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David C. Mowery Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business Walter A. Haas School of Business University of California at Berkeley

Current Position

Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business
Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley

Director, Ph.D. Program, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Deputy Director, Institute for Management, Innovation, and Organization

Academic Honors and Fellowships

• A.B. with Honors and Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa, 1974.
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Business, 1981-82.
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, 1984-86.
• Newcomen Prize, Business History Review, 1984.
• Fritz Redlich Prize, Economic History Association, 1987.
• Raymond Vernon Prize, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1992.
• Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, 1987-88.
• Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, Haas School of Business, 1996.

Employment History

• 1982-88 Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie-Mellon University.
• 1986-87 Study Director, Panel on Technology and Employment, National Academy of Sciences.
• 1987-88 Assistant to the Counselor, Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Books

• Alliance Politics and Economics: Multinational Joint Ventures in the Commercial Aircraft Industry, Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987.
• Technology and Employment: Innovation and Growth in the U.S. Economy (co-editor with R.M. Cyert), National Academy Press, 1987.
• The Impacts of Technological Change on Employment and Economic Growth (co-editor with R.M. Cyert), Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
• International Collaborative Ventures in U.S. Manufacturing (editor), Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
• The Future of Technology and Work: Research and Policy Issues (co-editor with B.E. Henderson), National Academy Press, 1988.
• The Challenge of New Technologies to Labor-Management Relations (co-editor with B.E. Henderson), U.S. Department of Labor, 1989.
• Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth (with Nathan Rosenberg), Cambridge University Press, 1989; Spanish translation, 1993.
• Technology and the Wealth of Nations (co-editor with Nathan Rosenberg and Ralph Landau), Stanford University Press, 1992.
• Science and Technology Policy in Interdependent Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
• The International Computer Software Industry: A Comparative Study of Industry Evolution and Structure (editor), Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America (with N. Rosenberg), Cambridge University Press, 1998; Swedish translation, 1999; Chinese translation, 2000.
• The Sources of Industrial Leadership (co-editor, with R.R. Nelson), Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• U.S. Industry in 2000: Studies in Competitive Performance (editor), National Academy Press, 1999.
  

Other Activities

• Member, National Academy of Engineering Panel on the Competitive Status of the U.S. Civil Aviation Manufacturing Industry, 1983-84; panel report, The Competitive Status of the U.S. Civil Aviation Manufacturing Industry (National Academy Press, 1985).
• Member, National Research Council Manufacturing Studies Board Panel on Electronics Automation, 1986-87.
• Member, National Research Council Manufacturing Studies Board Panel on the Causes and Consequences of the Internationalization of American Manufacturing, 1988-89; panel report, The Causes and Consequences of Internationalization in U.S. Manufacturing (National Academy Press, 1990).
• Member, National Research Council Energy Engineering Board Panel on National Energy Policy and Global Climate Change, 1989-90; panel report, Confronting Climate Change: Strategies for Energy Research and Development (National Academy Press, 1990).
• Member, National Academy of Sciences panel on the Federal Government's Role in Civilian Technology, 1990-92; panel report, Building A New Alliance (National Academy Press, 1992).
• Member, Editorial Boards, Research Policy; Economics of Innovation and New Technology; Journal of Industrial and Corporate Change; California Management Review.
• North American editor, "Studies in Global Competition," Harwood Academic Publishers.
• Organizer, Conference on "The Future of Technology and Work: Research and Policy Issues," sponsored by the Panel on Technology and Employment, Washington, D.C., 10/28/87.
• Organizer, Conference on "The Challenge of New Technologies to Labor-Management Relations," sponsored by the Panel on Technology and Employment and the Bureau of Labor-Management Cooperation and Related Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 10/19-20/88.
• Member, Organizing Committee, NBER conference on Science and Technology Policy, August, 1995.
• Member, Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Study Committee on "The Children's Vaccine Initiative: Planning Alternative Strategies Towards Full U.S. Participation," 1992-93; panel report, The Children's Vaccine Initiative: Achieving the Vision (National Academy Press, 1993).
• Member, Institute of Medicine/National Research Council Committee on Applications of Biotechnology to Contraceptive Research and Development, 1994-96; panel report, Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future (National Academy Press, 1996)..
• Member, Institute of Medicine/National Research Council subcommittee on Implant Contraceptives; panel workshop report, Contraceptive Research, Introduction, and Use (National Academy Press, 1998).
• Member, National Research Council panel on Review of the Portfolio of the National Science Foundation=s Science Resources Studies Division, 1998-99.
• Member, National Research Council panel on Review of the Department of Energy's R&D Programs in Fossil Energy and Energy Efficiency, 2000-2001.
• Member, Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade, 2000-2001.
• Member, National Research Council panel on Review of the Aeronautics R&D Programs of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, 1999.
• Member, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997-2003.
• Member, Organizing Committee, National Academy of Engineering workshop on AThe Feasibility of Prizes in Federal Science and Technology Programs,@ May 1999.
• Member, National Research Council Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D in Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy, 2000-2001.
  

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