Barry Bozeman is Director, School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was Director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Affairs. Bozeman's research concentrations include R&D Policy and Organization Theory. His books on R&D Policy include Investments in Technology: Corporate Strategy and Public Policy (with Albert Link) and Strategic Management of Industrial R&D (with Albert Link and Michael Crow).

For the past thirteen years he has been co-director of the National Comparative Research and Development Project, a multinational project involving more than 30 researchers in four countries focusing on the structure and policy environment of R&D laboratories. Currently, Bozeman is directing a three-year project using the "R&D Value Mapping" evaluation approach to examine the impacts of government-funded basic research on innovation and technology commercialization.