From: Jennifer Amadeo-Holl
[jennifer@nber.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:57 PM
To: jennifer Amadeo-Holl
Subject: Fri May 15 @ 12pm: LISA COOK and INA GANGULI: "Science
in the Former USSR" Econ of S+E Workshop
We invite you to attend the Ec2888hf Economics of Science and
Engineering Workshop,
held jointly with the Harvard Business School's Science
Based Initiative Seminar (SBBI).
WHEN: Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 12-1:30pm
LOCATION: Harvard Business School, Baker Library 102
SEMINAR TITLE: “Science in the former USSR”
LUNCH - please RSVP no later than 72 hrs
prior to the seminar to be included in the lunch.
To RSVP for lunch: please contact sbbi@hbs.edu
For questions on the seminar: please contact
sbbi@hbs.edu
SPEAKER 1:
Lisa D. Cook, Ph.D. (James Madison College, International
Relations, Michigan State University) Visiting Scholar (Innovation
Policy and the Economy, National Bureau of Economic Research)
PRESENTATION TITLE:
“A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in
the Soviet Union and Russia, 1963 to 2007.”
SPEAKER 2:
Ina Ganguli, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, (John F. Kennedy
School of Government)
PRESENTATION TITLE:
“Scientific Productivity and Migration after the End of the USSR:
Evidence from the Intl Science Foundation.”
SPEAKER 1: Lisa D. Cook, Ph.D., Michigan State and NBER
“A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the
Soviet Union and Russia, 1963 to 2007.”
ABSTRACT:
Developing countries will need to
incur significant new costs to address legal obligations associated
with enhanced intellectual property rights (TRIPs). In many countries,
it is too early to predict whether increased patent protection
increases innovative activity. Recent economic history may provide a
useful laboratory for understanding the effects of patent reform on
innovative activity. A unique new data set allows examination of
patenting behavior by citizens of the Soviet Union (1971-1991) and of
Russia (1992-2007). I find that Soviet inventors obtained tens of
thousands of patents abroad, despite prohibitions on ownership of
private property in the U.S.S.R. Further, outsourcing patent protection
appears to promote innovative activity in the short run but not in the
long run. An important implication of these findings is that emerging
markets and developing countries may increasingly need to invest in
their own institutions of intellectual property protection over time
rather than outsourcing them.
BIO:
Lisa D. Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics
and at James Madison College (International Relations) at Michigan
State University. She was an honors graduate of Spelman College and a
Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where she obtained a B.A. in
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She received a Ph.D. in economics
from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a
post-doctoral fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard
University (Kennedy School of Government), Senior Adviser on Finance
and Development at the Treasury Department and Council on Foreign
Relations International Affairs Fellow under the Clinton and Bush
Administrations, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University. She has also worked or completed internships at
Salomon Brothers, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
Bank of America (formerly Citizens and Southern Bank), and the
Brookings Institution (Research Assistant to Alice Rivlin). Her current
teaching and research interests include economic growth and
development, the economics of intellectual property rights, and
financial institutions and markets. Dr. Cook is the author of a number
of published articles, book chapters, and working papers. She has
received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and
the Economic History Association. With fellow economist and co-author
Jeffrey Sachs, she has advised the governments of Rwanda and Nigeria.
She has lived in France, the United Kingdom, Senegal, and Russia;
speaks French, Wolof, Russian, and Spanish; and has traveled widely in
Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. During the 2008-2009 academic
year, Professor Cook served on the Obama Presidential Transition Team
and is an Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellow at the National
Bureau of Economic Research.
SPEAKER 2: Ina Ganguli, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy,
JFK School
“Scientific Productivity and Migration after the End of the USSR:
Evidence from the Intl Science Foundation.”
ABSTRACT:
With the economic collapse that followed the break-up of the
Soviet
Union in 1991 came dramatic drops in funding for science and the wages
of scientists. This, along with the sudden mobility that followed the
end of the USSR, led many scientists to emigrate to the United States,
Israel or Europe to continue their careers. Others remained at home and
sought opportunities to continue their research, despite the economic
instability. Some, meanwhile, left science completely. In this project,
I study the migration decisions and productivity of leading Soviet
scientists after the end of the USSR. I draw upon information from
programs from the International Science Foundation (ISF), a large-scale
grant-giving institution created by George Soros to support scientists
from the former USSR beginning in 1993. Using data on publications,
citations, and affiliation collected through the SAO/NASA Astrophysics
Data System (ADS) and the Science Citation Index (SCI), I present
initial evidence on the impact of grants on scientists’ outcomes.
BIO:
Ina Ganguli is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the John
F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ina's research
areas are labor economics, international development and program
evaluation, with a focus on immigration, education, innovation, and
gender issues. Ina holds a B.A. in Mathematical Methods in the Social
Sciences from Northwestern University, and a Master of Public Policy
from the University of Michigan.
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You can find the Spring 09 schedule at:
http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40231
OR go to:
http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/seminars/2008/science/
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