Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
email : sasan.bakhtiari@xjtlu.edu.cn
Microeconometrics,
Business Dynamics,
R&D and Innovation,
Productivity.
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Not So Short Bio
I started as an engineer, receiving my bachelor's in Electronics and then my Master's in Control and System Theory From the University of Tehran. However, my interests shifted and I completed my doctorate in economics at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2007. My expertise is in the production and analysis of huge firm-level data matched from various sources. I am currently interested in the mechanics of growth, innovation and networking among firms. I have experience of working in both government and academia and use it to specially make policy relevant studies.
Different topics I have been studying over the past years include outsourcing decisions and their effect on the business performance, R&D and knowledge spillover, and innovation, networking and patenting among firms. Currently, I am using patent data from different countries to study how the positioning of universities and government research labs in the network of collaborations facilitates knowledge diffusion and spews innovations.
Network of collaborations in Australia. CSIRO is the main government research body. R,G, and F stand for Research (Universities), Government and Foreign organisations.
Last Update July 1, 2024