Mount Allison University.


Tim Reiffenstein

Room 312, Avard-Dixon
Mount Allison University
144 Main Street
Sackville, NB E4L 1A7
tel. 506-364-2412
fax. 506-364-2625
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Background
Areas of Specialization
Publications
Awards
Teaching
Service
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Economic Geography Specialty Group of the Canacian Association of Geographers

 

Background

B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Simon Fraser University), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University), Monbusho Graduate Research Student (Kyoto University)

Areas of Specialization

• Industrial geography of Japan
• Intellectual property issues in international technology transfer
• Language and translation issues in international business
• Forest product industries and timber markets

Publications

Select Recent Publications

Reiffenstein, T. (forthcoming) "Specialization, Centralization and the Distribution of Patent Intermediaries in the Unites States and Japan." Regional Studies

Reiffenstein, T. (forthcoming) Review of Cainelli, G. and Iacobucci, D. 2007 Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (142pp) - The Professional Geographer

Reiffenstein, T. (forthcoming) The geography of the electronics industry. Invited submission to The Encyclopedia of Geography, B. Warf (ed), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Reiffenstein, T.  2008 Review of Ozawa, T. 2005 Institutions, Industrial Upgrading, and Economic Performance in Japan: The 'Flying Geese' Paradigm of Catch-Up Growth Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (224 pp) - Pacific Affairs 81(3) 461-463.

Reiffenstein, T, and Hayter, R. (2006) "Domestic timber auctions and flexibly specialized forestry in Japan." The Canadian Geographer 50(4): 503-525.

Reiffenstein, T. (2006) "Codification, patents and the geography of knowledge transfer in the electronic musical instrument industry." The Canadian Geographer 50(3): 198-318.

Reiffenstein, T. (2005) "Radical Innovation and the Emergence of New Economic Spaces: The Formation of Knowledge in the American and Japanese Electronic Musical Instrument Industry." In R. LeHeron and J.W. Harrington (eds) New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies Aldershot: Ashgate (pp.29-43).

Reiffenstein, T., Hayter, R. and Edgington, D. (2002) "Crossing Cultures, Learning to Export: Making Houses in British Columbia for Consumption in Japan." Economic Geography 78(2): 195-220.

Recent Conference Presentations

Reiffenstein, T. and Nguyen, H.T. (2008) "The International Developmental State:
The Japanese Intellectual Property System in Vietnam." Paper to be presented at
the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April
15-19, 2008.

Reiffenstein, T. (2007) "Writing Knowledge across Borders: Patent Attorneys and the Authorization of Intellectual Property in Japan." Paper presented at the Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, 25-28 June, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing P.R. China.

Reiffenstein, T. (2007) "Language, international communication and the practice of economic geography." Organizer/Chair of special panel session at the Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, 25-28 June, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing P.R. China.

Reiffenstein, T. (2007) "Specialization, Centralization and the Distribution of Patent Intermediaries in the Unites States and Japan." Paper presented at the 20th Conference for the Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO), Westin Bayshore and Marina, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 6 - 9, 2007

Reiffenstein, T. and Selig, N. (2006) Gravestone design evolution, the production chain and cemetery morphogenesis on Prince Edward Island 1820-2005. Paper presented at the Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 13-15 October 2006.

Reiffenstein, T. (2005) Rethinking the internal and external geographies of industrial clusters: Lessons from Japan. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 3.

Reiffenstein, T. (2003) "Techno-economic paradigms, transectorial impacts and location dynamics: Learning and innovation in the Japanese electronic musical instrument industry 1965-1995." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamic's of Economic Spaces, August 10-15, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Reiffenstein, T. (2003) "Techno-economic paradigms, transectorial impacts and location dynamics: Learning and innovation in the Japanese electronic musical instrument industry 1965-1995." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, May 27-31, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Reiffenstein, T. (2003) "Techno-economic paradigms, transectorial impacts and location dynamics: Learning and innovation in the Japanese electronic musical instrument industry 1965-1995." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 5-8, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Reiffenstein, T. (2003) "Globalization and economic restructuring in Ontario: from industrial heartland to learning region?" (Discussant) Special meeting of the Japanese Association of Canadian Studies, February 15th, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.

Reiffenstein, T. (2002) "Gijyutsuteki henka no kat?ki ni okeru sh?toku to inob?sion o megeru chirigakuteki shiten - nihon no denshi kenban gakki sangyo ni tsuite no jirei" (Geographical Perspectives on Learning and Innovation During Times of Technological Change: The Case of the Japanese Electronic Keyboard Musical Instrument Industry). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Jimbun Chiri Gakkai (Human Geography Society), November 25th, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan {In Japanese}.

Research Awards and Funding Received

• Mount Allison University, New Faculty Start-up Grant 2004-2007 ($10,000)
• Mount Allison University, Marjorie Bell Faculty Fellowship 2004-2007 ($8,000)
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2001-2003 ($35,000)
• Monbusho Graduate Research Fellowship 2001-2003 ($48,000)
o Research Fellowship at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of
Geography
• President's Research Stipend, Simon Fraser University, 2003. ($5000)
• Graduate Scholarships, Simon Fraser University 1999-2002 ($13,500)

 

Teaching

Courses taught at Mount Allison University (2004-2007)

• GEOG 2201- Geography of Economic Activity
• GEOG 2221- Geography of the Development World
• GEOG 3211- Geography of Transport and Communication
• GEOG 3401/3701- Research Methods in Physical/Human Geography
o Department field trip leader to Charlottetown, PEI (2004), Parrsboro, NS (2005), Beaufort,
NC, USA (2007)
• GEOG 3811- Geography of Urbanization
• GEOG 4821- Seminar in Urban Issues*
o 2005 theme: Housing and Homelessness in the Metropolis
o 2006 theme: The Cultural Economy of Cities
o 2007 theme: Multicultural and Transnational Cities
• GENV 4211- Resource Communities and the Multinational Corporation*
• GEOG 4591- Special Topics and Directed Readings (supervision of individual students)
o 2005- Economic Development in Botswana
o 2006- HIV/AIDS in India
• INLR 4951 - Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Development in Sub-Saharan
Africa

* Denotes courses that I introduced to the programme

Thesis Supervision at Mount Allison University

• Drover, Doug (2005) "Conflicting Perceptions of Heritage in a Culturally Diverse City: A Case Study of Brampton, Ontario" Unpublished BA (Hons) Thesis, Department of Geography, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick (Co-supervisor).

Service
At Mount Allison University

• 2005-2007 - Committee on Admissions and Re-admissions
• 2005-2007 - Leadership Mount Allison - Social Sciences Faculty Representative on the Grant
Adjudication Committee
• 2006-2007 - Kwansei Gakuin Univerity (KGU) Exchange Scholarship - Selection Committee Chair
• 2004-2005 - Kwansei Gakuin Univerity (KGU) Exchange Scholarship - Selection Committee
• 2006-2007 The Argosy - Publication Board Chair
• 2005-2006 - The Argosy - Publication Board
• 2005-2007 - First Year Experience - Faculty Mentor
• 2006-2007 - Convocation Marshalling Team

Beyond Mount Allison University

• Referee for Regional Studies, The Canadian Geographer, Environment and Planning A, and Journal of Economic Geography

     

 

 


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