Accelerating biomedical research: Evidence from venture philanthropy contracts - 02 May 2024
Paper title and abstract
Accelerating biomedical research: Evidence from venture philanthropy contracts
Co-authors: Alexandra Graddy-Reed | University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy & Janet Bercovitz | University of Colorado Boulder
About Maryann Feldman
Maryann P. Feldman is the Watts Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University and research director at the Global Center for Technology Transfer. Professor Feldman chairs the Policy Forum of the Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, where she also chairs a congressional mandated assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
She is a senior fellow at Heartland Forward, a nonpartisan “think and do tank” focused on improving economic performance. Feldman serves on the advisory board of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research (CIFAR) global program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity. She is a board member of the Ontario Brain Institute. Feldman is an editor of the journal Research Policy, the leading journal in the field of innovation studies.
Professor Feldman was a winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for her contributions to the study of the geography of innovation, the commercialization of university research and the role of entrepreneurial activity in the formation of regional industry clusters. Feldman is a prolific and highly cited author. She received the Distinguished Scholar award from the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management. Her recent research focuses on place-based economic development and the factors that promote economic restructuring and resilience. (Source: Arizona State University).