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Universities as Research Partners
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Bronwyn Hall is Professor
of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D.
in Economics from Stanford University. Her research focuses broadly on the economics
of technology policy and specifically on innovation in firms, international comparisons
of investment in the United States and other European countries, the determinants
of patenting, and the effects of strengthening patent rights on innovations.
She has published extensively on these topics in Economie et Statistique, Rand
Journal of Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Research
Policy, the American Economic Review, and numerous other journals.
She is co-editor of the book Economics and Econometrics of Innovation.
She is an associate editor of the Economics of Innovation and New Technology and
a member of the Advisory Board of International Finance. She is a member of the
Science, Technology, and Economics Policy Board of the National Research Council.
Albert N. Link is
Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane University. His research
focuses broadly on the economics of science and technology policy. More
specifically, he has written extensively on methods for evaluating public
sector and private sector research and development, technology policies
to promote economic growth, and corporate strategies to increase competitiveness.
Related works include Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based
Institutions, with John Scott (Kluwer), and recent articles in Research
Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, STI
Review, and Science and Public Policy. He has served on advisory
panels of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation,
and NASA. He has also consulted for the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development and the European Commission, as well as for numerous
European Union and APEC government agencies on science and technology
policy and program evaluation. He is the editor of the international Journal
of Technology Transfer.
John T. Scott is
Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He received a Ph.D. in Economics
from Harvard University. His research is in the areas of industrial organization
and the economics of technological change. He has served as the President
of the Industrial Organization Society and on the editorial boards of
the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Journal
of Industrial Economics. He has consulted in matters of technology
policy for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National
Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development, and he has served as an economist
at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and at the Federal
Trade Commission.
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Date created:
October 18, 2002
Last updated:
August 2, 2005
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