ETZKOWITZ, Henry 1940-

PERSONAL: Born July 9, 1940, in New York, NY; son of Benjamin and Mary (Lipschitz) Etzkowitz. Education: University of Chicago, B.A., 1962; New School for Social Research, Ph.D., 1969.

ADDRESSES: Office—Division of Social Science, State University of New York, Purchase, NY 10577.

CAREER: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1969-72, began as instructor, became assistant professor of sociology; Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, associate professor of sociology, director, Science Policy Institute. Chair, Inter-University Seminar for Knowledge-based Economic Development in New York City; co-convenor, biyearly international Conference on University-Industry-Government Relations: "The Triple Helix." Contributing editor, Technology Access Report. Founder, World Innovation Network. Served in Peace Corps in Nigeria, 1962-64.

MEMBER: American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

WRITINGS:

(With Gerald Schaflander) Ghetto Crisis, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1969.

Is America Possible?, West Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1974.

(With Peter Schwab) Is America Necessary?, West Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1976.

(Editor, with Ronald M. Glassman) The Renascence of Sociological Theory: Classical and Contemporary, F. E. Peacock Publishers (Itasca, IL), 1991.

(Editor, with Loet Leydesdorff) Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations, Pinter (New York, NY), 1997.

(Editor, with Andrew Webster and Peter Healey) Capitalizing Knowledge: New Intersections of Industry and Academia, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1998.

(With Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi, and others) Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Magnus Gulbrandsen and Janet Levitt) Public Venture Capital: Government Funding Sources for Technology Entrepreneurs, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2000.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Second Academic Revolution: MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science, to be published by Gordon and Breach (London, England).

SIDELIGHTS: Sociologist Henry Etzkowitz has written and edited works on the interrelationships of government, education, and industry in contemporary society. His Public Venture Capital: GovernmentFunding Sources for Technology Entrepreneurs, a book he wrote with Magnus Gulbrandsen and Janet Levitt, was welcomed as a very useful and readable work by Steven J. Mayover in Library Journal, and was hailed as an "outstanding accomplishment" by Technology Access Report contributor Ashley J. Stevens.

Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology received significant critical attention. In this book, cowritten with Carol Kemelgor and Brian Uzzi, Etzkowitz and his colleagues examine the reasons why relatively few women enjoy successful careers in science, concluding that systemic barriers exist for women not just at the entry point but throughout all stages of a scientific career. BioScience contributor Jane L. Lehr agreed with the book's recommendations, but felt that the study offered nothing new to a debate that has raged for many years. Alison Winter in American Scientist, however, considered the book "one of the best studies I have read on contemporary issues relating to women's participation in science."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Scientist, September, 2001, Alison Winter, "Separate and Unequal," p. 460.

BioScience, June, 2001, Jane L. Lehr, review of Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology, p. 504.

Booklist, December 1, 2000, Donna Seaman, review of Athena Unbound, p. 683.

Choice, May, 2001, M. H. Chaplin, review of Athena Unbound, p. 1646.

Economic Journal, June, 1999, review of Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations, p. 464.

Journal of College Science Teaching, December, 2001, Holly Priestley, review of Athena Unbound, p. 279.

Library Journal, February 1, 2002, Steven J. Mayover, review of Public Venture Capital: Sources of Government Funding for Technology Enterpreneurs, p. 111.

Nature, April 12, 2001, review of Athena Unbound, p. 747.

Technology Access Report, February, 2001, Ashley J. Stevens, review of Public Venture Capital, p. 7.

Times Higher Education Supplement, September 7, 2001, Joan Mason, review of Athena Unbound, p. 35.*