{"591793":{"#nid":"591793","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Welcome Alan Marco to the School of Public Policy!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EDr. Marco is an economist, who specializes in the following fields:\u0026nbsp; innovation and patent policy; science and technology policy; industrial organization; game theory; law and economics; intellectual property strategy and management; big data analytics; and other areas related to regulation and empirical legal studies.\u0026nbsp; He comes to us from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where he held the position of Chief Economist.\u0026nbsp; Prior to the USPTO, he held faculty positions as associate professor in the Williams School of Commerce at Washington and Lee University and associate professor of economics at Vassar College.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EAt the USPTO, Dr. Marco\u0026rsquo;s research focused on policy-relevant topics in intellectual property.\u0026nbsp; He is the co-creator of the USPTO\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/PatentsView.org\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPatentsView.org\u003C\/a\u003E, a free and open platform for exploring and accessing high-quality patent data.\u0026nbsp; He also was the co-lead on the Cancer Moonshot Patent Challenge as part of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, and he participated in the G-20 Innovation Task Force.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Marco has published academic articles on the intellectual property marketplace, uncertainty in intellectual property rights, patent valuation, and high-tech mergers.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EDr. Marco earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley and his B.A. in mathematics and economics from Skidmore College.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Alan Marco joins the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech as a tenured Associate Professor. "}],"uid":"34457","created_gmt":"2017-05-16 13:06:12","changed_gmt":"2017-05-16 13:13:49","author":"bw164","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591795":{"id":"591795","type":"image","title":"Dr. Alan Marco","body":null,"created":"1494940301","gmt_created":"2017-05-16 13:11:41","changed":"1494940301","gmt_changed":"2017-05-16 13:11:41","alt":"Dr. Alan Marco\u0027s Headshot","file":{"fid":"225548","name":"image003.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image003.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image003.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4458,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image003.jpg?itok=2Vca2Abp"}}},"media_ids":["591795"],"groups":[{"id":"588344","name":"Georgia Tech Intellectual Property"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}