I&E Group External Seminar: Are Knowledge Spillovers Local? Evidence from Patent Inventors

Prof Maryann Feldmann, Distinguished Chair in Public Policy University of North Carolina

Biography

Maryann Feldman is the S.K. Heninger Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Her research and teaching interests focus on the areas of innovation, the commercialization of academic research and the factors that promote technological change and economic growth. A large part of Dr. Feldman’s work concerns the geography of innovation – investigating the reasons why innovation clusters spatially and the mechanisms that support and sustain industrial clusters.
Previously, Dr. Feldman held the Miller Distinguished Chair in Higher Education at the University of Georgia (2006-2008) and the Jeffery S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Business Economics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (2002-2006). She started her career at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Feldman has served on the Advisory Panel for the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Program on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology.
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Location

The Boardroom, Level 1, Imperial College Business School
12:45 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:15 Seminar