Gaétan de Rassenfosse
EPFL CDM MTEI IIPP
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CH-1015 Lausanne
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Biography
Gaétan de Rassenfosse is Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Science & Technology Policy at EPFL. He joined the College of Management of Technology (CDM) in 2014. Before that, he was a research fellow then a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, from 2010 to 2014. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Solvay Business School at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 2010. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (California, USA) in 2018 and MIT (Massachusetts, USA) in the summer of 2019.
The overarching objective of his research is to provide the policy environment that best addresses the needs of the knowledge economy. This objective is met by producing sound empirical evidence on research questions related, e.g., to intellectual property issues, the measurement of intangible capital, and the 'science of science,' to name but a few topics of interest. His work appeared in international peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Research Policy, and European Economic Review. He is an experienced speaker with close to 200 conferences and seminars. He received more than CHF 2.5 million in research funding from institutions including, but not limited to, the U.S. NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Swiss Network for International Studies, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the European Patent Office.
The two-way knowledge transfer that results from engagement activities is a powerful way of shaping public policies. Prof. de Rassenfosse is thus keen to talk to the media and engage with international organizations, foundations, government agencies, and private companies. He was in charge of a report on the 'Patent Box' regime as part of Australia's Prime Minister election promise to explore this policy tool. He has also done contract research for agencies and organizations such as the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) of the Swiss Confederation, the Australian Department of Industry, the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance, the Australian patent office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Publications
Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners
Journal Of Law Economics & Organization. 2021-11-01. DOI : 10.1093/jleo/ewaa026.Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts
Journal Of Economics & Management Strategy. 2021-06-20. DOI : 10.1111/jems.12430.Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement
Research Policy. 2021-05-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104215.Decentralising the patent system
Government Information Quarterly. 2021-04-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.giq.2020.101559.Imputation of missing information in worldwide patent data
Data In Brief. 2021-02-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106615.Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10813.Sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing nations
Science And Public Policy. 2020-02-01. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scz042.COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists
Science and Public Policy. 2020. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scaa028.Wanted: A standard for virtual patent marking
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. 2020. DOI : 10.1093/jiplp/jpaa063.Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system
Journal of International Business Policy. 2020. DOI : 10.1057/s42214-020-00058-6.The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8361.R&D offshoring and home industry productivity
Industrial And Corporate Change. 2019-12-01. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dtz020.Geocoding of worldwide patent data
Scientific Data. 2019-11-06. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-019-0264-6.Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?
Journal Of Law & Economics. 2019-11-01. DOI : 10.1086/705801.The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government
PLoS One. 2019-08-12. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0218927.On the price elasticity of demand for trademarks
Industry And Innovation. 2019-03-20. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2019.1591939.Econometric evidence on the depreciation of innovations
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.11.005.Are patent fees effective at weeding out low-quality patents?
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. 2018. DOI : 10.1111/jems.12219.3. Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research: Overview and Best Practices
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/asi.23731.An assessment of how well we account for intangibles
Industrial And Corporate Change. 2017. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dtw034.Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing
Research Policy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2017.04.006.Getting Started with PATSTAT Register
Australian Economic Review. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8462.12214.Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the disclosure and appropriation effects
Research Policy. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/jsespol.2016.03.017.Venture Debt Financing: Determinants of the Lending Decision
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1220.Pitfalls in aggregating performance measures in higher education
Studies in Higher Education. 2016. DOI : 10.1080/03075079.2014.914912.Rules of engagement: measuring connectivity in national systems of higher education
Higher Education. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s10734-015-9881-y.On the origins of the worldwide surge in patenting: An industry perspective on the R&D-patent relationship
Industrial and Corporate Change. 2014. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dtu042.An Introduction to the patstat database with example queries
Australian Economic Review. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/1467-8462.12073.Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.012.Pitfalls in aggregating performance measures in higher education
2014The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity
Research Policy. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2012.11.002.Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions?
Research Policy. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2013.02.005.The role of fees in patent systems: Theory and evidence
Journal of Economic Surveys. 2013. DOI : 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2011.00712.x.The determinants of quality national higher education systems
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/1360080X.2013.854288.On the price elasticity of demand for patents
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2012. DOI : 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00638.x.How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: Evidence from survey data
Small Business Economics. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s11187-010-9313-4.A policy insight into the R&D-patent relationship
Research Policy. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2008.12.013.Policymakers and the R&D-patent relationship
Intereconomics. 2008. DOI : 10.1007/s10272-008-0271-x.Per un pugno di dollari: A first look at the price elasticity of patents
Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 2007. DOI : 10.1093/oxrep/grm032.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Management of Technology
PhD Programs
Doctoral Program in Technology Management