Dan Breznitz

Dan Breznitz is a University Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy with a cross-appointment in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. At the University, he is also the Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. He is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research CIFAR, where he co-created and served as the Co-Director of the program on Innovation, Equity and the Future of Prosperity (IEP) a radical multidisciplinary program spanning the humanities, law, social science, and engineering, in a common aim to develop a new interdisciplinary sub-field. Breznitz is known worldwide as an expert on rapid-innovation-based industries and their globalization, as well as for his pioneering research on the distributional impact of innovation policies. He has been a member of several boards, and has served as an advisor on science, technology, and innovation polici