SEWP in cooperation with the SBBI at the Harvard Business School has been a regular part of a Fall lecture series that meets at the Harvard Business School and other weeks at the Department of Economics, Harvard University.
Seminar topics include:
Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation
Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields
Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Patents, Business Models, and Permanent Injunctions
[More information on seminar here]
The Future of Engineering in the USA
Conference, November 17, 2008, held at Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University in cooperation with Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law School and SEWP -
[More information to come]
Supported by a grant from
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School
and the [National Bureau of Economic Research] (NBER)
[ SEWP Digest: President-Elect Obama and S&E Workers, December 2008 ]
Previous Editions of SEWP Digest:
[ SEWP Digest: Nanotechnology & Society II, June 2008
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[ SEWP Digest: Measuring Innovation in Science and Engineering, February 2008
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[SEWP Digest, Nanotechnology Edition, November 2007]
Federal funding of academic science and engineering (S&E) R&D failed to outpace inflation for the second year in a row.
According to a study by NSF a 2-year decline in federal funding in constant dollars is unprecedented for this data series, which began in 1972
[Read Full Report]
University of California Post doc Union Wins Official Recognition
After a failed attempts in 2006, the PRO/UAW, has successfully organized the post docs on the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. The move brings an estimated 10% of U.S. post docs into UAW. The union faced no noticeable opposition..
The Future of the Biomedical Sciences
Paula Stephan, SEWP network member and economist at Georgia State University, spoke about the future of the biomedical sciences in her talk: "Early Careers for Biomedical Scientists: Doubling (and Troubling) Outcomes" at Harvard University on Feb. 27th, 2007. The message: employment opportunities are getting worse for future biologists a trend that has to be reversed for the future of the biomedical sciences in the US.
Call for Proposals � Initial Access to Nanobank Data
Be One of the First to Tap into the Nanobank!
By Donna K. Ginther and Shulamit Kahn
Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences.
We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job,
promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001
Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
[full paper]
By George Borjas
The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. [full paper]
Improving the Postdoctoral Experience: An Empirical ApproachBy Geoff Davis
Recent reports have called for changes to the training of postdoctoral scientists and
engineers. We tested the hypothesis that the practices advocated make a measurable difference
in the experiences and productivity of postdoctoral researchers...
[full paper]
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