KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Steven Casper, PhD
Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management; Director of the MBS Program

Areas of Expertise:
  • Economic Sociology
  • International Business
  • Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Casper's research interests include 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.  Dr. Casper came to KGI from 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.  Dr. Casper has published widely in the fields of economic sociology, international business, and public policy.  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).  Casper has been selected as an academic year fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies and a summer fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.  In 2009, Casper was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Canada. 

Publications Research

Contact Information

Steven Casper
909/607-0132
Steven_Casper@kgi.edu

Resources

Turning Liberal Arts Students onto Science

How to Build a Biotechnology Cluster


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