Dr. Marie Thursby is currently a Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship at the College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as an adjunct professorship in Economics at Emory University.

She is the founding Director of a graduate certificate program at Georgia Tech and Emory University called Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER^®). Designed for doctoral students in science, engineering, and management and MBA students from Georgia Tech, as well as JD and doctoral students in law and economics from Emory, the program connects integrated research in diverse technology fields with the business, legal, and organizational issues important for understanding commercialization of fundamental research. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation, Warren Batts, Rich and Donna Crutchfield, the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, and Hal and John Smith.

She has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research for twenty years and serves on several major journal editorial boards, including Management Science and the Journal of Technology Transfer.

Thursby has published extensively on the economics of innovation, with particular emphasis on the industrial impact of university research, international R&D competition, and optimal license strategies. Other research interests include international economics and industrial organization, with a focus on how government policies and industry interact to determine competitiveness. She has received research funding from the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, General Motors Corporation, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Professor Thursby has held faculty appointments at University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Syracuse University, and North Carolina State University.

Selected Publications
• Thursby, Jerry and Marie Thursby. March 2007. Knowledge Creation and Diffusion of Public Science with Intellectual Property Rights. "Intellectual Property Rights and Technical Change," Frontiers in Economics Series, Vol. 2, Elsevier Ltd.
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Related Links
• TI:GER Website