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2006 AAAS Annual Meeting and
Science Innovation Exposition
Saint Louis, Missouri
Special Event
Friday, February 17, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Organized by Stephen A. Hansen, AAAS, and The National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Workshop Outline
Workshop Slides
Stephen A. Hansen
Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest Project
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Stephen Hansen is Project Director with the Science & Human Rights Program. His work currently focuses on
projects that relate to the effects of intellectual property rights on science, and traditional knowledge
and human rights. He serves as the Project Manager for the AAAS project Science & Intellectual Property in
the Public Interest (SIPPI). He is co-author of the handbook Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property
and designed the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database (T.E.K.*P.A.D), an online digital archive
of traditional practices from local communities throughout the world that are already in the public domain.
Stephen’s other main area of work is in economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), with a special concentration
in cultural rights where he has worked with the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
and UNESCO.
John P. Walsh
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
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John Walsh is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His research interests are the study of
innovation and the sociology of work and organizations. He is currently involved in two main research projects. The first is a study of the
economics and organization of industrial R&D in the US and Japan and the links between university research and
industrial research (in collaboration with Wesley Cohen, Yasunori Baba, Akira Goto, Akiya Nagata and
Richard Nelson). The second is a survey of scientists in four fields (biology, mathematics, physics and
sociology) on the relations between the uses of the Internet and scientific collaboration and productivity.
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Lori Pressman
Analysis Group
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Lori Pressman is an independent consultant providing advisory services to start-ups and venture capital companies. From 1989 until 2000, she was employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Technology Licensing Office, where she served as Technology Licensing Officer from 1989 to 1995 and Assistant Director from 1996 to 2000. Previously, she was a practicing engineer at Lasertron, Inc., and a member of the Solid State Materials Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories. Ms. Pressman chaired the Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee of the Association of University Technology Managers from 1999-2001, and has consulted to the OECD and the NIH on academic technology transfer metrics and policy.
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Bhaven Sampat
Department of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Bhaven Sampat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health. An economist by training, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Michigan before starting his position at Columbia University. The focus of his research is on issues of technological innovation, including technology transfer, patent policy, and patent quality.
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Moderator:
Stephen A. Merrill
Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
The National Academies
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Stephen Merrill has led the National Academies' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) since its
formation in 1991. He is currently managing a three-year study of intellectual property policies. Previously, Merrill was a Fellow in
International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he specialized in
technology trade issues. He served on various congressional staffs, most recently that of the Senate Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where he organized the first congressional hearings on international
competition in biotechnology and microelectronics. He was additionally responsible for legislation on
technological innovation and the allocation of intellectual property rights arising from government-sponsored
research.
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