I am an economist and economic historian by disciplinary orientation, and teach and do research at Stanford and Oxford Universities on the following topics:
• impacts of intellectual property rights protection on the production and distribution of scientific and cultural works;
• technological, institutional and social infrastructures affecting the organization and performance of publicly funded scientific research;
• resource allocation mechanisms, governance and productivity of free and open source software
development projects;
• standards and technology diffusion’s role in the evolution of network industries;
• theoretical and practical policy issues arising from the presence of path dependent dynamics
in economic and social systems.