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Martin Kenney

Martin Kenney is a Professor at the University of California, Davis and a Senior Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. He has published five books and over 100 scholarly articles on venture capital, university-industry technology transfer, new industry formation, and technology-enabled globalization. His two recent edited books Understanding Silicon Valley and Locating Global Advantage were published by Stanford University Press where he is the editor of a book series in innovation and globalization. He has been a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School; Judge School of Management, Cambridge University; Institute of Innovation Studies, Hitotsubashi University; Kobe University; and Tokyo University. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Asia Pacific Research Center and in 2011 he will be a visiting researcher at the Economic Insitute of Finnish Economy. He has consulted for or lectured at various private sector organizations including Association of Computing Machinery, Cisco, Dell India, Intel, and GHX and public sector organizations such as Interamerican Development Bank, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science, the National Research Council, OECD, the President’s Council on Science and Technology, World Bank, and the World Economic Forum. His research has been supported by the NSF, Sloan Foundation, Matsushita International Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation. He is the West Coast editor for Research Policy.