Spring 2012 Innovation Seminar (PHDBA279I)
Wednesdays noon – 1:40 pm

Blum Hall, Room 330 (on Hearst, between North Gate and the Public Policy building, see map below)

Details

Professors: Brian Wright (ARE) and Lee Fleming (IEOR)

(Informal) GSI: Neil Thompson (Haas)

The workshop is open to PhD students, faculty, and visitors from Economics, Haas, ARE, and other departments in the university who have an interest in the economics of innovation, technological change, and intellectual property.

Anyone who would like to speak in Spring 2012 should email bwright@berkeley.edu. If you’d like to be added to the distribution list for the class, please email neil_thompson@haas.berkeley.edu.

The course is offered on an S/U basis only.

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Schedule

Jan 18: Organizational meeting

Jan 25: Christian Helmers (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid)

My precious! The location and diffusion of scientific research: evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source (with Henry Overman)

Feb 1: Jie Cai (Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales)

Growth through inter-sectoral knowledge linkages (with Nan Li)

Feb 8: No Seminar

Feb 15: Ramana Nanda (Harvard Business School)

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation (with Matt Rhodes-Kropf.)