DANIEL K.N. JOHNSON
Gerald L. Schlessman Professor of Economics,
Associate Chair of Economics and Business Department,
and Director of the Innovative Minds Program
Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 389-6654 or (719) 487-8025 or (719) 304-4410
djohnson@coloradocollege.edu
http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~djohnson
research papers at http://papers.ssrn.com/author=57030
Education:
PhD in Economics, Yale University, 1998
MSc in Economics, London School of Economics, 1992
BSocSci Honors in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Ottawa, Canada, with
secondary concentration in International and Comparative Politics, 1991
Distinctions:
Nominee, Colorado College Business & Community Alliance Award for valuable contributions
to campus-community relations, 2008-09
Mellon Research Blocks for research release time, 2006-07 and 2007-08
Sidney G. Winter Prize by vote of colleagues for worthy contributions to the Department of
Economics and Business at Colorado College, 2005-06
Mrachek Fellowship for research on the economic geography of U.S. innovation, 2005-06
Colorado College Social Sciences Executive Committee Research Grants, 10 awards, 2004-10
Banco do Brasil / University of Brasilia Economics Prize for best paper applying economic
analysis to Brazilian issues over preceding two years, 2003
National Science Foundation Awards for Integration of Research & Education, 5 awards,
1999-2003
Best Paper Award, International Applied Business Research Conference, 2003
Wellesley College Faculty Research Grants, 6 awards, 1997-2004
Raymond Powell Teaching Prize for excellence in instruction, nominated by undergraduates at
Yale University, 1996-97
Yale University Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1997
John F. Enders Research Fellow, 1996
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow, 1995-1996
Coca-Cola World Fund Fellow, Rio de Janeiro, 1996, and Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1995
International Honor Society in Economics Merit Certificate, 1995
Yale Academic Scholar with full stipend, 1992-96
Commonwealth Scholar, 1991-92
University of Ottawa Gold Medal, top standing in Honors Social Sciences, 1991
University of Ottawa Academic Scholar, 1987-91
Lutheran Life Scholar, 1987-91
Ontario Scholar 1987
Teaching:
Gerald L. Schlessman Professor of Economics, Colorado College, 2009-present
Includes experience at all levels of the curriculum, both electives and prerequisites.
Experience with team-teaching, field-work and out-of-state courses, First Year Experience
courses , technology-based and more traditional pedagogical styles.
Associate Professor, Colorado College, 2008-09; Assistant Professor 2004-08
Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, 1999-2004; Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997-99
Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Summer 1999
Head Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1996; Part-time Acting Instructor, 1995; Tutor for six
Courses, 1994-96; Teaching Fellow, 1994
Publications (undergraduate student co-authors indicated by *):
Refereed journal articles
‘Semester, Trimester or Block Plan? Retention of Economics Principles by Undergraduates on Alternative Curricular Structures’. Daniel K.N. Johnson, Kristina M. Lybecker and
Corrine H. Taylor. Forthcoming Journal of Education for Business.
‘Doing Publishable Research With Undergraduates’. Aju Fenn, Daniel K.N. Johnson, Mark
Smith and Larry Stimpert. Journal of Economic Education, 41(3), July 2010, p. 259-274.
‘Fueling the Innovative Process: Oil Prices and Induced Innovation in Automotive Energy- Efficient Technology’. Joseph M. Crabb* and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Energy Journal, 31(1),
January 2010, p. 199-216.
‘Are Many Heads Better Than Two? Recent Changes in International Technological Collaboration’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Katherine A. Sneed*. Journal of Law, Ethics and
Intellectual Property, 3(1), June 2009, p.1-9.
‘Who REALLY Wants to Be A Millionaire: Game Show Contestant Behavior Under Risk’. Daniel
K.N. Johnson and Tracy R. Gleason. Social Science Quarterly, 90(2), June 2009, p. 243-261.
‘Not Far From the Madding Crowd: The Role of Proximity in Biotechnology Innovation’. Daniel
K.N. Johnson. International Review of Business Research, 5(2), March 2009, p. 402-410.
‘Selling Ideas: The Determinants of Patent Value in an Auction Environment’. Katherine A.
Sneed* and Daniel K.N. Johnson. R&D Management, 39(1), January, 2009, p. 87-94.
‘Six Degrees of GM Bacon: Network Analysis of Biotechnology Inventors’. Daniel K.N. Johnson.
International Journal of Technology and Globalisation 4(2), Spring 2008, p. 139-147.
‘Seeing is Believing: Mathematics Visualization in Economics Education’. Daniel K.N. Johnson.
Journal of College Teaching and Learning 4(11), November 2007, p.61-64.
‘The Demise of Distance? The Declining Role of Physical Distance in Knowledge Transmission’.
Daniel K.N. Johnson, Nalyn Siripong* & Amy S. Brown*. Growth and Change 37(1), March
2006, p. 19-33.
‘A Tale of Two Seasons: Participation and Success at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games’.
Daniel K.N. Johnson and Ayfer Ali*. Social Science Quarterly 85(4), December 2004, p. 974-
993.
‘Time in Purgatory: Determinants of the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications’. David C.
Popp, Ted Juhl and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy 4(1), 2004,
Article 29. Previously NBER Working Paper 9518.
‘How the West Has Won: Regional and Industrial Inversion in U.S. Patent Activity’. Daniel K.N.
Johnson and Amy S. Brown*. Economic Geography 80(3), July 2004, p.241-260.
‘Forced Out of the Closet: The Impact of the American Inventors Protection Act on the Timing of Patent Disclosure’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and David Popp. Rand Journal of Economics
34(1), Spring 2003, p. 96-112. Previously NBER Working Paper 8374.
‘Learning-by-Licensing: R&D and Technology Licensing in Brazilian Invention’. Daniel K.N.
Johnson. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 11(3), June 2002, p. 163-177.
‘R&D Spillovers to Agriculture: Measurement and Applications’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and
Robert E. Evenson. Contemporary Economic Policy 17(4) Oct 1999, p.432-456.
‘Getting Noticed in Economics: Determinants of Citations to Journal Articles’. Daniel K.N.
Johnson. American Economist 41(1), Spring 1997, p.43-52.
Conference proceedings, collected volumes and books
‘It's a Small(er) World: The Role of Geography and Networks in Biotechnology Innovation’.
Daniel K.N. Johnson. Proceedings of Ninth International Business Research Conference,
World Business Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 2008.
‘Private Agricultural Research’. Carl E. Pray, Keith O. Fuglie and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Chapter
49 of Handbook of Agricultural Economics Volume 3. North-Holland Elsevier Press,
2007.
‘U.S. Patents by Industry of Manufacture and by Sector of Use, 1849-1999’. Contribution to
Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenial Edition, Cambridge University Press,
2003.
‘How Far Away Is Africa? Technological Spillovers to Agriculture and Productivity’. Daniel
K.N. Johnson and Robert E. Evenson. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(3),
August 2000, p. 743-749. (conference proceedings)
Conference proceedings, collected volumes and books (cont.)
‘Biotechnology Inventions: What Can We Learn From Patents?’ Daniel K.N. Johnson and
Vittorio Santaniello. Chapter for Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology, edited by V. Santaniello et al.,
CABI Publishing, 2000.
‘Innovation and Invention in Canada’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Robert E. Evenson. Economic
Systems Research 9(2), June 1997, p.177-192. In a special issue of the journal which I co-
edited.
‘Introduction: Invention Input-Output Analysis’. Robert E. Evenson and Daniel K.N. Johnson.
Economic Systems Research 9(2), June 1997, p.149-160. In a special issue of the journal which
I co-edited.
Three Essays on Technology Licensing and R&D in Brazil. Doctoral dissertation, Yale University
Department of Economics, 1998.
Working papers under revision for requested resubmission
‘An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? Short- and Long-Run Effects of Pharmaceutical Patents on U.S Health Care Expenditures’. Hilary S. Johnson* and Daniel K.N. Johnson.
Colorado College Department of Economics and Business Working Paper 2009-01. Under
revision for requested resubmission to Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
‘Does HAVA help the Have-Nots? US adoption of new election equipment 1980-2008’. Daniel
.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Colorado College Department of Economics and
Business Working Paper 2008-08. Under revision for requested resubmission to Growth
and Change.
'Davids' are not small 'Goliaths': R&D and Technology Licensing in Brazilian Production’.
Daniel K.N. Johnson. Under revision for requested resubmission to Research Policy.
‘Does distance make the heart grow fonder? The role of geography in biotechnological
innovation’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Under revision for
requested resubmission to Review of Industrial Organization.
Working papers (excluding those published elsewhere)
‘Is Wal~Mart a Bad Neighbor? Repeat sales evidence on how residential property values react to a new Big-box store’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Colorado College
Department of Economics and Business Working Paper 2010-08. Under review by
Economic Inquiry.
‘Fruits of Their Neighbors: The Role of Geography in Agricultural Innovation’. Alex Julian
Stiller-Shulman*, Kristina M. Lybecker and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Colorado College
Department of Economics and Business Working Paper 2010-07. Under review by the
American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
‘Lending a Hand: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Microlending’s Poverty Impact’. Stephen
W. Polk* and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Colorado College Department of Economics and Business
Working Paper 2009-10. Under review by the World Development.
‘The NWIMBY Effect (No WalMart In My Backyard: Big Box Stores and Residential Property Values’. Daniel K.N. Johnson, Kristina M. Lybecker, Nicole Gurley*, Alex Stiller-
Schulman* and Stephen Fischer. Colorado College Department of Economics and Business
Working Paper 2009-09. Under review by Real Estate Economics.
‘The Anatomy of a Likely Donor: Econometric Evidence on Philanthropy to Higher Education’.
Christen Lara* and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Colorado College Department of Economics and
Business Working Paper 2008-05. Under review by Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Commissioned work
‘Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRs in Brazil’. Kristina M. Lybecker and Daniel
K.N. Johnson. Commissioned by the Organization For Economic Cooperation and
Development, Paris, April 2010.
‘Innovating for an Uncertain Market: A Literature Review of the Constraints on Environmental Innovation’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Colorado College Department
of Economics and Business Working Paper 2009-06. Commissioned by the National Peace Foundation.
‘Challenges to Technology Transfer: A Literature Review of the Constraints on Environmental Technology Dissemination’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Colorado
College Department of Economics and Business Working Paper 2009-07. Commissioned by the
National Peace Foundation.
‘Financing Environmental Improvements: A Literature Review of the Constraints on Financing Environmental Innovation’. Daniel K.N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker. Colorado
College Department of Economics and Business Working Paper 2009-08. Commissioned
by the National Peace Foundation.
‘Thought for Food: A New Dataset on Innovation for Agricultural Use’. Daniel K.N. Johnson
and Christopher R. Hughes.* Colorado College Department of Economics and Business
Working Paper 2009-03. Commissioned by the US Department of Agriculture Economic
Research Service.
‘European Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions Issued to Small and Medium
Enterprises’, Commissioned by Business Software Alliance and Aesir Consulting to
inform European Parliament legislative decision, 2005
‘The OECD Technology Concordance (OTC): Patents by Industry of Manufacture and Sector of
Use’, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Science Technology and Industry
Working Paper 2002-5. Includes software written for download from the OECD website.
‘Invention in Less Developed Nations’, Daniel K.N. Johnson and Robert E. Evenson. Background
Paper for World Development Report 1998, World Bank.
‘Patented Inventions in Japan and the United States: An International and Interindustry
Comparison’, Robert E. Evenson and Daniel K.N. Johnson. Commissioned by the Institute
of Intellectual Property, March, 1996.
‘The Import Coverage of Tribunal Injury Rulings’, Daniel K.N. Johnson and Paul Berlinguette.
Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 1994.
‘A Consistent Pooled Data Set of Government Finance Statistics’, Daniel K.N. Johnson and
Marie- Diane Hudon*, Economic Council of Canada, 1991.
‘The Price Elasticities of Foreign Demand for Kenya's Exports’, Eugene Beaulieu and Daniel
Johnson, Kenya Long-Range Planning Unit of Ministry of Planning and National
Development, Research Paper 90-11.
‘Kenya's Export Performance, 1971-1986: A Constant Market Share Analysis’, Eugene Beaulieu
and Daniel Johnson, Kenya Long-Range Planning Unit of Ministry of Planning and
National Development, Research Paper 90-10.
‘Input-Output Tables at Constant Prices for Kenya, 1967-1986’, Sylvester Damus, Eugene
Beaulieu and Daniel Johnson, Kenya Long-Range Planning Unit of Ministry of Planning
and National Development, Research Paper 89-12.
‘Input-Output Tables for Kenya, 1986’, Sylvester Damus and Daniel Johnson, Kenya Long-Range
Planning Unit of Ministry of Planning and National Development, Research Paper 89-07.
Contributions also published in Reader’s Digest, Lutheran Magazine, Canada Lutheran,
Colorado Springs Business Journal, Tri-Lakes Tribune.
Professional Presentations:
American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC, June 2010
Hawaii International Business Conference, Honolulu, May 2010
Invited speaker, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Inter-regional Forum on
Intellectual Property policy, Delhi, November 2009. Two presentations: Intellectual Property as a Tripod: Three Ways in Which IP Can Mitigate the Impact of Economic Crisis, and Where the Streets have no Name: Fostering Linkages between Public and Private Research
Invited speaker, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Conference on Intellectual
Property and Public Policy Issues, Geneva, July 2009
American Economic Association meetings, San Francisco, January 2009 (two posters)
Ninth International Business Research Conference, Melbourne Australia, November 2008
Keynote address, Colorado Springs Leadership Initiative, April 2007
Rocky Mountain Technology Alliance Leadership Forum, Colorado Springs, November 2006
Applied Business & Entrepreneurship Association International meetings, Kauai, November
2005
Invited speaker, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) joint workshop on Statistics in the Patent Field,
Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003
International Applied Business Research Conference, Acapulco, March 2003
American Economic Association meetings, Washington, DC, January 2003
Invited speaker and session chair for International Conference on Emerging International Policy
Issues in Science, Technology and Innovation, Harvard, September 2002
Invited contribution and discussant to Conference on Agricultural Producers and Productivity
in Less Developed Nations, Bretton Woods, September 2002
Invited speaker, Rutgers University Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics,
March 2001
Invited speaker, Harvard University Center for International Development conference Raising
Productivity in the Tropics: Biophysical Challenges for Technology & Policy, Oct 2000
American Agricultural Economics Association meetings, Boston, January 2000
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, July 1999
Invited speaker, Babson University Brazilian Awareness Week, May 1999
Social Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November 1998
United Nations University Institute for New Technologies Conference on Economics of
Industrial Structure and Innovation Dynamics, Lisbon, October 1998
Invited instructor, Tubingen Seminar on Institutional Requirements for Emerging Market
Development in the Transition Economies, July 1998
American Agricultural Economics Association meetings, Chicago, January 1998
Northeast Universities Development Consortium conference, Williams College, October 1997
Invited instructor, Tubingen Seminar on Agribusiness in the Transition Economies, July 1997
Invited discussant, Conference on Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in Japan, Yale
University, May 1997
Economic Development Society first annual convention, Boston, October 1996
International Conference on Input-Output Techniques, Semi-Plenary Session, New Delhi,
November 1995
Invited speaker, Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, Omicron Delta Epsilon Session,
Washington, January 1995
Press coverage of research in over 300 media stories. Those stories range from live coast-to-coast
television spots, to talk radio, to newsmagazine/newspaper stories, to webcasts/blogs.
They include CBC’s evening news ‘The National’, CTV National News, Canada AM, CBC
Radio, the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters
Newswire, National Public Radio’s ‘All Things Considered’, Washington Post, MSNBC,
China Business News, BBC World Service, London Sunday Times, Times of India, South Asian Investor Review, Veja Brasil, Agence France Presse, Cinco Dias (Spain), 2000-
present
Leadership experience:
Associate Chair of Economics and Business Department, Colorado College, 2010-present
Faculty Advisor, Student Advisory Board to Economics and Business Department, Colorado
College, 2010-present
Co-chair of Colorado College Health Center Evaluation Working Group, 2010-present
Designed, launched and analyzed a survey of the community, and visited peer
institutions to make recommendations about the future of health care for the College.
Participant, Faculty Leadership Forum at Colorado College, 2009-10
Spent a year studying leadership skills, and leaderships practices at the College, to advise
the College on leadership issues (including a written report on enrollment management).
Chair of Compensation Committee, Colorado College, 2009-present
Developed and helped to implement new benefits programs and salary models for
employees.
Board of Directors, Tri-Lakes Economic Development Corporation, 2009-10; Secretary 2008-09
Admissions and Advancement Liaison, Economics and Business Department, Colorado College,
2008-present. Visited dozens of alumni annually, gave Admissions talks to prospective
students, both on campus and worldwide.
Faculty Advisor, Rocky Mountain Undergraduate Review, 2008-present
Founding Faculty Advisor, Entrepreneurship Club, Colorado College, 2007-present
Chair of Advancement Advisory Committee, Colorado College, 2007-2008
Developed and initiated plans to involve faculty in Advancement efforts.
Economic Vitality Group Board Member, Colorado Springs Economic Development
Corporation, 2006-09
Coach, YMCA soccer, 2006-08
Member of Business and Community Alliance Board, Colorado College, 2006-present
Founder of Innovative Minds Program, Colorado College, 2006-present
Identified funding and brought luminary innovators to campus from around the globe.
Academic Events Committee, Colorado College, 2006-07
Took personal initiative to transform the major event on campus, Fall Conference, into its
current form as a true conference with team-based presentations by faculty and staff.
Dean’s Advisory Committee, Colorado College, 2005-06
Approved student research proposals and verified graduation eligibility.
Founder and Director, Innovative Minds Program at Colorado College, 2004-present
Other professional experience:
Research contracts with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2001 & 2010
Research contracts with the United States Department of Agriculture, 1998 & 2007-09
Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Grants for inter-institutional Collaboration, 2 awards
2004-10 (London School of Economics; Pitzer College Program in Bhaktapur, Nepal)
Discussant, McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008
Participant, International Symposium on Bio-safety of Genetically Modified Organisms,
Wellington, New Zealand, 2008
Consultant, Grameen Foundation 2008-present
Primary Investigator, grant from US Department of Agriculture, 2007-09
Editorial Review Board, Scientific Journals International, 2007-2009
Participant, Keck Workshop on Leadership Across the Liberal Arts Curriculum, Claremont 2007
Participant, Colorado College Technology Incubator Program, 2006-08
Participant, American Economic Association Teaching Innovations Program, Santa Fe 2006
Founder and President, Economics of Technology Consulting, LLC, 2006-present
Created and distributed software to help surgery offices track patient status; created and
distributed newsletter to help academics monitor journal abstracts and economic data
Participant, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) joint workshop on Statistics in the Patent Field,
Geneva, Switzerland, September 2005
Participant, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education’s Urban Studies Program
for Faculty, Technologists and Librarians, Hartford 2005
Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard University's Center for International Development – Science,
Technology and Innovation Program, 2001-02
Member of Admissions Committee, Wellesley College, 2000-02
Read admissions files and made recommendations within committee.
Research subcontractor, grant from European Social Research Council, 1998
Primary Investigator, grant from Institute of International Property, Tokyo, 1997
Co-editor, Special Issue of Economic Systems Research, 1997
Economist, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, 1993
Economist, Economic Council of Canada, 1991
Research consultant, Kenya Long Range Planning Unit at Carleton University, Ottawa, Summers
of 1989 and 1990
Other interests:
Member of Broadmoor Curling Club 2007-09
Prize-winning photos published in two travel publications
Grade IX Piano with Honors from Royal Conservatory of Music
Active geocacher and skier
About Colorado College
Colorado College is a nationally prominent, four-year liberal arts and sciences college that was founded in Colorado Springs in 1874. The college operates on the innovative Block Plan, in which its 2,025 students study one course at a time in intensive 3½-week segments. For more information, visit www.ColoradoCollege.edu