Dan Breznitz
Innovation policy scholar and professor
Dan Breznitz is a Canadian scholar of innovation policy and a University Professor at the University of Toronto. He wrote Innovation in Real Places.
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About Dan Breznitz
Dan Breznitz holds the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and he co-directs the Innovation Policy Lab at the University of Toronto. In 2019 he co-founded a program on innovation, equity and the future of prosperity at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Before moving to Toronto, he spent eight years as a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career he founded and ran a small software company. His books include Innovation and the State, The Run of the Red Queen and Innovation in Real Places. The Financial Times listed the last of these among its picks for 2021, and it also received the first Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.