DAVID J. TEECE

David Teece is the Tusher Professor in Global Business and the Director of the Tusher Center on Intellectual Capital at the at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Founder and Chairman of Berkeley Research Group, LLC (‘BRG’), for which he also consults. Berkeley Research Group is the second professional services company Dr. Teece has founded. The first, LECG, went public first on the NYSE and subsequently on the NASDAQ.

David Teece is the lead author of the most cited paper in the scientific journals, economics and business combined, 1995-2005. Teece is ranked number 10 in citations worldwide in economics and business by Science Watch (Thomson Reuters).

Other publications include two volumes of published papers by Edward Elgar (London) in “Economists of the Twentieth Century” titled, Economic Performance and the Theory of the Firm and Strategy and Technology and Public Policy . He is also the co-author of over 200 articles and books on topics in strategy, intellectual property, and antitrust policy. Highly cited papers include ones on intellectual property, licensing, cross licensing, and business strategy, including intellectual property strategy.

Outside of academia, David Teece has served as an expert witness in numerous courts, administrative bodies and tribunals in the U.S., Canada, Australia, , and Europe. He has testified on matters implicating antitrust, competition policy, FRAND, and intellectual property damages.

His Ph. D in economics was granted by the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He has also been recognized with 4 honorary doctorates, the Accenture list of the Top 50 Living Business Intellectuals, the 2002 Viipuri International Prize in Strategic (Technology) Management and Business Economics, and the 2003 Journal Best Paper Award, the Eminent Scholar Award from the Academy of International Business 2013. In 2013 he also received Royal Honours as a companion of the order of New Zealand.