JOHN P. WALSH
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Public Policy
685 Cherry Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0345 USA
Tel: 404-385-0400 Fax: 404-385-0504
Email: john.walsh@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Biography:
I am Professor of Public Policy and Affiliated Professor of Strategic Management at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am a sociologist by training (PhD, Northwestern University). I am currently an editor at Research Policy.
I study the work and organization of academic and industrial research and how these are affected by the policy environment. In particular, I focus on intellectual property policies. Key themes in the research are collaboration, creativity, and learning.
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I teach courses on Organization Theory, Research Methods, Research Integrity, Science and Technology Policy and Intellectual Property Policy.
RECENT COURSES
Organization Theory (PUBP6014)
Science and Technology Policy (PUBP6014/PUBP4410)
Intellectual Property Transactions (PUBP4833/PUBP8803) This course is part of the Certificate in Intellectual Property.
PATENT
Walsh, John P. and Li Tang. 2014. “Identification disambiguation in databases” (USPTO 8,799,237)
PUBLICATIONS
2019. Walsh, JP, Y-N Lee, L Tang. Pathogenic organization in science: Division of labor and retractions. Research Policy 48(2): 444-461.
2019. Biagioli, M, M Kenney, B Martin, JP Walsh, 2019. Academic misconduct, misrepresentation and gaming: A reassessment. Research Policy 48 (2): 401-413.
2018. Milojević, S, F. Radicchi and JP Walsh. The changing demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (50), 12616-12623.
2018. Wang, J, YN Lee, JP Walsh. Funding model and creativity in science: Competitive versus block funding and status contingency effects. Research Policy 47 (6), 1070-1083.
2018. Jabbehdari, S, JP Walsh. Authorship norms and project structures in science. Science, Technology, & Human Values 42 (5), 872-900
2016. Walsh, John P., You-Na Lee, and Sadao Nagaoka. “Openness and innovation in the US: Collaboration form, idea generation and implementation.” Research Policy 45(8): 1660-1671.
2016. Walsh, J.P., Lee, Y.-N., Jung, T., “Win, lose or draw? The fate of patented inventions.” Research Policy 45(7): 1362-1373.
2016. Arora, A., W.M. Cohen and J.P. Walsh. “The acquisition and commercialization of invention in American manufacturing: Incidence and impact.” Research Policy 45(6): 1113-1128.
2016. You-Na Lee and John P. Walsh. “Inventing while you work: Knowledge, non-R&D learning and innovation.” Research Policy 45(1):345-359.
2015. John P. Walsh and You-Na Lee. “The bureaucratization of science.” Research Policy 44(8):1584-1600.
2015. You-Na Lee, John P. Walsh, Jian Wang. “Creativity in scientific teams: Unpacking novelty and impact.” Research Policy 44(3):684-697.
2015. S Shibayama, Y Baba, JP Walsh. “Organizational design of university laboratories: Task allocation and lab performance in Japanese bioscience laboratories.” Research Policy 44 (3), 610-622.
2015. Igami, Masatsura, Nagaoka, Sadao, Walsh, John P. “Contribution of postdoctoral fellows to fast-moving and competitive scientific research.” The Journal of Technology Transfer. 40(4):723-741.
2014. Walsh, J.P., Huang, H. Local context, academic entrepreneurship and open science: Publication secrecy and commercial activity among Japanese and US scientists. Research Policy 43, 245-260.
2012. Sotaro Shibayama, John P. Walsh, and Yasunori Baba. “Academic entrepreneurship and exchange of scientific resources: material transfer in life and materials sciences in Japanese universities.” American Sociological Review 77(5) 804-830.
2011. John P. Walsh and HONG Wei. “A review on technology transfer systems in American universities.” [In Chinese]. Studies in Science of Science 29(5): 641-649.
2010. Tang, Li and John P. Walsh. “Bibliometric fingerprints: name disambiguation based on approximate structure equivalence of cognitive maps.” Scientometrics 84(3): 763-784.
2010. Clark, Jennifer, Hsin-I Huang and John P. Walsh. “A typology of ‘innovation districts’: what it means for regional resilience.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3(1): 121-137.
2010. Baba, Yasunori and John P. Walsh. “Embeddedness, social epistemology and breakthrough innovation: the case of the development of statins.” Research Policy 39(4): 511-522.
2010. No, Yeonji and John P. Walsh. “The Importance of Foreign-Born Talent for US Innovation.” Nature Biotechnology 28(3): 289-291.
2009. Hong, Wei and John P. Walsh. “For Money or Glory?: Commercialization, Competition and Secrecy in the Entrepreneurial University.” Sociological Quarterly 50:145-171.
2008. Cohen, W.M. and J.P. Walsh. “Real impediments to biomedical research.” Innovation Policy and the Economy 8:1-30.
2008. Walsh, John P., Yasunori Baba, Akira Goto, Yoshihito Yasaki. 2008. “Promoting University-Industry Linkages in Japan: Faculty Responses to a Changing Policy Environment.” Prometheus 26: 39-54.
2007. Walsh, John P., Wesley M. Cohen and Charlene Cho. “Where excludability matters: material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research.” Research Policy 36:1184-1203.
2007. Walsh, J.P. and N.G. Maloney. “Collaboration Structure, Communication Media and Problems in Scientific Work Teams.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 12(2), article 19.
2007. Walsh, John P. and Anne Zacharias-Walsh. “Working Longer, Living Less.” Pp. 5-40 in Peter Kivisto, ed. Illuminating Social Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 4th ed. [Substantial update and revision from 3rd ed.] [1st ed., 1998; 2nd ed., 2001; 3rd ed., 2005]
2007. Baba, Y. and J.P. Walsh. “Hairisku inobeishon ni okeru kenkyusha nettowaaku no yakuwari: souyaku ni okeru nichibei hikaku” [The role of researcher networks for high-risk innovation: A comparison of drug discovery in Japan and the US.] Journal of Science Policy and Research Management 22: 45-55.
2007. Baba, Y. J.P. Walsh, Y. Yasaki, J. Suzuki, A. Goto. “Seido henkaku ni okeru sangakurenkei to kenkyuukatsudo:shitsumonhyou chousa ni yoru bunseki” [“University-industry linkages and research activity during the reform era: survey analysis”] Pp. 19-39 in A. Goto and Y. Baba, eds. Sangaku-renkei no jisshou kenkyuu [Empirical Research on University-Industry Linkages in Japan]. Tokyo: Tokyo University Press.
2006. Caulfield T., Cook-Deegan R.M., Kieff F.S., Walsh J.P. “Evidence and anecdotes: an analysis of human gene patenting controversies.” Nature Biotechnology (2006 Sep) 24(9):1091-4.
2005. Baba, Yasunori, J.P. Walsh, Yoshihito Yasaki, Jun Suzuki, and Akira Goto. Seido Henkakuki ni okeru SangakurenkeiÑTokyo Daigaku Kyoukan he no Shitsumonhyou Chousa no Kekka. [University industry linkages in the era of reform: Results from a survey of University of Tokyo faculty.] Kagaku (October, 2005) 75(10):1199-1203.
2005. Walsh, John P., Charlene Cho and Wesley M. Cohen. “The View from the Bench: Patents, Material Transfers and Biomedical Research.” Science (23 Septmeber 2005) 309:2002-2003.
2003. Cohen, Wesley M., Akira Goto, Akiya Nagata, Richard Nelson and John Walsh. “R&D information flows and patenting in Japan and the United States.” In O. Grandstrand, ed. Economics, Law and Intellectual Property. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2003. Walsh, J.P. and M. Saegusa. “Broadening ‘Academic’ Research: Adapting to University Reforms in Japan.” Journal of Science Policy and Research Management 18:47-58.
2003. Walsh, J.P., W.M. Cohen and A. Arora. Patenting and licensing of research tools and biomedical innovation.” Pp. 285-340 in W.M. Cohen and S. Merrill, eds. Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy. Washington, DC: NAP
(Reprinted in: Maureen McKelvey and Luigi Orsenigo, ed. 2006. The Economics of Biotechnology. Cambridge: Edward Elgar Publishing.)
2003. Walsh, John P. and Wei Hong. “Secrecy is increasing in step with competition.” Nature (24 April 2003) 422:801-802.
2003. Walsh, J.P., W.M. Cohen and A. Arora. “Working through the patent problem.” Science (14 Feb 2003) 299:1020.
2002. Cohen, Wesley M., Akira Goto, Akiya Nagata, Richard Nelson and John Walsh. “R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States.” Research Policy 31:1349-1367.
2002. Walsh, John P. and Nancy G. Maloney. “Computer Network Use, Collaboration Structures and Productivity.” Pp. 433-458 in P. Hinds & S. Kiesler, eds. Distributed Work. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2002. Cohen, Wesley M, Richard R. Nelson and John P. Walsh. “Links and Impacts: Survey Results on the Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D.” Management Science 48:1-23.
(Reprinted in: Albert N. Link, ed. 2006. Entrepreneurship and Technology Policy. Cambridge: Edward Elgar Publishing.)
2002. Cohen, Wesley M. and John P. Walsh. . “Public Research, Patents and Implications for Industrial R&D in the Drug, Biotechnology, Semiconductor and Computer Industries.” Pp. 223-243 in C.W. Wessner, ed. Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities: Government-Industry Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences Press.
2000. Walsh, John P., Stephanie Kucker, Nancy Maloney and Shaul M. Gabbay. “Connecting Minds: CMC and Scientific Work.”Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(14):1295-1305.
1999 Walsh, John P. and Ann Roselle. “Computer Networks and the Virtual College.” Science, Technology Industry Review 24:49-78. (Reprinted in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 65 (1999):22-42.
1998 Walsh, John P. “Scientific Communication and Scientific Work: A Survey of Four Disciplines.” Internet Research 8(4): 363-366.
1998 Cohen, Wesley M., Richard Florida, Lucien Randazzese and John Walsh. “Industry and the Academy: Uneasy Partners in the Cause of Technological Advance.” PP 171-200 in Roger Noll, ed. Challenges to Research Universities. Washington: Brookings.
1998 Walsh, John P. and Shu-fen Tseng. “The Effects of Job Characteristics on Active Effort at Work.” Work and Occupations 25:74-96.
1998 Walsh, John P. and Anne Zacharias-Walsh. “Working Longer, Living Less: Understanding Marx through the Workplace Today.” Pp 107-144 in Peter Kivisto, ed. Illuminating Social Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
1996 Walsh, John P. and Todd Bayma. “The Virtual College: Computer-Mediated Communication and Scientific Work”. The Information Society 12:343-363.
1996 Walsh, John P. and Todd Bayma. “Computer Networks and Scientific Work”. Social Studies of Science 26:661-703 (Also reprinted in Culture of the Internet. Sara Kiesler (ed.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.)
1994 Zetka, James R. and John P. Walsh. “A Qualitative Protocol for Studying Technological Change in the Labor Process”. Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique 45:37-73.
1993 Walsh, John P. Supermarkets Transformed: Understanding Organizational and Technological Innovation. American Sociological Association Rose Monograph Series. New Brunswick, NJ; Rutgers University Press.
1993 Hesse, Bradford W., Lee S. Sproull, Sara Kiesler, and John P. Walsh. “Returns to Science: Computer Networks in Oceanography.” Communications of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] 36(8):90-101.
1992 Walsh, John P., Sara Kiesler, Lee S. Sproull and Bradford W. Hesse. “Self-Selected and Randomly-Selected Respondents in a Computer Network Survey.” Public Opinion Quarterly 56:241-244.
1992 Kiesler, Sara, John P. Walsh and Lee S. Sproull. “Computer Networks in Field Research.” Pp. 239-268 in F. B. Bryant, et al., eds. Methodological Issues in Applied Psychology. New York: Plenum.
1991 Walsh, John P. “The Social Context of Technological Change: The Case of the Retail Food Industry”. Sociological Quarterly 32:447-468.
1991 Maltz, Michael D., Andrew C. Gordon and Warren Friedman with Marc Buslik, Robert K. LeBailley, Paul Schnorr, Douglas R. Thomson and John P. Walsh. Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting. New York: Springer-Verlag. (Click here to download a pdf version of the book.)
1989 Walsh, John P. and Andrew C. Gordon “Intellectual Property and New Technology.” Pp. 33-46 in G. Blank, J. L. McCartney and E. Brent, eds. New Technology in Sociology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
1989 Walsh, John P. “Technological change and the division of labor.” Work and Occupations 16:165-183.
WORKING PAPERS
Comments welcome.
Cohen Wesley M., Lee, You-Na, Walsh, John P. How Innovative Are Innovations? A Multidimensional, Survey-Based Approach.
Arora, Ashish, Wesley M. Cohen, John P. Walsh, “The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact.”NBER Working Paper #20264
Nagaoka, Sadao and John P. Walsh. “Commercialization and other uses of patents in Japan and the US” RIETI Discussion Paper 09-E-11.
Walsh, John P. and Sadao Nagaoka. “How “open” is innovation in the US and Japan?” RIETI Discussion Paper 09-E-022.
Nagaoka, Sadao and John P. Walsh. “The R&D process in the US and Japan.” RIETI Discussion Paper Series 09-E-010.
Walsh, John P. and Sadao Nagaoka. “Who invents? Evidence from the Japan-US inventor survey.” RIETI Discussion Paper 09-E-034.
Walsh, John P. and Wesley Cohen. “Does the golden goose travel?: A comparative analysis of the influence of public research on industrial R&D in the U.S. and Japan.”
Cohen, Wesley M, Richard R. Nelson and John P. Walsh, “Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (Or Not).”NBER Working Paper #7552
MAJOR RECENT SURVEYS
The Duke/Georgia Tech American Competitiveness Survey
Click here for information on the study,sponsored by NSF and Kauffman Foundation.
The Georgia Tech Survey on the Knowledge Creation Process in Science
Click here for information on the study and (soon) discussion papers with the results.
Georgia Tech/RIETI Inventor Survey
Click here for the questionnaire, publications/discussion papers and descriptives tables.
REPORTS
National Research Council. 2016. SBIR/STTR at the Department of Energy. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
National Research Council. 2016. SBIR at NASA. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
National Research Council. 2015. STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
National Research Council. 2015. SBIR/STTR at the National Institutes of Health. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
National Research Council. 2015. SBIR at the National Science Foundation. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
National Research Council. 2014. SBIR at the Department of Defense. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program–Phase II. [report available here]
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). 2002. Genetic Inventions, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Practices. Paris:OECD.
ETAN (European Technology Assessment Network). 1999. “Transforming European Science through Information and Communication Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Age.” European Commission, Directorate General for Research, Directorate AP-RTD Actions: Policy Co-ordination and Strategy.
National Science Foundation. “Connecting and Collaborating: Issues for the Sciences”. National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences.
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