Philip Auerswald
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Science and
Technology Policy

Publications & Research
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Economics of technical change
Industrial organization
Technological and organizational complexity
Financing of innovation.

Recent Articles
San Francisco Chronicle
Old oil fears don't match 2007 reality

The American Interest
The Irrelevance of the Middle East

Herald Tribune
Let's call an end to oil alarmism

Financial Times
A model to eradicate false gulf between doing good and doing well

Selected Publications

Authored Volumes
Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives and Investors Manage High-tech Risks, Lewis Branscomb and Philip Auerswald (2001). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chinese edition published by CITIC Publishing House, Beijing PRC.)
Selected by Booz Allen Hamiton’s Strategy & Business as a “Top 25 Business Book for 2000-2001.”

Edited Volumes
Financing Entrepreneurship, Philip Auerswald and Ant Bozkaya, eds. (2008). Northampton, MA:Edward Elgar. In David Audretsch ed. series, The International Library of Entrepreneurship.

Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters
“The Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure Reconsidered,” Philip Auerswald  (2007), in David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and Roy Thurik eds., The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, Northampton, MA:Edward Elgar.

“Emerging Technologies for Change: Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Networks in Developing Countries,” Philip Auerswald (2007), in David Gibson, Manuel Heitor, and Alejandro Ibarra eds., Connecting People, Ideas and Resources Across Communities. Ashland, OH: Purdue University Press.

“Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge,” Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald,  Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

“Complexity and Interdependence: The Unmanaged Challenge,”Philip Auerswald (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald,  Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

“Leadership: Who Will Act? Integrating Public and Private Interests to Make a Safer World,” Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006), in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Todd La Porte (2006). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

“Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the ‘Golden Age’ of U.S. Corporate R&D,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2005), in Albert N. Link and F.M. Scherer eds., Essays in Honorof Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change. New York:Springer-Verlag.

“Start-Ups and Spin-offs: The Role of the Entrepreneur in Technology-Based Innovation,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2003), in David Hart ed., The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the Knowledge Economy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

“Transitional Dynamics in a Model of Economic Geography,” Philip Auerswald and Jan Tai Tsung Kim (1995), in L. Nadel and D. Steineds., 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lecture Volume VI, Addison-Wesley.

Journal Articles
“Research and Innovation in a Networked World.” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb. Technology in Society (2008).

“Placing Innovation: An Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity.” Philip and Rajendra Kulkarni, Economic of Innovation and New Technology (2008).

“Entrepreneurship in the Theory of the Firm,” Philip Auerswald (2008). Small Business Economics, 30:2, (February), pp. 111-126.

“Schumpeter’s Century” Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:8 (November/December), pp. 124-134.

“The Irrelevance of the Middle East,” Philip Auerswald (2007). The American Interest, 2:5 (May/June), pp.19-37.
Selected by the Council on Foreign Relations <www.cfr.org> as a “Must Read” article for 2007.

“The Myth of Energy Insecurity,” Philip Auerswald (2006). Issues in Science and Technology, 22:4, pp. 65-70.

“Introduction to the Inaugural Issue,” Philip Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir (2006). Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, 1:1, pp. 3-7.

“Edwin Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the ‘Golden Age’ of U.S. Corporate R&D,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2005). Journal of Technology Transfer, 30:1/2, pp. 139-157.

“The Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure,” Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Todd LaPorte, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2005). Issues in Science and Technology, 22:1, pp. 77-83.

“Valleys of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United States,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2003). Journal of Technology Transfer, 28, pp. 227-239.

“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning-by-doing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (2000). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 24:3, pp. 389-450.

Journal Editorships
2006-present
Founding co-editor, Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, published by MIT Press.

1991-2005
Co-Founder and Editor from 1995-2005, Foreign Policy Bulletin, currently published by Cambridge University Press.

Reports
“Placing Innovation: A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Approach to Identifying Emergent Technological Activity,” Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Sean Gorman, Rajendra Kulkarni, and Laurie Schintler (2007). Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 06–902, May.

“Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage Technology Development,” Philip E.Auerswald, Lewis M. Branscomb, Nicholas Demos, and Brian K. Min (2005). Report to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program/NIST GCR 02–841A, September.

“Between Invention and Innovation: Mapping the Funding for Early Stage Technology Development,” Lewis Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald (2002). Report to the Advanced Technology Program/NIST #NIST GCR 02–841, November.

Working Papers
“The Challenge of Protecting Critical Infrastructure,” Philip Auerswald, Lewis Branscomb, Todd LaPorte, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan (2005). Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center Working Paper # 05-11, October.

“Agricultural Technology 110, Quzhou, China,” Yang Xuedong and Philip Auerswald (2003). Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Innovations in Technology and Governance (ITG) Project Case Study.

“Valleys of Death and Darwinian Seas: Financing the Invention to Innovation Transition in the United States,” Philip Auerswald and Lewis Branscomb (2002), inVicki Norberg-Bohm, ed., “The Role of Government in Energy Technology Innovation: Insights for Government Policy in the Energy Sector,” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Working Paper October.

“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by Doing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Cornell Center for Analytic Economics Working Paper 98-10.

“The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning by Doing,” Philip Auerswald, Stuart Kauffman, José Lobo, and Karl Shell (1998). Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 98-11-100.

Documentary Compilations, Edited
Iraq 1990-2005: A Diplomatic History Through Documents (2009, forthcoming), Philip Auerswald ed., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Clinton’s Foreign Policy: A Documentary Record, Philip Auerswald, Christian Duttweiler, and John Garofano eds. (2003). New York: Kluwer Law International.

The Kosovo Conflict: a Diplomatic History Through Documents, Philip Auerswald and David Auerswald eds., with a foreword by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (2000). Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International.

Op-ed and Commentary
“A fallen giant finding its feet,” Straights Times (Singapore), August 14, 2008.

“China’s Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory,” International Herald Tribune, August 12, 2008.

“China’s Quick Fall, Slow Return to Glory,” Boston Globe, August 11, 2008.

“A Declaration of Independence from Oil Fears,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2007.

“Why the Middle East Matters Less and Less,” St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 2007.

“A Model to Eradicate False Gulf Between Doing Good and Doing Well,” (w/ Iqbal Quadir), The Financial Times (U.K.), January 26, 2007.

“Let’s Call an End to Oil Alarmism,” International Herald Tribune, January 23, 2007.

“Calling an End to Oil Alarmism,” Boston Globe, January 23, 2007.