*From:* Jennifer Amadeo-Holl [jennifer(a)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(a)hbs.edu <mailto:sbbi@hbs.edu>*
*For questions on the seminar*: please contact* sbbi(a)hbs.edu
<mailto: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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http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40231
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