Md Razib Alam earned his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Waterloo in 2020. His main research area is in the management of technology. His Ph.D. work focuses on the dynamics of Canada’s innovation landscape and technological diversity, ownership of Canadian inventions, and university intellectual property policy. Razib is an expert on developing insights using millions of patent data. He is currently working on several projects related to IP policy and entrepreneurial start-up formation at universities, blockchain technology, and vaccine patents. Razib has extensive teaching experience at several universities, including the University of Waterloo. During the Ph.D. program, he was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the President’s Graduate Scholarship of the University of Waterloo, the UW/NSERC Graduate Scholarship, and the best Teaching Assistant award. He has expertise in dealing with large datasets, such as databases of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Crunchbase, and Statistics Canada. Razib obtained a master’s degree in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo and gained experience developing sales mechanisms for digital products in the presence of piracy. Razib also holds Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degrees from Dhaka University.
Razib's recent technology policy-related research has appeared in Elsevier's Technological Forecasting and Social Change journal and Oxford University's world-class journal on public policies for science, technology, and innovation. Please click on the links:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040162521007988
https://academic.oup.com/spp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/scipol/scab057/6368429
