This grant renews support for efforts to build and strengthen the community of industry studies scholars. This community includes not only those at Sloan Industry Centers, but also graduates who have continued to pursue industry studies research, interested faculty who once were involved in a center but have moved on to other activities, and individual researchers who independently follow industry studies. The community has expanded to include many people who do not themselves do industry studies, but who draw on industry studies research to enrich or complement their own. All of those who are not currently at Industry Centers are identified as industry studies “Affiliates.” In January 2003, the Committee for Industry Studies was formed to provide leadership and services for this community. The model of “community” is a professional academic society or association and much progress has been made toward developing many elements of such an association. These include membership and officers; annual meetings with published proceedings; working papers and journals; prizes and awards; interest groups and regional meetings; newsletters and formal communications; a website; and professional development opportunities. Over 500 scholars now officially belong to and identify with this community, which is beginning to be called the “industry studies association.” The University of Pittsburgh group manages the Industry Studies Fellowship program, the Affiliates program, the listserv, the working paper series, the academic workshop program, small grants for industry studies book promotion and seminar series, start-up of special interest groups, as well as operations of the Committee for Industry Studies. This grant supports the continuation and expansion of this work over the next two years as means to move further in the direction of establishing a professional association. Project Director: Professor Frank Giarratani, Department of Economics.

This grant, supplementing the one described above, provides funds to be transferred from the University of Pittsburgh to other universities for three purposes: small grants, at most $5,000, to host seminars on industry studies topics; $5,000 to $10,000 grants to promote new industry studies books; and travel grants, generally $5,000 or less, to convene face-to-face meetings of new special interest groups or to organize panels of industry studies researchers at professional society meetings. The Committee for Industry Studies has developed procedures for evaluating such grant proposals and will be responsible for making decisions about these awards. Project Director: Professor Frank Giarratani, Department of Economics.

The following grants were made from an appropriation approved by the Board of Trustees in 2003 to support services that have been identified by the industry studies community as having the highest priority for achieving the goal of building and strengthening the community.

To support an academic workshop on “Globalization, Economic Development and Employment.” Project Director: Professor Gary Gereffi, Department of Sociology.

To support communication and outreach activities for a new book, Innovation – The Missing Dimension. Project Director: Professor Richard K. Lester, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Director, Industrial Performance Center.

To support a workshop on “Allocation of Value in the Services Value Chain.” Project Director: Henry S. Rowen, Professor of Public Management, Graduate School of Business.

To support a workshop on “Best Practices in Achieving Financial Sustainability for Sloan Industry Centers,” Project Director: Roger Bohn, Associate Professor of Management, The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.

To support an academic workshop on the rise of global marketing, merchandising and retailing intermediaries and their impact on manufacturers in consumer products industries. Project Director: Professor Gary G. Hamilton, Department of Sociology.

Support for the 2004 congress to develop general principles governing intellectual property negotiations between U. S. universities and industry. Project Director: Merrilea Mayo, Director, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable.

Partial support for creating and distributing an archive of LTV Steel and predecessors. Project Director: Kelly Falcone, Director of Foundation and Government Grants.