Dan  Breznitz

Expertise: Rapid innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as the distributional impact of innovation policies

Dan Breznitz is a Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, as well as the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Director of Academic Research at the Munk School in the University of Toronto. Professor Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He has been an advisor on science, technology, and innovation policies to multinational corporations, governments, and international organizations such as the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, TEKES, IFC, Fundación Chile, the United Nations, and the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation. In 2011, he was awarded the GTRC 75th Anniversary Innovation Award for Public Service, Leadership, and Policy for this work. In 2008 Breznitz was selected as a Sloan Industry Studies Fellow. Breznitz spent eight years in Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) as a professor in the Scheller College of Business, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy before moving to Toronto in 2013. In an earlier life he founded and served as a CEO of a small software company.

Professor Breznitz’s first book, Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland, won the 2008 Don K. Price for best book on science and technology. His second book (co-authored with Michael Murphree) The Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China, was chosen as the 2012 Susan Strange Best Book in International Studies by the BSIA, and was featured in media worldwide including The Economist and the New York Times. Dan Breznitz’s new book, Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich? (co-edited with John Zysman), looks at the challenges and opportunities faced by Western economies in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the rapid changes in the global production system.

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Expert Information

Expertise

Rapid innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as the distributional impact of innovation policies

Location

Toronto

Experience

Current Experience

Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, as well as the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Director of Academic Research at the Munk School in the University of Toronto

Past Experience

  • Professor in the Scheller College of Business, the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology

Education

  • PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BA, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem