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Summary Sentence: A part of the SPP Speaker Series
Full Summary: SPP Speaker Series - October 9, 2014, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
“The Bureaucratization of Science”
John Walsh, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy
Location: Student Success Center, President’s Suite A
John WalshDr. John P. Walsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He teaches and does research on science, technology and innovation, using a sociological perspective that focuses on organizations and work to explain how research organizations respond to changes in their policy environment. Recent work includes studies of university-industry linkages in the US and Japan, the effects of research tool patents on biomedical researchers and country and industry differences in the role of patents in firm strategy. His work has been published in Science, Research Policy, Social Studies of Science, and Management Science. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, the Matsushita Foundation and the Japan Foundation, and he has done consulting for the National Academy of Sciences, the OECD, the European Commission and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
