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Office: 471 RBC
Phone: 610-758-4954
Fax: 610-758-4677
Email: watkins@lehigh.edu

Todd A. Watkins is an Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at Lehigh University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Regional Political Economy. He holds Ph.D. and M.P.P. degrees from Harvard University, and a B.S. from the University of Rochester. Prior to graduate studies, he worked in Optical Design and Optical Manufacturing Engineering for the Eastman Kodak. Author of more than 50 related publications, his research focuses on technology policy, photonics industries, defense and aeronautics industries, dual-use manufacturing and on the economics of innovation. He has published in Science, and well as Research Policy, Issues in Science and Technology, Technology Review, Defence and Peace Economics, and other journals and books. Teaching areas encompass the role of technology and innovation in trade & economic growth; as well as managerial economics; technical entrepreneurship and new product development. He co-founded Lehigh’s Community Research and Policy Service(Lehigh CORPS), was one of the founders of Lehigh’s Integrated Product Development Program, national winner of the ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, and chaired the committee that created Lehigh’s undergraduate Entrepreneurship program. Watkins also won the 2002 Outstanding Instructor award from the National Technology University, for his teaching via distance learning. From 2004-6, he served as a member of The National Academies’ Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies, to advise NASA on improving their innovation processes.

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