Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Suzanne Scotchmer
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley


Email: scotch@berkeley.edu

Suzanne Scotchmer is Professor of Economics and Public Policy. Her graduate degrees are in economics and statistics. She has written on intellectual property law, incentives for innovation, rules of evidence, tax enforcement, cooperative game theory, club theory, and evolutionary game theory. She has served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, and on committees of the National Research Council (National Academies of Sciences). She is currently a member of the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division has used her as a consultant on antitrust matters related to innovation; and she has been a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She recently published Innovation and Incentives MIT Press, and teaches both innovation and science policy. She has held visiting appointments at University of Auckland, University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), Tel Aviv University, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Boalt School of Law, the University of Toronto Law School, Yale University, Stanford University, and the New School of Economics, Moscow, and began her career at Harvard University, Department of Economics.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch
and http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/innovation/

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