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Peter Tittman Leyla Anderson Katrina Ellis
Riccardo LoCascio Martin Kenney Dick Dorf
Scott Lenet Andy Hargadon Ingrid Neumann
Deb Niemeier James Evans Rodney Lacey
Tai Stillwater Hugh Wilson Nicole Starsinic
Dimitri Ben Finkelor
Nicole Woolsey Biggart Meg Arnold Martin Kenney
Teri Silva Innovation


Deb NiemeierMARTIN KENNEY

professor
human and community development

C4E research fellow

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 is a fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Davis. 

He has published five books and over 120 scholarly articles on the development of Silicon Valley, venture capital, university-industry relations and the globalization of services. His two recent edited books Understanding Silicon Valley and Locating Global Advantage (with Richard Florida) were published by Stanford University Press where he is the editor (with Bruce Kogut) of a book series in innovation and globalization. Currently, he is preparing a book on the history and globalization of the venture capital industry.

He was a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Cambridge University, Hitotsubashi University, Kobe University, and Tokyo University.

He has consulted for or presented to various organizations including the InterAmerican Development Bank, the World Bank, Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Association of Computing Machinery, and the OECD and consulted for various firms. 

His research is currently supported by the NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation.