Highlights of recent professional activities.

• Invited speaker, Symposium on Joseph Schumpeter: His Work and Legacy, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, April 18, 2008, Harvard University.
• Invited speaker, International Workshop on Marshall and the Marshallians on Industrial Economics, Hitotsubashi University, March 15-16, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.
• Invited speaker, Kyoto International Conference on Evolutionary Dynamics of Business Groups in Emerging Economies, Kyoto University and Doshisha University,
  November 26-28, 2007, Kyoto, Japan.
• Invited speaker, 7th International Symposium on Evolutionary Economics “Evolutionary Theory, Self-Reproduction and Economic Development,” Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Science, September 14-15, 2007, Pushchino, Russia.
• Keynote lecturer, international workshop on “Internal Organisation, Cooperative Relationships among Firms and Competitiveness,” January 19-20, 2007, Lucca, Italy.
• Invited Lecturer, European Summer School in the New Institutional Economics, May 15-20, 2006, Cargèse, Corsica.

• Delivered two days of lectures on the economics of organization at Beijing Jiaotong University, March 22 and 24, 2005, Beijing, China.

• Inaugural Lecture as Adjunct (Honorary) Professor in Strategy and Business History, Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, January 7, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

• Director, Intensive course in institutional economics, Fifth Trento Summer School, Programme in Adaptive Economic Dynamics, University of Trento, June 28-July 9, 2004, Trento, Italy.

• Delivered the Graz Schumpeter Lectures, June 3-8, 2004, Graz, Austria.

• Invited participant, National Science Foundation workshop on "Science of Design: Software-Intensive Systems," November 2-4, 2003, Airlie, Virginia.

• Presenter and panelist, Leverhulme conference on "Digital Transformations: ICT's Impact on Productivity: Economies, Industries and Firms," London Business School, October 1, 2003.

• Keynote speaker, international conference on The Evolution of Institutions and the Knowledge Economy, October 4-5, 2002, Debrecen, Hungary.

• Panelist, Professional Development Workshop on "Research on Technology Standards: Present Perspectives and Future Agenda," Academy of Management annual meeting, August 5, 2001, Washington, DC.

• Keynote speaker, Second Brazilian Seminar on the New Institutional Economics, March 21-23, 2001, Campinas, Brazil.

• Invited speaker, George Mason University Conference on Dynamic Competition and Public Policy, December 16-17, 1998, Washington, DC.

• Faculty speaker, first annual Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation graduate student workshop, August, 7-8, 1998, Airlie, Virginia.

• Invited speaker, Economic Outlook Conference, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), May 16, 1998, Xiamen, China.

• Keynote address, annual meeting of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), September 5, 1995, Juan-les-Pins, France.

• "Book launch" of Langlois and Robertson, Firms, Markets, and Economic Change, Institute of Economic Affairs, June 29, 1995, London.