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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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John Walsh, a professor of public policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, will be conducting a research seminar on "Inside the academic pin factory: creativity in science."
John Walsh received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University's Department of Sociology in 1988. His research interests are the study of innovation, sociology of science and the sociology of work and organizations. He is currently collaborating with Sadao Nagaoka on a major survey of inventors in the US and Japan, sponsored by RIETI and the Kauffman Foundation, examining who invents, the innovation process, collaboration, and commercialization. He is also collaborating with Wes Cohen and Ashish Arora on a major survey of innovation in the US, sponsored by NSF and Kauffman Foundation.