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Email: philip.shapira@pubpolicy.gatech.edu

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Economics
M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, City Planning
Dip.TP (Dist.), Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, U.K.

Philip Shapira is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation.

Prof. Shapira currently directs research programs on nanotechnology research and innovation systems assessment and on organizational influences on highly creative scientific research .Both of these projects involve data-mining of large-scale databases as well as other qualitative and quantitative methodologies. He has also directed multiple research and policy assessment studies on technology adoption and innovation in the US, and evaluated industrial networking and manufacturing technology partnerships, entrepreneurship initiatives, and university-industry research networks and clustering.