Profile: Meet Professor Michael Fogarty

Michael S. Fogarty, Ph.D
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning

Michael S. Fogarty is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University.

Previously, he served as Ameritech Professor of Regional Economics and Director of the Program on Invention and Regions at Case Western Reserve University; he was the founding Director of CWRU's Center for Regional Economic Issues. Professor Fogarty has published extensively on productivity of the manufacturing economies of regions. His most recent work examines regional growth and development through investments in science and technology, emphasizing the role of universities, government labs, and corporate R&D.

His most recent papers include: "Evidence From Patents and Patent Citations on the Impact of NASA and Other Federal Labs on Commercial Innovation," (with Adam B. Jaffe and Bruce A. Banks) in Patents, Citations & Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002) ; "Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence From a Survey of Inventors," in AEA Proceedings, May 2000 and "The Meaning of Patent Citations: Report on the NBER/ Case Western Reserve Survey of Patentees," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7631, April 2000 (both with Adam B. Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg); "University-Industry Relationships and Regional Innovation Systems-Why Older Industrial Regions Can't Generalize From Route 128 and Silicon Valley," (with Amit Sinha) in Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkages in Japan and the United States from MIT Press (October 1999) (with Amit K. Sinha); and "Evidence From Patents and Patent Citations on the Impact of NASA and Other Federal Labs on Innovation," Journal of Industrial Economics, 1998 (with Adam B. Jaffe and Bruce A. Banks).

His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ameritech Foundation, the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Public Policy Institute of California, as well as local and regional foundations, corporations, and nonprofits.

He has worked extensively with decision-makers to connect academic work to policy at the federal, state and local levels. Examples include: Currently he is a member of a National Academy of Sciences' three-year research project evaluating the Small Business Innovation Research Program's contribution to technology and innovation through R&D projects with federal R&D labs. His NAS work emphasizes NASA R&D labs; he was a member of the advisory committee to the Ohio Governor's Science and Technology Commission; a reviewer for candidate focused programs of the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; a consultant to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative; a consultant to NASA-Glenn's Electro-Physics Branch; an advisor to Cleveland Tomorrow on the city's economic development strategy and Civic Vision Program; a member on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Ohio's Telecommunications Future; a consultant and advisor to Ohio's Thomas Edison Technology Program; and he consulted frequently with the Ohio Board of Regents on the role of university research in state and local economies.

Professor Fogarty's contact information:
Office: Urban Center, 350A
Phone: 503.725.4045
Email: fogartym@pdx.edu