Program
Thursday 12 March
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction
Kenneth Bertrams, Université libre de Bruxelles: “Academic Entrepreneurship in History”
10.15-11.30 Institutional entrepreneurship. Part 1
Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: “Building an Infrastructure for Industrial Research in Interwar Norway – Academic Entrepreneurship from Science Funds and Industry Laboratories to Research Councils”
Giovanni Paoloni and Giovanni Battimelli, Sapienza University of Rome: “University, Industry and Politics: Orso Mario Corbino as Organizer of Physical Research in Italy (1908-1937)”
11.30 –11.45 Coffee break
11.45-1.00 Institutional entrepreneurship. Part 2
Giovanni Favero, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice: “Corrado Gini as an Academic Entrepreneur: Scientific Conflict and Stakeholder Mobilization”
Berris Charnley, University of Oxford: “Agricultural Science and Entrepreneurialism in Britain and the Colonial West Indies, 1880-1930”
1.00-2.30 Lunch
2.30-3.45 Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 1
Joris Mercelis, Ghent University: “Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Commercialization and Institutionalization of Academic Photography in Europe and the United States, c.1860-1930”
Wolfgang König, Technical University of Berlin: “Engineering Professors as Entrepreneurs. The Case of Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905) and Alois Riedler (1850-1936)”
3.45-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-5.15 Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 2
Shaul Katzir, Tel Aviv University: “Technological Entrepreneurship from Patenting to Commercializing”
Anna Guagnini, University of Bologna: “Ivory Towers? The Commercial Activity of British Professors of Physics and Engineering, 1880-1914”
5.15-6.00 Keynote lecture 1
Mirjam Knockaert, Ghent University: “Enhancing an Entrepreneurial Attitude at European Universities”
Friday 13 March
9.00-10.15 Commercial entrepreneurship. Part 3
Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne: “Building a New Technoscience: Scientific Entrepreneurs in Computing in French Higher Education (1950-2000)”
Brian Dick, Life Sciences Foundation: “From Genetic Engineers to Genetic Entrepreneurs: Biogen, Scientific Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology”
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.15 Entrepreneurial institutions and partnerships. Part 1
Robert Kargon, Johns Hopkins University: “The Entrepreneurial University: Refashioning the American University after 1950”
Cyrus Mody, Rice University: “The University Center as Industrial Consortium: US Academic Microelectronics Research in the 1980s and 1990s”
Christophe Lécuyer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris: “Semiconductor Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Three University of California Campuses”
12.15-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.00 Entrepreneurial institutions and partnerships. Part 2
Ellan Spero, MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design: “‘Science in Action:’ the Origin of an Academic-Industrial Partnership”
Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Université Lille 3: “Managing Scientific Patenting in French Research Organizations During the Interwar Period”
3.00 -3.15 Coffee break
3.15-4.00 Keynote lecture 2
Daniel Wadhwani, University of the Pacific: “Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research”
4.00-5.00 Final discussion