Session 8: Intellectual Property Rights Issues and Management in a Global Economy
Intangible assets—the return to research and development—are becoming increasingly important for business strategy and success, cross-border trade, and macroeconomic performance. This session will address issues and approaches to ensuring intellectual property rights in a digital, global economy.
Sponsor: Technology Roundtable
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Sumiye Okubo
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Sue Okubo joined the Bureau of Economic Analysis in June 1997 as Associate Director of Industry Economics. She oversees the preparation and analysis of the input-output accounts of the U.S. economy, gross product originating accounts, and supplementary industry satellite accounts including the Travel and Tourism Satellite Account and the R&D Satellite Account.
Prior to joining BEA, Dr. Okubo was Director of the Office of International Macroeconomic Analysis, Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Commerce and served an Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Economics at the National Intelligence Council. Her private sector experience includes serving as Manager, R&D Strategy Analysis, GTE Laboratories, 1980-1982, and from 1978-1979, as economist at General Electric Corporate Research and Development. Dr. Okubo received a Ph.D. in economics from Tulane University.
Kaye Husbands Fealing
National Science Foundation
Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing became the Science of Science Policy Advisor in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) in June 2006. For the year prior, Dr. Husbands Fealing was a Program Director in SBE’s Economics program. She also serves as liaison to The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading (TECT) initiative, which is a collaborative effort between NSF and the European Science Foundation. Dr. Husbands Fealing received her Ph.D. in Economics in 1990 at Harvard University, where her fields of study included Industrial Organization, International Trade Theory, Multinational Enterprises, and International Development. In 1981, she received her B.A., with a double major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she has taught courses on global competitive strategies, microeconomics, industrial organization, as well as senior seminars on a variety of topics including the Pacific Rim, globalization, income security, privatization, and regulation. She has also been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development from July 1992 through August 1996, where she conducted research on NAFTA’s effect on the Mexican and Canadian automotive industries and on strategic alliances between aircraft contractors and their subcontractors. Dr. Husbands Fealing continues to conduct research on the automotive industry and on the effect of multinationals on global technological diversity.
Martin Fleming
IBM Corporation
Martin Fleming -- an economist and strategist -- is Vice President, Corporate Strategy, IBM Corp.
Martin leads IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunity program, addressing specific areas of industry transformation where incumbent organizations are evolving their businesses and investing accordingly; new players are entering and challenging industry structure; and innovation is crucial for differentiation. Emerging Business Opportunities build on existing IBM capabilities providing points of strategic entry and representing the potential to re-define or elevate IBM’s role in defined market segments.
Previously, Martin led IBM’s Global Sales and Distribution’s strategy and planning activities, a differentiated portfolio process focusing on growth industries, solutions areas, and other emerging growth targets. He also led IBM’s strategy development and implementation for IBM’s global business partner community.
Prior to joining IBM, Martin was a Principal Consultant and the technology practice leader at Abt Associates, Cambridge Massachusetts. He was also Vice President, Strategy for Reed-Elsevier, Inc., the Anglo-Dutch information company. Martin began his professional career at the System Dynamics Group, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work has been published in a number of professional journals and other publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Martin holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Tufts University and a B.S. cum laude in Mathematics from Lowell Technological Institute
