, Strategy 4:00 PM, Grainger Hall: Room 2165 Title: The Geographic Reach of Market and Non-Market Channels of Technology Transfer [paper] Research interests: institutional and environmental factors that influence innovative activity, the mechanisms firms use to acquire new technologies and manage knowledge flows, and the empirical measurement of innovative activity
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Spring 2007
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 1170 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Tuesday, Feb. 27 | Gordon Smith, Professor
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| Tuesday, Mar. 13 | Kris Olds, Associate Professor UW-Madison, Geography 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 1170
"Converging Agendas and the Refashioning of Global Networks: What Role for Foreign Universities in the Modern Singaporean City-State?" |
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| Tuesday, Mar. 27 | Robert Hunt, PhD, Senior Economist Federal Reserve Bank - Philadelphia 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 1170
"The Democratization of U.S. Research & Development after 1980" |
Paper Draft Background material |
| Tuesday, Apr. 10 | Frank Rothaermel, Associate Professor & Andrew Hess, PhD Candidate Georgia Tech, Strategic Management 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 1170
"Building Dynamic Capabilities: Innovation Driven By Individual, Firm and Network Level Effects" |
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| Tuesday, Apr. 17 | Deborah Dougherty, Professor Rutgers, Management & Global Business 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 1170
"The Coevolution of Science, Ttechnology, and Strategy in Everyday Practice" |
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| Tuesday, Apr. 24 | Sean Safford, Assistant Professor U. Chicago, Organizations & Strategy 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 1170
"Searching for Silicon Valley in the Rust Belt: The Evolution of Knowledge Networks in Akron and Rochester" |
Background material |
Fall 2006
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 4:00-6:00 in 2185 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Tuesday, Sept. 19 | George Geis
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| Tuesday, Sept. 26 | Dan Levinthal Wharton, U. Penn. 4:00 PM Grainger Hall: Room 2185
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| Tuesday, Oct. 3 | Hayagreeva "Huggy"Rao Stanford 1:30 PM Grainger Hall: Room 3180
"No Barrique, No Berlusconi: Identity and Technological Change in the Barolo Wine District" |
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| Coming Fall 2007 | Fiona Murray (postponed) MIT |
Summer 2006
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 16:00-17:30 in 2165 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Friday, June 9 | Don Patton and other guests University of California, Davis 2:30 PM Grainger Hall: Room 3070
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Spring 2006
Coordinator: John Surdyk
The seminar runs on Tuesdays from 16:00-17:30 in 2165 Grainger unless otherwise noted.
| Friday, February 24 |
Dali Ma 1:30 PM Grainger 4151 "Blocked mobility and multiple social circles in the creation of entrepreneurship" |
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| Friday, March 3 |
Michael Roach Duke University 1:30 PM Grainger 3070 "Why Do Firms Patent? An Examination of the Utility of Patents as Indicators of Innovative Output" |
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| Tuesday, March 7 |
Thomas Hellmann University of British Coulmbia 4:00 PM Grainger 2165 "The Importance of Trust for Investment:
Evidence from Venture Capital" |
CV Paper |
| Friday, March 10 |
Philip Kim 1:30 PM Grainger 4151 (subject to change) "Organizing Activities and Founding Processes in Emerging Organizations" |
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| Tuesday, April 25 |
Thomas Smith University of San Diego 4:00 PM Grainger 2165 "Web of Law" |
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Fall 2005
| October 18 | Bronwyn H. Hall "The Worldwide Patent Explosion and the Strategic Uses of Patents" |
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| November 8 | Daniel Kleinman "Agricultural biotechnology policy: US, EU and International" |
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| December 6 | Mary Zellmer-Bruhn University of Minnesota 2169 Grainger, 4:00pm "Sources and Content of Academic Entrepreneurs Mental Models
about Start-up Teams" |
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Spring 2005
| March 31 | Antoinette Schoar Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1170 Grainger, 4:00pm "Smart Institutions, foolish |
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| April 5 | Linda Hogle Regenerative Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison 3180 Grainger, 4:00pm "Navigating Regenerative Medicine: Left Turns, Turns to the Right, and Hey, What's this Steering Column Connected to?" |
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| April 12 | Ranjay Gulati Northwestern University 3270 Grainger, 4:00pm "Stacking the Deck: The Effects of Top Management Backgrounds on Investor Decisions" |
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| April 19 | Brad Barham University of Wisconsin-Madison 3180 Grainger, 4:00pm "Impacts of Academic Patenting on the Rate & Direction of (Ag and Life) Science Research at US Universities" |
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Fall 2004
| September 14 | Dr. Walter Powell Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences
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| October 5 | Dr. Steve Barley - Stanford University "Gurus, hired guns and warm bodies" |
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| October 12 | Dr. Gautam Ahuja 4:00pm, 4151 Grainger Hall
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Fall 2003
| September 23 | Andrew King Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Market entry capabilities in the disk drive industry: origins and implications
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| October 7 | Masako Ueda - UW-Madison Venture capital and productivit
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| October 21 | Alta Charo From Stem Cells to Jail Cells: The Business and Politics of Embryo Research
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| November 6 | Martin Kenney A Tale of Two Universities: Professorial Entrepreneurship in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Stanford |
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| November 18 | Lori Rosenkopf Social Capital for Hire?: Mobility of Technical Professionals and Firm Centrality in Wireless Standards Committees |
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Spring 2003
| January 27 | Scott Shane |
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| February 10 | Jeremy Foltz |
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| February 24 | Dan Burk "Policy levers in patent law" |
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| March 11 | Gerry George Resource Utilization |
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| March 24 | Lynne Zucker & Socio-economic processes and birth of nanotech: Learning from biotech |
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Joan Fujimura (UW-Madison, Sociology; Science & Technology studies) |
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| April 21 | Steve Klepper |
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| May 5 | Josh Lerner Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999 |
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Fall 2002
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| October 9 | Bruno Cassiman "Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition, and Cooperation in R&D" |
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| October 23 | Nathan Rosenberg (Stanford) "America's Entrepreneurial Universities" |
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| November 6 | Gordon Smith "Exits" |
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| November 20 | Pilar Ossorio "For the Sake of Our Children’s Children: How Current Ethical Theory and Technology Policy Inadequately Account For Future Impacts Of Present Decisions" |
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| December 4 | Diane Burton "Walking the Talk: The Impact of High Commitment Values and Practices on Technology Start-ups" |
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Fall 2001 & Spring 2002
| October 9 | David Audretsch (Indiana University) |
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| March 6 | Masako Ueda (UW-Madison) "Optimal Project Rejection and New Firm Start-ups" |
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| March 20 | Sanjay Jain (UW-Madison) "Explicating the Processes Involved in Compatibility Standards Evolution: The Case of Ethernet in the LAN Industry" |
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| April 3 | Mark Suchman (UW-Madison)
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| April 10 | John Freeman (UC-Berkeley)
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| April 12 | Robert Baron (RPI)
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| April 26 | Theresa Welbourne (University of Michigan & ePulse Inc.)
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