Seminar Series Ben Roin

Seminar Topic: Solving the Problem of New Uses: Incentivizing the Repurposing of Off-Patent Drugs

Ben Roin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

University of Southern California
Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD) 116

About Ben Roin:

Ben’s work focuses on entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and innovation policy.  His primary areas of research are patent law and biopharmaceutical innovation.  Prior to joining the Sloan faculty in 2014, Ben was the Hieken Assistant Professor of Patent Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught courses on patent law, trade secrecy, and torts.  Before joining the Harvard Law School Faculty in 2008, he was an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Michael McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.  He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 2000 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2005.