James Bessen Biography

Economist James Bessen, is serving as the Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University School of Law, who conducted research on whether patents promote innovation, why innovators share new knowledge, and how technology affects skills, jobs, and wages. With the help of Michael J. Meurer, Bessen wrote Patent Failure (Princeton University Press, 2008), highlighting the problems caused by poorly defined property rights. His research first documented the large economic damage caused by patent trolls and showed the link between information technology and job growth. His book, Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth (Yale University Press, 2015), looks at history to understand how new technologies affect wages and skills today. Bessen’s work has been widely cited in the press as well as by the White House, the US Supreme Court, judges at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Federal Trade Commission. Bessen developed and founded the first commercially successful “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” PC publishing program in 1983, a company that delivered PC-based publishing systems to high-end commercial publishers.

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