Suzanne Scotchmer (January 23, 1950 – January 30, 2014) was an American professor of law, economics and public policy at the
University of California, Berkeley
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and also a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from
University of Washington
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magna cum laude in 1970, her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979, and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.
Biography
Scotchmer was raised in
Pelican, Alaska
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Geography
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, where her grandparents
homesteaded after failing as gold rushers.
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Scotchmer held visiting and teaching positions at ]Harvard University
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, University of Auckland
, mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work
, established = 1883; years ago
, endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021)
, budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021)
, chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant
, vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
, Cergy-Pontoise University
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, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California
, mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it"
, religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist
, established =
, accreditation = WSCUC
, type = Private research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $8.1 ...
, New School of Economics, Moscow, and the Stockholm School of Economics
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. She also has held research fellowships at Yale University
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and Stanford University. She also served on editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature
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#to synthesize and ...
, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics
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. Scotchmer served on various committees of the National Research Council National Research Council may refer to:
* National Research Council (Canada), sponsoring research and development
* National Research Council (Italy), scientific and technological research, Rome
* National Research Council (United States), part of ...
and was a member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
The United States National Academy of Sciences' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) is a board of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
The mandate of the Board is to integrate understanding of scientific, technolog ...
. The Department of Justice
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used her as a consultant on antitrust.[ She was a fellow of the Econometrics Society.
She was most renowned for her contributions on economic literature on subjects ranging from intellectual property and innovation to game theory. She was considered one of the leading and most prominent experts on patent law and incentives for R&D and game theory. Her pieces were cited several times on work in the subject. She served as a scholar in residence at the US appellate court and has been called to testify as an expert in patent matters.][
In 2017 The Econometric Society published a book recalling her life and work with a collection of 11 of her best-known papers.
]
Death
Scotchmer died on January 30, 2014, one week after her 64th birthday, following a brief bout with intestinal cancer.
Research
*Picking Winners in Rounds of Elimination; 2012
*Ideas and Innovations: Which Should Be Subsidized?; 2011
*Verifiability and Group Formation in Markets; 2010
*Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies; 2010
*Cap-and-Trade, Emissions Taxes, and Innovation; 2010
*Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance; 2010
*Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it; 2009
*Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law; 2008
*Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products; 2006
*Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition; 2006
*Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm; 2006
*Innovation and Incentives (book); 2004.
*Intellectual Property; 2005
*The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties; 2004
*Procuring Knowledge; 2003
*The Core and Hedonic Core: Reply to Wooders (2001), with Counterexamples; 2003
*Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools; 2000
*The Independent-Invention Defense in Intellectual Property; 1999
*On the Optimality of the Patent Renewal System; 1999
*Patent Breadth, Patent Life, and the Pace of Technological Progress; 1999
*Protecting Early Innovators: Should Second-Generation Products be Patentable?; 1998
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1950 births
2014 deaths
Economists from Alaska
21st-century American economists
20th-century American economists
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Washington alumni
American women economists
Fellows of the Econometric Society
American women academics
Game theorists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women