Bon Koo

Bon Koo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

His principal areas of research include the economics of R&D and intellectual property rights, management of technology, science and technology policy, and the economics of biotechnology.

Dr. Koo is affiliated with the International Science & Technology Practice & Policy (InSTePP) at the University of Minnesota. He has published several reports, journals, and articles on topics such as intellectual property rights policies, R&D and innovation, technology standards, conservation of genetic resources and biotechnology.

• Technology management and innovation, Economics of intellectual property rights, Licensing and contracts in technology, open source innovation, Economics of biotechnology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, R&D and Innovation Incentive, Intellectual Property Rights, Licensing and Contracts, Green Technology

• 1998, Doctorate Agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

• 1996, Master's Agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

• 1991, Master's Economics, Yonsei University, S. Korea

• 1989, Bachelor's Economics, Yonsei University, S. Korea

• 2001 Outstanding paper on plant genetic resources awarded by the Crop Science Society of America.

• MSCI 261 - Engineering Economics: Financial Management for Engineers
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• MSCI 607 - Applied Economics for Management
  • Taught in 2020, 2021
• MSCI 744 - Science and Technology Policy
  • Taught in 2024
• MSE 261 - Engineering Economics: Financial Management for Engineers
  • Taught in 2024
• MSE 744 - Science and Technology Policy
  • Taught in 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Cozzarin, Brian

  Weonseek Kim

  Bonwoo Koo, Does Organizational Innovation Moderate Technical Innovation Directly or Indirectly?, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, , 0000

• Pardey, Philip and Koo, Bonwoo and Drew, Jennifer and Horwich, Jeffrey and Nottenburg, Carol, The evolving landscape of plant varietal rights in the United States, 1930-2008, Nature biotechnology, 25, 2013

• Kim, Teakdong and Koo, Bonwoo and Park, Minsoo, Role of financial regulation and innovation in the financial crisis, Journal of Financial stability, 662, 2013

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• Kim, Weonseek and Koo, Bonwoo, A Patent System with a Contingent Delegation Fee under Asymmetric Information, The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, , 2012

• Narayanan, Meyyappan and Koo, Bonwoo and Cozzarin, Brian Paul, Fear of fraud and Internet purchasing, Applied Economics Letters, 1615, 2012

• Koo, Bonwoo and Mantin, Benny and O'Connor, Peter, Online distribution of airline tickets: Should airlines adopt a single or a multi-channel approach?, Tourism Management, 69, 2011

• Koo, Bonwoo and Wright, Brian D, Dynamic effects of patent policy on sequential innovation, Journal of Economics \\& Management Strategy, 489, 2010

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