Upcoming Events
Knowledge & Innovation Seminar Series 2009-2010
Research has consistently highlighted knowledge and innovation as critical drivers of performance and economic growth. This seminar series brings together influential scholars to present research highlighting the interplay of knowledge and innovation. These researchers come from a variety of domains including: management, economics, communication, strategy, international business, creativity, knowledge management, and technology & innovation management. By sharing research from these diverse perspectives, we hope to enable the cross-fertilization of ideas and the creation of innovative research programs to tackle these important topics.
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Past Events
Monday, April 28, 2008
Jersey Roots, Global Reach: Innovation and Economic Development in South Asia and New Jersey: Opportunities and Constraints
Co-sponsored with the South Asian Studies Program.
Speakers included:
Devesh Kapur, Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; Smita Srinivas, Columbia University; Rakesh Basant –Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Carl Pray, Chair, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers; Hal Salzman, Urban Institute; Sam Dryden, Wolfonsohn & Company; Dr. Nim Cheung, IEEE; Ann Koontz, Enterpriseworks, M.L. Quibria, Asian Development Bank
Major Topics:
-Innovation in South Asia in Pharmaceuticals and Health; Agriculture and Environment; and Information and Communication Technology.
-South Asian research, technology, and entrepreneurs as contributors to economic growth in the mid-Atlantic region.
-The role of governments, foundations, and foreign aid donors encourage innovation which contributes to GNP growth and to reducing poverty and hunger.
-How can individuals, universities, corporations, and foundations in the Mid Atlantic Region in the South Asian innovation and development process.
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Tamil Arasu
Rakesh Basant
Nim Cheung
Sam Dryden
Ann Koontz
M.G. Quibria
Hal Salzman
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Mini-Symposium: Improving Technology Transfer at the University: Lessons from Social Scientists and Practitioners
Speakers included: Don Siegel, Professor, University of California at Riverside; Michael D. Santoro, Professor, Lehigh University Business School; Mike Pazzani, Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education; Christopher Molloy, Dean, Rutgers’ Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy; Maish Yarmush, Paul and Mary Monroe Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University/Senior Associate Dean for Research Development and Communication, School of Engineering; Ilya Raskin, Professor, Biotech Center for Agriculture & the Environment, Rutgers/ Head of GIBEX, Rutgers; Carl E. Pray, Center for Innovation Studies and Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Rutgers.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Joint Symposium- Building Successful Bioscience Clusters: Lessons
from Around the World
The event, jointly sponsored by the Innovation Studies Initiative at Rutgers, Bio-1, and all 3 of New Jersey’s WIRED regions, featured: Andrew Munk, sharing insights from Medicon Valley, one of Europe’s top bioscience hot spots, Rutgers Business School Professor Michelle Gittelman, discussing the role of place in partnerships between bioscience companies and universities, and David Finegold, Dean of Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, discussing the development of high-skill ecosystems and the Bio-1 WIRED initiative in Central NJ.
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David Finegold
Michelle Gittelman
Andrew Munk
November 29, 2007
Environmental Implications of Technological Transitions
Arnulf Grubler, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA
Click here for Arnulf Grubler's 11/29/07 presentation
on technological transitions.
Nov. 8, 2007
Innovation in the Biotech Sector- Is The Pharmaceutical Industry In A Productivity Crisis?
Iain Cockburn, Boston University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Rising R&D expenditures and falling counts of new drug approvals since 1996 have lead many observers to conclude that there has been a sharp decline in research productivity in the pharmaceutical industry over the past decade. A close look at the underlying data, however, suggests that these trends are greatly exaggerated: properly measured, research output is unlikely to have fallen as much as these figures imply, while trends in R&D expenditure are seriously overstated by failing to account for inflation in R&D input costs
Oct. 29, 2007
Reaching Our Targets: Innovative Global Warming Solutions for New Jersey Conference
A day-long Energy & Climate Policy conference with Innovation Studies crossover: Fostering Technological Innovation Panel from 3:00 - 4:15 When: Monday October 29, 2007, 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 pm, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick Info: Free tickets available to RU students, faculty & staff (includes breakfast & lunch). See www.njssi.org for info.
Oct. 25, 2007
Learning to Innovate: Edison and the Electric Light
Paul Israel, Managing Editor of Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University http://edison.rutgers.edu Thomas Edison was a central figure in the development of modern invention and innovation. At his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, he produced seminal inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, and electric light and power. It was the complexity of inventing and commercializing the electric light and power system that led Edison to turn Menlo Park into the first industrial research and development laboratory and to see his inventive work as part of a larger process of innovation. This talk examined Edison's transformation from a contract inventor in the telegraph industry into the successful innovator of the electrical industry.
For more information contact Clinton
Andrews or Carl Pray.
