Mailing address
George Mason School of Public Policy
4400 University Drive– MS 3C6
Fairfax, VA, 22030
Website
Philip Auerswald
Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Contact:
Telephone: 703-993-3787
Fax: 703-993-2284
Email: philip_auerswald@harvard.edu
Website: http://policy.gmu.edu/faculty/auerswald/
Experience
Philip Auerswald was Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In January of 2003, he was made Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. Professor Auerswald's work focuses on linked processes of technological and organizational change in the contexts of policy, economics, and strategy. He is the co-editor of Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about people using technology to address global challenges, co-hosted at the Belfer Center. He author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (MIT Press: 2001) and Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2006) Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, Professor Auerswald was a lecturer and Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has been a consultant to the National Academies of Science, the Commonwealth of Massacusetts, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and a B.A. (political science) from Yale University.
May 2008
Financing Entrepreneurship
Book
By Ant Bozkaya, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
This important collection comprises foundational papers which offer an understanding of the conceptual and historical substructure of entrepreneurial finance and more recent seminal works about entrepreneurs and the obstacles that they systematically seek to overcome. Further articles describe the variety of institutional forms that have evolved to address the challenges inherent in entrepreneurial finance and the role of government in the process of innovation, entrepreneurship and the financing of new ventures. These papers, complemented by the editors' comprehensive introduction, are essential for scholars, researchers, policy makers and entrepreneurs wishing to advance their understanding of this important and expanding field of study.
For more information on the book, click here.
July 15, 2007
Old Oil Fears Don't Match 2007 Reality: U.S. Vulnerability, Economic Threat are Largely Overstated
Op-Ed, The San Francisco Chronicle
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
May / June 2007
The Irrelevance of the Middle East
Magazine or Newspaper Article, The American Interest, issue 5, volume 2
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
January 26, 2007
A Model to Eradicate False Gulf between Doing Good and Doing Well
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Financial Times, Letter to the Editor
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Iqbal Quadir, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
January 23, 2007
Calling an End to Oil Alarmism
Op-Ed, The Boston Globe
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
September 2006
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
Book
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Todd M. La Porte and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response ... describes effective and sustainable approaches — both business strategies and public policies — to ensure provision of critical services in the event of disaster.
September, 2006
Where Private Efficiency Meets Public Vulnerability: The Critical Infrastructure Challenge
Book Chapter
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
September, 2006
Complexity and Interdependence: The Unmanaged Challenge
Book Chapter
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
September, 2006
Leadership: Who Will Act?
Book Chapter
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management
Summer 2006
The Myth of Energy Insecurity
Journal Article, Issues in Science and Technology, issue 4, volume 22
By Philip Auerswald, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
