Bio Rajshree Agarwal

14 Pages·2006·0.27 MB·English

Prof. Rajshree Agarwal
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61822
USA

Rajshree Agarwal is an associate professor in Strategic Management at
the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign. Her research interests focus on the implications of
entrepreneurship and innovation for industry and firm evolution. Her
recent projects examine knowledge transfer through employee
entrepreneurship, experience-based advantages in new product markets,
and the influence of dynamic knowledge-based capabilities on firm
performance. She has published articles in journals such as American
Economic Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science,
Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics,
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Strategic Management
Journal and Review of Economics and Statistics, and currently serves on
the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy
of Management Review. She has received research grants from the
Kauffman Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Marketing Science
Institute and the US Department of Agriculture.

Rajshree Agarwal has taught a wide range of courses in strategic
management, technology and innovation, industrial organization and
micro-economics at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA and PhD levels.
Consistent with her interests in innovation, she strives to incorporate
the latest pedagogical technologies in her teaching, and has won awards
for a demonstrated increase in teaching productivity.
PD Dr. Werner Bönte
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy
Group
Max Planck Institute of Economics
07745 Jena
Germany

Werner Bönte is currently the associate director of the Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public
Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics. He studied economics at the University
of Vienna and the TU Berlin and earned his academic degrees from the University of Hamburg.
Werner Bönte’s research focuses on economics of innovation, industrial economics and
entrepreneurship. He is currently working on knowledge transfer in buyer-supplier relationships
and the impact of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth.
Prof. Michael C. BURDA

Humboldt University Berlin
Faculty of Business and Economics
Spandauer Str. 1
10178 Berlin
Germany
Email: [email protected].
Homepage: http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/wt2/
Nationality: USA

Education: Prof. Burda received his BA, MA and PhD at Harvard University,
Cambridge/Massachusetts, USA. His doctoral dissertation "Essays on the Rise of Unemployment
in Europe" was supervised by Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Olivier Blanchard. He has also
studied in Göttingen and Kiel.
Positions held:
- Professor of economics (C4) at the Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Economics
and Management Science.
- Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
- Member of the Council of the European Economic Association, the American Economic
Association and the "Verein für Socialpolitik".
- Member of the supervisory board of the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
(DIW), the Socioeconomic Panel, and the Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH).
In 1998 he received the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik in 1998.
- Assistant professor, and then associate professor of economics at the Institut Europeen
d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) at Fontainebleau, France from 1987-1993.
- Visiting Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley,
USA, Fall 1996
Research Interests : Macroeconomics, labor economics as well as applications to
unemployment, European integration and the transformation of central and eastern Europe.

Selected Recent Publications:

Macroeconomics: A European Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with C. Wyplosz), fourth
edition, published in February 2005). Translated into French (de Boeck), German (Franz-Vahlen-
Verlag), Italian (il Mulino), Spanish (Ariel), Macedonian (INA-Kommersz), Polish (Pan’stwowe
Wydawnictwo Economiczne), Russian (Sodenie), Romanian (All-Beck), Ukrainian (Ochobi),
Portuguese (LTC) and Serbo-Croatian (CLDS). Greek and Turkish editions forthcoming.

"Complementarity of Labor Market Institutions, Equilibrium Unemployment and the Persistence
of Business Cycles," (with M. Weder) German Economic Review (2002) 3:1-24.
"Cost Competition, Fragmentation, and Globalization," (with B. Dluhosch) Review of
International Economics (2002) 10 (3), 424-441.

"From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and Labor Markets in Germany,"
(with J. Hunt) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001) 2:1-71.

"Wages and Worker Displacement in Germany," (with A. Mertens), Labour Economics 8
(2001):15-41.

"Mehr Arbeitslose – Der Preis für die Osterweiterung? Zur Auswirkung der EU-Erweiterung für
die europäischen Arbeitsmärkte im Osten und Westen," Zeitschrift für die Wirtschafts- und
Sozialwissenschaften 274 (2000):79-102.

"Semiparametric Analysis of German East-West Migration Intentions: Facts and Theory" (with
M. Müller, W. Härdle, and A. Werwatz) Journal of Applied Econometrics 13 (1998), 525-541.

Mediating the Transformation: Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe EPI Report
Number 4 (with Tito Boeri and Janos Köllõ) London: Centre for Economic Policy Research,
1998.
Dr. Isabel Grilo
European Commission
Rue de la Loi/Wetenstraat 200
B-1049 Bruxelles/Brussel
Belgium

Dr. Isabel Grilo works as an economist at the Enterprise and Industry
Directorate-General of the European Commission. She is also a member of CORE,
a research centre of the Université catholique de Louvain, and a member of
GREMARS, a research centre of the Université de Lille 3. She is an associate
professor (on leave) of the Université de Lille 3 and was a visitor
professor at Université catholique de Louvain previous to the present
European Commission position.

Isabel's research has been in the field of industrial organization, and more
recently her research has focused on the determinants of entrepreneurship in
advanced economies.
Dr. Heike Grimm
Forschungsdozentur für Public Policy
Universität Erfurt
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
Germany

Heike Grimm is associate professor holding the Research Lectureship for
Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. She also serves as member of
the "Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy" group at the
Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany. Her research focuses
on entrepreneurial public policies for the promotion of economic growth
in comparative perspectives. Her research has been funded, among others,
by the European Science Foundation, the European Commission, The German
Federal Ministry of Economics, the German Federal Ministry for Education
and Research, and the Haniel Foundation.

Before taking up her appointments at Erfurt and Jena, Dr. Grimm worked
as a Senior Fellow at the German-American Center for Visiting Scholars
in Washington D.C., an institution affiliated with the American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and the Johns Hopkins
University. Beforehand, Dr. Grimm led diverse research projects at the
Research Institute of Public Administration of the German University of
Administrative Sciences Speyer, and at Munich University.
In addition, she has worked as a consultant for the Ministry of
Economics in Lower Saxony, the Ministry of Economics in Brandenburg, and
for consultancies in Berlin, Hamburg and Brussels, Belgium.

She studied Political Science, Economics, History of Economics and
Arabic at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the London
School of Oriental and African Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Munich.
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Harhoff, M.P.A. Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management
and Entrepreneurship
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
Munich School of Management
Kaulbachstr. 45
D-80539 Munich
Germany

Dietmar Harhoff is Professor of Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilian University
(LMU) Munich. He ist the Director of the Institute of Innovation Research, Technology
Management and Entrepreneurship (INNO-tec, www.inno-tec.de) and a Co-Director of the
ODEON Center for Entrepreneurship at LMU. After graduating with a Diploma degree in
mechanical engineering from the University of Dortmund, Dietmar Harhoff began his
professional career as a research engineer in Great Britain and Germany. From 1985 to 1987, he
was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University and graduated with an M.P.A degree in 1987. He
concluded his Ph.D. studies at MIT in 1991 with a dissertation on research incentives and
voluntary information revelation. He then joined the Center for European Economic Research
(ZEW) in Mannheim and became the Associate Scientific Director of ZEW in 1995. He
concluded his habilitation in economics in 1996 at the University of Mannheim. In 1998 he joined
LMU’s School of Management in his current position. Dietmar Harhoff’s research focuses on
issues in innovation and entrepreneurship research, industrial economics, and technology
management and has been published in a large number of book and journal articles. He serves as
an advisor to a number of public and private organizations, e.g., as a member of the Council of
Economic Advisors to the European Patent Office (EPO) and as a member of the Scientific
Advisory Council at the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labor (BMWA).
Prof. Dr. Rainer Klump
Chair of Economic Development and Integration
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M.
Schumannstr. 60
60325 Frankfurt/M.
Germany

Rainer Klump currently holds the Chair of Economic Development and Integration in the
Department of Economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. He
studied economics at the Universities of Mainz and Paris and got his academic degrees from the
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before joining the Frankfurt department he was a professor of
economic development at the University of Würzburg and later held the Ludwig-Erhard Chair of
Economic Policy at the University of Ulm. His research combines theoretical, empirical and
political aspects of economic growth and development, economic policy and economic
integration. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and
Statistics and in Small Business Economics.
Dr. Ying Lowrey
Senior Economist
Office of Advocacy
U.S. Small Business Administration
409 Third Street, S.W., MC 3112
Washington, DC 20416
USA

Ying Lowrey is Senior Economist at the Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration
(SBA.) Her research interests within Advocacy include entrepreneurship, women and minorities
in business, and the role of small businesses and entrepreneurship in the macroeconomy. She
received her economics Ph.D. from Duke University, economics MA from Yale University and
mathematics BA from Wuhan University of China. Before joining the Office of Advocacy in
September of 2000, she taught many graduate/undergraduate level economic courses at George
Washington University as assistant professor and San Diego State University as adjunct
professor.

Dr. Lowrey plays a proactive role in partnership with many other government agencies, academic
scholars and professional foundations for fostering entrepreneurship. She was Co-founder, Vice
President and Newsletter Editor-in-Chief of the US-China Entrepreneurs’ Association and Vice
President of the San Diego Chinese Association. She is an active member of the American
Economics Association (AEA), the Society of Government Economists, and the Society of
Chinese Economists. She regularly organizes sessions and contributes papers at the AEA annual
meetings, the most influential economic research conference in the world.

Her most recent publications include “An Examination of the Entrepreneurial Effort,” “Business
Density, Entrepreneurship and Economic Well-Being,” “U.S. Sole Proprietorships: A Gender
Comparison, 1985-2000,” “The Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship: A Neoclassical Approach,”
“Minority in Business, 2001,” and “Dynamics of Minority-Owned Employer Establishments,
1997-2001.” To read her recent publications, please visit
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/demographic.html and
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/wkpapers.html.
Pamela Mueller
Max Planck Institute of Economics
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy
Kahlaische Strasse 10
07745 Jena
Germany

Pamela Mueller is research associate at the Max Planck Institute of
Economics in Jena. Pamela joined the group Entrepreneurship,
Growth and Public Policy in September 2005. She studied
economics at the University of Bonn and Copenhagen Business
School and defended her dissertation recently at the University of
Freiberg. Her research interests focus on the implications of
entrepreneurship for the commercialization of knowledge and
economic performance. Her recent projects examine the persistence
of new firm formation activity, impact of entrepreneurship on
economic growth, nascent entrepreneurship, and the
commercialization of knowledge and science. Parts of her
dissertation are published or forthcoming in Regional Studies, Small
Business Economics and Research Policy.