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Bio

Dr. Caroline Simard sets the research direction of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, a nonprofit organization focused on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of technical women in industry and academia. She also researches the dynamics of knowledge communities and social networks in technology industry clusters. She holds a PhD from Stanford University with a focus on organizational behavior, high-technology industries, and social networks. She is a member of the Leadership Team of the National Center for Women and Information Technology and an affiliate of the Sloan Industry Studies Program.

Dr. Simard's publications have focused on the barriers to the diffusion of best practices, managing open innovation, regional clusters of innovation, the role of social networks in the circulation of knowledge in technical communities, and nonprofit management.

Title

Director of Research

Organization

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Projects

Anita Borg Institute: major research initiative with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University - this project has surveyed 1750 technical men and women from 7 major high tech companies in Silicon Valley on the factors affecting the retention and advancement of the technical workforce. http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/special-projects/
San Diego Wireless Valley Project, with Joel West, Professor of Business at San Jose State University. Book on the San Diego wireless communications cluster - From MIT to Qualcomm: http://www.frommittoqualcomm.com/
Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits. http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/research/spen.html

Publications

Selected works:

Simard, C. and West, J. 2008. Institutional Sources of Human and Social Capital in the Founding of Technology-Based Firms. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Small Business Management.

West, J. and Simard, C. 2007. Balancing Intrapreneurial innovation vs entrepreneurial spinoffs during periods of technological ferment. Sloan Industry Studies Working Paper.

Simard, C. and Rice, R.E. (2007). The Practice Gap: Barriers to the Diffusion of Best Practices. In Day, R. & McInerney, C. R. (Eds.). (2007). Re-thinking knowledge management: From knowledge management to knowledge processes. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (In press).

Simard, C. and West, J. (2006). Networks and Open Innovation. In H. Chesbrough, W. Vanhaverbeke, and J. West (Eds.) Open Innovation: Researching a New paradigm. Oxford University Press.

Bar, F. and Simard, C. (2001). New media implementation and industrial organization. In L.A. Lievrouw and S.M. Livingstone (Eds), The Handbook of New Media. Sage Publications. 2nd Edition (Special Student Edition), 2005.

Gammal, D.L., Simard, C., Hwang, H., and Powell, W. (2005). Managing Through Challenges: A profile of San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofits. Stanford University. Available online at www.gsb.stanford.edu/spen

Interests

high technology clusters, innovation, social networks, gender and technical careers, talent management, social and human capital

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