Innovation Seminar, Fall 2006

Wednesdays, 12:15-1:45pm, C330, Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business

 

Papers will be posted on this website as they become available.

 

August 30

Organizational meeting (30 mins. max.)

 

September 6

Catherine Wolfram, Haas

"The Economic Impacts of Vintage Differentiated Regulations:  The Case of New Source Review" (with J. Bushnell)

September 13

Paul Jensen, Melbourne University

"Disharmony in International Patent Office Decisions" and "Patent Examination Decisions and Strategic Trade Behavior" (with A. Palangkaraya and E. Webster)

September 20

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School

"Can Science be a Business:  The Biotechnology Experiment"

September 27

Dietmar Harhoff, University of Munich

"(European) Patent Citations - How to Count and How to to Interpret Them?"

October 4

Simon Wakeman, Haas

"Start-up Firm Strategies for Commercializing Technology through Alliances:  Evidence from Biotechnology"

October 11

Evan Rawley, Haas

"Entry and Diversification: How Organization Drives Taxicab Performance"

October 18

Pino Audia, Haas

“Organizational Foundings in Community Context: Instruments Manufacturers and their Interrelationship with Other Organizations” (with J. Freeman and P. Reynolds)

October 25

CANCELLED

 

November 1

Ian Larkin, Haas

"The Cost of High-Powered Incentives:  Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales"

November 8

Clair Brown, UCB Economics

"Change Is the Only Constant: How the Semiconductor Industry Reinvents Itself" (w. G. Linden)

November 15

Greg Nemet, ERG "Demand-side Policies and Innovation in California Wind Energy"
    NOTE:  LEE BRANSTETTER IDS270 TALK ON NOV. 16 HAS BEEN CANCELLED

November 22

Thanksgiving Holiday; no meeting

 

November 29

Helen Liang, Haas

"Does Foreign Direct Investment improve the Productivity of Domestic Firms?  Technology Spillover within and between Industries"

December 6

Rob Seamans, Haas

“How Does Clustering By Cable TV Firms Affect Technology Diffusion?”