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Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences

Websites

National Arts Strategies

Awards/Honors

2007 - Honor Roll recipient for Northwestern undergraduate teaching, Northwestern Associated Student Government.

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year Degree Institution

2007 Ph.D. Stanford University

M.A., Sociology, M.A., East Asian Studies Stanford University

Selected Publications

Colyvas, J.A. and Maroulis, S. (In Press/Under Review). Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks in Padgett, J., and Powell, W. W., The Emergence of Organizations and Markets .

Colyvas, Jeannette A. and Powell, Walter W. (2009). Measures, Metrics, and Myopia: The Challenges and Ramifications of Sustaining Academic Entrepreneurship. Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth (19): 276-298.

Colyvas, Jeannette A. and Jonsson, Stephan (2009). Ubiquity and Legitimacy: Disentangling Diffusion and Institutionalization. Under Review, Sociological Theory.

Haeussler, Carolin and Colyvas, Jeannette A. (2009). Breaking the Ivory Tower: Academic Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences in UK and Germany. Under Review, Research Policy.

Powell, Walter W. and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2008). Microfoundations of Institutional Theory in Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson, and Roy Suddaby, editors, Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism: 276-98 .

Colyvas, Jeannette A. (2007). Factories, Hazards, and Contamination: Metaphors and Recombinant DNA in University and Biotechnology. Minerva 45: 143-159.

Colyvas, Jeannette A. (2007). From Divergent Meanings to Common Practices: The Early Institutionalization of Technology Transfer in the Life Sciences at Stanford University. Research Policy 36: 456-476.

Powell, Walter W., Jason Owen-Smith, and Jeannette A. Colyvas (2007). Innovation and Emulation: Lessons from the Experiences of US Universities in Selling Private Rights to Public Knowledge. Minerva 45: 143-159.

Colyvas, Jeannette A. and Walter W. Powell (2007). From Vulnerable to Venerated: The Institutionalization of Academic Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 25: 219-259.

Colyvas, Jeannette A. and Walter W. Powell (2006). Roads to Institutionalization: The Remaking of Boundaries between Public and Private Science. Research in Organizational Behavior 27 : 315-363 .

Colyvas, Jeannette, Annetine Gelijns, and Nathan Rosenberg (2003). Intellectual Property Rights and the Rise of Academic Medical Centers in O. Grandstrand, Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: 155-176 .

Colyvas, Jeannette, Annetine Gelijns, and Nathan Rosenberg (2002). How do University Inventions Get Into Practice. Management Science 48: 61-72.

Selected Presentations

Colyvas, J (November, 2008). In Search of Scientific Footprints: Examining the integration and reproduction of commerce in academic science. Session on Evolving Research Enterprise, APPAM.

Colyvas, J (September, 2008). Ubiquity and Legitimacy: Disentangling Diffusion and Institutionalization. IESE Business School. Barcelona, Spain.

Colyvas, J (August, 2008). Measures, Metrics, and Myopia: The Challenges and Ramifications of Sustaining Academic Entrepreneurship. American Sociological Association Roundtable on Academic Entrepreneurship.

Colyvas, J (August, 2008). Reflections on University Invention and Scientific Teams in Context. Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop on Research on Universities: Studying Knowledge-Creating Collaboration.

Colyvas, J (June, 2008). Measures, Metrics, and Myopia: The Challenges and Ramifications of Sustaining Academic Entrepreneurship. Conference on Technology Entrepreneurship & Institutions: Contemporary & International Research. University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI.

Grants/Funding

Year Title Source Period Amount Status

2008 Unexamined Consequences: Analyzing the Impact of Early Exposure to Proprietary Science on Careers and Knowledge Production National Science Foundation, Section on Science and Society. 2008 - 2009 $110,000 Funded

PI: Colyvas, Jeannette

2008 Careers and Commerce: The Transformation of Scientific Research and Training Practices in Universities and Beyond Northwestern University Research Grant 2008 - 2009 $3500 Funded

PI: Colyvas, Jeannette

Research Interests

Organizations and entrepreneurship; institutions and networks; comparing public, private, and non-profit forms of organizing; university-industry interfaces; public and private science.

Teaching/Advising
Courses

LRN_SCI 451 Topics in Organizations, Institutions, and Society: Persistence and Change Among Public, Private, and Non-Profit Settings This new graduate seminar will introduce theories of institutional persistence and change in the context of public, private, and nonprofit settings. The course is organized as a seminar and will blend foundational studies in institutional theory with contemporary work from sociology, organization sciences, education, and nonprofit studies. An overarching theme of the course addresses how new practices and organizational forms spread (diffusion), how they stick (institutionalization), and how they take the form that they do (emergence). Topics covered will include accountability and performance; organizational learning; contemporary debates about social mechanisms; and micro-foundations of institutional theory. Ideally, this course will provide a platform for students to develop and advance their own research projects, in the form of a research proposal for beginning doctoral students, or an empirical analysis for more advanced students.

HDSP 451-0 Topics in Organizations, Institutions and Society: Persistence and Change Among Public, Private, and Non-Profit Sectors This new graduate seminar will introduce theories of institutional persistence and change in the context of public, private, and nonprofit settings. The course is organized as a seminar and will blend foundational studies in institutional theory with contemporary work, from sociology, organization sciences, education and nonprofit studies. An overarching theme of the course addresses how new practices and organizational forms spread (diffusion), how they stick (institutionalization) and how they take the form that they do (emergence). Topics covered will include accountability and performance; organizational learning; contemporary debates about social mechanisms, and micro-foundations of institutional theory. Ideally, this course will provide a platform for students to develop and advance their own research projects, in the form of a research proposal, for beginning doctoral students, or an empirical analysis for more advanced students.

LOC 306 Studies in Org Change Theories and methods of organizational changes are examined through analysis of organizational adaptaions using theories from learning sciences and organizational behavior.

LOC 311 Tools for Studying Organizations Understanding cause-and-effect relationships pertaining to organizational behavior and performance.

Service/Recognition
Professional Service

Year Organization Position Description

2008 ASA section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Doctoral Student Mentor

2008 American Sociological Association (ASA), European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS), Academy of Management (AOM), Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), INFORMS Professional memberships

2008 Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Organization Science, American Sociological Review, Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation Ad hoc Reviewer

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Year	Degree	Institution
2007	Ph.D.	Stanford University
	M.A., Sociology, M.A., East Asian Studies	Stanford University

Year	Title	Source	Period	Amount	Status
2008	Unexamined Consequences: Analyzing the Impact of Early Exposure to Proprietary Science on Careers and Knowledge Production	National Science Foundation, Section on Science and Society.	2008 - 2009	$110,000	Funded
PI: Colyvas, Jeannette

2008	Careers and Commerce: The Transformation of Scientific Research and Training Practices in Universities and Beyond	Northwestern University Research Grant	2008 - 2009	$3500	Funded
PI: Colyvas, Jeannette

LRN_SCI 451		Topics in Organizations, Institutions, and Society: Persistence and Change Among Public, Private, and Non-Profit Settings This new graduate seminar will introduce theories of institutional persistence and change in the context of public, private, and nonprofit settings. The course is organized as a seminar and will blend foundational studies in institutional theory with contemporary work from sociology, organization sciences, education, and nonprofit studies. An overarching theme of the course addresses how new practices and organizational forms spread (diffusion), how they stick (institutionalization), and how they take the form that they do (emergence). Topics covered will include accountability and performance; organizational learning; contemporary debates about social mechanisms; and micro-foundations of institutional theory. Ideally, this course will provide a platform for students to develop and advance their own research projects, in the form of a research proposal for beginning doctoral students, or an empirical analysis for more advanced students.

HDSP 451-0		Topics in Organizations, Institutions and Society: Persistence and Change Among Public, Private, and Non-Profit Sectors This new graduate seminar will introduce theories of institutional persistence and change in the context of public, private, and nonprofit settings. The course is organized as a seminar and will blend foundational studies in institutional theory with contemporary work, from sociology, organization sciences, education and nonprofit studies. An overarching theme of the course addresses how new practices and organizational forms spread (diffusion), how they stick (institutionalization) and how they take the form that they do (emergence). Topics covered will include accountability and performance; organizational learning; contemporary debates about social mechanisms, and micro-foundations of institutional theory. Ideally, this course will provide a platform for students to develop and advance their own research projects, in the form of a research proposal, for beginning doctoral students, or an empirical analysis for more advanced students.

LOC 306		Studies in Org Change Theories and methods of organizational changes are examined through analysis of organizational adaptaions using theories from learning sciences and organizational behavior.

LOC 311		Tools for Studying Organizations Understanding cause-and-effect relationships pertaining to organizational behavior and performance.

Year	Organization	Position	Description
2008	ASA section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT)	Doctoral Student Mentor
2008	American Sociological Association (ASA), European Group on Organizational Studies (EGOS), Academy of Management (AOM), Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), INFORMS	Professional memberships
2008	Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Organization Science, American Sociological Review, Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation	Ad hoc Reviewer