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Philip Auerswald

Philip Auerswald

Associate Professor

Main: 703-993-3787
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3401 Fairfax Drive – MS 3B1
Arlington, Virginia 22201


Philip Auerswald is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy. Professor Auerswald's work focuses on linked processes of technological and organizational change in the contexts of policy, economics, and strategy. He is the co-editor of Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about people using technology to address global challenges. He author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including 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). 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. He has been a consultant to the National Academies of Science, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and a B.A. (political science) from Yale University.



Areas of Research
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Long CV

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)

Current Position
Aug 2008 - present
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Selected Teaching Experience
Jan 2003 - July 2008
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
2003 - present
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

1989 - 1991
Math Resource Teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools

1988 - 1989
Research Associate, Elliot Berg Associates

Selected Publications

Authored Volumes
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 Hamiton's Strategy & Business as a "Top 25 Business Book for 2000-2001.”

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.

Book Chapters
"Coping with Turbulence: The Resilience Imperative," Philip Auerswald and Debra van Opstal, 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 Honorof 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. Steineds., 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lecture Volume VI, Addison-Wesley.

Journal Articles
"Entry and Schumpeterian Profits: How Technological Complexity Affects Industry Evolution." Journal of Evolutionary Economics (2009) forthcoming.

"Defining Prosperity," Philip Auerswald and Zoltan Acs. The American Interest, May/June (2009), 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. Technology in Society (2008).

"Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity." Philip and Rajendra Kulkarni, Economic of Innovation and New Technology (2008).

"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 (www.cfr.org) as a "Must Read" article for 2007.

"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-by-doing," Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (2000). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24:3, pp. 389-450.

Journal Editorships
2006-present
Founding co-editor, Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, published by MIT Press
.
Special editions produced for the 2008 and 2009 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland) and the World Economic Forum on the Middle East 2008 (Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt).

1991-2005
Co-Founder and Editor from 1995-2005, Foreign Policy Bulletin, currently published by Cambridge University Press.

Reports
"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
"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), inVicki 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.

Documentary Compilations, Edited
Iraq 1990-2005: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (2009, forthcoming), 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.

Op-ed and Commentary
"Defining Prosperity"The American Interest, May/June 2009.

"Creating Social Value," The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009.

"A fallen giant finding its feet," Straights Times (Singapore), August 14, 2008.

"China's Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory," International Herald Tribune, August 12, 2008.

"China's Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory," Boston Globe, August 11, 2008.

"The Irrelevance of the Middle East," The American Interest, May/June, 2007.

"Old oil fears don't match 2007 reality," San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2007.

"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.

Grants and Contracts
Principal Investigator, "Entrepreneurship and Social Prosperity Increasing Public Awareness, Advancing Theory and Informing Practice," Kauffman Foundation. 8/29/2008-1/29/2010. $96,643.

Principal Investigator (GMU subcontract), "The Phoenix Project Social Media," Corporation for National and Community Service, 9/30/08-9/29/11. $55,788.

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.

Consulting
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)

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 Institute of Standards and Technology (Economic Assessment Office, Advanced Technology Program)

Oxford-Analytica

University of Massachusetts (Donahue Institute)

Invited Talks (Selected)
2009 Mar
Ashoka University Network Meeting, Skoll World Forum, Said School of Business, University, Oxford, U.K.

2009 Mar
"What Industry Wants from Universities: A Kauffman Foundation Seminar," 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 May
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, workshop on "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, 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.

Workshop and Conference Presentations (Selected)
Auerswald, P. E. "Leading Multi-Sector Networks." Presented to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Joint Leadership Development Program, SAIC, Fairfax, VA, 2008.

Auerswald, P.E. "Entrepreneurship, Opportunity, and Growth." Presented at the OECD Kansas City Workshop on High-Growth SMEs, Innovation, and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2008.

Auerswald, P.E. "Infrastructures of Opportunity: Bringing Reconstruction and Vital Infrastructure into the 21st Century." Presented as part of the ICAF Reconstruction and Vital Infrastructure Industry Study: Critical Infrastructure Panel, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., 2008.

2007 Feb
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2006 Jan
International Symposium of the Regional Science Association International, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, India
.

2005 Nov
Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) 2005 annual meeting, Washington, DC.

2005 Sep
Technology Transfer Society 2005 Annual Conference, "Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship," Kansas City, MI
.

2004 Sep
Technology Transfer Society 2004 Annual Conference, "Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer.”

2003 Nov
Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) 2003 annual meeting, Washington, DC
.

2003 Jun
Seventh International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Monterrey, Mexico.

2002 Feb
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2001 Jun
Society for Computational Economics 7th International Conference, New Haven, CT.

2000 Oct
New England Complex Systems Institute, Second International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH.

1998 Oct
New England Complex Systems Institute, Second International Conference on Complex Systems, Nashua, NH.

1997 Jul
Society for Computational Economics, 3rd International Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

1996 Jun
Western Economic Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Professional Service (Selected)
2004
Reviewer for National Science Foundation program on Human and Social Dynamics.

2002-present
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 Jun
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 Mar
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, 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.

Awards and Fellowships
2008
Faculty lead for George Mason University team selected to participate as one of five Ashoka Changemaker Campuses during pilot year, 2007-2008

2007
Selected as one of three recipient of the 2007 (inaugural) Emerging Researcher, Scholar and Creator Award, granted by the GMU Provost to recognize achievement by "up and coming” faculty at the University.

1999-2002
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

1997, summer
Thorne Fund (Cornell University) grant to support dissertation research

1993, summer 1994, February and July-August
Research Visitor, Santa Fe Institute (SFI)

Courses Taught
Analytic Methods for Research on Science, Technology, and Innovation (doctoral seminar)

Innovation Policy in the 21st Century: Technology, Governance, and Globalization

Managerial Economics and Policy Analysis

Markets and Market Failure

Policy Analysis for Practitioners

Social Entrepreneurship

Doctoral Advisees
David Diamond (Chair, Doctoral Committee; Ph.D. completed in Spring 2008)
Sung Jae Kim (Member, Doctoral Committee; Ph.D. completed in Spring 2006)
Mahmud Farooque (Member, Doctoral Committee; Ph.D. completed in Spring 2004)
Jerald Coughter (Chair, Doctoral Committee; supervised research and reading)
Forrest Hare (Member, Field Committee, 2008)
Kadri Kallas(Member, Field Committee, 2007)
Paul Trampe (Member, Field Committee, 2007)
Gretchen Ehle (Member, Field Committee 2006; supervised research and reading)
Liza Parfomak (Member, Field Committee 2005)
Lorraine Cichowski (supervised research and reading)

Languages
French fluent
Spanish intermediate written and spoken
Chinese (Putonghua) beginner spoken

Books
Auerswald, P. E., ed. Iraq, 1990-2006 3-Volume Set: A Diplomatic History Through Documents, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Auerswald, P. E., Bozkaya, A. eds. Financing Entrepreneurship.  In David Audretsch ed. series, The International Library of Entrepreneurship. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008.

Auerswald, P. E., L. Branscomb, E. Michel-Kerjan and T. La Porte, Ed. Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Book Sections
Auerswald, P. E., and van Opstal, D. "Coping with Turbulence: The Resilience Imperative." Innovations: Special Edition for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press:, pp. 203-218.

Auerswald, P. E. "The Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure Reconsidered." In David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and Roy Thurik eds., The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Auerswald, P. E. "Emerging Technologies for Change: Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Networks in Developing Countries." In Connecting People, Ideas and Resources Across Communities, edited by M. Heitor D. Gibson, and A. Ibarra. Ashland, OH: Purdue University Press, 2007.

Auerswald, P. E. "The Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure Reconsidered." In The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, edited by I. Grilo, D. Audretsch, and R. Thurik. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007.

La Porte, T. M., P. Auerswald, L. Branscomb, and E. Michel-Kerjan. "Leadership: Who Will Act? Integrating public and Private Interests to Make a Safer World." In Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability. L. B. P. Auerswald, T. La Porte and E. Michel-Kerjan. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

LaPorte, T. M., P. Auerswald, L. Branscomb and E. Michel-Kerjan. "Where Private Efficiency meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge." In Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerablilty. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Auerswald, P.E., L. Branscomb, E. Michel-Kerjan and T.M. La Porte. "Complexity and Interdependence: The Unmanaged Challenge,"Philip Auerswald (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Auerswald, P.E., L. Branscomb. "Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the 'Golden Age' of U.S. Corporate R&D." In Albert N. Link and F.M. Scherer eds., Essays in Honorof Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005.

Editorships
2006-present
Founding co-editor, Innovations, MIT Press.

1991-2005
Co-Founder and Editor from 1995-2005, Foreign Policy Bulletin, currently published by Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles and Reviews
Auerswald, P. E. "Entry and Schumpeterian Profits: How Technological Complexity Affects Industry Evolution." Journal of Evolutionary Economics (2009) forthcoming.

Auerswald, P. E. and Acs, Z. "Defining Prosperity." The American Interest, May/June (2009): 4-13.

Auerswald, P. E. "Creating Social Value." Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring (2009): 51-55.

Auerswald, P. E., Branscomb, L. "Research and Innovation in a Networked World." Technology in Society 30, nos. 3-4 (2008): 339-347.

Auerswald, P. E., Kulkarni, R. "Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity." Economic of Innovation and New Technology 17, no. 7 (2008): 733-750.

Auerswald, P. E. "Entrepreneurship in the Theory of the Firm." Small Business Economics 30, no. 2 (2008): 111-126.

Auerswald, P. E. "Schumpeter's Century." The American Interest 2, no. 8 (2007): 124-34.

Auerswald, P. E. "The Irrelevance of the Middle East." The American Interest 2, no. 5 (2007): 19-37.
Selected by the Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org) as a "Must Read" article for 2007.

Auerswald, P. E. "The Myth of Energy Insecurity." Issues in Science and Technology 22(4) (2006): 65-70.

Auerswald, P. E., and I. Quadir. "Introduction to the Inaugural Issue." Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 1:1 (2006): 3-7.

Auerswald, P. E., and L. Branscomb. "Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the 'Golden Age' of U.S. Corporate R&D." Journal of Technology Transfer 30, no 1/2 (2005): 139-57.

Auerswald, P. E., and L. Branscomb, T. La Porte, and E. Michel-Kerjan. "The Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure." Issues in Science and Technology 22, no. 1 (2005): 77-83.

Op-ed and Commentary
"Defining Prosperity"
The American Interest, May/June 2009.

"Creating Social Value," The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009.

"A fallen giant finding its feet," Straights Times (Singapore), August 14, 2008.

"China's Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory," International Herald Tribune, August 12, 2008.

"China's Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory," Boston Globe, August 11, 2008.

"The Irrelevance of the Middle East," The American Interest, May/June, 2007.

"Old oil fears don't match 2007 reality," 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.

Reports
Auerswald, P. E., L. Branscomb, S. Gorman, R. Kulkarni, and L. Schintler (2007). Placing Innovation: A Geographical Information Systems (G.I.S.) Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity. Washington, DC, U.S. Deparatment of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 06-902.

Auerswald, P. E., Branscomb, L. M., Demos, N., and Min, B. K. (2005). "Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage Technology Development." Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 02–841A, September.

Presentations and Proceedings
Auerswald, P. E. "Leading Multi-Sector Networks." Presented to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Joint Leadership Development Program, SAIC, Fairfax, VA, 2008.

Auerswald, P.E. "Entrepreneurship, Opportunity, and Growth." Presented at the OECD Kansas City Workshop on High-Growth SMEs, Innovation, and Intellectual Assets: Strategic Issues and Policies, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2008.

Auerswald, P.E. "Infrastructures of Opportunity: Bringing Reconstruction and Vital Infrastructure into the 21st Century." Presented as part of the ICAF Reconstruction and Vital Infrastructure Industry Study: Critical Infrastructure Panel, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Working Papers
"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.

Documentary Compilations, Edited
Iraq 1990-2006: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (2009, forthcoming), Philip Auerswald ed., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Honors
1999-2002: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

1997, summer: Thorne Fund (Cornell University) grant to support dissertation research

1993, summer and 1994, February and July-August: Research Visitor, Santa Fe Institute (SFI)


Quick Facts

Ranked, by the National Science Foundation, as the number one program in its field for federal and total research expenditures.

Faculty have received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and are Fulbright Scholars and Mellon Fellowship recipients.

In 2007 and 2008, The School’s 45 faculty produced 21 books, 61 book chapters, 14 edited volumes, and 75 refereed journal articles.

For 2007 and 2008 The School’s sponsored research expenditures totaled $17 million, faculty submitted 179 proposals, and The School supported 43 doctoral students.

Research per full-time faculty member for FY 07-08 totaled $123,030, making SPP among the largest funded in the university.

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