Bhaven Sampat, PhD

Bhaven Sampat is an economist at Johns Hopkins University, with faculty appointments at the new School of Government and Policy and the Carey Business School. He is also a Research Associate in the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program 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 U.S. and global life science patent policy, the politics and economics of publicly funded science, the roles of government in pharmaceutical innovation, and the economic history of the U.S. biomedical research enterprise. An overarching theme in his research is how science and technology policies can best be designed to contribute to improvements in health and other socio-economic outcomes.

Education

• PhD, Economics, Columbia University