Adam B. Jaffe

Adam B. Jaffe (born May 1955) is a freelance economist working in Boston, Massachusetts. He was previously Director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, in Wellington, New Zealand and a professor of economics at Brandeis University. His areas of expertise include industrial organization, technological change and innovation, law and economics, and environmental economics. The overarching theme of his work is focused on the process of technological change and innovation.

Education Jaffe attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1973 until 1976, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry. In 1978 he received a master's degree in technology and policy. Jaffe attended Harvard University from 1980 to 1985, where he received a Ph.D. in economics. He is the top ranked economist in Oceania according to RePEc.

Awards and recognition Jaffe joined the Phi Beta Kappa society at MIT in 1976. He was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship at MIT from 1976 to 1977, and the Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship at Harvard from 1984 to 1985. In 2007 Jaffe received an honorable mention from the Venice Award for Intellectual Property for his work titled Innovation and its Discontents.