List of Contributors
Articles
Nancy W. Coppola
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Nancy Coppola is an associate professor of English and founding director of the Master of Science Program in Professional and Technical Communication at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. She has published two books and several scholarly articles on environmental communication. Dr. Coppola edited a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on technology transfer and diffusion, a topic on which she has also published several journal articles and conference papers. She can be reached at <coppola@njit.edu>.
Bernadette Longo
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Bernadette Longo is an associate professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota. She earned her doctorate degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1996, and taught professional communication at Clemson University before moving to the University of Minnesota in 2001. She is the author of an extended cultural study titled Spurious Coin: Science, Management, and a History of Technical Writing (2000), the coeditor of Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies (2006), and the author of numerous articles in scientific and technical communication publications. She is currently writing a biography of computer pioneer Edmund Berkeley. She can be reached at <blongo@umn.edu>. [End Page 297]
María Pluvia Zuñiga
Department of Applied Economics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
María Pluvia Zuñiga Lara obtained her doctorate degree in economic sciences, specializing in industrial property, from the Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne in 2004. She has participated in international seminars with the following papers: "TRIPs et stratégies d'innovation des firmes du Nord"; "Strengthening Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical Sector: The Mexican Case"; "Innovations and Intellectual Property: Economic and Managerial Perspectives"; and "Innovation, Learning and Technological Dynamism of Developing Countries." She is presently in postdoctoral residency in the Department of Applied Eco-nomics of the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain, Belgium, and can be reached at <Maria.Zuniga@econ.kuleuven.be>.
Alenka Guzmán
Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa, Mexico
Georgina Alenka Guzmán Chávez is a research professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Iztapalapa, Mexico. She obtained her doctorate degree in economics from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, in 1999. She is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System, Level 1. She has published more than 30 articles in academic journals on innovation, productivity, competitiveness, and technological gaps in the textile, iron and steel, and pharmaceutical industries. She has written two books on iron and steel, and edited one on the pharmaceutical industry and intellectual property. She has been a visiting professor at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, and the Maison des sciences de l'Homme, Paris. She can be reached at <alenka@prodigy.net.mx>.
Flor Brown
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
Flor Brown Grossman is a research professor of industrial organization and technological change in the Graduate Faculty of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. She obtained her doctorate degree in economic sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa, in 1994. She is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System, Level 11. She has written more than 50 articles in academic journals and six books on industrial organization, productivity, technological change, measuring technological capabilities, environmental performance, and trade integration and productivity. She is an international consultant to the United Nations, World Bank, BID, CEPAL, and the International Labor Organization (ILO). She can be reached at <brown@servidor.unam.mx>.
