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James Evans is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago,
a member of the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and a fellow at the Computation Institute
(http://home.uchicago.edu/~jevans/). His work explores how social and technical institutions shape knowledge—science, scholarship,
law, news, religion—and how these understandings reshape the social and technical world. He is particularly interested in the relation
of markets to science and knowledge more broadly, and how accounting for social and cultural dependencies in the structure of knowledge
improves understanding, theoretical innovation and prediction. His work uses natural language processing, the analysis of social
networks, statistical modelling, and field-based observation and interviews. His two recent articles in Science on how the
Internet provision of journals has had a narrowing influence on science and scholarship and on the real impact of Open Access
in globally disseminatin ideas have been widely discussed in the academic and popular media (e.g., Nature, Science, the Economist,
NPR, BBC, CNN, Chronicle of Higher Education). Evans has performed research on how industry collaboration shapes the ethos, secrecy,
lab size and research focus of its academic research partners. He has also explored the web of public and private institutions that
produce innovation and the nature of markets for high-skilled professionals.
Lee Fleming is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration
at Harvard University. He joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1998. He designed and teaches the course "Inventing Breakthroughs
and Commercializing Science", which integrates business, science, engineering, and medical students from across the university in
multi-disciplinary science commercialization projects. He has also taught Technology and Operations Management, Managing Innovation
and Product Development, Building Green Businesses, executive education courses in innovation and product development and intellectual
property, doctoral courses and seminars research methods and innovation, and a university seminar in Applied Statistical Methods.
Dr. Fleming earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of
California at Davis. He then spent seven years at Hewlett Packard Company in research, design, manufacturing, and application
engineering. He has published in Hewlett Packard's technical literature and holds two patents in the area of custom integrated
circuit testing. During his time at Hewlett Packard, Dr. Fleming earned an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford
University in the Honors Cooperative Program. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in the Department of Industrial
Engineering at Stanford. He also completed an M.S. in Statistics during his doctoral years. Prior to college, Dr. Fleming performed
as a professional musician and while in college, competed on the U.S. National Cycling Team. He still competes in cycling and
Nordic skiing and enjoys ski mountaineering.
Dr. Fleming's research investigates how managers can increase
their organization's chances of inventing a breakthrough, through types of collaboration, the integration of scientific
and empirical search strategies, and the recombination of diverse technologies. His current work develops the strategic
implications of inventor collaboration networks at the individual and regional level of analysis, the influence of
non-competes on inventor mobility and knowledge flow, and author disambiguation of the patent inventor database (supported by NSF grant 0830287).
Dr. Fleming's research has appeared in Management Science,
Administration Science Quarterly, Research Policy, Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, Strategic
Management Journal, and the Harvard Business, California Management, and Sloan Management Review practitioner journals.
His awards include the best student paper in the Academy of Management technology division,
the Richard R. Nelson Prize of 2005 (with Olav Sorenson), and the 2007 Accenture Award for the best paper
in California Management Review (with Matt Marx). He is currently the department editor of entrepreneurship
and innovation (with Kamalini Ramadas) at Management Science and a Senior Editor at Research Policy.
Sanjeev Goyal was educated at Delhi University, Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad, and Cornell University. He is Professor of Economics and Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge.
He has previously held Professoships at Erasmus University, the University of London and the University of Essex.
His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D.
from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly
as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its
Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy.
His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great
depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
John F. Padgett is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Professor of Economics at
the Università di Trento, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He works in the interrelated
areas of social network analysis, organization theory, organizational invention, complexity, and the co-evolution
of state and market. His empirical work focuses on the collection and analysis of 200 years of archival data on the
political, economic, and kinship network in Renaissance Florence. More details are provided in the attached cv and SFI biography.
Curriculum Vitae
Renaissance Resonates with “Algebra” of Novelty
Walter W. Powell is professor of education (and) professor of sociology,
organizational behavior, management science and engineering, and communication at Stanford University, and an external faculty
member at the Santa Fe Institute. He works in the areas of organization theory, social networks, and economic sociology.
Powell has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences three times, and the Institute for Advanced
Study twice. He has received honorary degrees from Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, and the Helsinki School of Economics.
His article, “Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization,” won the Max Weber prize for best paper in
organizational sociology in 1991; and his paper, “Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Inter-Organizational
Collaboration,” with D. White, K. Koput, and J. Owen-Smith (2005), was awarded the Viviana Zelizer prize for best paper in economic sociology in 2007. His article, “Technological Change and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology,” with K. Koput and L. Smith-Doerr (1996), was recognized by Administrative Science Quarterly as its most influential scholarly publication in 1992. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields,” with Paul DiMaggio (1983), is the most cited paper in the history of the American Sociological Review.
Powell is particularly interested in the processes through which
knowledge is transferred across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation.
With Jeannette Colyvas, he is studying the origins of organizational practices that eventually become codified and institutionalized.
With Hokyu Hwang, he is studying the consequences of increased professionalism in the nonprofit sector and its mixed impact on civil society.
With Jason Owen-Smith, he is studying the evolving network and institutional structures of the life sciences field and the reshaping
of the boundaries of public and private science.
Associate Professor of Economics and Management, University of Trento and
deputy director of the CERM research foundation in Rome. He is visiting professor at the Dept. of Physics of the Boston University
and Research Fellow at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa and the Center for Complex Systems Studies, Siena.
He has published, among the others, on PNAS, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Research Policy,
Economic Letters, International Journal of Industrial Organization, R&D Management, Health Affairs, Small Business Economics,
Physical Review E, Physica A, Europhysics Letters.
He is an author of the EU reports on "Innovation and Industrial Leadership: Lessons from Pharmaceuticals", "Innovation and Competitiveness
in European Biotechnology" and on "Medical Devices Competitiveness and Impact on Public Health Expenditure".
His current research focuses on industrial organization, network analysis and the economics of science,
with particular reference to the life sciences.
With a degree in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
and a Doctorate in Economics (Ph.D.) from the University of Minnesota, he is currently Professor at the European University
Institute in Florence. His research interests are centred on the field of Networks, Game Theory, Learning, and their applications
to evolutionary processes such as growth and institutional change. His more than seventy published articles can be found in journals
such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Theoretical Biology, International Journal of Game
Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Theory, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, or
Theory and Decision. He is author of several books such as "Complex Social Networks" published as an Econometric Society Monograph,
"Economics and Theory of Games" published by Cambridge University Press", and Evolution Games and Economic Behavior" published by Oxford
University Press. He has been a visiting professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna,
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universities of Harvard, California-San Diego, Boston, and Cornell.
Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of Trento.
He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve.
He joined the University of Trento in 1994, after the University of Venice and the University L.
Bocconi of Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research on Organisation,
Coordination and Knowledge. He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and modularization.
Current research is focussed on two main topics: coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.
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