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USC Annenberg M{2e} Research Series on "Media, Money, and Society": William H. Janeway
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 : 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University Park Campus
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Geoffrey Cowan Forum (Annenberg Room 207
Free
Join communication professor Christopher Holmes Smith for a discussion with veteran venture capital investor William H. Janeway, whose presentation, “What I Learned by Doing capitalism,” will argue that the history of American venture capital offers significant insight on the unlikely underpinnings of the Innovation Economy.
William H. Janeway, Senior Advisor for technology, media and telecommunications, Warburg Pincus; Teaching Visitor, Department of Economics, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, Economics Faculty, Cambridge University; author, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
From Prof. Janeway: “The transformational technological innovations that generate ‘new economies’ are deployed as networks whose value in use cannot be known at the outset. Consequently, the Innovation Economy depends on sources of funding unconcerned with economic value, which leads to an appreciation of the historical role of financial speculation and the state. These institutions have proven critical to the successive waves of technological innovation that have transformed economic life over the past 25 years.” Alexander J. Field, the Michael and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University, will provide a response to Dr. Janeway’s remarks.
Reception to follow.
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