Faculty Profile

Goldfarb

Dr. Brent Goldfarb
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University

4548 Van Munching Hall
301.405.9672
bgoldfarb@rhsmith.umd.edu

 

Primary Research Areas:

  • Technological Entrepreneurship
  • Technological Change & Policy
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Economic & Business History
  • Science Policy

Personal Web Site

Dr. Brent Goldfarb is Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Goldfarb’s research focuses on how the production and exchange of technology differs from more traditional economic goods, with a focus on the implications on the role of startups in the economy. He focuses on such questions as how do markets and employer policies affect incentives to discover new commercially valuable technologies and when is it best to commercialize them through new technology-based firms? Why do radical technologies appear to be the domain of startups? And how big was the dot.com boom? Copies of Dr. Goldfarb’s publications and working papers have been downloaded over 1200 times.

Selected Publications

B.Goldfarb and M. Henrekson. "Botton-Up vs. Top-Down Policies towards the Commercialization of University Intellectual Property" Research Policy, (forthcoming)

B. Goldfarb. "The Effect of Government Contracting on Academic Research: An Empirical Analysis of Reputation in Research Contracting" Discussion Paper No. 00.24, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Honors and Awards

Olin Fellow, The John M. Olin Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 2000-2001.

Recipient, Summer Research Fellowship John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Stanford Law School, 1998 and 1999

First-Year Ph.D. Fellowship. Stanford Stanford Economics Department, 1996-1997

NSF Honorable Mention, 1997

Jacob Javitz Alternate, 1998

Consulting Work

  • Ricoh Silicon Valley, Ricoh Innovations