[bioundgrd] Fwd: PED Seminar: Andrew King (Sept. 7th @ 3:00pm)

[Joyce Roberge]

The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics presents:

"Kitchen confidential? Knowledge transfer and social norms in gourmet cuisine.<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/abstracts/9-7-11.html>"

by Professor Andrew King<http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/andrew.king/> (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)

Abstract:

In this paper, we explore the conditions for knowhow transfer in gourmet cuisine, an industry characterized by rapid innovation and weak protection of intellectual property (IP). We investigate whether bilateral exchanges are facilitated either by the existence of norms that reduce the risk of misappropriation or by IP strategies that decrease the potential for loss. We disentangle how these different mechanisms interact. Using evidence from a scenario-based field experiment, we demonstrate that norms play a role in governing the use of transferred information. We also explore how norms are maintained in communities and how they may influence know-how transfer among firms in a geographic cluster.

When: 3:00pm, Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Where: 1 Brattle Square, 6th floor, Cambridge, MA 02138 (link to map/directions<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/>)

For more info on the PED Seminar Series<http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/events/seminar/>, please contact: mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu>

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Michael John Wojcik
Staff Assistant
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
1 Brattle Square, 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/
Room 623
Office: (617) 496-4737
Fax: (617) 496-4629
mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mwojcik at fas.harvard.edu>


Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>





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