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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"What U.S. leadership in Engineering
Could Mean With the Rise of India and China"
September 8, 2006
First Floor Lounge, Guilford House
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Leonard Lynn,
Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Policy and
Management at the Weatherhead School of Management
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Dear Colleagues:
“Almost daily, news reports feature multinational
companies—many based in the United States—that are
establishing technology development facilities in China,
India, and other emerging economies. General Electric,
General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola—the list
grows steadily longer. And these new facilities no
longer focus on low-level technologies to meet Third
World conditions. They are doing the cutting-edge
research once done only in the United States, Japan, and
Europe. Moreover, the multinationals are being joined by
new firms, such as Huawei, Lenovo, and Wipro, from the
emerging economies. This current globalization of
technology development is, we believe, qualitatively
different from the globalization of the past. But the
implications of the differences have not sunk in with
key U.S. decision makers in government and industry.”
So write Leonard Lynn and Hal Salzman in a fascinating
article in the Winter, 2006 issue of Issues in Science
and Technology. This new globalization causes a great
deal of uncertainty among American economic
policy-makers and commentators, but also within American
universities, where science and engineering education
are core activities. The meaning of these developments
is especially relevant to the future of our own
university. Is our “leadership” threatened? What can or
should be done?
Fortunately, we can ask one of the authors directly!
Leonard Lynn is Professor of Management Policy and Chair
of the Department of Marketing and Policy Studies at
Case’s Weatherhead School of Management. His research
fields include both technology policy and management and
management in East Asia, and he has written extensively
on different national views of what makes a good
engineer.
Please join us for the Friday Public Affairs Lunch on
September 8, where Professor Lynn will lead discussion
on the challenge and how American institutions might
best address it. We will gather in the dining room on
the first floor of Guilford House. That’s the yellow
building with the nice porch on Bellflower. As usual, we
expect to provide cookies and beverages; I’m sorry about
last week’s problems.
I’ve also attached the current schedule for the rest of
the term; please note that Professors Topol and Robbins
have switched dates from the original plan.
All the best,
Joe White
More About Our Guest
Leonard Lynn is Professor of Management Policy at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is
also interim director of the Case School of Management
Global Business Studies Institute.
Leonard earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan
(1980). He is the author of Organizing Business: Trade
Associations in America and Japan (with Timothy McKeown),
How Japan Innovates: A Comparison with the U.S. in the
Case of Oxygen Steelmaking, New Product Development in
the Global Economy (forthcoming, with Toyohiro Kono,
)and more than fifty articles in such journals as
Science, Research Policy, Journal of Engineering
Technology-Management, IEEE Management Transactions,
Issues in Science and Technology, Organization Studies,
Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Japanese
Studies and Contemporary Sociology, most of them on
aspects of technology policy and management. Several of
his studies have involved U.S.-Japanese comparisons. One
of his books and some of his other writings on these
topics have been translated and published in Japanese.
He is now principle investigator on NSF and
Kauffman-funded projects exploring technology transfer
via multinationals to (and from) emerging economies.
Colleagues in the U.S. Germany, Japan, Korea, China, and
Mexico are involved in these projects.
Lynn has been a Fulbright
visiting research scholar at Tokyo University and a
Japan Ministry of Education Visiting Professor at
Hitotsubashi University. He is a past president of the
Association of Japanese Business Studies, member of the
American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, and
member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, Journal of Engineering
Technology Management, The Journal of Asian Business and
Management, and Managing Global Transitions. Lynn has
presented his research at universities, government
organizations, and companies in Austria, Bulgaria,
Canada, China, China-Taiwan, Egypt, Finland, France,
Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Sweden,
Thailand, the UK, as well as the United States. Several
of the presentations in Japan were made in Japanese. He
is a member of the Academy of Management, Academy of
International Business, Association of Japanese Business
Studies, IEEE, and the International Association for the
Management of Technology (where he received the IAMOT
Research Award at the 2004 IAMOT Annual Meetings). He
was chair of the Case Department of Marketing and Policy
Studies from 1995-2006.
Fall Semester Schedule
Sept 1: Ken Ledford,
Associate Professor of History and Law, hosts Jon Entin,
Professor of Law and Political Science, to discuss the
first year of the Supreme Court with John Roberts as
Chief Justice.
Sept 8: Leonard Lynn, Professor and Chair of the
Department of Policy and Management at the Weatherhead
School of Management, on what U.S. leadership in
engineering could mean with the rise of India and China.
Sept 15: Mark Naymik, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on
this year’s statewide elections in Ohio.
Sept 22: Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University, on “The Interim Period:
Tasks for Today and Ideas for the Future.”
Sept 29: Alan Weinstein, Professor and Director, Law and
Public Policy Program, Cleveland-Marshall College of the
Law, eminent domain: “State Legislative Responses to Kelo vs. New London: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
Oct 6: Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, PolicyMatters
Ohio, on raising the minimum wage
Oct 13: Marty Kress, Executive Director of the National
Space Science and Technology Center, University of
Alabama at Huntsville, on Organizing NASA for Space
Exploration. NOTE: Tentative room change to Mather House
100.
Oct 20: Michael Wager, Vice Chair and Chair Elect of the
Port Authority, on its role in local economic
development issues.
Oct 27: Pete Moore, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, on whatever is happening in the Middle East at
the time.
Nov 3: Justin Buchler, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, and Andrew Lucker, Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Political Science: Midterm Election forecast.
Nov 10: Eric J. Topol MD, Professor of Genetics, on
concerns about conflicts of interest in medical
research.
Nov 17: Norman Robbins, Emeritus Professor of
Neurosciences, on class bias in who gets to vote.
Nov 24: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 1: Jerome Liebman MD, Emeritus Professor of
Pediatrics, on National Health Insurance
Dec 8: Terry Wolpaw MD, Associate Dean for Curricular
Affairs, School of Medicine, on the new demands on or
expectations of medical education.
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
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