Lunch and Keynote Address

Friday, March 17, 2006, at 12:45 PM Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School

Jerry Thursby

Jerry G. Thursby received his A.B. (1969) and Ph.D. (1975) in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, Emory University. Prior appointments have been at Syracuse University (1975-78), Ohio State University (1978-88) and Purdue University (1988-2001). Professor Thursby has received several teaching awards and he has published extensively in the areas of econometrics, international trade, and the licensing of university technologies. His current research interests include multinational R&D site location decisions and the patent activity of university faculty. He has received research funding from the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and National Bureau of Economic Research through the NBER Project on Industrial Technology and Productivity, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He currently serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Technology Transfer and is an associate editor of The Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has published extensively in such journals as Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science and Research Policy.