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<div><font size="+1"><b>Sebastian Pfotenhauer<br></b></font></div>
<div><i>MIT</i></div>
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<div><font size="4"><b>Between Cultural Transfer and National Innovation Strategy: A Study of MIT's Recent International Collaborations</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Monday, November 14th</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
106<br></font><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img src="cid:ii_13341b7c62335428" alt="image.png" title="image.png" width="545" height="10"></span><br>
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5pm Thursday, November 10th.</font></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b>
This presentation analyzes four of MIT’s major international
collaborations – the Cambridge-MIT Institute, the MIT-Portugal Program, the
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, and the Singapore MIT Alliance – as
complex policy instrument that simultaneously address issues in science,
innovation and higher education policy.<span>
</span>While largely different in design and sociocultural context, all four
partnerships draw upon the notion of “best-practice transfer,” i.e. the idea
that institutional success can be emulated by adopting certain practices of a
leading international university like MIT, particularly with respect to the
role of universities within national innovation systems. In this sense, the “success”
of these collaborations is closely tied to notions of cultural change, both within
a country’s institutions of higher education and science as well as in broader socioeconomic
terms. The presentation will discuss examples of collaboration achievements and
generalizable lessons for innovation policy in light of <a name="133804970c77d074__GoBack"></a>this
dual analytic framework of policy analysis and cultural change.<span> </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></i>
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<div><b>Biography</b>:
Sebastian Pfotenhauer is currently a post-doc with the MIT Technology
& Policy Program and the MIT-Portugal Program, as well as a fellow of the
Harvard Program on Science, Technology, and Society. His research interests are
centered on the intersection of innovation policy, science policy, and higher
education policy, where he is currently focusing on the role of international
university collaborations as a national innovation strategy. A graduate of
MIT's Technology & Policy Program, Sebastian also holds a PhD in Physics
from the University of Jena, Germany. He has worked as a consultant on issues
related to science, innovation, and education policy for the OECD Centre for
Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and private foundations, and has
served on the board a European framework program (Laserlab Euorope) as well as
several policy initiatives (e.g. Cambridge Science, Technology, and Policy
Crossroads). At present, Sebastian also takes pleasure in teaching the "Introduction
to Technology & Policy" course at MIT. In his spare time, Sebastian
enjoys playing the violin and traveling around the globe.
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