Bhaven Sampat

Bhaven Sampat is a member of theWorking Group on Trade and Access to Medicines at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. (all in economics) from Columbia University. Most of Bhaven’s research focuses on issues at the intersection of health policy and innovation policy. His current work includes (1) various empiri cal studies of drug and life science patent policy in the U.S. and developing countries (2) evaluating the validity of different approaches to measure science, innovation and science-technology linkages (3) examining whether and when science is self-correcting (4) assessing the impact of federal indirect cost recovery policy on the biomedical research enterprise. His previous work includes research on the political economy of the NIH, patent examination and patent quality, and the roles of academic patenting in university-industry technology transfer.