Joshua S. Gans
Bio
Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship and is a Professor at Rotman (with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics). His research is primarily focused on understanding the economic drivers of innovation and scientific progress, and has core interests in digital strategy and antitrust policy. Joshua is the department editor (Strategy) of Management Science, managing director of the Core Research consultancy and writes regularly for HBR and Digitopoly.
Academic Positions
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1994-1996
Lecturer, University of New South Wales
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2009-2011
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
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1996-2011
Professor, Melbourne Business School
Non-Academic Positions
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2011
Visiting Researcher, Microsoft
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb
Havard Business Review Press
2018
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Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents
Core Economic Research
2017
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Joshua Gans
MIT Press
2016
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Harvard Business Review Publishing
2012
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Parentonomics
MIT Press
2009
Research and Teaching Interests
Applied Game Theory, Network and Digital Market Strategy, Economics of Innovation and Science, Entrepreneurship
Honors and Awards
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2006
Woodward Medal for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne
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2007
Young Economist Award, Economic Society of Australia
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2008
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences Australia
Academic / Professional Service
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2014-
Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab
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2013 - 2019
Area Coordinator, University of Toronto