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Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell. 2008. "Networks & Institutions." Forthcoming in Greenwood, R. et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. New York: Sage. [ pdf ]

Powell, Walter W., Jason Owen-Smith & Jeannette Colyvas. 2007. "Innovation and Emulation: Lessons from American Universities in Selling Private Rights to Public Knowledge." Minerva 45: 121-142.
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Owen-Smith, Jason & Jennifer McCormick (2006) "An International Gap in Human ES Cell Research." Nature Biotechnology. 24(4): 391-392. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2005) "Accounting for Emergence and Novelty in Boston and Bay Area Biotechnology."
Forthcoming in P. Braunerhjelm & M. Feldman (Eds.) Cluster Genesis: The Emergence of Technology Clusters and Their Implications for Government Policy.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason (2005) "Commercial Imbroglios: Proprietary Science and the Contemporary University."  Pp. 63-90 in K. Moore & S. Frickel (eds.) The New Political Economy of Science: Institutions, Networks, Power. University of Wisconsin Press. [ pdf ]  

Owen-Smith, Jason 
(2005) "Trends and Transitions in the Institutional Environment for Public and Private Science." Journal of Higher Education. 49(1-2): 91-117. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason (2005) "Dockets, Deals, and Sagas: Commensuration and the Rationalization of Experience in University Licensing." Social Studies of Science.  35(1): 69-97. [ pdf ]

Powell, Walter W., Douglas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput & Jason Owen-Smith (2004) "Network Dynamics and  Field Evolution: The Growth of Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences."  American Journal of Sociology.  110(4): 1132-1205. [ pdf ]

White, Douglas R., Jason Owen-Smith, James Moody, & Walter W. Powell (2004) "Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Scale, Topology and Cohesive Embeddings."  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 10:95-117. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason  & Walter W. Powell (2004) "Knowledge Networks as Channels and Conduits: The Effects of Spillovers in the Boston Biotechnology Community."  Organization Science. 15(1):5-21 
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Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2003) "The Expanding Role of University Patenting in the Life Sciences: Assessing the Importance of Experience and Connectivity."  Research Policy 32(9): 1695-1711. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason (2003) "From Separate Systems to a Hybrid Order: Accumulative Advantage Across Public and Private Science
at Research One Universities."  Research Policy 32(6):1081-1104
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Owen-Smith, Jason, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, & Walter W. Powell (2002). "A Comparison of U.S. and European University-Industry Relations in the Life Sciences." Management Science.  48(1): 24-43. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason (2001) "Managing Laboratory Work Through Skepticism: Processes of Evaluation and Control." American Sociological Review 66(3): 427-452. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2001) "To Patent or Not: Faculty Decisions and Institutional Success in Academic Patenting."  Journal of Technology Transfer  26(1): 99-114. [ pdf ]

Owen-Smith, Jason & Walter W. Powell (2001) "Careers and Contradictions: Faculty Responses to the Transformation of Knowledge and Its Uses in the Life Sciences."  Research in the Sociology of Work. 10: 109-140  [ pdf ]

Powell, Walter W. Kenneth W. Koput, Laurel Smith-Doerr, & Jason Owen-Smith (1999) "Network Position and Firm Performance: Organizational Returns to Collaboration in the Biotechnology Industry." Research in the Sociology of Organizations.  16: 129-159. 
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Smith-Doerr, Laurel, Jason Owen-Smith, Kenneth W. Koput & Walter W. Powell (1999) "Networks and Knowledge Production: Collaboration and Patenting in Biotechnology." in R.T.A.J. Leenders & S. Gabbay (eds.) Corporate Social Capital and Liability. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [ scanned abstract ]

Powell, Walter W. & Jason Owen-Smith (1998) "Universities and the Market for Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  17(2): 253-277. [ pdf ]


 
   
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