The Innovation Policy Lab Speaker Series – John Zysman

September 3, 2014

The Innovation Policy Lab Speaker Series

Frontiers of Research in Global Innovation

“Escaping the Commodity Trap: Toward Sustainable Growth”

John Zysman

Professor of Political Science at University of California Berkeley

Co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

Professor Zysman received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. He has written extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy; his interests also include comparative politics, Western European politics, and political economy. Professor Zysman’s publications include The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century? (co-edited with Dan Breznitz, Oxford University Press, 2013), Can Green Sustain Growth: from the Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity (with Mark Huberty, Stanford University Press, 2013), The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System (Oxford University Press, 1992), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (Basic Books, 1987), and Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change (Cornell University Press, 1983).

Monday, September 15

2-4pm

Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

1 Devonshire Place

Registration: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/16812