Deborah Strumsky
Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Titles
- Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Biography
Deborah Strumsky's research has focused on the study of innovation, invention and technological change, and their relationship to economic growth. More recent work has explored technological change in in renewable energy systems. She has a several longstanding collaborations with researchers at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, NM and a background in complex adaptive systems.
She received her BS in economic from the University of Southern Maine and her Masters and PhD in Regional Science from Cornell University. She worked as an Energy Market Analyst at Energy Security Analysis in Boston, Massachusetts before accepting as a position as a Statistical Analyst at the Harvard Business School. Deborah taught at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte before accepting a position at ASU in January, 2015.
Deborah was a co-author in Informs 2014 paper of the year “Mobility, skills, and the Michigan Non-compete Experiment” published in Management Science, and co-authored the “Patenting Prosperity: Invention and Economic Performance in the United States and its Metropolitan Areas” with the Brookings Institute. In 2013, she was awarded a $999,000 Department of Energy research grant, “Forecasting and influencing technological progress in solar energy.”
She currently has appointments in the ASU-SFI Center for the Study of Biosocial Complex Systems, the School for the Future of Innovation and Society and beginning in the summer of 2017 she will also have an appoinment with the School for Sustainability. In addition to ASU, she is also an External Faculty Fellow at the Jönköping International Business School in Jönköping, Sweden.
Expertise
- renewable energy
- complex adaptive systems
- innovation and invention
- technological change
- patents and intellectual property
- Climate Action
- Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Affordable and Clean Energy
- Clean Water and Sanitation
- Good Health and Well-Being
- No Poverty
Journal Articles
2021
Lobo, J., M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, L. M. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, L. A. Bojorquez, W. Chen, A. Dodge, Z. Neal, A. Perreira, D. Pfeiffer, A. Revi, E. Stokes, D. Roberts, C. Rozenblat, S. T. Shutters, M. E. Smith, D. Strumsky and J. Wu. 2021. A convergence research perspective on graduate education for sustainable urban systems science. npj Ubran Sustainability 1:Art. 39. DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00044-8. (link )
2018
Shutters, S. T., J. Lobo, R. Muneepeerakul, D. Strumsky, C. Mellander, M. Brachert, T. Farinha and L. M. Bettencourt. 2018. Urban occupational structures as information networks: The effect on network density of increasing number of occupations. PLOS One 13(5):e9186815. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196915. (link )
2012
Strumsky, D., J. Lobo and S. van der Leeuw. 2012. Using patent technology codes to study technological change. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 21(3):267-286. DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2011.578709. (link )
Reports
2020
Lobo, J., M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, E. Arcaute, M. Barthelemy, L. A. Bojorquez-Tapia, S. Brail, L. M. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, W. Chen, R. Florida, M. Gonzalez, N. Grimm, M. Hamilton, C. Kempes, C. E. Kontokosta, C. Mellander, Z. Neal, S. Ortman, D. Pfeiffer, M. Price, A. Revi, C. Rozenblat, D. Rybski, M. Siemiatycki, S. T. Shutters, M. E. Smith, E. Stokes, D. Strumsky, G. B. West, D. White, J. Wu, V. C. Yang, A. York and H. Youn. 2020. Urban science: Integrated theory from the first cities to sustainable metropolises. Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. Report submitted to the NSF on the Present State and Future of Urban Science Research Paper Series. (link )
2019
Lobo, J., M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, L. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, Z. P. Neal, D. Pfeiffer, S. T. Shutters, M. E. Smith, E. Stokes, D. Strumsky and J. Wu. 2019. Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science. Morrinson Institute for Urban Innovation. Research Paper 14. (link )
Lobo, J., M. Allen-Dumas, L. M. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, Z. Neal, D. Pfeiffer, M. E. Smith, E. Stokes, D. Strumsky and J. Wu. 2019. Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Conference Report (link )