Is Knowledge Trapped Inside the Ivory Tower?" Technology Spawning and the Genesis of New Science-Based Inventions"
Speaker: Michaël Bikard", MIT, Sloan
Date: Wednesday, October 17 2012
Time: 3:00PM to 4:00PM
Refreshments: 2:45PM
Location: E25-401
Host: Danielle Camp , Center for Biomedical Innovation, MIT
Contact: Danielle Camp, (617) 324-4902, dcamp@mit.edu
Relevant URL: New scientific knowledge sometimes remains underutilized as compared to its technological potential. We examine two views of the process of science-based invention at the level of the knowledge-producing organization. In one, widespread access to the new scientific knowledge is crucial, and the academic environment therefore fosters invention. In the other, control is paramount and scientific research conducted in firms leads to more new technologies. Analysis of follow-on inventions, based on 39 simultaneous discoveries between academia and industry involving 90 teams and cited in 533 patents, indicates that a scientific publication originating from a firm is 20-30% more likely to be cited in follow-on patents than its academic twin. Contrary to the idea that ease of access plays a crucial role, inventors that did not take part in the discovery appear more likely to draw their knowledge from firms rather than from the “Ivory Tower.”"
"Speaker Bio"
"Michaël Bikard is a PhD candidate in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on the development and commercialization of new scientific knowledge. Michaël holds French, English and German Master’s level degrees in Management that he received through Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris for his studies in Paris, Oxford, and Berlin. Prior to joining MIT, he worked as a journalist at israelvalley.com, an online newspaper which became the official website of the French-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, and which he helped found. At MIT, Michaël became a founding editor of the MIT Entrepreneurship Review. His research has won a number of awards including the MIT Energy Fellowship, the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, the J. Robert Beyster Fellowship and an NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant."
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