BUS AD 296: SEMINAR ON INNOVATION

Fall 1999: Wednesday 12-2 PM, F-318 Haas School (bring lunch if you like)
Convenor: Professor Bronwyn H. Hall

Aug. 25:   Hank Chesbrough, Harvard Business School
                The Role of the Institutional Environment in the Organizational Impact of Innovation:
                A Comparative Analysis of US and Japanese Firms in the Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Industry

Sept. 1:     No seminar

Sept. 8:      Suzanne Scotchmer, Public Plicy
                 Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools.

Sept. 15:    Martin Meyer, Helsinki Univerity of Technology and Technopolis Ltd.
                  Patents Citing Scientific Literature: Is the Relationship Causal or Casual?

 Sept. 22:    Rachel Griffith, IFS (visiting UCLA)
                  R&D Tax Credits.

Sept. 29:    Steve Puller, Economics
                  The Strategic Use of Innovation to Influence Regulatory Standards.

Oct. 6:      Rose Marie Ham, Wharton School
             Standing on the Crowded Shoulders of Giants

Oct. 13:    No seminar

Oct. 20:    Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig-Maxmilliens Universitaet, Muenich
                 Citations, Family Size, Opposition, and the Value of Patent Rights.

Oct. 27:    Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
                150 Years of Patent Protection.
             150 Years of Patent Office Practice.
                The seminar will focus on the first of these two related papers.

Nov. 3:     Enrico Moretti, Economics
                Workers Education, Externalities  and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Plant-Level Production Functions

Nov. 10:   Alan Marco, Economics
                Learning by Suing: A Real Options Approach to Legal Uncertainty in Patents

Nov. 17:    Michael Barnes, Economics
                 The Geography of Innovation:  The Patterns and Implications of University Patent Citations 

Nov. 24:    Kristina Lybecker, Economics
                  Product Piracy: The Sale of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries

Dec. 1:    Deepak Somaya, Haas
               My Strategy Says: 'See You in Court!' Strategic Determinants of Decisions to Litigate Patents through Trial in Computers and Research
               Medicines. 

Dec. 8       Greg Graff, ARE - postponed
                  A Glimpse at Innovation Risk Taking? Patent Citation Profiles of Narrow Technology Trajectories

                 Jesse Giummo, Economics - postponed
             Complementary Technologies and Restrictions on the Freedom to Operate: The Case of Plant Biotechnology

Last updated December 20, 1999 by Bronwyn H. Hall