DURHAM , N.C. - Wesley M. Cohen, Professor of Economics and Management, was awarded the Distinguished Frederick C. Joerg Professorship for his outstanding research and scholarship in his field. The ceremony took place at the annual dinner honoring new chaired professors at Duke University on April 29.

Wesley M. Cohen Professor of Economics and Management

Cohen is one of the nation's leading applied economists working in the area of technological change and R&D. He has examined the links between firm size, market structure and innovation, firm learning, the determinants of innovative activity across industries and firms, the knowledge flows affecting innovation, the means that firms use to protect their intellectual property and the impacts of university research on industrial R&D. In recent years, he has also emerged as a leading authority on the economics of patent policy.

He has published in numerous scholarly journals, such as the American EconomicReview, the Economic Journal, Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Management Science , and co-edited the recently published, Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy.

Cohen joined the faculty of Fuqua from Carnegie Mellon University in September 2002, and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

May 24, 2004