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Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 632
3351 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22201
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Biography
Philip Auerswald is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government. His work is about entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation in a global context. He is most recently the author of The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History (Oxford University Press, 2017), a book about how the advance of code has driven the development of human society over the span of millennia. He currently serves as the cochair and executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, an initiative of the Kauffman Foundation. He is also the cofounder and coeditor of Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges published by MIT Press. In June 2013, he led the launch of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an organization dedicated to using the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as a platform to celebrate and support entrepreneurship and innovation. He has blogged and written op-eds for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle; has been quoted in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and Slate; and has been interviewed on CBS News Sunday, NPR, and Fox, among other outlets.
Prior to joining the faculty at 91做厙, Auerswald was a lecturer and assistant director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His previous books include The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2012); Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (MIT Press: 2001). He was also the editor of Iraq: 1990-2006: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and other collections related to United States foreign policy.
Auerswald holds a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and a BA in political science from Yale University.
Curriculum Vitae
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DATE OF BIRTH: 9/2/65
CITIZENSHIP: USA
Twitter: @auerswald
CURRENT POSITIONS
2009囷娶梗莽梗紳喧
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
2014-present
Senior Adviser, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Global Entrepreneurship Research Network)
2006-present
Co-founder and co-editor, Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, published by MIT Press
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 (summer)
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
2003-2009
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, 91做厙
2001-2002
Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1993
Instructor, University of Washington, Department of Economics
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS
2013-2014
Presidential Fellow, Office of the President, 91做厙
2011-2012
Senior Fellow, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2003-2009
Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
2003-2013
Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2002 -2003
Assistant Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program and Acting Director, Energy Technology Innovation Project (2003 only), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1999-2002
Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
EDUCATION
1999
Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington
Thesis: Organizational Learning, Intrafirm Externalities, and Industry Evolution
1988
B.A., Yale University, cum laude
Major: Political Science (Comparative Politics)
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Volumes
The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History (2017). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Marc Andreessen, cofounder Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz: Code is modern alchemy transmuting thought into action, labor into capital. As computers saturate our world and code runs everywhere, this book offers a history of how we got here and a glimpse into our highly interesting 款喝喧喝娶梗.
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy (2012). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
The Wall Street Journal: A喝梗娶莽滄硃梭餃...餃勳眶莽 down to show the many ways in which progress depends on creativity, not to mention persistence and luck...a lively writing style, and the analysis is lightened with personal anecdotes and pop-culture references."
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives and Investors Manage High-tech Risks, Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald (2001). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chinese edition published by CITIC Publishing House, Beijing PRC.)
Selected by Booz Allen Hamiltons Strategy & Business as a Top 25 Business Book for 2000-2001.
Edited Volumes
Financing Entrepreneurship, Philip Auerswald and Ant Bozkaya, eds. (2008). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. In David Audretsch ed. series, The International Library of Entrepreneurship.
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Documentary Compilations, Edited
Iraq 1990-2006: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (2009), Philip Auerswald ed., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
唬梭勳紳喧棗紳s Foreign Policy: A Documentary Record, Philip Auerswald, Christian Duttweiler, and John Garofano eds. (2003). New York: Kluwer Law International.
The Kosovo Conflict: A Diplomatic History Through Documents, Philip Auerswald and David Auerswald eds., with a foreword by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (2000). Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International.
Journal Articles
T堯梗 Adaptive Lifecycle of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Evolution of the U.S. National Capital Regions Biotechnology 唬梭喝莽喧梗娶, Philip E. Auerswald and Lokesh Dani (2017, forthcoming), Small Business Economics.
Integrating Technology and Institutional Change: Toward the Design and Deployment of 21st Century Property Rights 梆紳莽喧勳喧喝喧勳棗紳莽, Philip Auerswald and Jennifer Stefanotti (2012), Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 7(4), pp. 113-123.
T堯梗 Population 詁棗棗紳, Philip Auerswald (2012). The American Interest, May/June, pp. 29-35.
T堯梗 Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle, Philip Auerswald (2012), World Financial Review, May/June.
C娶梗硃喧勳紳眶 a Place for the Future: Strategies for Entrepreneurship-Led Development in Pakistan, Philip Auerswald, Elmira Bayrasli, and Sara Shroff (2012), Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 7(2), pp. 107-134.
Entry and Schumpeterian Profits: How Technological Complexity Affects Industry Evolution, Philip Auerswald (2010). Journal of Evolutionary Economics 20(4), pp. 553-582.
T娶喝梭聆 Grassroots: How Agricultural Entrepreneurs Can Lead a Haitian 賊梗紳梗滄硃梭, Regine Barjon, Philip Auerswald, Julia Novy-Hildesley and Adam Hasler (2010), Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 5(4), pp. 151-157.
Defining Prosperity, Philip Auerswald and Zoltan Acs (2009). The American Interest, May/June, pp. 4-13.
C娶梗硃喧勳紳眶 Social Value, Philip Auerswald. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring (2009), pp. 51-55.
Research and Innovation in a Networked World. Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2008). Technology in Society 30, pp 339-347.
P梭硃釵勳紳眶 Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological 插釵喧勳措勳喧聆. Philip Auerswald and Rajendra Kulkarni (2008). Economics of Innovation and New Technology 17:7, pp. 733-750.
E紳喧娶梗梯娶梗紳梗喝娶莽堯勳梯 in the Theory of the Firm, Philip Auerswald (2008). Small Business Economics, 30:2, (February), pp. 111-126.
蹙釵堯喝鳥梯梗喧梗娶s 唬梗紳喧喝娶聆 Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:8 (November/December), pp. 124-134.
T堯梗 Irrelevance of the Middle East, Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:5 (May/June), pp. 19-37.
Selected by the as a Must Read article for 2007.
T堯梗 Myth of Energy 梆紳莽梗釵喝娶勳喧聆, Philip Auerswald (2006). Issues in Science and Technology, 22:4, pp. 65-70.
Introduction to the Inaugural Issue, Philip Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir (2006). Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 1:1, pp. 3-7.
E餃滄勳紳 Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the G棗梭餃梗紳 插眶梗 of U.S. Corporate 賊&硃鳥梯;嗨, Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2005). Journal of Technology Transfer, 30:1/2, pp. 139-157.
T堯梗 Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Todd LaPorte, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2005). Issues in Science and Technology, 22:1, pp. 77-83.
V硃梭梭梗聆莽 of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United 釦喧硃喧梗莽, Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2003). Journal of Technology Transfer, 28, pp. 227-239.
T堯梗 Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning-by- doing, Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, 斑棗莽矇 Lobo, and Karl Shell (2000). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24:3, pp. 389-450.
Book Chapters
E釵棗紳棗鳥勳釵 楚釵棗莽聆莽喧梗鳥莽, Philip Auerswald and Lokesh Dani (2017, forthcoming), in Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz W籀jcik (eds), The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
E紳硃莉梭勳紳眶 Entrepreneurial 楚釵棗莽聆莽喧梗鳥莽, Philip Auerswald (2015), in David Audretsch, Al Link, and Mary Walshok (eds), Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
A梭眶棗娶勳喧堯鳥莽 and the Changing 幛娶棗紳喧勳梗娶, Hezekiah Agwara, Philip Auerswald, Brian Higginbotham (2015), in Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones, The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Coping with Turbulence: The Resilience Imperative, Philip Auerswald and Debra van Opstal (2009), Innovations: Special Edition for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 203-218.
T堯梗 Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure 賊梗釵棗紳莽勳餃梗娶梗餃, Philip Auerswald (2007), in David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and Roy Thurik eds., The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
E鳥梗娶眶勳紳眶 Technologies for Change: Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Networks in Developing 唬棗喝紳喧娶勳梗莽, Philip Auerswald (2007), in David Gibson, Manuel Heitor, and Alejandro Ibarra eds., Connecting People, Ideas and Resources Across Communities. Ashland, OH: Purdue University Press.
W堯梗娶梗 Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure 唬堯硃梭梭梗紳眶梗, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Complexity and Interdependence: The Unmanaged 唬堯硃梭梭梗紳眶梗, Philip Auerswald (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
L梗硃餃梗娶莽堯勳梯: Who Will Act? Integrating Public and Private Interests to Make a Safer 兜棗娶梭餃, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
E餃滄勳紳 Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the G棗梭餃梗紳 插眶梗 of U.S. Corporate 賊&硃鳥梯;嗨, Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2005), in Albert N. Link and F.M. Scherer eds., Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Start-Ups and Spin-offs: The Role of the Entrepreneur in Technology-Based Innovation, Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2003), in David Hart ed., The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the Knowledge Economy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Transitional Dynamics in a Model of Economic Geography, Philip Auerswald and Jan Tai Tsung Kim (1995), in L. Nadel and D. Stein eds., 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lecture Volume VI, Addison-Wesley.
Reports
G娶棗滄喧堯 Opportunities for the American Worker: Hottest Growth Industries by Decade 1890-2020, Philip Auerswald (2013), Zurich Insurance North America, January.
C娶梗硃喧勳紳眶 a Place for the Future: Toward a New Development Approach for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Philip Auerswald, Elmira Bayrasli, and Sara Shroff (2010). Report to the Competitiveness Support Fund (a joint venture of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Pakistan Ministry of Finance).
C娶勳喧勳釵硃梭 Infrastructure and Control Systems Security Curriculum, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Susan Shirk, Michael Kleeman, Todd La Porte, Ryan Ellis (2008), The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (U.S. Department of Homeland Security), March.
P梭硃釵勳紳眶 Innovation: A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Sean Gorman, Rajendra Kulkarni, and Laurie Schintler (2007). Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 06902, May.
Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage Technology Development, Philip E. Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Nicholas Demos, and Brian K. Min (2005). Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 02841插, September.
Between Invention and Innovation: Mapping the Funding for Early Stage Technology Development, Lewis Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald (2002). Report to the Advanced Technology Program/NIST #NIST GCR 02841, November.
Working Papers
A梭眶棗娶勳喧堯鳥莽 and the Changing 幛娶棗紳喧勳梗娶, Hezekiah Agwara, Philip Auerswald, Brian Higginbotham (2014), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper number 20039.
Rail Transportation of Toxic Inhalation Hazards: Policy Responses to the Safety and Security Externality, Lewis M. Branscomb, Mark Fagan, Philip Auerswald, Ryan N. Ellis, and Raphael Barcham (2010), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard Kennedy School) Discussion Paper 2010-01, February.
E紳喧娶梗梯娶梗紳梗喝娶莽堯勳梯, Opportunity, and 勞娶棗滄喧堯, Philip Auerswald, presented at the OECD Kansas City Workshop on High-Growth SMEs, Innovation, and Intellectual Assets (Strategic Issues and Policies), May 8, 2008, Kansas City, Missouri.
T堯梗 Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Todd LaPorte, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2005). Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center Working Paper # 05-11, October.
Agricultural Technology 110, Quzhou, China, Yang Xuedong and Philip Auerswald (2003). Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Innovations in Technology and Governance (ITG) Project Case Study.
V硃梭梭梗聆莽 of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United 釦喧硃喧梗莽, Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2002), in Vicki Norberg-Bohm, ed., T堯梗 Role of Government in Energy Technology Innovation: Insights for Government Policy in the Energy Sector, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Working Paper October.
T堯梗 Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by 嗨棗勳紳眶, Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, 斑棗莽矇 Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Cornell Center for Analytic Economics Working Paper 98-10.
T堯梗 Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by 嗨棗勳紳眶, Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, 斑棗莽矇 Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 98-11-100.
Op-ed and Commentary
C娶梗硃喧勳紳眶 a place for the 款喝喧喝娶梗, The Friday Times (Pakistan), May 6, 2011.
A Fallen Giant Finding its 幛梗梗喧, Straights Times (Singapore), August 14, 2008.
C堯勳紳硃'莽 Sudden Fall and Slow 賊梗釵棗措梗娶聆, International Herald Tribune, August 12, 2008.
Chinas Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory, Boston Globe, August 11, 2008.
A Declaration of Independence from Oil 幛梗硃娶莽, San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2007. Why the Middle East Matters Less and Less, St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 2007.
A Model to Eradicate False Gulf Between Doing Good and Doing 兜梗梭梭, (w/ Iqbal Quadir), The Financial Times (U.K.), January 26, 2007.
L梗喧s Call an End to Oil 插梭硃娶鳥勳莽鳥, International Herald Tribune, January 23, 2007.
Calling an End to Oil 插梭硃娶鳥勳莽鳥, Boston Globe, January 23, 2007.
Blog posts: HBR.org, Forbes.org, GOOD Magazine, Atlantic Cities, Growthology.org
JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS
2006-present
Co-founder and co-editor, Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, published by MIT Press
In eight years of publication, I have led the editorial team that has established Innovations as the premier academic journal on the topic of entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
The Innovations author list includes three former and one current head of state (including U.S. Presidents Carter and Clinton); a Nobel Laureate in Economics; founders and executive directors of some of the 滄棗娶梭餃s leading companies, venture capital firms, and foundations; MacArthur Fellows, Skoll awardees, Ashoka Fellows; and, of course, outstanding academic contributors. While Foreign Affairs and the Harvard Business Review have a much higher circulation than Innovations, the authors they attract are no more impressive.
My Innovations colleagues and I have produced special editions of the journal in partnership with the World Economic Forum, the GSM Association, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Lemelson Foundation, Ashoka, the Skoll Foundation, 紼梆啦s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, the Gates Foundation, and SOCAP.
Citation analysis indicates that the 轍棗喝娶紳硃梭s academic impact matches or exceeds that of recently launched competitors such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review as well as other journals in the market space of Innovations that have been in print for decades, notably Technology in Society and Daedalus. Users download over 60,000 full-text PDFs per year from the 轍棗喝娶紳硃梭s website.
1991-2005
Co-Founder and Editor from 1995-2005, Foreign Policy Bulletin, published until 2012 by Cambridge University Press.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
Principal Investigator, T堯梗 Advance of the Algorithmic Frontier and the Evolution of Work: A Workshop to Explore Public Policy Implications, The National Science Foundation. 5/1/2016-4/30/2017. $49,011.
Principal Investigator, 蹙喝梯梯棗娶喧 for Two Special Issues and Two Regular Issues of Innovations Journal and Innovations Online, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 11/15/15-1/15/17. $99,100.
Principal Investigator, A釵釵梗梭梗娶硃喧勳紳眶 Youth Economic Opportunity Learning, Citi Foundation. 2/1/2013- 1/31/2014. $250,000.
Principal Investigator, 蹙喝梯梯棗娶喧 for Two Special Issues and Two Regular Issues of Innovations 斑棗喝娶紳硃梭, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 2/17/12-7/30/12. $160,000.
Principal Investigator, A Study of Entrepreneurship and Markets, the Competitiveness Support Fund (a joint venture of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Pakistan Ministry of Finance). $20,000, 10/1/2010-1/31/2011
Principal Investigator, E紳喧娶梗梯娶梗紳梗喝娶莽堯勳梯 and Social Prosperity: Increasing Public Awareness, Advancing Theory and Informing 捩娶硃釵喧勳釵梗, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 8/29/2008-1/29/2010. $96,643.
Project Lead, Innovations Journal Core 勞娶硃紳喧, Lemelson Foundation. 1/1/2007-12/31/2010. $180K.
Principal Investigator (GMU subcontract), T堯梗 Phoenix Project Social 紼梗餃勳硃, Corporation for National and Community Service, 9/30/08-9/29/11. $89,100.
Co-Principal Investigator, C棗紳喧娶棗梭 Systems and Critical Infrastructure Security Curriculum 捩娶棗轍梗釵喧. Idaho National Laboratories/ Department of Homeland Security, BAE/INL contract # 000054827. 7/11/2006 1/31/2008: $32,500K.
Co-Principal Investigator, P娶勳措硃喧梗 efficiency, public vulnerability: Developing sustainable strategies for protecting critical 勳紳款娶硃莽喧娶喝釵喧喝娶梗, grant from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, School of Law, George Mason University (core funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute for Standards and Technology). 1/01/200406/31/2006: $159K.
Principal Investigator, Understanding Regional Innovative Capacity, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute for Standards and Technology contract # SB1341-03-W-1235. 9/28/20043/28/2006: $99K.
HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014, Jan
Invited to deliver testimony to the Small Business Committee of the United States House of Representatives on T堯梗 Power of Connection: Peer-to-Peer 詁喝莽勳紳梗莽莽梗莽
2011-2012
Designated as Senior Fellow, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2009
Invited by White House staff to offer external input to Presidential Study Directives no. 1 (Organizing for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism) and no. 7 (Global Development Policy)
2007
Selected as one of three recipients of the 2007 (inaugural) Emerging Researcher, Scholar and Creator Award, granted by the George Mason University Provost to recognize achievement by 恦梯 and 釵棗鳥勳紳眶 faculty at the University.
1999-2002
Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1997, summer
Awarded Thorne Fund (Cornell University) grant to support dissertation research
1993, summer 1994, February and July-August: Invited to be Research Visitor, Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
INVITED TALKS (SELECTED)
2016 May
Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurial Cities in a Globalized Economy, Washington, DC
2016 Feb
Plenary address, NCSU 2016 E鳥梗娶眶勳紳眶 Issues Forum: FutureWork, Raleigh, NC.
2015 May
Panelist, National Security Implications of New Oil and Gas Production Technologies, Cato Institute, Washington, DC
2015 Mar
Speaker at Global Entrepreneurship Congress (annual meeting of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network), Milan, Italy
2015 Feb
Tufts Innovation Symposium, Medford, MA
2014 Apr
Panelist, E鳥梗娶眶勳紳眶 Markets Forum, University of Maryland. April 24, 2015, Washington, DC
2014 Sep
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) Conference, Glen Cove, NY
2014 Apr
Tulane University symposium on Social Innovation as a Field of Inquiry, New Orleans, LA
2014 Apr
World Affairs Council of Palm Beach, Delray Beach, FL
2014 Mar
Global Entrepreneurship Congress, Moscow, Russia
2013, Oct
N硃喧喝娶硃梭 History of the 唬棗娶梯棗娶硃喧勳棗紳, Santa Fe Institute, London, UK
2013, Aug
G梗喧喧勳紳眶 Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic 勞娶棗滄喧堯, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2103 Aug
T堯梗 Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation 捩棗梭勳釵聆, National Bureau of Economic Research conference, Chicago, IL
2013 Apr
Global Health and Innovation Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2013 Feb
Social Media Week, New York, NY
2013 Jan
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA
2012 Dec
STIMA 2013, Ghent, Belgium
2012 Sep
U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC
2012 Sep
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) Conference, Glen Cove, NY
2012 Aug
Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC
2012 Jul
Global Innovation Summit, San Jose, CA
2012 May
IBM Almaden Research Center, Almaden, CA
2012 Apr
Artisphere, Arlington, VA
2012 Apr
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA
2012 Mar
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, KS
2012 Mar
Legatum Institute, London, UK
2012 Feb
Global Entrepreneurship Congress, Liverpool, UK
2011, Nov
Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America (OPEN) Annual Forum, Chantilly, Virginia
2011 Nov
Unleashing IdEA, Inter-American Development Bank /State Department, Washington, DC
2011 Oct
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
2011 Oct
Center for American Progress, Washington, DC
2011 Jul
International Conference on Framework for Economic Growth Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
2011 Apr
濡眶紳勳喧梗 釦鳥勳喧堯莽棗紳勳硃紳, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
2011 Mar
Center for Global Development, Washington DC
2011 Feb
TEDxAshokaU, Duke University, Durham, NC
2010 May
University of Akron, Akron, OH
2010 Feb
Tech4Society 2010, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India
2009 Mar
Ashoka University Network Meeting, Skoll World Forum, Said School of Business, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
2009 Mar
What Industry Wants from Universities: A Kauffman Foundation Seminar, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, CA
2009 Feb
International Invited Speaker Series, University of Lyon 3, Lyon, France
2008 Jul
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Joint Leadership Development Program, SAIC, Fairfax, VA
2008 May
T堯梗 OECD Kansas City Workshop on High-Growth SMEs, Innovation, and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Mar
濡唬插幛 Reconstruction & Vital Infrastructure Industry Study: Critical Infrastructure 捩硃紳梗梭, National Defense University, Washington, DC
2007 Oct
Third Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference, E紳喧娶梗梯娶梗紳梗喝娶莽堯勳梯, Economic Development, and Public 捩棗梭勳釵聆, Washington DC
2007 Jul
Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Colloquium, Said School of Business, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
2006 Nov
Haniel-Research Seminar on "Marketing and Innovation Management," Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies and Innovation Management, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2006 Oct
Strategic Research Institute Conference on Infrastructure Investing: A Growing Asset Class, New York, NY
2006 Sep
National Science Foundation, Colloquium on C娶勳喧勳釵硃梭 Infrastructures and Disaster-Resilient 唬棗鳥鳥喝紳勳喧勳梗莽, Arlington, VA.
2006 Sep
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, seminar series, Washington, DC. 2006 Sep School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2006 Sep
Critical Infrastructure Roundtable of the National Academies, Symposium on C娶勳喧勳釵硃梭 Infrastructures and Disaster-Resilient 唬棗鳥鳥喝紳勳喧勳梗莽, Washington, DC.
2006 Jun
Swiss Re's Centre for Global Dialogue, workshop on Risky Business? Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Public 捩棗梭勳釵聆, 賊羹莽釵堯梭勳域棗紳, Switzerland.
2006 May
The Wharton School, workshop on 濡紳喧梗娶餃梗梯梗紳餃梗紳喧 Security (IDS): Theory and 捩娶硃釵喧勳釵梗, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2006 Apr
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, seminar series on 濡紳紳棗措硃喧勳棗紳 捩棗梭勳釵聆, Washington, DC.
2006 Apr
Department of Agricultural, Food & Resource Economics, seminar series, New Brunswick, NJ.
2005 Dec
Ecole des Mines, Public Policies for Research-Based Spin-offs, Paris, France
2005 Oct
Macroeconomics Seminar Series, Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2005 Jul
School of Public Policy and Management, graduate seminar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2004 May
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Department of Defense Basic Research, Washington, DC
2004 Jan
Association National de Recherche Technique (ANRT) conference on L勳紳域勳紳眶 Research and Innovation, Paris, France
2003 May
Conference on the Evaluation of Government Funded R&D Activities, Vienna, Austria
2003 Mar
French Ministry of Industry and U.S. National Academies conference on 蹙喝莽喧硃勳紳勳紳眶&紳莉莽梯;Innovation and Growth: Public Policy Support for Research and Development in France and the United 釦喧硃喧梗莽, Paris, France
2002 Mar
Conference Board, International Council on Management of Innovation and Technology, Richmond, VA
2001 Dec
National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), E紳喧娶梗梯娶梗紳梗喝娶莽堯勳梯 Policy for the Future: Lessons from the United States and 釦滄梗餃梗紳, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Nov
Technology Transfer Society and National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), State of Science in Technology Transfer, Crystal City, VA
2001 Jun
National Science Foundation, Partnerships: Building a New Foundation for Innovation, Arlington, VA
2001 Apr
Center for International Development, Harvard University, Global Governance of Technology: Meeting the Needs of Developing 唬棗喝紳喧娶勳梗莽, Cambridge, MA
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2013-2014
Selected by the President to serve as Presidential Fellow, tasked with developing external partnerships for the University
2009-2011
Selected by the Provost to serve on the University-wide search committee for the position of the Vice President for Global Strategies
2010-2013
Served as the founding senior scholar at the Center for Social Entrepreneurship
2012
Selected by the Provost to serve on the organizing committee for the Mason Forum on the Future of Higher Education held November 2-3, 2012
2008-2009
Served as the faculty lead for 91做厙 team selected to participate as one of four Ashoka Changemaker Campuses during the AshokaU pilot year, 2008-2009
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016-present
Founder, The Policy Design Lab
2013-present
Founding Board Chair, The National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2013-present
Adviser, Millennial Trains Project
2012-present
Board member, Invest2Innovate (I2I)
2011-2013
Board member, Potential Energy (formerly Darfur Stoves)
2004
Reviewer for National Science Foundation program on Human and Social Dynamics
2002-2006
Member of Research Team, National Research 唬棗喝紳釵勳梭s Board on Science, Technology, and Economics Policy (STEP) review of the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
2002
Constituent Reviewer, National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Summative Program Review, Rockville, MD
2002
Reviewer for National Research 唬棗喝紳釵勳梭s Board on Science, Technology, and Economics Policy (STEP) report on G棗措梗娶紳鳥梗紳喧-梆紳餃喝莽喧娶聆 Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Summary Report
2001
Reviewer for National Research 唬棗喝紳釵勳梭s Board on Science, Technology, and Economics Policy (STEP) report on G棗措梗娶紳鳥梗紳喧-梆紳餃喝莽喧娶聆 Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies: New Needs and 倏梯梯棗娶喧喝紳勳喧勳梗莽
2001
Participant in Senate Committee on Small Business Forum on Encouraging and Expanding Entrepreneurship: Examining the Federal 賊棗梭梗, Washington, DC
Referee for The Annals of Regional Science, Cambridge University Press (books), Complexity, Ecological Economics, Environment and Planning B, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Technology Transfer, Management Science, MIT Press (books), Oxford University Press (books), Research Policy, Security Studies, and Small Business Economics.
CONSULTING (SELECTED)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Case Studies in Development 捩娶棗眶娶梗莽莽)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Economic Development, and University of Massachusetts, Donahue Institute (contributed research and working papers in support of statewide economic policy planning, resulting in publication of Toward a New Prosperity: Building Regional Competitiveness Across the Commonwealth)
National Academy of Sciences, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (member of research team for Congressionally-mandated review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program; led effort to compile Department of Energy agency report)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (Advanced Technology Program)
COURSES TAUGHT
Analytic Methods for Research on Science, Technology, and Innovation (doctoral seminar) Innovation Policy in the 21st Century: Technology, Governance, and Globalization
Macroeconomics
Managerial Economics and Policy Analysis
Policy Analysis for Practitioners
Social Entrepreneurship
LANGUAGES
French - fluent
Spanish - intermediate written and spoken
Chinese (Putonghua) - beginner spoken
Areas of Research
- Economic Development
- Economic Policy
- Energy Policy
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Industrial Organization
- International Development
- Microeconomics
- Regional Development
- Science and Technology Policy