1. 20 Years of the CCC!
Mary Tripsas
Boston College
March 2013
Thanks to Callen Anthony, BC doctoral student, for RA assistance
2. The Founding Fathers
(aka the enlightened economists)
Steve Klepper
Carnegie Mellon
David Mowery
Berkeley
Dick Nelson
Columbia
Sid Winter
Wharton
3. CCC students in 1994
Vipin Gupta
Jeho Lee
Jaeyong Song
Tom Astebro
John Gant
Robert Greenbaum
Daniel Holbrook
Kathleen McGrath
Andrea Breuhan
Roberto Mazzoleni
Scott Stern
Lucien Randazzese
Kenneth Simons
Gavin Sinclair
Uma Surkund
Allan Afuah
Nancy Staudenmayer
Stefan Thomke
David Ellison
Mary Tripsas
Peter Fisher
Chris Tucci
Neil Jones
Gita Mathur
Dominic Palmer
Janet Bercovitz
Hank Chesbrough
Rosemarie Ham
Peter Murmann
Dan Lovallo
Jack Nickerson
Brian Silverman
Leslie Williams
4. How the community has grown
1999
Aalborg
Duke
Heidelberg
Maasstricht
NYU
Pisa
Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Wharton
1995
Michigan
1996
SPRU
1998
Case Western
Manchester
USC
1997
Connecticut
Kellogg
Wisconsin
UCLA
2000
BETA
Bocconi
Copenhagen
MERIT
Toronto
2004
Boston University
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Goethe
INSEAD
UT-Austin
U of Washington
Utrecht
2002
Bath
Ohio State
Olin
Pittsburg
Strasbourg
2003
U of Illinois
2007
Emory
Purdue
Tilburg
Torino
2005
U of Duisburg-Essen
2001
Witten-Herdecke
Toulouse
UNC
2006
HEC
Rutgers
EPFL
St. Gallen
2008
Eindhoven
Max Planck
2009
Bologna
DIME
Imperial
U Carlos
2010
Karlsruhe U
U of London
U of Nottingham
2011
Austrailan GSM
5. CCC Spawning
Scott Stern, ‘94
Annabelle
Gawer, ‘97
David Kwanghui
Hsu, ‘98 Lim, 98
Vikas
Aggarwal,
‘07
Pierre
Azoulay, 99
Ina
Ganguli,
‘10
Jeff
Furman,
‘00
Danielle
Li, ‘11
Mara
Mercedes
Kristina
Michael
Lederman, Delgado, McElheran, Bikard, ‘12
‘03
‘05
‘07
Paul
Seaborn,
‘10
Elena
Kulchina,
‘11
6. Impact of the CCC
• CCC alums from 1994-2010 have accumulated over
170,000 Google scholar citations
• CCC alums have co-authored over 160 published papers
• CCC has become truly global
Over 100 international students have participated
Students have taken academic positions at over 20 universities
outside the US
7. Where are they now?
CCC alum spread
across ~60
academic
institutions
7
6
Number of
CCC alum
5
4
3
2
Schools
1
Harvard
Wharton
UNC
Michigan
Boston U
INSEAD
Rotman
Dartmouth
LBS
NYU
MIT
U of Oregon
Maryland
Georgetown
HEC
U of Illinois
U of Minn.
U-T Austin
U of Wash.
10 schools
29 schools
8. Common themes across the years:
* evolutionary lens on innovation
* inter-disciplinary perspective
Number of firms in the typesetting industry by entry technology
30
Herb Klepper founds a
laser imagesetting firm
25
Number of Firms
20
Laser
15
Herb Klepper designs
“hot metal” machines at
Mergenthaler
CRT
Photo
10
Hot Metal
5
0
9. Evolution of research themes
Content analysis of paper titles from the first 10 years of alums
versus the last 10 years shows:
Increase in:
Entrepreneurship
Mobility
Performance
Social
Decrease in:
− Patenting, Patent(s)
− Capabilities
− Alliance(s)
− Networks
− Acquisitions
