Alberto Galasso

Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman Chair in Life Sciences Commercialization

Degrees:

PhD in Economics, London School of Economics (LSE)

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Phone:

416-946-0287

Personal Website:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/galasso/

Bio

Alberto Galasso is Professor of Strategic Management and Rotman Chair in Life Sciences Commercialization at Rotman. His research is focused on the determinants of innovative activity, the management of innovation and the functioning of markets for technology.

Academic Positions

2019-

Professor of Strategic Management , Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto
2013-2018

Associate Professor, University of Toronto
2014-15

Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007-13

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
2012-17

Director, Master of Management of Innovation (MMI) Program, University of Toronto
2005-07

Tutorial Fellow, London School of Economics

Selected Publications - Papers

Risk-Mitigating Technologies: the Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

with Hong Luo
Market Power and Patent Strategies: Evidence from Renaissance Venice

with Stefano Comino and Clara Graziano

Journal of Industrial Economics

Issue:forthcoming

2019
How does product liability risk affect innovation? Evidence from medical implants

with Hong Luo

CEPR discussion paper 13036

2018
A Theory of Grand Innovation Prizes

with Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag

Research Policy

Issue:47

2018

Pages: 343-362.
Patent Rights, Innovation and Firm Exit (paper + online appendix)

with Mark Schankerman

RAND Journal of Economics

Issue:49

2018

Pages: 64-86.
Roads and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

with Ajay Agrawal and Alex Oettl

Review of Economics and Statistics

Issue:99

2017

Pages: 417-434.
Tort Reform and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

with Hong Luo

Journal of Law and Economics

Issue:60

2017

Pages: 385-412.
Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts (paper + online appendix)

with Matthew Mitchell and Gabor Virag

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Issue:48

2016

Pages: 207-243.
Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts (paper + online appendix)

with Mark Schankerman

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Issue:130

2015

Pages: 317-369.
Switching to Green: the Timing of Socially Responsible Innovation (paper + online appendix)

with Mihkel Tombak

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

Issue:23

2014

Pages: 669-691.
Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs

with Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn and Alex Oettl

Journal of Urban Economics

Issue:81

2014

Pages: 149-165.
Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

with Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano

RAND Journal of Economics

Issue:44

2013

Pages: 275-312.
Broad Cross-License Negotiations

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

Issue:21

2012

Pages: 873-911.
CEO Overconfidence and Innovation (paper + online appendix)

with Tim Simcoe

Management Science

Issue:57

2011

Pages: 1469-1484.
Over-Confidence May Reduce Negotiation Delay

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Issue:76

2010

Pages: 716-733.
Patent Thickets, Courts and the Market for Innovation (paper + online appendix)

with Mark Schankerman

RAND Journal of Economics

Issue:41

2010

Pages: 472-503.
Coordination and Bargaining Power in Contracting with Externalities

Journal of Economic Theory

Issue:143

2008

Pages: 558-570.

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Finding the right innovation ecosystem

with Ajay Agrawal

in Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, J. Gans and S. Kaplan (Eds.)

2017

Pages: 135-157.