Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Professor Bhaven N. Sampat is working to understand how to design policies and institutions to promote scientific progress and shape innovation to address public problems. This week, he was officially announced as Johns Hopkins University’s newest Bloomberg Distinguished Professor.
Sampat, an economist, studies science funding, the links between scientific research and innovation, and patent policy.
“I’m interested in science policy with the ultimate goal of solving public problems and improving social outcomes,” Sampat said. “New knowledge and technologies have the potential to drive tremendous improvements in human well-being. That’s my North Star.”
Sampat’s work brings historical perspective and data together with modern empirical approaches to better understand how policy decisions shape science and innovation. He has examined the role of World War II research and development in shaping U.S. science, science policy, and innovation; pharmaceutical patent policy in the U.S. and globally; and the economics, history, and politics of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the largest single funder of biomedical research in the world. His work also examines how different stakeholders, including taxpayers, scientific interest groups, universities, Congress, and industry, interact to influence science policy.
Read more about Sampat’s appointment as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the JHU Hub.
