Biographical Information

Prof. Dominique Foray

Postal Address
EPFL-CDM-CEMI
Bât. ODYSSEA
Station 5
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Professor D.Foray holds the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is also the Director of the College of Management of Technology at EPFL.

Previously he was Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Professor at the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (IMRI) of the University of Paris-Dauphine (from 1993 to 2000), and then Principal Analyst at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2000 to 2004

D.Foray research's interests include all topics and issues related to economic policy in the context of the new knowledge-based economy. This broad field covers the economics of science, technology and innovation. Intellectual property and competition policy, information technology and the new economy, capital market and entrepreneurships, national systems of innovation, education and training policy are fields of high relevance in his research.

He is recognized as one of the leading academic experts on the economics of innovation and knowledge and economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy.

He has recently published "The Economics of Knowledge", Cambridge : MIT Press (2004).