Biographical Information
Bhaven Sampat, Georgia Institute of Technology / University of Michigan
Dr. Sampat's research examines how scientific and technological changes affect the economy, how economic forces reciprocally affect the processes of scientific and technological change, and how to design and evaluate science and technology policy. Much of Sampat's research has focused on the economics of patenting and licensing by universities, and the uses of patent citation data as economic indicators. His current projects examine the economics of genomic patenting, factors affecting the allocation of the NIH's budget, and the political economy of the patent system.
Sampat received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science (summa cum laude and with honors) from Columbia University in 1996, and was awarded the Sanford Parker Prize for top graduating student in Economics that year. He received his M.A. in Economics from Columbia in 1998, and his paper "Cite-Seeing: Patent Citations and Economic Value" was winner of the Department's best econometrics paper prize that year. He received his M.Phil. in Economics from Columbia in 2000, and his Ph.D. in Economics (with Distinction) from Columbia in 2001. Since 2001, Sampat has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, where he won the "Faculty Member of the Year" award for academic years 2001-2 and 2002-3. From 2003-2005 he is on leave at the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship.