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Grant Black
Grant Black is an economist at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. He has contributed to research funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the South African Revenue Service, and the United States Agency for International Development. He has participated in national and international conferences on science and technology policy issues and is a regular participant in the Scientific Workforce Project sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Black's research interests focus on the economics of science, including the transfer of knowledge in the economy, the geographic dimension of innovation, and the education and careers of scientists. Recent research has examined the importance of the local knowledge infrastructure to small-firm innovation, patent activity in academe, the location decision of foreign-born doctorate recipients, industrial placements of new Ph.D.s, and patterns of research collaboration. Other research has focused on the impact of immigration on scientific labor markets; women and minorities in the sciences; and educational training and labor market outcomes in the emerging field of bioinformatics. Black is also knowledgeable about the Small Business Innovation Research Program, the largest federal R&D program targeting small high-tech businesses.
Black received a B.S. and M.A. in economics from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University. He has taught economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Georgia State University, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in spring 2002. His collaborative work on foreign-born Ph.D. recipients has received considerable media attention. He is the author of The Geography of Small Firm Innovation forthcoming from Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003).
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