I am a Strategy professor at London Business School. I study a range of new and old approaches to organizing platforms and innovation.Here is a list of research papers. My work is heavily empirical and quantitative, including the econometric analysis of large naturally-occurring data sets and field experiments. While focusing on a range of novel approaches to organizing, the applied work I do tends to build on and make contributions to a range of longstanding issues in the economics and management of innovation (e.g., contracting, governance, intellectual property, industrial organization, heterogeneity of innovators and innovation approaches.) I have analyzed a wide array of industries and technological contexts. Recent examples include: big data and analytics, software "apps" platforms and architecture design; on-line computer games "modding"; social networks; innovation contest platforms for scientific, engineering, and algorithmic problems; licensing regimes for smartphone hardware; scientific research platforms; bioinformatics and genomics; research teams in medicine; the commercial space industry and other areas. My research has received support from Google, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Microsoft, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, London Business School, the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Management Lab, and HEC-Paris. I am an economic adviser to Harvard Catalyst on Translational Medicine at Harvard Medical School and regular advisor to TopCoder. I have held positions at the Canadian Space Agency, Braxton Associates, The Economist Group, Pyramid Research, Nortel Networks, Qualcomm and Nikean Wireless (a start-up). I am the Chief Economist of the NASA Tournament Lab. I teach courses on strategy (including advanced topics in dynamics), innovation, entrepreneurship, economics and empirical methods in MBA, Executive and PhD programs. I studied economics and strategy at MIT in my Ph.D., economics at the University of Toronto in my M.A., Engineering and Management Science at the University of Waterloo in my B.A.Sc.. |

