Daniel K.N. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where he teaches courses on the economics of technological change and international trade theory. For 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Development, pursuing his research within the Science, Technology and Innovation Program.
Recent research includes papers on U.S. patent policy (Rand Journal of Economics, 2003), and technological activity in Brazil (Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2002), and agricultural productivity in less developed nations (Contemporary Economic Policy, 1999 and American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000). He has written background papers on the measurement of invention by industry for the OECD (2002), the World Bank's World Development Report (1998) and Japan's Institute of Intellectual Property (1996), and has published papers on the topic in Economic Systems Research (1997) and Historical Statistics of the United States (2003). His web site is the gateway to a unique compilation of international patent data, accessible at http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/johnson.
He completed his undergraduate training in Economics and International Politics at the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1991 before accepting a Commonwealth Scholarship to obtain a Master's degree at the London School of Economics in 1992. He then spent five years at Yale University completing his doctorate with a dissertation titled "Three Essays on R&D and Technology Licensing in Brazil." While there, he received the Raymond Powell Teaching Award for which he was nominated by undergraduates. He has held positions as a research economist with the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Economic Council of Canada, and the Kenya Long-Range Planning Unit, authoring research papers on trade policy and public finance issues.