Jaffe, Adam B. 1955-

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JAFFE, Adam B. 1955-

PERSONAL: Born May 1, 1955, in Cleveland, OH; son of Harold L. (an engineer) and Patricia H. Jaffe; married Pamela J. Jorgensen (an artist), September 25, 1977. Ethnicity: "White."

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Economics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor, 1985-94; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, professor of economics, 1994—, and department chair. President's Council of Economic Advisors, senior staff economist, 1990-91; National Bureau of Economic Research, member of program in productivity and technological change.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Josh Lerner and Scott Stern) Innovation Policy and the Economy, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), Volume 1, 2000, Volume 2, 2001.

(With Manuel Trajtenberg) Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

NBER Reporter, winter, 2000, review of Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, p. 44; winter, 2001, review of Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 2, p. 37.

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