Adam B. Jaffe

Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics

Brandeis University

Waltham MA 02454-9110

photo: Michael Lovett

Phone: 781-736-4875 fax: 781-736-2269 email: ajaffe@brandeis.edu

MY BOOKS:

INNOVATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS : HOW OUR BROKEN PATENT SYSTEM IS ENDANGERING INNOVATION AND PROGRESS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (with Josh Lerner), Princeton University Press, 2004; issued in paperback, 2006

Link to Princeton University Press

PATENTS, CITATIONS AND INNOVATIONS: A WINDOW ON THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY (With Manuel Trajtenberg), M.I.T. Press, 2002; issued in paperback, 2005

The book comes with a CD containing the complete NBER Patent Citations Database

Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul M. Romer

Link to MIT PRESS

MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE


Curriculum Vita

"Measuring Science, Technology, and Innovation: A Review"(Co-authored with Bronwyn H. Hall) A report prepared for the Panel on Developing Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators for the Future, National Academies of Science, May 2012

"Technology Policy and Climate Change" Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics.

"The 'Science of Science Policy': Reflections on the Important Questions and the Challenges They Present." Keynote Address at the NSF Workshop on Advancing Measures of Innovation: Knowledge Flows, Business Metrics, and Measurement Strategies, June 2006

"Peanut Butter Patents Versus the New Economy: Does the Increased Rate of Patenting Signal More Invention or Just Lower Standards?" (with P. Sanyal), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, April, 2004

"The NBER Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools" (Co-authored with Bronwyn H. Hall and Manuel Trajtenberg) September, 2001

"Research on Research: What We Know and Don't Know About the Payoffs to Research" Presentation to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July, 2001

"Building Program Evaluation Into the Design of Public Research Support Programs," Paper presented at the Conference TECHNOLOGICAL POLICY AND INNOVATION: Economic and Historical Perspectives, Paris, November 2000

"Brandeis' Jaffe on Frivolous Web Patents," Interview with Investor's Business Daily, June 15, 2000

"Relationship Between Energy-Efficiency Potentials and 'Barriers' to New Technology," graphic from presentation at the AEA Session on Global Climate Change Policy, January, 2000