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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

Gordon Smith, Professor
UW-Madison, Law School
4:00 PM
Grainger Hall: Room 1170

"Stories About Contracts: The Secrets Economists Didn't Tell You"

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?"

Background material

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 3

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"

Bio

Paper Draft

Background material

Paper 1

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"

Bio

Paper 1

Paper 2

Deborah Dougherty, Professor

Rutgers, Management & Global Business

4:00 PM

Grainger Hall: Room 1170

"The Coevolution of Science, Ttechnology, and Strategy in Everyday Practice"

Bio

Background material

Paper 1

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

Paper 1

George Geis
University of Alabama
4:00 PM
Grainger Hall: Room 2185

"Business Outsourcing and Agency Costs "

Dan Levinthal

Wharton, U. Penn.

4:00 PM

Grainger Hall: Room 2185

"Myopia of Selection: Does 
Organizational Adaptation Limit the Efficacy of Population Selection."

Paper

Background Readings:
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 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"

Fiona Murray (postponed)

MIT

"Mapping Entrepreneurial Genealogies"

1:30 PM

Grainger 4151

"Blocked mobility and multiple social circles in the creation of entrepreneurship"

Duke University

1:30 PM

Grainger 3070

"Why Do Firms Patent? An Examination of the Utility of Patents as Indicators of Innovative Output"

"The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital"

1:30 PM

Grainger 4151 (subject to change)

"Organizing Activities and Founding Processes in Emerging Organizations"

"Web of Law"

Bronwyn H. Hall
University of California - Berkley
2169 Grainger, 4:00pm

"The Worldwide Patent Explosion and the Strategic Uses of Patents"

Daniel Kleinman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2169 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Agricultural biotechnology policy: US, EU and International"

"Sources and Content of Academic Entrepreneurs Mental Models about Start-up Teams"
 

1170 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Smart Institutions, foolish
choices: The limited partner performance puzzle"

3180 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Navigating Regenerative Medicine: Left Turns, Turns to the Right, and Hey, What's this Steering Column Connected to?"

3270 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Stacking the Deck: The Effects of Top Management Backgrounds on Investor Decisions"

3180 Grainger, 4:00pm

"Impacts of Academic Patenting on the Rate & Direction of (Ag and Life) Science Research at US Universities"

Ron Gilson
Columbia Law
Room and Time TBA

Topic TBA

Dr. Walter Powell
Stanford University

Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences

Dr. Steve Barley - Stanford University

 "Gurus, hired guns and warm bodies"

Dr. Gautam Ahuja
Hallman Fellow, Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan

4:00pm, 4151 Grainger Hall

Market entry capabilities in the disk drive industry: origins and implications

Masako Ueda - UW-Madison

Venture capital and productivit

Alta Charo
UW - Madison

From Stem Cells to Jail Cells:  The Business and Politics of Embryo Research

Martin Kenney
University of California - Davis

A Tale of Two Universities: Professorial Entrepreneurship in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Stanford

Lori Rosenkopf
Wharton School of Business

Social Capital for Hire?: Mobility of Technical Professionals and Firm Centrality in Wireless Standards Committees

Scott Shane 
(Smith Business School, U-Maryland)   

The Halo effect and technology licensing: The influence of institutional prestige on the licensing of university inventions

Jeremy Foltz
(UW-Madison, CALS)

Intellectual property rights, basic scientific research and education: Synergies or tradeoffs in the expanded mission of land grant universities

Dan Burk 
(U-Minnesota Law School)

"Policy levers in patent law"

(Abstract)  (Paper)

Gerry George
(UW-Madison, B-School)

Resource Utilization

Lynne Zucker & 
Michael Darby (UCLA)

Socio-economic processes and birth of nanotech: Learning from biotech

Steve Klepper
(Carnegie Mellon University)

The geography of organizational knowledge

Josh Lerner
(Harvard Business School)   

Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999

Bruno Cassiman
(IESE)

"Complementarity in Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition, and Cooperation in R&D"

Nathan Rosenberg (Stanford)

"America's Entrepreneurial Universities"

Gordon Smith
(UW-Madison)

"Exits"

Pilar Ossorio
(UW-Madison)

"For the Sake of Our Children’s Children: How Current Ethical Theory and Technology Policy Inadequately Account For Future Impacts Of Present Decisions"

Diane Burton
(MIT)

"Walking the Talk: The Impact of High Commitment Values and Practices on Technology Start-ups"

David Audretsch (Indiana University)

Masako Ueda (UW-Madison)

"Optimal Project Rejection and New Firm Start-ups"

Sanjay Jain (UW-Madison)

"Explicating the Processes Involved in Compatibility Standards Evolution: The Case of Ethernet in the LAN Industry"

Mark Suchman (UW-Madison)

"The Contracting Universe: Law Firms and the Institutionalization of Venture Capital Financing in Silicon Valley"

John Freeman (UC-Berkeley)

"Analyzing the Realized Niches of Private Equity Investors"

Robert Baron (RPI)

"OB -- A Valuable Perspective for Answering the "Why" Questions of Entrepreneurship"

Theresa Welbourne (University of Michigan & ePulse Inc.)

"From Professor to Entrepreneur"