Professor of Economics and Strategy
With a research focus on the economics of innovation, Professor Cohen has examined the determinants of innovative activity and performance, considering the roles of firm size, market structure, firm learning, knowledge flows, university research, the means that firms use to protect their intellectual property (with a focus on patents) and the “division of innovative labor,” investigating the ties across firms and between firms and other institutions that influence innovative performance. Most recently, he has collaborated on the use of LLM's and neural networks to develop an ex-ante measure of commercial potential of science.
Area of Expertise: Economics of innovation
Projects:
1. "Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science," with Sharique Hasan and Roger Masclans.
2. "Blockbusters, Sequels and the Nature of Innovation," with Matt Higgins, Will Miles and Yoko Shibuya.
3. “Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage," with Ashish Arora, Honggi Lee and Divya Sebastian.