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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, City
and Regional Planning
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Economics
M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, City Planning
Dip.TP (Dist.), Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, U.K.
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 hilip Shapira is a Professor in the School
of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches and conducts
research on economic and regional development, industrial competitiveness,
and technology policy.
His recently authored and co-authored
publications include: Federal-State Collaboration in Industrial Modernization
and Manufacturing Modernization: New Policies to Build Industrial Extension
Services; and other articles on industrial modernization, restructuring
and economic development in European Planning Studies, Journal
of Technology Transfer, IEEE Spectrum, Research Policy,
and Issues in Science and Technology. Shapira is co-editor of:
Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan (1994) and the R&D
Workers: Managing Research and Development in Britain, Germany, Japan,
and the United States (1995). With Gunter Lay and Jurgen Wengel,
he edited Innovation in Production: The Adoption and Impacts of New
Manufacturing Concepts in German Industry (1999).
Dr. Shapira joined Georgia Tech
in 1991 after serving on the faculty of West Virginia University's Regional
Research Institute. He was previously a Congressional Fellow with the
United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. In 1993 and 1994,
Shapira was a Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute of Labor, Tokyo,
examining Japanese regional development and technology strategies. He
continues to work with the Japan Institute of Labor on a study of industrial
and employment restructuring in selected U.S. and Japanese regions.
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