Steven Casper
Steven Casper is the Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. His research focuses on comparative studies of the development of new technology industries, with a special interest in processes by which biomedical science has been commercialized across the U.S. and Europe. He has published a book on the development of science-based industry in Europe (Creating Silicon Valley in Europe: Public Policy Towards New Technology Industries, Oxford University Press, 2007). Dr. Casper was previously a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was a University Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Judge Institute of Management Studies. He was previously employed as a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Center, Berlin. He received a PhD in government from Cornell University. In 2009, Casper was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Canada.




