Biography
Kira Fabrizio joined the Goizueta Business School faculty after completing her Ph.D. at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. Her primary research interests center around knowledge transfer, innovation, and management of technology, specifically in application to university-based research and technologies. Her work on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries explores the complementarities between a firm's internal research activities and the exploitation of openly published scientific research in the firm's inventions, as well as the inventive and economic performance implications of these activities. In other work, Kira focuses on electric utility restructuring in the United States, evaluating the technical efficiency improvements of generating plants facing deregulation.

Publications

• "Has Restructuring Improved Operator Efficiency in the Electricity Industry?" with Catherine Wolfram and Nancy Rose, UC Energy Institute CSEM Working Paper 135, NBER Working Paper 11001, American Economic Review, September 2007.
• "University Patenting and the Pace of Industrial Innovation," Industrial and Corporate Change, August 2007 (Vol 16, No 4).
• "The Federal Role in Financing Major Innovations: Information Technology During the Postwar Period," with David C. Mowery, in Lamoreaux and Sokoloff (eds.), Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present, MIT Press, 2007.
• "Electric Power," in The Limits of Market Organization, R. Nelson (ed.), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2005.
• "Building Fences or Opening Doors: University Patenting and the Pace of Knowledge Exploitation," Academy of Management Best Papers and Proceedings, August 2003.

Working Papers

• "Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Firms"
• "Tacit Demand and Innovation in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry, " with LG Thomas.
• "User Innovation in the Medical Device Industry, " with Aaron Chatterji
• "Agency or Agents: The Role of Governance Characteristics and Individual Expertise in Implementing Efficiency Improvements Under Deregulation," with David Tan
• "Commercializing the Laboratory: Relationship Between Faculty Patenting and Publishing,"2005.

Areas of Specialization

• Strategic Management
• Innovation and Firm Performance
• Knowledge Transfer
• Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Academy of Management

Academic Background
Ph.D., Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
M.S., Business Administration, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
B.A., Economics, Wesleyan University, 1997