Practitioner in Residence
Ani Harutyunyan, PhD is a Practitioner in Residence at C-IP2 and was previously an Edison Innovation Law and Policy Fellow with C-IP2 and the Director of Research at Sunwater Institute. As a Principal Investigator, she has led several research initiatives funded by various organizations, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP).
Dr. Harutyunyan holds a PhD in Economics and has published widely in top economics and multidisciplinary scientific journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Comparative Economic Studies, Eurasian Economic Review, European Journal of Development Research, International Migration Review, and Economics Letters. In 2022, she was awarded the Bergson Prize for the best-published paper by the Association for Comparative Economic Studies.
She has contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights and has authored multiple influential policy reports, including “Patent Quality in the United States: Findings and Suggestions for Policymakers.”
More information about her research can be found at www.AniHarutyunyan.com.