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WORK TITLE: The Code Economy
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PERSONAL
Born September 2, 1965, in Washington, DC; son of a diplomat (father) and a philosophy teacher (mother); married; children: three daughters.
EDUCATION:Yale University, B.A. (cum laude), 1988; University of Washington, Seattle, Ph.D., 1999.
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CAREER
University of Washington, Seattle, instructor in economics, 1993; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, fellow of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1999-2002, adjunct lecturer in government, 2001-02; George Mason University, Washington, DC, assistant professor, 2003-09, associate professor of public policy, 2009—, director of Center for Science and Technology Policy, 2003-09, founding senior scholar at Center for Social Entrepreneurship, 2010-13, presidential fellow, 2013-14. Policy Design Lab, founder, 2016; Zilla Global (business consultant), Raleigh, NC, cofounder and coleader, 2017—. Santa Fe Institute, research visitor, 1993; Harvard University, associate of Belfer Center, 2003-13; Clinton Global Initiative, advisor, 2010-13; Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, senior fellow, 2011-12, senior advisor, 2014—; National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, founding board chair, 2013—; board member of Potential Energy and Inves2Innovate; consultant to Millennial Trains Project. Seoul National University, visiting professor, 2011; speaker at numerous institutions.
AWARDS:Grants from National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2004-06, Idaho National Laboratories, Department of Homeland Security, 2006-08, Lemelson Foundation, 2007-2010, Corporation for National and Community Service, 2008-11, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2008-10, 2012, U.S. Agency for International Development and Pakistan Ministry of Finance, 2010-11, Citi Foundation, 2013-14, and National Science Foundation.
WRITINGS
Contributor to books, including The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the Knowledge Economy, edited by David Hart, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 2003; Connecting People, Ideas, and Resources across Communities, edited by David Gibson, Manuel Heitor, and Alejandro Ibarra, Purdue University Press (Ashland, OH), 2007; The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones, National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA), 2015; Understanding the Growth Slowdown, edited by Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute (Washington, DC), 2015, and Disrupting Unemployment: Reflection on a Sustainable, Middle Class Economic Recovery, edited by David Nordfors, Vint Cerf, and Max Senges, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, MO), 2016.
Contributor to periodicals, including American Interest, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Issues in Science and Technology, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Technology in Society, and World Financial Review. Cofounder and coeditor, Foreign Policy Bulletin, 1991-2005, and Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 2006—.
SIDELIGHTS
Philip Auerswald is a political scientist and economist who teaches public policy at George Mason University. Auerswald’s original focus was foreign policy. While his father was working for the U.S. State Department, the two cofounded and edited the Foreign Policy Bulletin, a collaboration that lasted for more than ten years. As a corollary, Auerswald became the editor of respected document collections on the diplomatic history of the foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001 and the bloody Kosovo conflict involving Yugoslavian, Albanian, and Serbian combatants in 1998 and 1999. His massive, three-volume collection on Iraq covered fifteen crucial years of the nation’s foreign policy from the Gulf War of 1991 to the creation of the first permanent government since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2006.
Auerswald’s attention was also expanding outward, from foreign policy to the global economy to policies that could shape the society of the future. On his home page, Auerswald wrote that he is “interested in how human inventiveness and decision-making combine to create the future.” He explained: “Economics is about the choices we make. Entrepreneurship is about the possibilities we realize. … Our imagination exposes possibilities.” To that end, in 2006 Auerswald cofounded the journal Innovations to explore what he called “entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.” Ten years later he extended the outreach of the journal through the new Policy Design Lab.
In 2013 Auerswald became the founding board chair of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The center was established to leverage the resources of the National Mall, including the U.S. Capitol, the many museums of the Smithsonian Institution, and the research opportunities offered by numerous other adjacent venues. He also became the founding executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. In 2017 Auerswald put theory into practice as a cofounder of Zilla Global, a project to digitize land records as tools for job creation in developing countries.
The author’s continuing efforts are informed by years of cumulative research. As early as 2004 he was writing about the gap between concept and product. In Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, Auerswald and his contributors ponder methods for quantifying risk, the double-edged sword of the “established” business model, the risks and benefits of large corporations versus nimble startups, and more. In Financial Executive, reviewer Jeffrey Marshall cautioned readers that this is a “quite academic” offering, but he also deemed the volume “provocative,” “intelligently conceived,” and “informative.” Auerswald addresses related topics in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability and The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy.
Another “sophisticated” offering, according to a Publishers Weekly commentator, is The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History. Auerswald defines “codes” as tools for transforming abstract ideas into tangible products. His examples range from computer code to the recipes that turn edible ingredients into food. He believes that codes like these are crucial to human progress, not only in terms of material product development but also in the evolution of lenses through which human beings observe and experience the world around them. Like his earlier publications, The Code Economy may not qualify as recreational reading, but the Publishers Weekly contributor predicted: “Those who study the field of economics will find Auerswald’s arguments to be cogent and sound.”
According to a representative of the Leigh Bureau Web site, “Philip Auerswald believes we’re living in the most exciting period of human history.” He has also called it “a time of great opportunity” and “a thrilling adventure in prosperity and growth.” According to the writer, “Phil sees opportunity where others see despair,” and The Code Economy reflects the author’s testimonial to “the power of entrepreneurship and innovation … to increase living standards around the world, open new technological horizons, and even address the problems of energy and environment.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, February, 2010, review of Iraq, 1990-2006: a Diplomatic History through Documents, p. 1049.
Financial Executive, June, 2001, Jeffrey Marshall, review of Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, p. 16.
Journal of Risk and Insurance, March, 2004, Maurizio Pompella, review of Taking Technical Risks, p. 177.
Publishers Weekly, October 24, 2016, review of The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History, p. 65.
Reference & Research Book News, November, 2008, review of Financing Entrepreneurship.
ONLINE
Leigh Bureau Web site, http://www.leighbureau.com/ (July 13, 2017), author profile.
National Center for Entrepreneur and Innovation Web site, http://www.innovationonthemall.org/ (July 13, 2017), author profile.
Schar School Web site, https://schar.gmu.edu/ (July 13, 2017), author profile.*
Philip Auerswald
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Philip E. Auerswald
Born September 2, 1965 (age 51)
Washington, D.C.
Alma mater Yale University (B.A.)
University of Washington (PhD, Economics)
Occupation Author, Professor
Website auerswald.org
Philip E. Auerswald (born September 2, 1965) is an American author, economist, and cofounder and coeditor of Innovations (journal). He currently leads the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network, an initiative of the Kauffman Foundation. His most recent book, The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History, explains how code has been a key driver of human development.
Contents
1 Career
2 Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization
3 Digital Land Records and Entrepreneurship
4 Books and Publications
5 Biography
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Career
Auerswald is an associate professor of public policy at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government and the founding co-editor of Innovations (journal), a quarterly journal published by MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. Auerswald's research work focuses on entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, both in the US and globally.
Prior to his work with Innovations, Auerswald edited the Foreign Policy Bulletin from 1994-2005. With his father, Auerswald cofounded the Foreign Policy Bulletin as the successor publication to The Department of State Bulletin. The Foreign Policy Bulletin was in publication from 1991 to 2012 and resulted in documentary compilations relating to Iraq and Kosovo.
Auerswald is the Founding Board Chair for The National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The stated objective of NCEI is to foster entrepreneurship, invention and innovation by all Americans, using the National Mall in Washington DC as a platform. Fellow board members include Vint Cerf, Carly Fiorina, and Dean Kamen.
He is also the founding executive director of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network. GERN initiated in October 2013 by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), to address the need for better entrepreneurship research. Auerswald has said that GERN seeks convergence by connecting supporters of entrepreneurship research to enable them to work collaboratively on developing new research methods and to align around similar goals.
From 2010 to 2013 Auerswald was an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on job creation and market-based solutions. He has authored and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy and Seeds of Disaster, which Wall Street Journal called "a vivid profile of men and women who have succeeded under harsh conditions... with a lively writing style, and the analysis is lightened with personal anecdotes and pop-culture references."[1]
In 2015, Auerswald co-authored Depopulation: An Investor's Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century with Joon Yun. The book discusses the challenges and opportunities investors can anticipate in the coming era of declining global population.
Auerswald was a student at the 1993 Complex Systems Summer School at the Santa Fe Institute, where he worked with Stuart Kauffman on an application of evolutionary biology to economics. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for continued work in this area.
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization
In 2006, Auerswald and Iqbal Z. Quadir co-founded Innovations (journal), an academic journal that focuses on entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. It is published quarterly by the MIT Press. he journal features cases authored by exceptional innovators; commentary and research from leading academics; and essays from globally recognized executives and political leaders. It is jointly hosted at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Working with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Innovations produced special editions for the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and the 2008 World Economic Forum on the Middle East (in Arabic and English). The journal has also produced special issues in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, SOCAP, GSMA, the Lemelson Foundation, and other nonprofit and philanthropic organizations.
In 2016 the journal expanded into Policy Design Lab, a consulting company dedicated to prompting the creation and implementation of evidence-based policies that advance society. The same year Auerswald coled the release of Innovations Online, with Sharon Benzoni.
Digital Land Records and Entrepreneurship
In 2013, Auerswald co-authored "Integrating Technology and Institutional Change" with Jenny Stefanotti. The paper focuses on the design and deployment of digital property rights. The essay argues that the current technological environment provide opportunities to improve economies in developing countries by digitizing property records.
In 2017 Auerswald cofounded Zilla Global LLC, a company focused on using the digitization of land records as a way to create jobs in the developing world. He co-leads Zilla with Dr. Gitanjali Swamy. The stated purpose of the company is to create employment opportunities at a large-scale with digital land records as the base.
Books and Publications
Title Year ISBN
The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History 2017 ISBN 978-0190226763
Depopulation: An Investor's Guide to Value in the Twenty-First Century 2015 ISBN 1507771746
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy 2012 ISBN 978-0199795178
Iraq, 1990-2006 3 Volume Set: A Diplomatic History Through Documents 2009 ISBN 978-0521767767
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations 2003 ISBN 0262524198
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability 2006 ISBN 978-0521857963
The Kosovo Conflict:A Diplomatic History Through Documents 2000 ISBN 9041188509
Biography
Philip Auerswald was born in Washington, D.C. His father worked for the U.S. State Department and his mother taught philosophy at a French school. Auerswald attended Sidwell Friends School for junior high and high school. Afterwards, he attended Yale University to receive an undergraduate degree in political science. After earning a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, Auerswald lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was also assistant director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, working for John Holdren. He presently teaches at George Mason University where he is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government.
Auerswald resides in Washington D.C. with his wife and three daughters.
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Finally, since December 2012, I have been the board chair of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation which is dedicated to celebrating and supporting entrepreneurship and innovation by all Americans.
Philip Auerswald is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. He is also the Co-founder and Co-editor of Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
Philip Auerswald is an associate 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 DC 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 interviewed on CBS News Sunday, NPR, and Fox, among other outlets.
Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, Professor 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.
Professor Auerswald holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and a B.A. (political science) from Yale University.
Areas of Research
Economic Development
Economic Policy
Energy Policy
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Industrial Organization
International Development
Microeconomics
Regional Development
Science and Technology Policy
CV
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Current Positions
2009–present
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, George Mason University
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, George Mason University
2010-2013
Adviser, the Clinton Global Initiative (Topic Leader for 2010 Annual Meeting “Strengthening Market-Based Solutions”’)
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 Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy (2012). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
President Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd president of the United States: “Philip Auerswald shows the role that innovators must play if we are to create ‘The Coming
Prosperity.’ In this important book, he reminds us that challenging the status quo is the inescapable first step toward building the future of our dreams.”
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 Hamilton’s Strategy & Business as a “Top 25 Business Book for 2000-2001.”
Authored Volumes (Under Contract for Publication)
The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History (2017 forthcoming). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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.
Clinton’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
“Doctor in the House,” Philip Auerswald (2015). The American Interest, 10(6), pp. 29-35.
“Integrating Technology and Institutional Change: Toward the Design and Deployment of 21st Century Property Rights Institutions,” Philip Auerswald and Jennifer Stefanotti (2012), Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 7(4), pp. 113-123.
“The Population Boon,” Philip Auerswald (2012). The American Interest, May/June, pp. 29-35.
“The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle,” Philip Auerswald (2012), World Financial Review, May/June.
“Creating 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.
“Truly Grassroots: How Agricultural Entrepreneurs Can Lead a Haitian Renewal,” 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.
“Creating 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.
“Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity.” Philip Auerswald and Rajendra Kulkarni (2008). Economics of Innovation and New Technology 17:7, pp. 733-750.
“Entrepreneurship in the Theory of the Firm,” Philip Auerswald (2008). Small Business Economics, 30:2, (February), pp. 111-126.
“Schumpeter’s Century” Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:8 (November/December), pp. 124-134.
“The Irrelevance of the Middle East,” Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:5 (May/June), pp. 19-37.
Selected by the Council on Foreign Relations
“The Myth of Energy Insecurity,” 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.
“Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the ‘Golden Age’ of U.S. Corporate R&D,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2005). Journal of Technology Transfer, 30:1/2, pp. 139-157.
“The 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.
“Valleys of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United States,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2003). Journal of Technology Transfer, 28, pp.
227-239.
“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning-bydoing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (2000). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24:3, pp. 389-450.
Book Chapters
“Economic Ecosystems,” Philip Auerswald and Lokesh Dani (2017, forthcoming), “The Handbook of Economic Geography”, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [accepted for publication]
“The Bifurcation is Near,” Philip Auerswald (2016). In David Nordfors, Vint Cerf, and Max Senges (eds.), Disrupting Unemployment: Reflection on a Sustainable, Middle Class Economic Recovery, Kansas City, MO: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
“Home (Healthcare) Economics,” Philip Auerswald (2015). In Brink Lindsey (ed.), Understanding the Growth Slowdown, Washington, DC: Cato Institute.
“Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,” Philip Auerswald (2015), in David Audretsch, Al Link, and Mary Walshok (eds), Oxford Handbook of Local Competitiveness, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
“Algorithms and the Changing Frontier,” 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.
“The Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure Reconsidered,” Philip Auerswald (2007), in David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and Roy Thurik eds., The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
“Emerging Technologies for Change: Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Networks in Developing Countries,” Philip Auerswald (2007), in David Gibson, Manuel Heitor, and Alejandro Ibarra eds., Connecting People, Ideas and Resources Across Communities. Ashland, OH: Purdue University Press.
“Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge,” 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 Challenge,” 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.
“Leadership: Who Will Act? Integrating Public and Private Interests to Make a Safer World,” 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.
“Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the ‘Golden Age’ of U.S. Corporate R&D,” 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.
Book Chapters (Accepted for Publication)
Reports
“Growth Opportunities for the American Worker: Hottest Growth Industries by Decade 1890-2020,” Philip Auerswald (2013), Zurich Insurance North America, January.
“Creating 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).
“Critical 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.
“Placing 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 06–902, 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 02–841A, 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 02–841, November.
Working Papers
“Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Insights from Ecology to Inform Effective Entrepreneurship Policy,” Ewing Mario Kauffman Foundation Working Paper, October, 2015
“Algorithms and the Changing Frontier,” 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.
“Entrepreneurship, Opportunity, and Growth,” 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.
“The 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.
“Valleys of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United States,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2002), in Vicki Norberg-Bohm, ed., “The 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.
“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by Doing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Cornell Center for Analytic Economics Working Paper 98-10.
“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by Doing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Santa Fe Institute
Working Paper 98-11-100.
Op-ed and Commentary
“Creating a place for the future,” The Friday Times (Pakistan), May 6, 2011.
“A Fallen Giant Finding its Feet,” Straights Times (Singapore), August 14, 2008.
“China’s Sudden Fall and Slow Recovery,” International Herald Tribune, August 12, 2008.
“China’s Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory,” Boston Globe, August 11, 2008.
“A Declaration of Independence from Oil Fears,” 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 Well,” (w/ Iqbal Quadir), The Financial Times (U.K.), January 26, 2007.
“Let’s Call an End to Oil Alarmism,” International Herald Tribune, January 23, 2007.
“Calling an End to Oil Alarmism,” 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 world’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, MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, the Gates Foundation, and SOCAP.
Citation analysis indicates that the journal’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 journal’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, “Accelerating Youth Economic Opportunity Learning,” Citi Foundation. 2/1/2013-1/31/2014. $250,000.
Principal Investigator, “Support for Two Special Issues and Two Regular Issues of Innovations Journal,” 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, “Entrepreneurship and Social Prosperity: Increasing Public Awareness, Advancing Theory and Informing Practice,” The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. 8/29/2008-1/29/2010. $96,643.
Project Lead, “Innovations Journal Core Grant,” Lemelson Foundation. 1/1/2007-12/31/2010. $180K.
Principal Investigator (GMU subcontract), “The Phoenix Project Social Media,” Corporation for National and Community Service, 9/30/08-9/29/11. $89,100.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure Security Curriculum Project.” Idaho National Laboratories/ Department of Homeland Security, BAE/INL contract # 000054827. 7/11/2006– 1/31/2008: $32,500K.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Private efficiency, public vulnerability: Developing sustainable strategies for protecting critical infrastructure,” 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). 1/01/2004–06/31/2006: $159K.
Principal Investigator, “Understanding Regional Innovative Capacity,” U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute for Standards and Technology contract # SB1341-03-W-1235. 9/28/2004–3/28/2006: $99K.
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
2014, Jan
Invited to deliver testimony to the Small Business Committee of the United States House of Representatives on “The Power of Connection: Peer-to-Peer Businesses”
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 recipient of the 2007 (inaugural) Emerging Researcher, Scholar and Creator Award, granted by the George Mason University Provost to recognize achievement
by “up and coming” 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)
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, “Emerging 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
“Natural History of the Corporation,” Santa Fe Institute, London, UK
2013, Aug
“Getting Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic Growth,” Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2103, Aug
“The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy,” 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
“Ignite Smithsonian,” 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
“The OECD Kansas City Workshop on High-Growth SMEs, Innovation, and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies,” Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Mar
“ICAF Reconstruction & Vital Infrastructure Industry Study: Critical Infrastructure Panel,” National Defense University, Washington, DC
2007 Oct
Third Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference, “Entrepreneurship, Economic Development, and Public Policy,” 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 “Critical Infrastructures and Disaster-Resilient Communities,” 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 “Critical Infrastructures and Disaster-Resilient Communities,” Washington, DC.
2006 Jun
Swiss Re’s Centre for Global Dialogue, workshop on “Risky Business? Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy,” Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
2006 May
The Wharton School, workshop on “Interdependent Security (IDS): Theory and Practice,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2006 Apr
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, seminar series on “Innovation Policy,” 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 “Linking 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 “Sustaining Innovation and Growth: Public Policy Support for Research and Development in France and
the United States,” 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), “Entrepreneurship Policy for the Future: Lessons from the United States and Sweden,”
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 Countries,” 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 George Mason University team selected to participate as one of four Ashoka Changemaker Campuses during the AshokaU pilot year, 2008-2009
Other Professional Service
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 Council’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 Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economics Policy (STEP) report on “Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New
Technologies: Summary Report”
2001
Reviewer for National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economics Policy (STEP) report on “Government-Industry Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies: New Needs and Opportunities”
2001
Participant in Senate Committee on Small Business Forum on “Encouraging and Expanding Entrepreneurship: Examining the Federal Role,” 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 Progress”)
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
CV: https://schar.gmu.edu/sites/default/files/faculty-staff/cv/auerswald_cv.pdf
Governing Board
Philip Auerswald Headshot
Philip Auerswald is the founding board chair of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is the author of The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2012) as well numerous other books, reports, and research papers related to entrepreneurship and innovation. He is also an adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative; the co-founder and co-editor of Innovations, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges; and an associate professor at George Mason University. Previously he was assistant director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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"Philip Auerswald shows the role that innovators must play if we are to create 'The Coming Prosperity.' In this important book, he reminds us that challenging the status quo is the inescapable first step toward building the future of our dreams."
— President Bill Clinton
His new book, The Code Economy (March 2017), offers an indispensable guide to the future, based on a narrative stretching forty-thousand years into the past.
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Philip Auerswald is an Economist at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. He is the founding board chair of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He co-founded and co-edits Innovations, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. He is an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and a former lecturer and assistant director at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has served as a consultant to the National Academies of Science, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and as an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative. His other books include Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability and Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks.
The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History
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"The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History." Publishers Weekly, 24 Oct. 2016, p. 65+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA468771838&it=r&asid=b1684bbcd444724bf509e1a11e5d98a8. Accessed 21 June 2017.
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Iraq, 1990-2006: a diplomatic history through documents
D. Altschiller
47.6 (Feb. 2010): p1049.
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Iraq, 1990-2006: a diplomatic history through documents, ed. by Philip Auerswald. Cambridge, 2009. 3v bibl index ISBN 9780521767767, $500.00
Since the lead-up to the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq has emerged as a major factor in US foreign policy. Whereas the history of modern Iraq has produced a large literature, the recent military and political involvement of the US has spawned an enormous number of publications, including books, journal articles, think-tank monographs, speeches, OpEd essays, and much more. This information glut has made it difficult to find primary source documents. This three-volume work includes statements and remarks of "the principal international actors" along with UN resolutions, government announcements, television interview transcripts, letters, and the translation of Iraqi and Arab statements, among many other primary sources. Many documents were initially published in Foreign Policy Bulletin, a quarterly publication that provides primary source documentation in American foreign policy. Volume 1 covers the Gulf War to the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Volume 2 provides background on the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack to the events leading up to the Iraq War; Volume 3 covers the first day of the war (March 20, 2003) to the formation of the Iraq government in April 2006.
The editor did an admirable job in compiling these useful documents in a clearly organized print set. Surprisingly, though, some major issues are only peripherally discussed: "not emphasized are the particulars of allegations"; also not emphasized is the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, the search for evidence of these weapons, and the roiling controversy about the US government disclosure of these activities. A source section notes that most documents were obtained from US and foreign government sources and includes the Web sites; the editor is to be commended for including early print documents that were not digitized and also for inserting text from some British newspapers. The name and subject indexes are useful, but unfortunately only cover individual volumes rather than the cumulative set. Researchers will be grateful for access to many of these primary documents, but may wonder whether the publisher plans a digital version. Much more material would easily be found doing a keyword computer search instead of paging through these chronologically arranged volumes. Finally, the exorbitant cost of a set containing mostly copyright-free material may deter many libraries from purchasing it. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Researchers.--D. Altschiller, Boston University
Altschiller, D.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Altschiller, D. "Iraq, 1990-2006: a diplomatic history through documents." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Feb. 2010, p. 1049+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA251859830&it=r&asid=86caecfc41e6af7a4b20703cce81766c. Accessed 21 June 2017.
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Financing entrepreneurship
23.4 (Nov. 2008):
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2008 Ringgold, Inc.
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9781845423933
Financing entrepreneurship.
Ed. by Philip Auerswald and Ant Bozkaya.
Edward Elgar Publishing
2008
724 pages
$360.00
Hardcover
The international library of entrepreneurship; 12
HD62
Auerswald (George Mason U.) and Bozkaya (Harvard U.) have edited this collection of 24 papers about entrepreneurial finance, and the role the government takes in financing and motivating these concerns. These papers emphasize how entrepreneurs have taken advantage of a globalized economy to achieve unprecedented and accelerated success. Topics include the role of private equity and debt markets, entrepreneurial survival tactics and the relationship between entrepreneurs and bureaucrats. Written for business students and modern entrepreneurs, this large reference volume also discusses the debate between self-financing vs. the use of lending institutions.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Financing entrepreneurship." Reference & Research Book News, Nov. 2008. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA188354035&it=r&asid=880b0048011424845e8417a3c39f8071. Accessed 21 June 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A188354035
Taking Technical Risks--How Innovators, Executives, And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks
Maurizio Pompella
71.1 (Mar. 2004): p177.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2004 American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
by Lewis M. Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald, 2001, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
The difficult life of technical innovators and the gaps which have to be covered in order to cross the "death valley" (where the majority of innovative projects fail) give a satisfactory idea of how tough is the way from scientific breakthroughs to market prototypes, or throughout the book--in other words--how difficult it is to control purely technical risks and market risks at the same time. The financial gap between funding of research and resources to be invested to put the projects in practice, the research gap between the initial idea and a market-suitable product, and also the trust gap--or the information asymmetry--between technologists and managers, may seriously affect the underwriting of high-tech risks. Technical breakthroughs no longer coincide with products themselves, as it was once; there is now a difference between an innovating concept and a product ready to be launched. This is the central subject of the book, and also a very typical insurance topic, as everybody can see and realize, although this is not emphasized throughout the work as it could have been. In fact, the risks necessarily related to all innovative projects are normally shared, and risky activities may be undertaken--under insurance mechanisms--which would not have been possible otherwise.
At the very heart, the problem originates from the fact that different, sometimes conflicting interests stand on the valley sides. On the one hand "inventors" and technologists are responsible for research and follow the reasons of science, often paying attention to feasibility more than to the impact of proposed innovations. On the other hand investors, and particularly managers, are responsible for decision-making processes and risk firm reputation and money, so that they follow the reasons of market.
The volume takes the form of a monograph that is divided in chapters, as usual; among the chapters a series of papers ("contributed essays") can be found, however. These were mostly chosen from the commissioned contributions of a report on "Managing Technical Risks," which was sponsored by the Advanced Technology Program of the NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) in the late nineties. Together with the academics, a series of practitioners were involved in the project, and two preliminary workshops were organized to approach the matter. Thus, most of the "added value" comes from the choice to combine continuous, often implicit, reference to theory--from Schumpeter on--with the point of view and the experience of professionals, whose opinions are quoted throughout the book.
The Introduction is devoted to elucidate the aims and structure of the book. On the other hand, the first chapter (Between Invention and Innovation)--having introduced the discussion and presented two case studies--offers a useful definition of success and failure in terms of objectives. Institutional, personal, and project objectives are discussed to evaluate technical uncertainties and failure risks. The corresponding contributed essay (Technical Risks, Product Specification, and Market Risk, by George C. Hartman and Mark B. Myers) gives the subject a concrete form, by explaining how research, technology development, and product development activities are structured at the Xerox corporation, according to a model adopted to identify/quantify technology risks and market risks.
Risk and uncertainty are analyzed in the following chapter (Defining Risks and Rewards). However, this is not a purely analytical approach, for a "soft way" is chosen to treat the related statistical concepts: the quantification of technical risk is as much an art as it is a science. Some of the methodologies to assess the technical risks are mentioned here: (1) the two-part appraisal, evaluating the global risk as the product between the probability of technical and the probability of commercial successes; and (2) the mapping of the research, development, and commercialization process, in order to simulate a series of scenarios through which a model is to be obtained. Then the problem of the interdependence of technical and market uncertainties and the low predictability of changing "specifications" of products, as the development process goes on, are treated.
The second essay (The Dual-Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments, by Henry Chesbrough and Richard S. Rosenbloom) emphasizes--by the illustration of three cases--the relevance of the business model applied to bringing about the success of decided investments. In particular, it explains how an established business model may cause a twofold problem, either by masking the potential of a new technology or by exaggerating the reward expectations.
The institutional differences between firms in terms of corporate size and structure, as far as technical risk-taking is concerned, are the subject of the third chapter. Here the ways the innovations can be created--i.e., internal development, external acquisition, or collaboration--are discussed. Large, mid-size, and start-up companies are compared, in order to explore how they approach the matter and what are the advantages each of them may enjoy, by adopting a different mix of the three innovation strategies. Then the "external ways" to bridge the gap between research and market are considered in detail, and the role of universities (with the phenomenon of creation of new firms from university research), as well as the one of partnerships and consortia are explained.
The relevant evidence found by the authors here is that the relations with institutions outside the firm organization may provide a way to compensate differences between competitors, in terms of size and market experience. Some sort of summing-up closes the chapter, and describes the opportunities for large, specialized SMEs, and new firms, in terms of resources, management style, and expectations.
Raising Mice in the Elephants' Cage is the meaningful title of the subsequent contributed essay, by James C. McGroddy. "There is more than ample evidence that mice are unlikely to survive and prosper when raised in the elephants' cage." The metaphor expresses the thesis supported by the author: the style of management of large, established enterprises is ill-adapted to the development of radical innovations and changing technology, as they normally develop plans having a high degree of certainty of execution. "Large companies [...] are organized to succeed in doing what they do well: managing and growing large businesses"; in so doing, they often fail to capture new opportunities, and lose market share to the benefit of smaller, newly emerging players, which have no dominant position in their sector.
If applied to research-based innovation projects, portfolio strategies consider that a fairly large, diversified set of investments should allow a positive outcome, even if most projects were to fail. This happens because of high returns coming from a few successful projects, standing far above the average. Chapter Four (More Ways to Fail Than to Succeed ...) addresses the question if--and in which cases--portfolio strategies represent a profitable choice, and reviews the alternatives available to manage the risk of both technical and market failure. The same two case studies introduced in the first chapter appear again to complement the section, and are analyzed in depth.
The essay that follows (Technology Policy for a World of Skew-Distributed Outcomes, by F. M. Scherer and Dietmar Harhoff) is strictly related to the latter chapter. It demonstrates how for a given sample using a series of Monte Carlo simulations--returns from innovations are "skew-distributed" (mostly log-normal), and proves the limited value of a portfolio approach. Besides, it tries to address the difficult question if the mentioned skewness--at the aggregate level--could have any macroeconomic implication (at the level of a whole economy, might the real business cycles [...] be attributable in part to randomness in draws from a skew-distributed universe of innovative opportunities?). Maybe, but the answer cannot be univocal, and the authors--cautiously--suggest that the hypothesis is a good subject for future research.
Also a good question is the title of the last essay, the fifth: Will Industry Fund the Science and Technology Base for the Twenty-First Century? Well--as emphasized in the chapter that comes before the essay--this seems to be a matter of barriers to be overcome, and the government has a crucial role in boosting technology based innovations, by removing the institutional obstacles and by encouraging innovation. Most of the section, thus, is dedicated--apart from a review of the "institutional requirements" to face technical risks and to succeed--to state and federal programs to promote innovation.
The responsibilities of government are also underlined in the conclusions (The Changing Landscape: Innovators, Firms, and Government), where the relevant trends driving the U.S. innovation system and the Institutional Requirements for an Effective System of Innovation are dealt with. Indeed, the environments that foster technological innovation-institutions, networks of relationships, culture, and traditions--are as exceptional as successful innovations themselves. [...] Helping to create and support such social capital is among the most important and difficult challenges for public policy in the coming century.
Reviewer: Maurizio Pompella, University of Siena
Pompella, Maurizio
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Pompella, Maurizio. "Taking Technical Risks--How Innovators, Executives, And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks." Journal of Risk and Insurance, Mar. 2004, p. 177+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA114367347&it=r&asid=7a46314ef298a0747d104debcdc4df4a. Accessed 21 June 2017.
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Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks
Jeffrey Marshall
17.4 (June 2001): p16.
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Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks. By Lewis M. Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald. The MIT Press, 210 pages. $35.95.
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Marshall, Jeffrey. "Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks." Financial Executive, June 2001, p. 16. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA75835703&it=r&asid=0d0cc89901d340a07e602c1db1d11f0b. Accessed 21 June 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A75835703