Wesley M. Cohen

Wesley M. Cohen (born July 2, 1950 ) is an American economist who has particularly distinguished himself in the field of innovation and industrial economics .

Career, research and teaching

Cohen studied at Yale University , where he initially graduated magna cum laude in 1973 as a Bachelor of Arts in an interdisciplinary course that combined economics, African history and anthropology . He continued his studies at the university, where he initially in 1978 as a Master of Philosophy and Master of Arts in each case in economics graduated before he in 1981 his Ph.D. - Degree successfully completed.

After completing his studies, Cohen was initially a research fellow in industrial economics at Harvard Business School before moving to Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 . There he was initially an assistant professor and from 1989 an associate professor . In 1997 the university appointed him full professor. In 2002 he followed a call from the Fuqua School of Business to Duke University . There he took over the Frederick C. Joerg Chair for Business Administration in 2004 , and has been holding the Snow Family Chair for Business Administration since 2017 . Cohen visited for the first time in 1974, at the time at the National University of Zaïre , and in 2006/07 he returned to Harvard Business School as a visiting professor .

Cohen was editor-in-chief of the Research Policy periodical from 1995 to 1999 , of which he continued to be a member of the editorial team. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Entrepreneurship Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research .

Cohen's main interests are in the field of innovation economics and the related economic effects of technical development and innovation , as well as intellectual property , industrial economics and questions of corporate strategy and development. Due to the number of his citations, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for an Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ) since 2018 .

Web links

• Official homepage at the Fuqua School of Business

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clarivate Analytics Reveals Annual Forecast of Future Nobel Prize Recipients. In: clarivate.com. Clarivate Analytics, September 20, 2018, accessed on September 22, 2018 .