BUS AD 296: SEMINAR ON INNOVATION 

Fall 2000: Wednesday 12-2 PM, F-318 Haas School (bring lunch if you like)

Convenor: Professor Bronwyn H. Hall 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: The seminar will continue to meet in Spring 2001, organized by David Mowery. Same time and place.

The innovation seminar is open to graduate students, faculty, and visitors from Economics, Haas, ARE, and other departments in the university who have an interest in the economics of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property. Here are some lists of past presentations:

Spring 2000    Fall 1999     1998 prior to 1998

We encourage presentation by graduate students in early stages of research, and have occasionally had students present discussion of a set of papers by others on a specific topic that is of general interest to the group. Anyone who wants an electronic link added for their presentation, please send me email. Also send me email if you would like to speak this Fall.

Aug. 30: Organizational meeting  (F-555 Haas) 

CHANGE OF ROOM TO F-318 Haas

Sept. 6:   Petra Moser, Economics,
              "How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation - Evidence From 19th-Century World Fairs"

Sept. 13:  Mark Lemley, Boalt Hall,
              "Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office"

Sept. 20:  Susan Athey, MIT Sloan School,
              "The Impact of IT Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes" (with Scott Stern)

Sept. 27:  Greg Graff, ARE,
               “Identifying Technological Trajectories for Empirical Analysis of Innovating Institutions and Technology Markets:
                A Case Study in Agricultural Biotechnology”

Oct. 4:    Chris Boerner, Haas School of Business
                "Firm Performance in Drug Development & Regulatory Approval: A Competence Perspective"

Oct. 11:  Megan Macgarvie, Economics
                "The Determinants of International Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence from Patent Citations"

Oct. 18:  Charles Baden-Fuller, City University of London,
              "Using Real Options to Create Value in Risky Projects"

Oct. 25: Garrick Blalock, Haas School of Business, "Do Local Partners Matter? Foreign Ownership and Technology Spillovers"
               Rob Lowe, Haas School of Business, "Entrepreneurship and Information Asymmetry: Theory and Evidence
                                                                          from Start-Up Licensees at the University of California"

Nov. 1:   cancelled

Nov. 8:   Stu Graham, Haas School of Business,
                "Exploring the Effects of Patent Oppositions: A Comparative Study of US and European Patents"

Nov. 15:  Aija Leiponen, visiting the Institute for Industrial Relations,
                "Collaboration, Innovation, and Firm Performance -- Increasing Returns from Knowledge Complementarities?"

Nov. 22:  No seminar (Thanksgiving week)

Nov. 29:  Raffaele Oriani, University of Bologna, visiting Economics
                "R&D Capital, Uncertainty and the Market Value of the Firm: a Real Options Approach"

Dec. 5, 4-6 PM, 639 Evans Hall: Jenny Lanjouw (note change of time, date, and location)
                "Characteristics of Patent Litigation: A Window on Competition"

Last updated December 3, 2000 by Bronwyn H. Hall