Nathan Rosenberg is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He was educated at Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin and Oxford University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Purdue University, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, The London School of Economics, and Cambridge University.

Professor Rosenberg’s primary research activities have been in the economics of technological change. His publications have addressed both the questions of the determinants and the consequences of technological change. His research has examined the diversity of the forces generating technological change across industrial boundary lines, as well as the mutual influences between scientific research and technological innovation. Professor Rosenberg’s books include The American System of Manufactures, Perspectives on Technology, Inside the Black Box, Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth (with David Mowery), How the West Grew Rich (with L.E. Birdzell, Jr.), Exploring the Black Box, and, most recently, The Emergence of Economic Ideas.

Professor Rosenberg has served as chairman of the Stanford Economic Department. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, chairman of the advisory board of the UN Institute for New Technology, and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Lund and the University of Bologna.