Wesley Cohen joined the faculty of the Fuqua School of Business after teaching at Carnegie Mellon University for twenty years. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Cohen's research has mainly focused on the economics 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 (especially patents) and the links between university research and industrial R&D. He has published in numerous scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Research Policy and the Strategic Management Journal. He served for five years as a Main Editor for Research Policy and currently serves on the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy.

Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D., is director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy at Duke, a center which has close ties to the Duke IP Program. Cook-Deegan is the author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome, a chronicle of the genesis of the Human Genome Project and one of the foremost books on the recent revolution in human genetics. Until July 2002, he directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship program at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, where he is completing a primer on how national policy decisions are made about health research.

Tracy Lewis is director of the Innovation Center at Duke. Lewis has published dozens of influential articles and book chapters, and is recognized as a leading authority in the economics of regulation and financial contracting. Lewis has held academic appointments at the California Institute of Technology, the University of British Columbia, and the University of California, Davis. He is co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, a member of the American Economic Review editorial board, and an economic advisor and consultant to the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and the World Bank.