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Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) and School of Public Affairs (SPA), Arizona State University
Bhaven Sampat is a Professor in Arizona State University’s (ASU’s) School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Public Affairs, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on the economics and political economy of innovation and innovation policy. Among other topics, he has studied US and global life science patent policy, the politics and economics of publicly funded science, the roles of the government in pharmaceutical innovation, and the economic history of the US biomedical research enterprise. Sampat was formerly an assistant, associate, and full professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is based at ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, in Washington DC.