Albert Bravo-Biosca

Albert is Senior Economist at NESTA, where he joined in 2007. His work has been at the intersection of innovation and finance. His research projects have explored some of the drivers of innovation activity and venture capital performance, as a well as the contribution of firm dynamics and intangibles to productivity growth. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also guest professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and has been visiting economist at the OECD.

Bronwyn Hall

Bronwyn H. Hall is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of the Economics of Technology and Innovation at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She is also the founder and partner of TSP International, an econometric software firm. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1988. Alongside Nathan Rosenberg, she is the joint editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (in the Elsevier series). Her current research includes comparative analysis of the U.S. and European patent systems, the use of patent citation data for the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level investment and innovation studies (the G-7 economies), measuring the returns of R&D and innovation at firm level, analysis of technology policies such as R&D subsidies and tax incentives, and of recent changes in patenting behavior in the semiconductor and computer industries. She has made substantial contributions to applied economic research via the creation of software for econometric estimation and of firm-level datasets for the study of innovation, including the widely used NBER dataset for U.S. patents.

David Levine

David K. Levine is the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently serving as President of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, is a fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory Fellow, a research associate of the NBER and of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, managing editor of NAJ Economics, and co-director of the MISSEL laboratory. Professor Levine previously taught at UCLA where he held the Armen Alchian Chair in Economic Theory and twice served as Chair of the Department. He has served as President of the Society for Economic Dyamics, as co-editor of Econometrica, Economic Theory and the Review of Economic Dynamics, as a member of the American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee, as a member of the Sloan Research Fellowship Program Committee and as a panelist for the National Science Foundation.

David Newbery

David Newbery, PhD, ScD, FBA, is emeritus Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He was educated at Cambridge with degrees in Mathematics and Economics, was President of the European Economic Association in 1996, and is President-elect for the IAEE 2012, to be President in 2013. David Newbery is an occasional economic advisor to Ofgem, Ofwat, and ORR, is a former member of the Competition, and is currently a member of the academic panel of environmental economists, DEFRA, and of Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund.

Dietmar Harhoff

Dietmar Harhoff is Professor of Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) Munich and currently Visiting Professor at Stanford University. He is the Director of the Institute of Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship and Director of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center. After graduating with a Diploma degree in mechanical engineering, Dietmar Harhoff began his professional career as a research engineer in Great Britain and Germany. From 1985 to 1987, he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard University (M.P.A 1987). In his MIT doctoral thesis (Ph.D. 1991) he analyzed research incentives and voluntary information disclosure. After joining the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, he became its Associate Scientific Director in 1995. In 1998 he assumed his current position at LMU where he was a co-founder of LMU’s Entrepreneurship Center in 2000.

Eric von Hippel

Eric von Hippel is T Wilson Professor of Innovation Management, and also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. von Hippel’s academic research examines the sources and economics of open and distributed innovation. His most recent book, “Democratizing Innovation” (MIT Press, 2005) is available free on the web. He specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. He also develops and teaches about practical methods that individuals, open user communities, and firms can apply to improve their product and service development processes.

Eustáquio J. Reis

Eustáquio J. Reis is a Senior Research Economist at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Rio de Janeiro, where he has been Director of Macroeconomic Studies for many years. At Ipea, he was the editor of Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico and organized Ipeadata, a leading statistical database on the Brazilian economy built as a pioneer open government initiative. Other activities include the Coordination of Research Network on Spatial Models and Analysis (Nemesis) where he is now organizing Memoria Estatistica do Brasil, an open repository of books and datasets on Brazilian history proposed as collaborative platform. He is also a member of the Steering Scientific Committee of the Large Scale Scientific Experiment for the Amazon Basin (LBA) as well as of the Trade and Development Index (TDI/UNCTAD). He did his undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and graduate studies in Economics at Vargas Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, and at MIT, Cambridge, USA. His current research interests include the areas of Development Economics, Economic History, and the Economics of Natural Resources and Environment where he has published extensively on Amazon deforestation, including The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002).

Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in three books, The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.) He also examines innovation policies, and how they impact firm strategies. (The research is discussed in the books Innovation and Its Discontents, The Comingled Code, and the forthcoming Architecture of Innovation.) He co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Research, and Innovation Program and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a non-profit devoted to encouraging data access to and research about venture capital and private equity.

Hans-Peter Brunner

Hans-Peter Brunner is a Senior Economist at Asian Development Bank. He is a seasoned senior professional with diverse and significant background in international development, including work with multilateral institutions, bilateral donors, academia, and the private sector. He has been working with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) since December 1995, specialising in international and sub-regional trade, investment and finance; corporate and financial governance; project-finance and public-private partnerships; small and medium enterprise restructuring. Hans-Peter taught economics at universities in Germany (1991-1995), and has worked as a consultant for international organisations (EU, World Bank) and governments (Science Center Berlin and US A.I.D.).

Lionel Bently

Lionel Bently is the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. Professor Bently is an expert in all fields of intellectual property law (copyright, designs, trade marks, trade secrets, patents and geographical indications) and has written widely on aspects of UK and European Intellectual Property. He is particularly interested in the history of intellectual property law in the UK and the former British Empire. He was co-director of the AHRC funded Primary Sources on Copyright in 5 jurisdictions, and is one of the principal investigations on the HERA-funded project “Of authorship and Originality” (with the Universities of Bergen and Amsterdam). Professor Bently has been heavily involved in policy work at a national and European level. He was on the Copyright Expert Panel of the Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (2008-10) advising the UK Government about intellectual property. He led the team of researchers that advised the Gowers Committee reviewing Intellectual Property on Economics of Copyright Term Extension in relation to Sound Recordings (2006) and was part of the team that produced a report for HM Treasury on Models of Exploitation of Public Data by Trading Funds (2008). He was part of the “Wittem Group” of Copyright Scholars who worked up a proposed “European Copyright Code” (2005-2010). Professor Bently is a qualified barrister (2009, IT). He has held visiting posts at the University of New South Wales, the National University of Singapore and Columbia University.

Paul David

Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Stanford University & Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Tariq Khokhar

Tariq Khokhar is the World Bank’s Open Data Evangelist. His interests lie where technology, transparency, poverty and data meet. He guides the World Bank’s strategy on Open Data and Open Development and is responsible for internal and external outreach and execution. Prior to joining the Bank, Tariq led innovation and community engagement work at Aidinfo and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). He was formerly a director of Bond UK and the Chief Development Officer of Aptivate, where he delivered technology policy, strategy and implementation projects for governments, NGOs and international organisations. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, has close relationships in the global Open Data and Open Government communities and currently lives in Washington DC.