[학사] [경영대학/ 경영전문대학원] Special Lecture: Russell J. Funk 교수(Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota) 안내 N
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경영대학에서는 미네소타 대학교 Carlson School of Management의 Russell J. Funk 교수님을 모시고 아래와 같이 특별강연을 개최합니다.
이번 강연에서는 560만 건의 미국 특허 데이터를 바탕으로, 과학 기술의 진보를 측정하는 혁신적인 '기하학적 접근법'에 대해 다룰 예정입니다. 새로운 지식이 어떻게 기존의 궤적을 확장하거나(Frontier-extending) 완전히 새로운 영역을 개척하는지(Frontier-opening)에 대한 통찰을 얻으실 수 있습니다. 관심 있는 이화인 여러분의 많은 참여 바랍니다.
일시: 2026. 5. 20. (수) 15:30
장소: 이화신세계관 606호
발표자: Russell J. Funk 교수 (University of Minnesota)
주제: The Shape of What's New: Geometric Approaches to Measuring Scientific and Technological Progress
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Special Lecture by Professor Russell J. Funk
Ewha School of Business is pleased to host a special lecture featuring Professor Russell J. Funk from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 15:30 (3:30 PM)
Venue: Ewha-Shinsegae Building, Room 606
Speaker: Professor Russell J. Funk (University of Minnesota)
Topic: The Shape of What's New: Geometric Approaches to Measuring Scientific and Technological Progress
Novelty is central to understanding scientific and technological progress, yet existing approaches reduce it to a single number—how far a contribution sits from what came before. But the knowledge landscape from which contributions emerge is not merely a stock of prior work to be near or far from—it has directionality, an accumulated trajectory shaped by what came before. Relative to that trajectory, a contribution can be novel by pushing further along the path prior work was already pursuing—surprising in degree—or by departing into territory the accumulated landscape does not point toward—surprising in kind. I present a framework that makes this distinction precise by reconstructing each contribution from the prior knowledge available at the time of its creation. What the reconstruction cannot parsimoniously explain is the novelty signal, and that signal has direction relative to the trajectory of accumulated knowledge. Applied to 5.6 million U.S. patents, the two components of novelty predict disruption in opposite directions—frontier-extending novelty is consolidating, frontier-opening novelty is disruptive, with nearly symmetric effect sizes. Among the most frontier-opening patents are technologies like PageRank and CDMA; among the most frontier-extending are decades of surgical stapler improvements. The framework reframes contradictory findings in the novelty-disruption literature as artifacts of collapsing two opposing forces into a single measure.
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We look forward to your enthusiastic interest and participation!