People
Below is a list of economists who recently made important contributions to innovation research:
(See below how I came up with this list)
- Daron Acemoglu, MIT
- Philippe Aghion, Harvard
University
- Brian Arthur, Santa Fe
Institute
- David Audretsch, Max-Planck-Institute
Jena
- David Autor, MIT
- Richard Blundell, University
College London
- Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford
University
- Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT
- Francesco Caselli, London
School of Economics
- Ian Cockburn, Boston
University
- Wesley Cohen, Duke
University
- Giovanni Dosi, Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa
- Jan Fagerberg, University of Oslo
- Joseph Farrell, UC Berkeley
- Maryann Feldman, University of Georgia
- Akira Goto, University of Tokyo
- Jeremy Greenwood, University of
Pennsylvania
- Rachel Griffith, University College London
- Gene Grossmann, Princeton University
- Bronwyn Hall, UC Berkeley
- Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig Maximilian
University Munich
- Elhahan Helpman, Harvard University
- Rebecca Henderson, MIT
- Lorin Hitt, University of
Pennsylvania
- Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University
- Richard Jensen, University of Notre
Dame
- Simon Johnson, MIT
- Charles Jones, UC Berkeley
- Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University
- Boyan Jovanovic, New York University
- Lawrence Katz, Harvard University
- Wolfgang Keller, University of
Colorado
- Steven Klepper, Carnegie Mellon University
- Samuel Kortum, University of
Minnesota
- Daniel Levinthal, University of
Pennsylvania
- Glenn Macdonald, Washington
University
- Paul Milgrom, Stanford University
- Ishaq Nadiri, New York University
- Richard Nelson, Columbia University
- Luigi Orsenigo, University Bocconi
- Bruce Petersen, Washington
University
- John Roberts, Stanford University
- Paul Romer, Stanford University
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Columbia
University
- Mike Scherer, Harvard University
- Paul Segerstrom, Stockholm School
of Economics
- Gerald Silverberg, Maastricht
University
- David Teece, UC Berkeley
- Marie Thursby, Georgia Tech
- Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv
University
- John Van Reenen, London School of
Economics
There are hunderts of economists who
have
recently made important contributions to the field. I cannot
list all of them. The selection above is based on the following
criteria:
- Citations on innovation-related articles (keyword search in ISI Web of Knowledge on innovation, R&D, research,
development, patent, technological change, creative
destruction and diffusion)
- Only articles that appeared in the 11 general interest journals in economics or one of the top three "field journals" between 1987-2008 with more than 50 citations were considered
- I selected only articles that appeared
relevant to the field, after reading the title and the abstract
- Author is still active
- Author did not only occasionally write articles on
innovation-related topics (based on publication record and website of
authors)
The last criterion is arguably the most subjective. Some of the people
in the list above would probably not consider themselves to work mainly
on innovation-related issues, although their work has been highly
influential for our understanding of the origins and consequences of
technological change. Other authors who have written highly-cited
articles on topics belonging to the field were excluded because I had
the impression their main research contribution and focus is in
different fields. In addition, many great scholars who work primarily
on innovation related topics do not appear in the list above because
their articles were not published in the 14 journals I included in the
search or did not (yet) receive enough citations. |