SPECIAL IPC EVENT
Professor Richard Lester and Professor David Hart (GMU) will be the featured speakers, along with a panel of experts, at a policy discussion in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 7. Jointly hosted by the MIT Industrial Performance Center and the Bipartisan Policy Center, and moderated by David Garman, former Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. DOE, this event will continue the conversation of key areas presented in Lester's and Hart's recently published book, Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System. The discussion will explore how we can speed up the introductions of new technologies and business models and accelrate their deployment on a massive scale, and highlight ways to advance innovative technologies amidst challenging fiscal and political times. For more information or to request an invitation, contact ipcadmin@mit.edu.
SPECIAL EVENT
Professor Richard Lester will discuss three waves of unlocking energy innovation as presented in his, and Professor David Hart's, new book (see right ): energy efficiency, low-carbon energy supply, and new scientific breakthroughs. The talk is on Monday, November 14 at 5:00 p.m. in Building 66, Room 110. Click here for more information.
SPECIAL IPC EVENT
Professor Richard Lester and Professor David Hart (GMU) will discuss their soon-to-be-published book titled Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System at MIT, November 10. The authors' research suggests that energy innovation offers our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. A panel of industry and policy thought leaders will also participate .For more information click here or contact ipcadmin@mit.edu.
2011 Spring Seminar Series
During the spring semester, the Industrial Performance Center sponsors a seminar series which serves as a thesis workshop for the center's IPC affiliated students, and that also attracts students from elsewhere at MIT who are engaged in research on topics related to the center's research themes. The students present and discuss their work in progress, discuss and compare research methodologies, and evaluate recent research contributions in the field.
Doctoral and masters students participating in the seminar this semester are drawn from many departments, including the Department of Economics, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and the Sloan School of Management.
Please note the '11 Spring Seminar schedule:
March 3
Gustavo Setrini, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
"Clientelism in the Age of Globalization: from Patron-Client to
Supplier-Client Relations in Paraguay's Sugar Industry"
March 10
Phech Colatat, Ph.D. Candidate
Sloan School of Management
"The Role of Communities in Scientific and Technological Innovation: Some Early Findings from Study of DARPA"
April 21
Ashley Finan, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
"U.S. Nuclear Energy Innovation Policy: Lessons from the Past" (working title)
May 5
Florian Metzler, Master's Candidate
Technology and Policy Program
"Nuclear Energy Industry in China" (working title)
May 19
Rachna Pande, Master's Candidate
Technology and Policy Program
"Factors influencing globalization of Biomanufacturing" (working title)
Attendance by non-IPC affiliated students is by invitation only. Send inquiries to ipc@mit.edu.
Elisabeth Reynolds named Executive Director of the IPC.
Press release
The MIT Department of Economics, Political Science and the Sloan School of Management hosted an all day conference followed by dinner to celebrate the distinguished career of Michael Piore, the David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy. The conference included the following speakers and topics:
The papers presented will be published next year.
Paul Osterman with Michael Piore
IPC Senior Research Affiliate Tim Sturgeon and Prof. Clair Brown of Berkeley awarded $1M NSF grant to conduct a national survey of globalization, innovation and employment.
Richard Lester proposes An Innovation Strategy for the Downturn in the 2008 Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy.
Professor Suzanne Berger presented with French Legion of Honor medal by French Ambassador Pierre Vimont.
Former IPC Doctoral Fellow Sean Safford, now an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, publishes Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown, based on his doctoral research at the IPC.
IPC Faculty Affiliate David Hart comments on the U.S. automobile industry bailout.