Summer UROPS join the IPC. Four undergraduates have joined the IPC for the summer. Darci Reed (a freshman in mechanical engineering), Jack Sul (a freshmen in mathematics) and Laura Liu (a junior at Wellesley College majoring in economics) are all working on the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project on the scale up and new manufacturing technologies module. Douglas Nmagu (sophomore, chemical engineering) is working on identifying innovative companies working in the biomanufacturing industry in New England.
SASE comes to MIT. The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics will be held at MIT from June 28-30th. The Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project will be discussed as one of the featured panels: Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Advanced Industrial Countries? with Suzanne Berger, Susan Helper, Wolfgang Streeck, and Dan Breznitz. more
Liz Reynolds comments for the 2011 Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy on the importance of interdisciplinary research in Intersections that Matter. download pdf : visit website
IPC Executive Director Liz Reynolds joined a panel discussion at the following event, "Why - and Which - Manufacturing Matters: Innovation and Production in the United States", that was held on February 22 in Washington, DC at The Brookings Institution. To view the archived video of this event, click here. In related media, she was also quoted in this AP article.
Ashley Finan, Ph.D. candidate in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), is intent on developing better policy for energy innovation. Her journey on improving the framework surrounding clean energy solutions and climate change began as an undergraduate at MIT in 2002, and is culminating with her doctoral thesis. She discussed her research, and her views on present and future conditions regarding energy policies, in a feature article and in a short video; both available by clicking here.
The IPC is proud to announce the appointment of visiting scholar Professor Benjamin Temkin, in conjunction with the Department of Political Science. Prof. Temkin is on sabbatical from FLACSO, Mexico and will be conducting research on issues relating to informal employment and globalization, as well as on electoral behavior and politics this academic year.
MIT President Susan Hockfield stresses that investment in the cycle of invention and manufacturing is important in the US. She shared her thoughts in an op ed piece in the NY Times called "Manufacturing a Recovery", published on August 29, 2011. Read a pdf version of the article here.
IPC Executive Director Liz Reynolds was a panelist at the recent Clean Technology Conference and Expo, held in Boston, MA. She and several colleagues discussed issues related to the topic, "Cleantech Regional Cluster Initiatives" on June 15 at the Hynes Auditorium.
IPC Senior Research Affiliate, Timothy Sturgeon, delivered the inaugural lecture at the public launch of the new Industrial Studies Chair in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Durban South Africa. The chair was awarded to Professor Justin Barnes, a long-time student of the South African motor vehicle industry and facilitator of the Durban Automotive Cluster.
The IPC hosted a Spring Seminar series that served as a thesis workshop for the center's affiliated students, held during March - May, 2011. To learn more about the series, and for a complete list of doctoral and masters students who participated, and their research topics, click here.
The Boston Globe published a special magazine, on Sunday, May 15, 2011, that celebrates MIT at 150, the 150th anniversary of the Institute. The edition features ideas, inventions, and innovators that have helped shape the world including an introduction written by Bill Gates and a condensed version of President Susan Hockfield's speech from the recently held Next Century Convocation. Click here for corresponding web content.
On Monday, March 14, 2011, the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) held an information session, about the current situation at Fukushima, Japan, for the MIT community. The session was chaired by Prof. Richard K. Lester, head of the department of NSE and faculty director of the IPC. To view this event on TechTV click here.
Suzanne Berger, MIT professor of political science and co-chair of the institute's research panel on reviving US manufacturing, discusses the topic on WBUR's radio program, "Here and Now", January 4, 2011.
Elisabeth Reynolds named Executive Director of the IPC.
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
In his new book Playing our Game, Edward Steinfeld examines the global impact and implications of China’s rapid economic growth. He spoke recently with China Real Time. Playing our Game was reviewed in Foreign Affairs.
Richard Lester discusses work at MIT on the culture of innovation in a recent NECN program.
IPC Senior Research Affiliate Tim Sturgeon comments on Toyota's recall troubles in the context of automobile/electronics industry convergence.
IPC doctoral student Edward Cunningham testifies before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on China's energy policymaking structure.
A detailed analysis of powerplants in China by IPC researchers debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the absence of government regulation is to blame for that country's notorious air-pollution problems. MIT News Release
Richard Lester delivers keynote address on energy innovation at the Centennial Meeting of the National Governors Association in Philadelphia.
Michael Piore delivers the 2008 Presidential Address to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
IPC Research Affiliate and former Doctoral Fellow Dan Breznitz receives the American Political Science Association's 2008 Don Price Award for the best book on science and technology for his book Innovation and the State.
Richard Lester calls for regional energy innovation strategy for New England. IPC collaborates with Council on Competitiveness and Massachusetts Business Roundtable on Regional Innovation Summit.
Michael Piore delivers the 2008 Presidential Address to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
IPC Research Affiliate and former Doctoral Fellow Dan Breznitz receives the American Political Science Association's 2008 Don Price Award for the best book on science and technology for his book Innovation and the State.
IPC hosts Industry Studies Annual Conference — 2008. More than 350 industry studies researchers from around the world gather in Boston for the event.
IPC researcher Liz Reynolds hosts roundtable for 10 local biotechnology firms to discuss location strategies for biomanufacturing.
Richard Lester calls for regional energy innovation strategy for New England. IPC collaborates with Council on Competitiveness and Massachusetts Business Roundtable on Regional Innovation Summit.
IPC awarded $2M grant to review U.S. energy technology innovation.
Richard Lester to advise Australian National Innovation Review.
IPC enters into partnership with John Adams Innovation Institute to study the competitiveness of Massachusetts Industries.
Economists Frank Levy and Peter Temin analyze the causes of income inequality in a new working paper. Their diagnosis receives extensive media coverage.
MIT Study Team including IPC faculty Richard Lester and Edward Steinfeld publish major study on The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon-Constrained World.
Sean Safford's doctoral research on the Youngstown economy featured in a television series.
IPC Services Offshoring Working Group, led by Tim Sturgeon and Frank Levy, issues Final Report.
Former IPC Doctoral Fellow Gunnar Trumbull publishes new book, Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany.
Research on radiology outsourcing by Prof. Frank Levy and IPC doctoral fellow Ari Goelman the subject of a recent New York Times article.
How We Compete reviewed in the Financial Times. Prof. Berger interviewed on National Public Radio.
IPC doctoral graduates Ari Goelman (first prize) and Danny Breznitz (second prize) are the two winners of the 2005 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award competition.
Prof. Suzanne Berger and the IPC Globalization Study team publish How We Compete: What Companies Around the World are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy, summarizing the results of a five-year research project on globalization and its implications for advanced economies.
Recent IPC doctoral graduate Sean Safford (now assistant professor at U. of Chicago Business School) interviewed on National Public Radio about his dissertation research.
Former IPC Doctoral Fellow Pierre Azoulay awarded 2005 Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship.
Prof. Suzanne Berger awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite by the Government of France.
Prof. Richard Lester discusses nuclear fuel reprocessing in testimony before the House Science Committee Energy Subcommittee.
IPC doctoral student Ed Cunningham awarded 2005 Fulbright Fellowship to study in China.
IPC doctoral graduate Sean Safford receives the 2004 Louis R. Pondy Award for the Best Paper Based on A Dissertation, awarded by the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management. Safford's paper, "Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown," also receives the 2004 Graduate Student Paper Award of the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
IPC doctoral student Doug Fuller comments on China's industrial development and its implications for the U.S. economy in a Boston Globe essay.
Profs. Frank Levy and Dick Murnane discuss their new book, "The New Division of Labor," on News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Profs. Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane publish their new book, "The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market" (Princeton University Press, 2004).
"The New Division of Labor," by Profs. Frank Levy and Richard Murnane, is discussed in the Financial Times.
Profs. Richard Lester and Michael Piore publish their new book, "Innovation — The Missing Dimension" (Harvard University Press, 2004).
Profs. Richard Lester and John Deutch publish their new book, "Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and the Environment" (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Prof. Suzanne Berger awarded the 2003 "Prix Européen du Livre d'Economie" for her new book, "The First Globalization: Lessons from the French" (published in French under the title: "Notre Première Mondialisation: Leçons d'un échec oublié," Paris, Seuil, 2003).
Center Director Richard Lester and colleagues publish new MIT report on the Future of Nuclear Power.
Doctoral alum Kamal Malek wins "High Impact Market Research" award for product and brand development software developed by his startup based on his dissertation research at the IPC.