Dr. Bowman Heiden is the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law.
He is the co-founder of the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, and ICM Global. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Heiden has also managed over 200 innovation projects with industry, university research institutes, healthcare providers, and start-up ventures.
Dr. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics, and his research is at the interdisciplinary interface of economics, law, and innovation, in particular, intellectual property, innovation economics, competition policy, and geopolitics in knowledge-intensive sectors. Before turning his focus to the fields of innovation strategy and policy, Dr. Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries. This is why, he likes to joke, he is so tall.
Some of his recent papers discuss the issues of the economic impact of patent holdout, which he and his co-author Justus Baron say caused innovators to lose between seven and 28 billion dollars in 2021 (August 5, 2025 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology paper), as well as the debate on public vs. private market interventions (July 8, 2021 SSRN paper).
Many of our readers will be familiar with Dr. Heiden’s papers, particularly those published on the EU’s now-tabled SEP regulation. But for those who perhaps are not, our latest podcast episode, released today, features an interview with Dr. Heiden about his successful career, which has taken him from Sweden to the U.S. and Qatar, as well as his outlook on the UK’s proposed SEP measures and the type of empirical evidence needed to help the SEP policy debate progress healthily, among other topics.
You can find the recording on Spotify:
The planning and production of this podcast were supported by Ericsson, but Dr. Heiden voiced only his own and independent opinions.