Bhaven N. Sampat
@sampat.bsky.social
Johns Hopkins University and NBER. Current research focuses on the history and political economy of U.S. S&T policy, the economics of the NIH, and pharmaceutical patent policy. Website: bhavensampat.github.io
Timely call for papers, across disciplines, analyzing the medical innovation system. Good to see health outcomes and access called out as topics of interest--*true* innovation must attend to these issues as well competition, technology, and ROI.
Bhaven N. Sampat@sampat.bsky.social · 4w ago
The ICSSI 2026 Program is now live at icssi.org/schedule/ ! Explore on the site, or grab the program PDF from the top of the page!
9:00–10:00 Welcome & Team Formation: Participants are introduced to hackathon themes, available datasets, and team formation. Teams self-organize around open data challenges.
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WOW! Over 200 abstracts submitted to this year's ICSSI conference in Boulder, CO! It's going to be a great conference. Next steps? → Conference & Hackathon Registration icssi.org/register/ → Conference Attendance Support info icssi.org/travelsupport/ Hotel info coming soon!
📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2026 ⛰️ in Boulder, CO, USA - June 29 to July 1 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 30th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS Please repost and share!
The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! ☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑💻 We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈
📢 A brand new publication from GHI steering committee member, Ken Shadlen, w/ Margaret Kyle and Bhaven Sampat, in Health Affairs Scholar: 'TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and generic competition in India' 📎 Read the open-access piece here: bit.ly/3N28FDG
LSE Department of International Development@lseid.bsky.social · 5mo agoKen Shadlen and co authors examine how a key TRIPS transitional rule, excluding drugs with pre-1995 global priority filings from patent eligibility in India, shaped “primary” patents and generic competition. New (open access) in Health Affairs Scholar: academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
On 12/11, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on federal science funding. Panelists Melinda Baldwin, Arthur Daemmrich, & Bhaven Sampat, with moderator Alexandra Levy will discuss the history of the federal government’s approach toward science in public policy.
History of Federal Science Funding – AHA
The American Historical Association (AHA) will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on federal science funding. The briefing will take place on Thursday, December 11, at 9:00...
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Call open for an NBER conference on Medical Innovation Policy I'm co-organizing with @dusetzinas.bsky.social. Friday the 13th, naturally! Open to anyone (not just economists) working on the issues, and papers at different stages. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Assessing the US Medical Innovation System Conference
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The new School of Government and Policy at Johns Hopkins University (sogp.jhu.edu ) is hiring, including in science and innovation policy: • Junior: facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Home/Positio... • Senior: facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Home/Positio... Please share with anyone who may be interested.
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Thanks to @prmalone.bsky.social and his team at the @juelsgaardclinic.bsky.social at @stanfordlaw.bsky.social for filing this amicus brief on behalf of myself, @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social, @danielpgross.bsky.social & @sampat.bsky.social in the NIH indirect costs case papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brief of Scholars of Economics and Innovation as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees in Massachusetts v. NIH
<div> This amicus curiae brief—filed in the consolidated First Circuit appeals (Nos. 25-1343, 25-1344, 25-1345) from <i>Massachusetts v. NIH</i> (D. Mass. Mar.
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The Spring 2025 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (39, 2) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/803.
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Vol. 39 No. 2 Spring 2025
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Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
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Stuart Buck@stuartbuck.bsky.social · last yr.As someone who loves spending part of a weekend digging into indirect cost regulations, here's a new piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/federal-in...
Call for papers EPIP2025: “Turning IP Ambitions into Action: Creating Connections, Collaborations, and Communities”. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2025. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Esther van Zimmeren on LinkedIn: #ip #iplawandgovernance #ipandinnovation #ipincentives…
Call for papers alert! The EPIP2025 call for papers for the 20th Annual Conference in Antwerp September 10-12th is out. Please visit the conference website to…
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NBER Innovation Information Initiative (I3) Upskilling Session: BigQuery for Patent & Innovation Data Join us Feb 21, at 11 AM ET for the first I3 Upskilling session: Using Google BigQuery for patent and innovation data/analyses. Register here: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EconSky
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: i3 Upskilling Session: intro to Google BigQuery. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: i3 Upskilling Session: intro to Google BigQuery. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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@danielpgross.bsky.social & @sampat.bsky.social introduce a comprehensive, open-access #dataset identifying US government-funded patents from 1900-2020. The government's share of patented innovations reached its zenith during WWII - comprising 11% of all US filings. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
The US WW2 medical research and development effort catalyzed postwar science, modernized drug discovery, and fueled the postwar National Institutes of Health — reshaping biomedical innovation for decades, from Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat https://www.nber.org/papers/w33457
🔊🔊New WP: "The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine" How WW2 transformed biomed. science, triggered a golden age of drug discovery, and fueled the postwar NIH. Insights for biomed R&D today. 💉 Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fuhc8...
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Politico reports that RFK Jr is open to using Bayh-Dole march-in on pharma patents: www.politico.com/news/2025/01... Bhaven Sampat and I looked into how much effect this could have (short answer: not much): jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Using Bayh-Dole Act March-In Rights to Lower US Drug Prices
This cross-setional study examines the feasibility of using march-in rights under the Bayh-Dole Act to systemically lower drug prices by removing patent barriers to competition using data from the Foo...
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ISSUES is thrilled to join the Bluesky community! A brief introduction: We’re a digital and print opinion journal published by @nationalacademies.org and Arizona State University. We provide a forum for discussion of public policy related to science, technology, and society. 1/ issues.org
The NBER Innovation Information Initiative will award five or more fellowships of $1500 each to graduate students in economics, innovation, entrepreneurship, or related fields. Applications open at link below. Full deets in picture. "Outsiders" encouraged to apply.
