Bio
Gaétan de Rassenfosse is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at EPFL in Switzerland, where he leads the STIP Lab. An economist by training, he develops and uses large-scale patent data to study innovation and the workings of the patent system. His data-focused research includes new measures of inventive activity, datasets on patent geography and scientific citations, and work on citations within patent documents. It has appeared in Scientific Data, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. He also created IPRoduct, a database linking patents to the products they protect, and writes The Patentist, a research-based publication on patents and innovation. In 2026, he was part of the Red-Cube Coders team, which placed second at the European Patent Office’s CodeFest with a solution for assessing the technical strength and commercial value of patents.