Curriculum Vita – Donald A. Hicks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Special Assistant (Office of the President)				2006-
The University of Texas at Dallas
•	Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research		1976-1978

Professor
School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences			1975-
The University of Texas at Dallas
•	Full Professor (1987)
•	Associate rank (with tenure, 1979) 					
•	Vice Chair, Bruton Center for Development Studies,		1989-1996
•	Associate Director, Enterprise Transformation 2020		2007 –

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC				1973-1975
•	Teaching Assistant 

Policy/Applied Research and Program Administration

Senior Research Fellow, IC2 Institute, UT-Austin 			2000-
http://www.ic2.org/main.php?a=2&s=39 

Senior Consultant, North Texas Commission				1989 - 1991 
Strategic Regional Analysis, D/FW International Airport. 

Vice President, North Texas Commission			 		1986 - 1989
Regional Research and Technology Program (Mayors' Joint 
Committee on High Technology) (on leave from UT-Dallas)

Senior Urban Policy Staff, EOP/OMB, President's Commission	1980 - 1981 
for a National Agenda for the Eighties, Washington, DC. (on leave 
from UT-Dallas) 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.		University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1976).

B. A.		Indiana University, Sociology, Bloomington, IN (1969). 

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS 

Intelligent Medical System Interactive Website, BioDFW        2008
(with UT-D’s GIS Program)

Consultant, Role of Wireless Technologies in Enterprise        2007
Transformation Contract between Enterprise 2020 Program 
(M. Oliff, SOM) Verizon Communications.

Principal, NanoMaterials Design and Commercialization       2006-Present
Center  (at Alliance) Initiative design and development in 
Partnership with Hillwood Development and Texas’ Governor’s
Office. Funding to date ($2.25M)

Consultant, Zyvex.  Preparation of the commercialization              2006
strategy analysis for the NIST-ATP Proposal Assemblers 
for Nanotechnology Applications and Manufacturing  
NIST-ATP Award # 70NANB1H3021. 

Principal, North Texas Transit Study (with Charlie Leonard       2006
and Kurt Beron) to measure public perceptions of the need for 
commuter rail and light rail transit in the D/FW Metroplex and
citizen reactions to various proposed funding mechanisms. 
Contracted through the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, 
in partnership with DART and the Denton Country Transit 
Authority.  

121 Corridor Analysis, Pb Consulting				       2006

Literacy Project Contract ($18,500) from the North Texas            2004-2005
Future Fund (North Texas Commission)  

Contract ($50,000) from Ericsson Inc for Ericsson/UT-Dallas       2003-2004
OPEX Training Program design, development and delivery
with Suresh Radhakrishnan and Mark Anderson (SOM)        

Consultant, Consortium of North Texas-based venture                    2003-2004  
Capital, law and ICT firms, UTSW Bioscience Industrial 
Cluster Roadmap. 

Consultant, North Texas Future Fund.  Author of The Evolving	2002-2003 
DFW Metroplex Economy: Performance and Prospects. 
http://www.ntc-dfw.org/news/eereport.html

Designed and developed the Ericsson Knowledge Network (EKN) 	1999-2003
in partnership with the Ericsson Inc.  This project delivered 
synchronous credit and noncredit courses from selected 
universities in Europe and the United States on the Ericsson 
intranet to employees around the world.  Partnerships established 
with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University College
London, Stockholm School of Economics, Uppsala University, and 
the Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg).

Consultant, Factory Integration and Productivity Analysis, 	1994-1995
SEMI-SEMATECH, Austin TX.

Office of the Comptroller, State of Texas. A Nanoeconomic 		1992- 1993
Perspective on the Growth and Development of the Texas 
Manufacturing Base, 1970-91.  For inclusion in Forces of 
Change, Office of the Comptroller, 1993. 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Office of 	1991-1992
Policy Development) Co-author/editor (Contract/grant)
Rediscovering Urban America: Annotated Outline for the 
1992 President's National Urban Policy Report. 

Texas National Laboratory Research Commission (TNRLC)/		1990-1991
North Texas Commission, Prepared under contract: 
1)	Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Business
     Opportunities Guide: Matching SSC Industrial and
     Operational Requirements to the Texas and Dallas/Fort
     Worth Metroplex Business Base and 
2)	Matching the Industrial Bases of Seven States to the 
Industrial Requirements of the Superconducting 
Super Collider.  Bruton Center for Development Studies.

Research Partners Program Grant: "Regional Income and   		1990-1991
Employment Effects of Federal Contract Research and 
Development Funds."  (with Si-Gyoung Lee)

Consultant, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, 		1990
Assessing the Impact of MCNC on the Industrial and 
Economic Development of North Carolina, May 1990.

Consultant, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Ann 	1991
Arbor, MI, "Key Elements of a Performance Indicator 
System for U.S. Manufacturing," and "Quantifying the 
Impacts of Losses of Specific Production Capabilities to the 
Nation's Industrial Base: Does Anyone Know How To Do It?"

Consultant, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Ann 	1989-1990
Arbor, MI, "The U.S. Manufacturing Base: Productivity and 
Development Performance Indicators, 1982-90."  

Principal Investigator, "Turnover and Regeneration: Beneath 	1989
the Surface of Advanced Urban Economic Development," 
Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC (UT-D 89-17).  

Faculty Project Supervisor, "Advanced Electronics 			1989
Manufacturing Production and Development: A Competitive 
Analysis," North Texas Commission, Summer.

Member, Project Team, "State-of-the-Art Assessment of 		1988
Manufacturing Education"; for the National Center for 
Manufacturing Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988.

Industrial Adjustment in U.S. Manufacturing: Technology	1986-1987
Diffusion and Implementation, American Enterprise Institute 
for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC

Project Director, Political Economy Workshop ("Business 		1983-1984
Retention and Expansion: A Dallas Economic Development 
Strategy within a Regional Context"), Office of Planning and
Development, City of Dallas.

Project Director, ("The Transforming Dallas-Fort Worth 		1983-1984
Metropolitan Economy, 1963-1983"), Organized Research 
Grant.

Project Director, Industry-University Cooperative Research 		1982-1984
Project.  Incubation and Development of the U.S. Computer 
Software Industry.  

Consultant/Project Director, Factors Governing the Adoption      1983-1984
NC/CNC-CAM Technologies by the U.S. Metalworking Industry.
Support by Numerical Society (Glenview, IL) and UCCEL, Dallas, TX.

Principal Investigator, ("Reassessing Transportation Needs  	1979-1980
of the Elderly") National Institute of Health, DHEW, 
(1 RO1 AG01464-01).

Co-investigator (with H. D. Lester), ("Capital Punishment, 		1979	
Public Opinion and the Law, 1936-72"), Organized Research 
Grant.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Gerontological Society, Research 		1977-1978
Fellowship Models Program, (research and travel expenses).

Co-investigator (with D. J. Morgan), ("The Residential Adjust-	1978-1979
ment	Process:  A Study of the Adaption of Immigrants to 
New Residential Locations"), Organized Research Grant.

Co-investigator, ("Public School Desegregation and White 		1976-1977
Flight in Dallas, Texas"), Organized Research Grant.

Co-Director, Collaborative Approach to Services for the Elderly 	1975-1978
(Project CASE), UT-Dallas, UT-Arlington, UT-Health Sciences 
Center consortium project.

U.S. Congressional Testimony

Invited oral testimony. The 1981 Economic Report of the 		1981 (Jan.)
President.  Hearings before the Joint Economic Committee 
(JEC), Ninety-seventh Congress. 	

Invited oral testimony.  Intergovernmental Relations in the         1981 (Feb.)
U.S. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Inter-governmental 
Relations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the 
U.S. Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress.

Invited written testimony. The Administration’s 1982	 	1981 (Feb.)
National Urban Policy Report.  Hearings before the 
Joint Economic Committee (JEC), Ninety-seventh Congress
(Second Session).

Other Professional Experience

Research Analyst, U.S. Naval Intelligence, Southeast Asia 	      Summer 1975
Captivity Experience Project, Fort Belvoir, VA.

Research and Evaluation Specialist, Governor's Office, 			1973-1974
Governor's Management Task Force, Raleigh, NC.

Research Consultant, Technical Planning, Inc., Department of 	1972
Probation and Parole, State of Delaware, Wilmington, DE.

Research Liaison, Metropolitan Studies Program, Indiana 		1970
University-Purdue University Joint Campus and Model Cities, 
Indianapolis, IN.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND POLICY RESEARCH REPORTS

Books/Research Monographs and Major Policy Reports

Bringing Dallas to Life- Accelerating the Development of a Regional Bio-Economy: Opportunities and Obstacles (2004). 

Creating a Biotechnology Cluster in the Dallas Region: Rationale and a Roadmap (2004). STARTech Early Ventures.

The Evolving DFW Metroplex Economy: Performance and Prospects (2003). North Texas Future Fund, http://www.ntc-dfw.org/news/eereport.html 

Rediscovering Urban America: Perspectives in the 1980s, (Co-editor with J. Sommer), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC, January, 1993.

A Nanoeconomic Perspective on the Growth and Development of the Texas Manufacturing Base, 1970-91, Office of the Comptroller, State of Texas, March 1993.

Is New Technology Enough?  The Making and Remaking of U.S. Basic Industries, (Ed.) American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Washington, DC); 1988.

Urban Studies, (Guest Editor, Special Double Issue) New Issues in National Urban Policy, Vol. 24, No. 6; December, 1987.

Automation Technology and Industrial Renewal:  Adjustment Dynamics in the U.S. Metalworking Sector, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Washington, DC); 1986.

Advanced Industrial Development:  Restructuring, Relocation and Renewal, Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain (Boston, MA); 1985.

Transition to the 21st Century:  Prospects and Policies for Economic and Urban-Regional Transformation, (Co-editor with Norman J. Glickman), JAI Press, (Greenwich, CT); 1983.

Urban America in the Eighties: Perspectives and Prospects, Transaction Books, (New Brunswick, NJ); 1981.

Originally published as Report of the Panel on Policies and Prospects for
 Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America, President's Commission for a
 	National Agenda for the Eighties (http://www.marcive.com/scripts/webdocs.dll?Cmd&DLIS&D143l1Fl1El1El1l362D6Cl4l29AD939l4D037C3l0l362D6Cl6EC3800l38B98Cl6&0&SBIB];1981. Reprinted by 1) Prentice-Hall, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ); 1982, and 2) U.S. Government Printing Office, (Washington, DC) in Intergovernmental Relations in the 1980s; 1981. [Note: For one assessment of the report’s impact, see James Fallows’ Atlantic Monthly article     http://theatlantic.com/politics/ecbig/landscap.htm].

REFEREED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

“Intelligent ICT-Enabled EMS: Eclipse of the ‘Golden Hour.’” (with J. Cox) IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Proceedings, Oct. 2007.

“New Firm Formation: Dynamics and Determinants,” (with V. Sutaria) Annals of Regional Science (Special Issue on Firm Demography and Spatial Dynamics), Vol. 38, No. 2 (May-June 2004), pp. 1-22. Reprinted in ICFAI Journal of Industrial Economics.

“Schumpeterian Churn Dynamics and Regional Productivity Performance,” (with Y. Lee)  International Business & Economic Research Journal, Vol. 2, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 83-98.

“The Determinants of New Firm Formation,” (with V. Sutaria) Annals of Regional Science.

“Social Distress and the Urban Underclass,” pp. 15-24 in R. D. Norton (Ed.) The Millennium City: Classic Readings on U.S. Urban Policy, Research in Urban Economics Series, Vol. 12, JAI Press, 1999.

“The Financial Undertow of Rapid Technical Advance in New Product Development,” Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Vol. 1096, (2001), pp. 1-23.

“Technical Innovation and Endogenous Adjustment in the Telecommunications Industry,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Special Issue on Innovation in Telecommunications Vol. 10, No. 2-3, 2001, pp. 69-96.  

“Social Distress and the Urban Underclass,” pp. 15-24 in R. D. Norton (Ed.) The Millennium City: Classic Readings on U.S. Urban Policy, Research in Urban Economics, Vol. 12, JAI Press, 1999.

“Beyond Globalization: Localized Returns to IT Infrastructure Investments,” (with S.R. Nivin) (April 2000). Regional Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 115-27.

“Time Wars: Is There a Financial Undertow from Accelerating Technical Advance?” Research-Technology Management, Vol. 43, No. 2, March-April 2000, pp. 34-9. [http://www.iriinc.org/RTM.htm].  Also p. 407 in Proceedings, Vol. 1, Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET ’99), Portland, OR July 1999.

Beyond Globalization: Localized Returns to IT Infrastructure Investments,” (with S.R. Nivin) (April 2000). Regional Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 115-27. [Accepted in 1998; appeared in 2000]

“Deep Industrial Dynamics Shaping Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing,”  1997 IEEE International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, October, 1997, pp. 9-13. [On program with Gordon Moore]

“Technical Innovation and Endogenous Adjustment in the Telecommunications Industry,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 3-4, forthcoming.

“Agility and Endogenous Adjustment: Semiconductor Manufacturing As a Complex Adaptive System,” Agility and Global Competition, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 66-84.

“Can the Telecom Equipment Industry Afford Accelerating Technical Advance?” (with D. M. O’Brien), Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 21, No. 1, October 1997, pp. 697-707.

“Exploring a Decade of Strategic Alliance Activity in the Telecommunications Industry, 1984-94,” (with D. O’Brien) Proceedings of the International Telecommunications Society, 11th Biennial Conference, June 1996 (www.analysys.com/publish/its/).

Strategic Implications of Supply Structure Adjustments in the Semiconductor Industry: A White Paper, Technology Transfer Paper #96123212A-TR, SEMATECH, February 1997.

“Evolving Complexity and Cost Dynamics in the Semiconductor Industry,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol, 9, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 294-302.   

“Global Credentials, Immigration, and Metro-Regional Economic Performance,” (with S. R. Nivin), Urban Geography, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1996, pp. 23-44.

“Affordability Concerns in Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing: The Nature of Industrial Linkage,” IEEE/UCS/SEMI, (with S. Brown), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing ’95, pp. 1-4.

Time-Based Competition: Evaluating Time-to-Market as a Future Factory Manufacturing Concept, SEMATECH, Technology Transfer 95012673A-XFR, February 1995.  

“Evaluating Time-Based Competition in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry”  in Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings 1995, pp. 102-12.

“Revitalizing Our Cities of Restoring Ties to Them? Redirecting the Debate,” Journal of Law Reform, University of Michigan School of Law, Vol. 27, Issues 3&4, Spring and Summer 1994, pp. 813-75.

"Regional Economic Impacts of Federal R&D by Funding Source and Performer Type," (with Si-gyoung Lee),  Regional Studies, Vol. 28, No. 6, October 1994, pp. 619-32.

“Cities and Beyond: A New Look at the Nation’s Urban Economy,” (with J. Rees), Chapter 2 in J. Sommer and D.A. Hicks, Rediscovering Urban America: Perspectives on the 1980s, Office of Policy Development and Research, DHUD, Washington, DC, January 1993.

“Regional Infrastructures for Innovation,” Horizon, Vol. III. University of Texas at Dallas, 1992.

"Plant Closures and the Changing U.S. Industrial Base, in J. Lynch, (Ed.) Plant Closures and Community Recovery, National Council on Urban Economic Development (CUED), Washington, DC, 1989.  (Reprinted in 1992).

"New Dimensions of Dallas Area Economic Development,” The Survey of Regional Literature, No. 19, September 1991, pp. 11-24. 

Reprinted from State of the Region 1992, ,” Beneath the Surface and Beyond the Borders: New Dimensions of Dallas Area Economic Development," The Bruton Center for Development Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Chapter 2.

"Tracking Economic Turnover and Adjustment: Vertical Development Accounting," Economic Development Commentary, National Council for Urban Economic Development, Washington, DC, Vol. 15, No. 2, Summer 1991, pp. 23-29.

"Urban Policy in the U.S.:  Introduction," Urban Studies, Vol. 24, December, 1987, pp. 439-446.

"Geo-Industrial Shifts in Advanced Metropolitan Economies," in Urban Studies, Vol. 24, December, 1987, pp. 460-79.  

"Advanced Industrial Development," in A. Champagne, et al., (Eds.), Texas at the Crossroads, Texas A&M Press, 1987.

"Implications of the Diffusion of Information Technology on Trade in the Services," G. Faulhaber, E. Noam and R. Tassey, Services in Transition:  The Impact of Information Technology on the Service Sector, Ballinger, (Cambridge, MA), 1987, pp. 98-105.

"Industrial Renewal through Technology Upgrading in the U.S. Metalworking Industry," in J. Rees (Ed.), Technology, Regions and Policy, Rowman and Allanheld, (Totowa, NJ), 1985.

"New Technology in the American Machinery Industry:  Trends and Implications."  (with J. Rees), Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC), March, 1984.
	
	Reprinted as "New Technology in the United States' Machinery Industry:  Trends and Implications" in A. T. Thwaites and R. P. Oakey, The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change, F. Pinter, (London), 1985.

"The Shifting Role of Property Tax in a New Industrial Era," in C. Lowell Harris (Ed.), The Property Tax and Local Finance, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 208-221, Academy of Political Science, 1983.

“Urban and Economic Adjustment to the Post-Industrial Era” (1983).  In Gappert, G and R. Knight (eds) Cities in the 21st Century, Beverley Hills, CA: Sage.

"Texas:  Looking Ahead to the Year 2000," Planning, American Planning Association, March, 1982.

"The Rise and Fall of Regional Policy in the United States," Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. V, No. 2, Autumn, 1982.

“’Plastic' Land in the Post-Industrial Era," Cato Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall, 1982.

"National Urban Land Policy:  Facing the Inevitability City and Regional Evolution," Urban Law and Policy, Vol. 5, 1982. 

	Reprinted in George Lefcoe, (Ed.), Urban Land Policy for the Reagan Years:  The Message for State and Local Governments, Lexington, 1983.

"Perspectives on Urban America and Key Policy Issues for the Eighties," (from Urban America in the Eighties:  Perspectives and Prospects), in Irving L. Horowitz, Policy Studies Review Annual #5, Sage, 1981.

"Monitoring Shift Patterns in Municipal Service Outcomes Over Time," in Richard C. Rich (Ed.), Analyzing Inequality in Urban Services, Lexington Press, 1981.

"From an Urban Policy to a Social Policy:  New Perspectives on Urban America," in A National Agenda for the Eighties, Report of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, (Washington, DC), 1981.

	Reprinted by 1) New American Library, (New York), 1981, and 2) Prentice-Hall, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1982.

"Diversifying Fiscal Support by Pricing Library Services:  An Impact Analysis," The Library Quarterly, University of Chicago, October 1980.

"Urban Service Quality and Residential Relocation in Dallas, 1974-80," Texas Business Research, Special Sunbelt Issue, March-April, 1980.

"The City as Magnet:  Residential Choice in Dallas," Texas Business Research, May-June, 1979.

"Public Service Imbalances in Metropolitan Systems:  Equality and Regional Change,"  Texas Journal of Political Studies, Spring, 1979.

"Redressing Metropolitan Imbalances in Service Delivery:  A Time-Series Intervention Analysis of a User Charge Policy," (with Virgil R. Marco, Jr. and John J. Wiorkowski)   Policy Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 2-3, December, 1978.

"Patterns of Social Change and Adaptation in Prisons," (with Geoffrey P. Alpert), Social Science Quarterly, June, 1978.

"Prisoners' Attitudes toward Components of the Legal and Judicial Systems," (with Geoffrey P. Alpert) Criminology, Vol. 14, No. 4, February, 1977.

Reprinted in D. E. J. MacNamara and F. Montanino, Incarceration:  The Sociology of Imprisonment, Sage, 1978.

PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ANALYSIS/REPORTS

“Strategic Alliance Activity in the Semiconductor Industry, 1984-94,” September 1995.

"Benchmarking Dallas-Area Economic Development: A Comparative Perspective," Bruton Center for Development Studies, Spring, 1991.

Recession and Recovery: The Regeneration of an Advanced Urban Economy:  A Case Study of the Adjustment Dynamics of the Greater Dallas Regional Economy, 1986-1988.  (Monograph-length report) Bruton Center for Development Studies, 1990.

	NOTE: Six separate reports prepared under contract for the Urban Land Institute (Washington, DC) focused on Orlando, San Diego, Lexington, Austin, Greater Atlanta and the City of Atlanta were also prepared, October, 1989. 

"Superconducting Super Collider 1990 Impact Analysis," (with Edward L. McClelland).  Prepared under contract to the North Texas Commission for the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission.  Fall 1990.

Matching SSC Industrial Requirements to the Texas Industrial Base, Bruton Center for Development Studies, Prepared under contract to the North Texas Commission for the Texas National Research Laboratory Conversion.  Fall 1990.

"Workforce Skills and Competencies: The Importance of Human Capital Assets and Investments to the Development of the Texas and Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Economies," July, 1989.

"Quantifying the Impacts of Losses of Specific Production Capabilities to the Nation's Industrial Base," Paper commissioned by National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) for use in hearings before a series of U.S. Congressional committees, April, 1989.

"Innovation and Tomorrow's Economy:  Regional Recipes for Economic Growth," Vol. 4, Regional Technology Program, North Texas Commission, September, 1988.

“The Regenerating Economy: Job Creation and Destruction in Texas and the D/FW Metroplex,” North Texas Commission, December 1988. (Subsequent draft appeared as The Economic “Churn” in the Greater Dallas Regional and the City of Dallas Economies, 1986-1988, Bruton Center for Development Studies, UT-Dallas, November 1989.

"Industrial Base Redefined:  The Role of Advanced Services," Vol. 3, Regional Technology Program, North Texas Commission, January, 1988.

"Advanced Manufacturing in the Southwest:  A Second Look," Vol. 2, Regional Technology Program, North Texas Commission, March, 1987.

"Economic Growth and Basic Research, It's Academic - And So Much More," Vol. 1, Regional Technology Program, North Texas Commission, July, 1986.

“A Strategic Assessment of U.S. Electronics-Based Industrial Growth and Development: A Preliminary Analysis” Center for Applied Research, UT-D, Spring 1986.

"The High-Technology Sector:  Growth and Development in the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Economy, 1964-84," (with W. H. Stolberg), Center for Applied Research, UT-D, October, January 1985.

"Computer Software and Data Processing Services: Development Characteristics of a High-Technology Service Industry in Texas," (with C. Z. Pann) Governor's Office of Economic Development and Texas Computer Industry Council, (Austin, TX), July, 1984.

"The City of Dallas as a 'Textured' Business Climate:  Establishment and Employment Expansion and Contraction Between 1977 and 1982," (with J.H. James), Department of Planning and Development, City of Dallas, Center for Policy Studies, UT-D, September, 1983.

"Public and Private Sector Service Provision:  An Alliance for the Future," in Issues and Alternatives:  A Guide for the Policy Maker, National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Interest Information Network, City of Dallas, 1979.

Needs Assessment Strategies and Options Area Agencies on Aging, Report prepared for the Gerontological Society and the Houston-Galveston Area Council Area Agency on Aging, 1978.

Public School Desegregation in Dallas, Texas:  Policy Impact Assessment Survey Results, (with R. C. Hula and C. Miley), Southwest Center for Economic and Community Development, July, 1977.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School-Busing Controversy:  1965-71, (with H. B. McKnight and M. Dailey), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Case study for Program in Public Policy Analysis, 1973.

The University and the Urban Challenge, Report prepared for the Department of Metropolitan Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Joint Campus, Indianapolis, IN, and the Model Cities Program, Indianapolis, IN, 1970.

SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

“Market Entry and Market Value: Linking Biotechnology Innovation Dynamics to Value Creation” (with Lynn Hung). Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics & Policy  (under review).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2006-Present

MEMBER, Board of Directors, BioDFW.

MEMBER, Texas Nanoelectronics Alliance Initiative (TxAN) Working Group

UT System/TAMU System Alliance Cmte. at TAM-Dallas

MEMBER, UT-D/Technion Alliance Committee (TAC)

MEMBER, Economic Development and Commercialization Cmte. (UT-D Development Board)

MEMBER, ECS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) – Technology Acceleration and Commercialization 

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Enterprise 2020 (SOM)

MEMBER, Executive Board, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) (SOM)

FOUNDING MEMBER/ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4ISN)

ADVISOR, SAP/UTD Forum on Barriers to RFID Adoption 

ADVISOR, Unisys Global/AIM Global - Center for Ethical Identity Assurance (CEIA)

UT-D REPRESENTATIVE, Texas/Israel Chamber of Commerce

ADVISOR, Assisted development of an MOU between UT-Dallas and RioTinto to establish an R&D effort on campus; also assisted in enabling RioTinto to apply for an Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) collaborative research grant

INITIATIVE LEADER, Led an initiative to create a NanoMaterials Design & Commercialization Center at Alliance (w/ Hillwood Development at Alliance Airport)

MEMBER, Intelligent Medical Systems Red Team (BioDFW) 

ADVISOR, Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), Office of the Governor.

MEMBER, Economists Council, Greater Dallas Chamber 

MEMBER, Richardson Economic Development Technology Advisory Board (REDTAB)

MEMBER, CapRock BioFuels – Board of Directors

MEMBER, Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC) Innovation Task Force

ADVISOR/CONSULTANT - North Texas Future Fund  

MEMBER, North Texas Commission (NTC) Literacy Project Board  

MEMBER, Biotechnology Advisory Board, Collin County Community College

PANEL MEMBER – Technology Acceleration and Commercialization, April 21st
Presentation, External Research Advisory Board, April 25th

INVITED PRESENTER - NanoTX 07 Conference, October 3rd, 

INVITED PRESENTER - NanoTX 06 Conference, September 28th 

PRESENTER - North Texas Regional Mobility Hearing, Presentation of Final Results, October 6th

ORGANIZER/PRESENTER - ECS NanoMaterials Industrial Cluster Initiative Briefing, October 12th

INVITED PRESENTER - Governor’s Office, NanoMaterials Industrial Cluster Initiative Briefing , October 13th

INVITED PRESENTER - InSource Presentation, November 7th

INVITED PRESENTER - Baylor Health Care System Leadership Retreat, November 10th

2001-2005

Speaker, Distinguished Lecturer Series, EC&S, August, 26, 2005.

Keynote Speaker, BioDFW Forum, UT Southwestern, May 19, 2005.

Keynote Speaker, IEEE Annual Meeting, Investing in Technology, September 9, 2005

Speaker and Moderator, 7th Annual Economic Forum, Greater Dallas Chamber Forum  

Moderator, MIT CEO Forum, May 25, 2005.

Invited Speaker, BioDFW Planning Forum, November 7, 2005

Speaker, MTBC 1st Friday Management in High-Tech, April 1, 2005.

Speaker, North Texas Future Fund, June 23, 2005.

Speaker, MTBC CEO Breakfast Forum, March 31, 2005.

 “Preparing for a Post Sun-Belt Future.” North Texas Commission Member Luncheon, April 2003.

“Preparing for a Post Sun-Belt Future.” North Texas Future Fund Luncheon, April 16, 2003.

“The Evolving DFW Economy: Implications for Entrepreneurial Activity” STARTech Stakeholder Advisory Board, April 28, 2003.

“The Economy of North Texas and Its Effect on Foreign Trade,” Dallas/Fort Worth Consular Corps, May 15, 2003.

“The Changing Economic Landscape of the Region, Dallas Economists’ Club, May 20, 2003.

Presentation, Texas Health Resources Strategic Planning Board, Arlington, TX, June 10, 2003.

Presentations, STARTech CIO Dinners, August 25th and November 10, 2003.

“Beyond the Sun Belt Era: Something Borrowed…Something New,” McKinney Chamber of Commerce, December 12, 2003.

“Strategic Issues for Emerging Technology Companies: The Evolving DFW Economy”, Haynes & Boone LLP., December 9, 2003.

Invited Speaker, Park Cities Exchange Club, April 27th

Invited Speaker, INVEST SW Annual Meeting (September).

Invited Speaker, 6th Annual Economic Forum, Greater Dallas Chamber – 

INVITED PARTICIPANT, National Association of Business Economists (NABE) – Teleconference Webcast Presentations (August; October).

INVITED SPEAKER, Dallas Economists Club, (August).

Invited Speaker, Regional Leadership Luncheon – McKinney (April).  

Baylor Health Care System Strategic Leadership Council, “Health Care Delivery in the  Evolving DFW Metroplex Economy”

PANEL CHAIR and SPEAKER: “Entrepreneurship in a Global Economy” MIT Enterprise Forum, December 12, 2002.

INVITED SPEAKER, “Investment in Science and Technology: How Can Texas Do Better”, Urban Texas, Inc.  November 21, 2002, Austin, TX.

Panel Chair, Science and the Innovation System, APPAM Annual Research Conference (November, 2002).

INVITED SPEAKER, Dallas Economists Club, October 2002.

Member, Richardson Economic Development Technology Advisory Board

Panel Chair and Presenter, European Applied Business Research (EABR) Conference, Rothenburg, Germany.  “Business Base Churn Dynamics and Regional Economic Performance,” (with Y. Lee).  June 2002. [Best Paper Award]

INVITED SPEAKER, San Antonio Business and Economic Society, April 2002.

Member, Ericsson University Steering Board (Ericsson Inc) (since 2001).

Founding Member, Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4ISN), UT-Dallas, 2001.

MEMBER, Board of Economists, Dallas Morning News (since 2001)

MEMBER, Greater Dallas Chamber Economists Council (since 2003).

INVITED SPEAKER, Richardson Chamber of Commerce, January 2002.

INVITED SPEAKER, NCTCOG Workforce Development Board, January 2002.

1996-2000

INVITED LECTURES, Chalmers University (School of Technology Management and Economics), Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2000.

INVITED ATTENDEE, “California in the 21st Century: State of the State Conference”, sponsored by the Milken Institute, representing IC2 (University of Texas – Austin, November 1999.

INVITED PARTICIPANT, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) drafting of the Semiconductor Industry Technology Roadmap – 2000.

 INVITED PARTICIPANT, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) drafting of the Semiconductor Industry Technology Roadmap – 1999. 

ADVISOR/REVIEWER, The State New Economy Index: Benchmarking Economic Transformation in the States, Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, DC 1999.

Invitation to address North American Product Review Executive Group, Ericsson Inc., November 15, 1999.

Invitation to address First Friday Business Impact Luncheon, Richardson Chamber of Commerce, October 2, 1998.

INVITED PRESENTATION, 5th Annual Chaos in Manufacturing Conference, Santa Fe, NM, April 1997.

FOUNDING MEMBER and STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Dallas Telecommunications Roundtable, in conjunction with Fulbright & Jaworski, Dallas, TX, 1995 to present.

1990-1995

PROPOSAL REVIEWER, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, NY., 1995

INVITED PRESENTATION, National Association of Business Economists (NABE) Annual Conference, Dallas. TX, September, 1992.

INVITED MEMBER, Selection Committee, 1992 High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award (State of Texas), KPMG-Peat Marwick, 1992. (and 1991).

INVITED PRESENTATION, Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Tissot Economic Foundation, Regional Innovation and Human Development, Le Locle, Switzerland, October, 1991.

INVITED BOARD BRIEFING, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (Ann Arbor, MI), "Trends Shaping U.S. Manufacturing," July, 1991.

INVITED MEMBER, Advisory Board, Regional Impacts of Defense Spending, Center for the New West, Denver, CO (1990).

APPOINTED, ADVISORY PANEL, Technology and Economic Conversion Panel, U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress, (After the Cold War) 1990-93.

INVITED EXTERNAL REVIEWER, "Assessing the Impact of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) on the Industrial and Economic Development of North Carolina," May, 1990.

INVITED PRESENTATION, Defense Spending Impacts Roundtable, Center for New West, Denver, CO, December, 1990.

INVITED PAPER/RESENTATION, Infrastructures for Innovation and Civilian Technology Transfer,"  National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), Washington, DC, February, 1990.

INVITED PRESENTATION, "Macro-Investment Strategies in Infrastructures for Innovation," Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering and OECD, Stockholm, Sweden, January, 1990.

1985-1989

INVITED DELEGATE, China Institute for Industrial Economics, Beijing, PRC, May-June, 1989.

INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Metro Toronto High-Tech Symposium. Sponsored by the Science Council of Canada and the Regional Government of Metro Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May, 1989.

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER, National Alliance for Business (NAB) Annual Conference, New Orleans, June, 1989.

INVITED BOARD BRIEFING, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (Ann Arbor, MI), "Trends Shaping U.S. Manufacturing," January, 1989.

INVITED PRESENTER, Sixth International Conference on Technology and Education, (Tandy Corp.), Orlando, FL, March, 1989. 

INVITED INTERVIEW, WorldNet satellite teleconference with journalists and government officials in South America interested in technology and society issues, USIA, Washington, DC, June, 1989.

MEMBER, Review Panel, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress Special Report, Commercializing High-Temperature Superconductivity, March, 1988.

INVITED BRIEFING, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Production Support, Department of Defense, Washington, DC, ("Defense Industrial Base Capacity:  A Second Look"); 1988.

MEMBER, UT System Committee, Local Economic Impacts of University Spending, 1988.

MEMBER, Biotechnology Advisory Committee, Center for Occupational Research and Development, Austin, TX, 1988.

INVITED SPEAKER, Texas Lyceum, "Impact of Defense R&D on the Texas Economy," September, 1987.

INVITED PROJECT TEAM MEMBER, Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Workshop, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria), Helsinki, Finland, July, 1987.

INVITED BRIEFING, Office of the Undersecretary, Office of Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, U.S. Department of Commerce, "Research Environments and the National Industrial Base," March, 1987.

INVITED BRIEFING, Director of Business Development, U.S. Small Business Administration, "Technology-Intensive Industry:  Regional Development Dynamics," October, 1987.

INVITED BRIEFING, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, "A Regional View of the Nation's Industrial Base Initiative," December, 1987.

INVITED CONSULTANT, United States Information Agency (USIA), Economics, Science and Technology Division, lectures and consultation with corporate and government officials in Brazil and Argentina, August, 1987.

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Austrian Education Ministry, Lectures on "U.S. Issues:  Technology, Economics, and the Environment," Vienna, Austria, 1986.

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Hamburg-Harborg Forum, Technical University of Hamburg-Harborg and City of Hamburg, West Germany, January, 1986.

ADVISOR, Office of Business Development, U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, DC, ("Exploring the Business Dynamics Shaping the Industry and Employment Basis of Region VI"), 1986.

INVITED LECTURER:  USICA, (Mexico) Lectures at University of Las Americas, Department of Science and Technology:  (Puebla) Institute of Innovation, Information, and Technology (Mexico City); Directorate General of Technology Transfer, Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development (Mexico City); Industrial Club (Guadalajara); Secretariat of Commerce and Industrial Development (Monterrey), 1986.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Texas Research Strategies Committee, Houston Area Research Center (The Woodlands, TX), 1986.

PRESENTER, Engineering Foundation, Henniker, NH, July, 1986.

1980-1985

INVITED LECTURER, United States Information Agency (SIA), Economics, Science and Technology Division.  Programs for and consultation with Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat) Foundation (Turin); Lombardy Regional Research Institute (Milan); Ligurian Regional Development Agency (Genoa); University of Cagliari (Sardinia); U.S. Embassy (Naples); Austrian Institute for Economic Research and Economic University of Vienna, (Vienna); Technical University of Hamburg-Harborg (Hamburg); Federal Institute for Regional Research and Planning (Bonn Bad Godesburg); Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics (Hannover); German/American Institute (Heidelberg); University of Nurenberg (Nurenberg), 1985.

U.S. DELEGATE, Joint Conference (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Konrad Andenauer Stiftung) "Technological Development, Causes and Consequences:  United States and West Germany," Bonn, West Germany, November 26-27, 1984.

CO-INVESTIGATOR, State Infrastructure Needs Study, (with W. Claggett, S. D. Johnston and D. Nuchols), Offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, State of Texas.  Contribution to a nationwide study of infrastructure need coordinated by the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1982-83.

REVIEWER, National Committee on Urban Policy, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 1982-83.

INVITED PARTICIPANT, Academy of Political Science, Symposium on Local Finance and Property Tax Policy, Cambridge MA, 1982.

INVITED SPEAKER, University of Southern California Law Center for Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Conference on "Urban Land Policies for the Reagan Years," Los Angeles, CA, 1982.

INVITED PAPER, ("Social Policy in the Post-Industrial Era").  Prepared at the request of the American Public Welfare Association, Washington, DC, 1982.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), Inaugural Conference of the Post-Interventionist City; Panel:  "Structure of Urban Environments:  Myth and Reality," Santa Fe, NM, 1982.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, City of South Bend Plenary Community Conference ("Seeking an Agenda for the Eighties"), South Bend, IN, 1982.

INVITED PRINCIPAL SPEAKER, Institute for American Values Symposium, ("Competition and New Federalism"), Nichols College, Dudley, MA, 1982.

INVITED CONSULTANT, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Policy Project Group on Urban Growth and Decline, Urban Affairs Division, Environment Protectorate, Paris, France, 1981.

COMMISSIONED BACKGROUND PAPER, Senator D. Durenberger (R-MN), Chair, Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, U.S. Senate; ("The Deconcentration and Transformation of Urban America"), 1981.

INVITED PARTICIPANT, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), International Conference on Urbanization and Development, Schloss, Laxenburg (Vienna), Austria, 1981.

INVITED LECTURER, USICA, American Participant Abroad Program.  Programs on urban policy and economic adjustment presented under the auspices of U.S. embassies in Tunis, Tunisia; Department of Architecture, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria; Ministry of Housing, Damascus, Syria; German Institute of Urban Studies and Technical University, Berlin, Germany; Office of Housing, Hamburg, Germany, 1981.

INVITED SPEAKER, National Round Table Conference, American Public Welfare Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1981.

INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT, Conoco Energy Forum (Conoco Oil Corporation), "Conflicts of U.S. Energy-Producing and Consuming Regions," Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1981.

MODERATOR, S&H Foundation Lectureship Series, ("Prospects for the Cities:  Issues for the Coming Decade"), Session:  Interdependent Cities in a Metropolitan Area:  Policy, Practice and Promotion," UT-Dallas, Richardson, TX, 1981.

INVITED SPEAKER, Third International Conference on Urban Design, Galveston, TX, 1981.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, DC; Governor and Cabinet of New Jersey; Governor's Office, State of Florida; Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. Congress; National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC; Universities of Pennsylvania, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Florida State University; Southern Growth Policies Board; Greater Atlanta Municipal Association; National League of Cities, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Affairs Council, Detroit, Michigan; Williams College (Office of Rep. Silvio O. Conte, MA); American Chamber of Commerce Executives, National, Tennessee; German Broadcasting Company, Washington, DC., 1981.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER, National Academy of Sciences Symposium ("Problems and Prospects for Urban America in the Eighties"), Washington, DC, June, 1980.

JOURNAL REVIEWER

Annals of Regional Science
Urban Geography
Government and Policy (Environment and Planning C)
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing
Regional Studies 
Political Research Quarterly
International Journal of Operations and Production Management

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Sigma Xi

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)

North American Regional Science Association

AWARDS AND HONORS

Professional

Senior Research Fellow, IC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin; appointment Feb. 2000.

Sigma Xi election, 1997

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1982-83

Postdoctoral Fellow, Gerontological Society, Research Program, 1977-78

Travel Award, International Congress of Gerontology, American Executive Committee, IGA, Full Travel Award, Tokyo, Japan, 1978

Listed in several biographical reference collections.

Academic

National Institutes of Mental Health Predoctoral Training Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1969-70; 1972-75

Phi Beta Kappa, 1969; Graduation with Distinction (College of Arts and Sciences) and Departmental Honors; Woodrow Wilson fellowship (Honorable Mention); Eta Sigma Phi, Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Lambda Delta and Classics (?) scholastic honoraries; Indiana University Merit Scholarship, 1965-69; Bob Hope Scholarship, 1967-68 and 1968-69, Elvis J. Starr Distinguished Senior Award (Semifinalist); Indiana University, 1969.

ELECTRONIC MEDIA REPORTS

Telecourse Interview, “Texas Politics and You,” Globalism & Texas, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD), Spring 1997. 

Consultant, Weekend World, British Broadcasting Company (BBC) television documentary on labor mobility in the United States, 1986.

Creative Consultant, Beyond the Dream (3-hour special public service production on Dallas region metropolitan change), KXAS-TV (NBC) Action News.  Aired:  September 22, 1981.  Awarded Best Documentary and Best Photographed for 1981, Texas Associated Press.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CONSULTING ACTIVITY

Invited Advisor/Reviewer, Indicators for the New Economy, Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, DC, 1998.

Invited Reviewer for Alan S. Gregerman, Entrepreneurial High-Growth Companies: A Framework for Thinking About the Federal Policy Role, Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1998.

Infrastructure and Policy Development Task Force, Communications/ Information Group, North Texas Commission, 1996-Present.

“A Comment on the Methodology and Conclusions”, for Texas Enterprise Zones: Cost Benefit Analysis, State Auditor’s Office, State of Texas, September 1994.

Contributed to Job Creation and the 7(a) Guaranteed Loan Program. Report prepared by the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration, November 1994.

Contribution to report being prepared on U.S. industrial adjustment by the Energy, Transportation, and Infrastructure Division of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress, October 1994.

PROJECT DIRECTOR, Economic Impacts of the Airport Development Plan: D/FW International Airport; North Texas Commission and KPMG Peat Marwick, Airport Consulting Services, San Francisco, CA, 1988-89.

PROJECT DIRECTOR/AUTHOR, "D/FW Metroplex Proposal Bid for U.S. Memories, (a proposed U.S. semiconductor consortium), Summer, 1989.

INVITED SPEAKER, 6th Annual Mid-Cities Business Outlook Conference, Arlington, TX, January, 1989.

INVITED TESTIMONY, Senate Special Advisory Committee on Bishop College, December, 1989.

MEMBER, Economic Development Committee, Dallas Chamber of Commerce; 1985 - 1987.

MEMBER, Human Resources Committee, Dallas Chamber of Commerce; 1983-1984.

EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY

Expert witness testimony and background reports provided in court cases involving 1) health insurance reimbursement; 2) patterns of urban-industrial growth and economic development; 3) industrial impacts of technological change; and 4) patterns of residential settlement.

BOOK REVIEWS

Citations are available on request.

MAJOR NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

2006-Present

INVITED KEYNOTE LECTURE: “Anticipating the ‘Molecular Era” Economy: Value Creation at the Bottom,” CIRCA 07- Convergence of International Research and Commercialization, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY-Albany. May 25, 2007.

INVITED PRESENTATION: “Anticipating the “Molecular-Era” Economy: Commercialization Roadmaps and Models” NanoTX ’07, October 3, 20007.

 “The Impact of R&D Expenditures on New Firm Formation and Regional Economic Growth,” (with V. Sutaria), Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 27-30, 2003.

2005-2000

INVITED LECTURE, Beyond There Be Dragons….: Are Shifting Strategic and Financial Advantage Potential Showstoppers? Albany Symposium on Global Nanotechnology, Lake George, NY, September 11, 2002.

INVITED LECTURE, Is the Golden Age of the Semiconductor Industry Coming to an End? Albany Symposium on Global Semiconductor Issues Lake George, NY, September 11, 2001.

1996-2000

“Time Wars: Is There a Financial Undertow from Accelerating Technical Advance?”, Sigma Xi Annual Forum, Crystal City, VA, November, 1997.

Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Conference, “Technical Innovation and Endogenous Adjustment in the Telecommunications Industry,” Stockholm, Sweden, June 21-24, 1998.   Web Location: http://www.its98.org/conference/library/papers/781.doc 

Invited General Session Address, 6th International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM 97, San Francisco, CA, “Deep Industrial Dynamics Shaping Next-Generation Semiconductor Manufacturing,” October 8, 1997. 

24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), “Vertical Disintegration and Endogenous Adjustment in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry,” Leuven, Belgium, September 1997.

D.A. Hicks and D. M. O’Brien, “Order Amid Complexity: Patterned Investment Returns to Rapid Technical Advance,” 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Leuven, Belgium, September 1997.

ITS European Regional Conference, “Can Telecommunications Firms Afford Technology Leadership?” (with D.M. O’Brien), Leuven, Belgium, August 1997.

37th European Congress, Regional Science Association, 1) “Spatial Filieres and Integrality in the Emerging Photonics Industry,” (with D. M. O’Brien; 2) “Localized Economic Returns to IT Infrastructure Investments”; and 3) “Innovation Potential in the U.S. Machine Tool Industry” (with S. R. Nivin), Rome, Italy, August, 1997.

5th Annual Chaos in Manufacturing Conference, Santa Fe, NM, April 1997.

“Marketing Graduate Students In and Out of Academia,” SSGSA, April 26, 1996.

“Exploring a Decade of Telecommunications Industry Strategic Alliance Activity, 1984-1994,” (with D. M. O’Brien),  Paper presented at Eleventh Biennial Conference, International Telecommunications Society,  June 16-19, 1996, Seville, Spain.

“International Telecommunications: Analysis and Interpretations in the NAFTA Framework,” Third Annual Fall Seminar on the North American Free Trade Agreement, Dean International.  November 14, 1996.

1990-1995

“Spillover and Appropriation: Regional Economic Returns to I-T Investments and Endowments” (with S. Nivin) Paper presented at 1) International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Conference (Sept. 1-3) and 2) European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference (Sept. 3-6), 1995, Juan les Pins (Nice), France.

“Benchmarking Time-Based Competition,” (with S. Brown) Paper presented at TIMS XXXIII (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) International Meeting,  June 25-28, Singapore.

“The Link between Environmental Concerns, Regional Urban Systems, and International Competitiveness, Urban Land Institute 1995 Spring Meeting, May 10-13, 1995, San Antonio, TX.

“Affordability Concerns in Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing: The Nature of Industrial Linkage,” Fourth International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM), Sept. 17-19, 1995, Austin, TX.

“Evaluating Time-Based Competition in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry,” Fourth Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), May 24-25, Nashville, TN.

Chair, Session on Geographical Contexts for Entrepreneurship, North American Regional Science Association Annual Meetings, October, 1990, Boston, MA.

1986-1989

"A National Urban Policy:  Should We Try Again?", Special American Planning Association Symposium on U.S. National Urban Policy, American Planning Association (APA), San Antonio, TX, May, 1988.

Regional Development Conference, Wharton Center for Applied Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April, 1988.

World Congress on Land Policy, London, England, July, 1986.

International Information Industry Congress (IIIC) Dallas, TX, May, 1986.

1980-1985

"Industrial Renewal Through Technology Upgrading in the U.S. Metalworking Industry," Maxwell School's 60th Anniversary Symposium on Technology, Policy and Regional Change, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 2-3, 1984.

"New Technology in the American Machinery Industry:  Trends and Implications," (with John Rees and Ronald Briggs), Regional Science Association, Chicago, IL, November, 1983.

"Urban Development Policies and Land Use Patterns for a New Urban America," Urban Land Policies for the Reagan Years Conference, University of Southern California Law Center and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Los Angeles, CA, February, 1982.

"Critical Issues in National Urban Policy," National Planning Conference, American Planning Association, Dallas, TX, May, 1982.

"Regional Policy in North America:  A Comparative Reappraisal," Regional Science Association, Montreal, Canada, November, 1981.

1976-1979

"Public Service Imbalances in Metropolitan Systems:  A Focus on Equity and Regional Change," (Panelist), First Annual Symposium on Southern Cities, Richardson, TX, February, 1979.

"Fine-Tuning Municipal Services Delivery Systems for the Urban Elderly:  A Challenge to City and Regional Planners," XIth International Congress of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1978.

"Monitoring Patterns of Social Change by Merging Cohort Analysis with Compositional Analysis," American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, September, 1978.

"Aging and the Aged:  Comparative Perspectives on Policy and Administration," (Chair and Discussant), Annual Conference on Public Administration, American Society for Public Administration, Phoenix, AZ, April, 1978.

"Is Quality Research Possible in an Action-Oriented Setting?", Gerontological Society, San Francisco, CA, November, 1977.

"Patterns of Social Change and Adaptation in Total Institutions," (with G. P. Alpert), Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, IL, August, 1977.

In addition, I have presented papers, served as a panelist and chaired sessions at numerous regional meetings on a variety of policy science/analysis topics around the nation.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Doctoral Dissertation Advisor

CHAIR, Carlos Mendiola, Harvesting Biotechnology Ventures: Survival Analysis of Exit Strategies, (1976 - 2007) (in progress).

CHAIR, Lisa Anderson, Where Technology meets Regulation:  Investigating the Impact of the SEC's Electronic Filing Requirements on Earnings Estimate Accuracy (in progress).

CHAIR, D. Jeffrey Keyser, U.S. Drug Discovery, Development, and Market Exclusivity, (in progress).

CHAIR, Cathleen Xiao, Linking Venture Capital Investment to New Firm Formation. (Spring 2007)

CHAIR, Ling-chun Hung, Market Entry and Market Value: Linking Drug Innovation to Financial Performance in the U.S. Biotechnology Industry. (Spring 2007)

CHAIR, Larry Chasteen (School of Management), Cluster Formation and Growth Dynamics in a Regional Context (Summer 2003).

CHAIR, Timothy McDonough, Modeling Broadband Service Deployment Controlling for Spatial Dependencies (Spring 2003).

CHAIR, Yeonwoo Lee, The Effects of Dynamics Processes on Metro-Scale Productivity,  (Spring 2002).

CO-CHAIR, Thomas Tunstall, Information Technology Outsourcing Determinants and Public Policy, May 2000. 

CHAIR, Vinod Sutaria, The Dynamics of New Firm Formation: The Case of The Texas Manufacturing Sector: 1976-81. (Spring 1999).

CHAIR, Steven R. Nivin, Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry, (May 1998).

CHAIR, Si-gyoung Lee, Regional Income and Employment Effects of Federal Contract Research and Development Funds in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.  (May 1991).

CHAIR, C. Z. Pann, Developmental Features of the U.S. Telecommunications Equipment Industry," (May 1991). 

CHAIR, Harold Gross, Policy Options in Response to the Industrial Life Cycle: The Texas Gulf Coast Rice Farming Industry, (May 1984).

University Committees  [Note: update with green sheets]
Institutional Review Board, UT-Dallas, 2001- Present
University Information Resources Security Committee (1997-98; 1998-99)
Committee on Distance Learning (1997-98; 1998-99)
Faculty-Administration Steering Committee of the Cecil and Ida Green Center for the Study of Science and Society, 1997.
Committee on Qualifications, 1995-97, 1991-93
Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-96
University Research Integrity Committee, 1995-Present
Committee on Intellectual Property, Vice Chair, 1989-92
Anson Clark Memorial Committee, 1991
Faculty Standing and Conduct, 1991-92
Faculty Handbook, 1989-90
University Library Committee, Chair, 1985-86, 1986-87
Committee on Planning and Effectiveness, Chair, 1986-87
Academic Senate, 1986-87, 1985-86, 1981-82
Academic Council, 1985-86
Committee on Research, Chair, 1982-83
Committee on Faculty Standing and Conduct, Chair, 1983-84
UT-D Organized Research Committee, 1983
Committee on Educational Policy, 1975-76.

In addition, I have served as chair and member of numerous dean and faculty search committees, ad hoc review committees, and school committees.  Also, I have served as internship advisor for several graduate and undergraduate students.

MILITARY SERVICE

Lieutenant, USNR-R, Inactive Status					     1975-Present
Naval Intelligence Command 607, U.S. Naval Reserve, 		     1973-1975
	Raleigh, NC
Naval Reserve Research Company 6-6, Chapel Hill, NC		     1972-1973 
Lieutenant JG, Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS), 	 1971-1972
Bainbridge, MD (Active Duty) http://usna.com/NAPS/tour/tourframe.html ; http://www.greensboro.com/usna/NAPS.pdf 
Commissioned, U.S. Navy, Newport, RI				      1971

Updated:  June 25, 2008