TITLE: EC 2888r Workshop in Economics of Science and Engineering

TIME: Fridays from 12pm-1:30pm

LOCATION: Baker Library 102 (Bloomberg Center), Harvard Business School (unless otherwise noted)

Joint with: HBS, SBBI Science-Based Business Initiative

Contact name: Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, <jennifer@nber.org> 617-588-0303 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

SPRING 2015

Jan 30:

SPEAKER: Griffin Weber (MD, PhD, Head of the Knowledge Discovery and Management Group, Asst Prof. of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) TITLE: “Using Bibliometric Data and Social Network Analysis to Model the Scientific Workforce”

Feb 6: 12:15-1:45pm (NOTE late start time)

SPEAKER: Danguole Altman, President and CEO, Vapogenic, Inc. TITLE: Balancing strategy, market forces, employment needs and early stage drug development - Vapogenix

Feb 13: no seminar

Feb 20:

SPEAKER: Matthew Niedel (Columbia Univ, Dept of Health Policy and Mgmt) TITLE: “Pollution and Worker Productivity”

Feb 27: no seminar

Mar 6:

SPEAKER: Riccardo Crescenzi (Dept of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, and Visiting Scholar, HKS) (Paper joint with Luisa Gagliardi, LSE) TITLE: Moving People with Ideas. Innovation, inter-regional mobility and firm heterogeneity

Mar 13:

SPEAKER: Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) and Amit Seru (U Chicago Booth School) TITLE: "The use and misuse of patent data: Issues for corporate finance and beyond"

Mar 20: Spring Break

Mar 27:

SPEAKER: David Ong (Peking University, HSBC Business School) TITLE: "Endogenous Selection into Single and Coauthorships by Surname Initials in Economics and Management"

April 3:

SPEAKER: Mike Bonney (Cubist Pharmaceuticals) TOPIC: "Cubist - Battling Superbugs: The Intersection of Science and Policy"

April 10:

SPEAKER: Jim Manzi (Chairman, Applied Predictive Technologies) TITLE: “The Experimental Revolution in Business”

April 17:

SPEAKER: Timothy K. Lu, M.D., Ph.D. (MIT Synthetic Biology Center, Co-Founder, Synlogic, Inc., CoFounder, Sample6, Inc.) TITLE: "Synthetic Biology for Real-World Applications"

April 24:

SPEAKER: Adam Isen (U.S. Dept of the Treasury) TITLE: "The Effect of High-Skilled Immigration on Patenting and Employment: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries" (paper joint with Kirk Doran and Alexander Gelber)

May 1:

SPEAKER: Ajay K. Agrawal (Peter Munk Prof of Entrepreneurship, Univ of Toronto and NBER) TITLE: "Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology"