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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

Biography (web), Short (pdf)

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

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

Biography

 

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


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

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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?"

Background material

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 3

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"

Bio

Paper Draft

Background material

Paper 1

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"

Bio

Paper 1

Paper 2

 

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"

Bio

Background material

Paper 1

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

Paper 1

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


"Business Outsourcing and Agency Costs "

Paper
Tuesday, Sept. 26

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

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"

 
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


"Mapping Entrepreneurial Genealogies"

Paper

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"

 
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"

CV
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"

 
Tuesday, April 25
 
Thomas Smith
University of San Diego
4:00 PM
Grainger 2165

"Web of Law"

Paper(1) Paper(2)

 

Fall 2005

October 18

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

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

Biography Paper
November 8

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

"Agricultural biotechnology policy: US, EU and International"

Biography Paper
December 6 Mary Zellmer-Bruhn
University of Minnesota
2169 Grainger, 4:00pm
 

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

Biography Paper
  Paper

 

Spring 2005

March 31 Antoinette Schoar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1170 Grainger, 4:00pm

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

Homepage Paper
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?"

Homepage
April 12 Ranjay Gulati
Northwestern University

3270 Grainger, 4:00pm

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

Homepage
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"

Homepage Paper
Paper
Date TBA

Ron Gilson
Columbia Law
Room and Time TBA

Topic TBA

Homepage

 

Fall 2004

September 14

Dr. Walter Powell
Stanford University

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

 

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Paper
October 5

Dr. Steve Barley - Stanford University

 "Gurus, hired guns and warm bodies"

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Paper
October 12

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

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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Paper
October 7

Masako Ueda - UW-Madison

Venture capital and productivit

 

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Paper
October 21

Alta Charo
UW - Madison

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

 

 

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November 6

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

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Paper  Abstract
November 18

Lori Rosenkopf
Wharton School of Business

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

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Paper

 

Spring 2003

January 27

Scott Shane 
(Smith Business School, U-Maryland)   

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

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February 10

Jeremy Foltz
(UW-Madison, CALS)

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

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February 24

Dan Burk 
(U-Minnesota Law School)

"Policy levers in patent law"

(Abstract)  (Paper)

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March 11

Gerry George
(UW-Madison, B-School)

Resource Utilization

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March 24

Lynne Zucker & 
Michael Darby
(UCLA)

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

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April 7

Joan Fujimura
(UW-Madison, Sociology;  Science & Technology studies)
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April 21

Steve Klepper
(Carnegie Mellon University)

The geography of organizational knowledge

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May 5            

Josh Lerner
(Harvard Business School)   

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
(IESE)

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

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Paper
Slides from Presentation
October 23

Nathan Rosenberg (Stanford)

"America's Entrepreneurial Universities"

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Abstract of Paper
November 6

Gordon Smith
(UW-Madison)

"Exits"

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Conclusion of the Paper
November 20

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"

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Abstract of the Presentation
Power Point Presentation
December 4

Diane Burton
(MIT)

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

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Abstract of Paper

 

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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Paper Presented
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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Power Point Presentation
April 3

Mark Suchman (UW-Madison)


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

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Paper Presented
April 10

John Freeman (UC-Berkeley)


"Analyzing the Realized Niches of Private Equity Investors"

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April 12

Robert Baron (RPI)


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

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April 26

Theresa Welbourne (University of Michigan & ePulse Inc.)


"From Professor to Entrepreneur"

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May 2

 

 

 

 

May 3

David Mowery (UC-Berkeley)


"The Effects of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980: Should Other OECD Governments Adopt Similar Policies?"
 

"Post-Issue Patent “Quality Control”: A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-Examinations and European Patent Oppositions"

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