Jordan Bisset

Jordan Bisset is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research group) since June 2025 and an Affiliated Researcher at KU Leuven's Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation since January 2025. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at Bocconi University's IGIER (2024-2025) and completed his Ph.D. in Business Economics at KU Leuven.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Business Economics, KU Leuven (2020-2024)
• M.Sc. in Economics, KU Leuven (2017-2018)
• M.A. (Hons) in Management, University of Edinburgh (2013-2017)

Dr. Bisset's research centers on Economics of Innovation and Organizational Economics, with emphasis on inventor mobility dynamics and R&D organization. He investigates costs of innovation team formation, determinants of inventor productivity, and multinational R&D allocation across technological fields. His work bridges theoretical models with empirical analysis of labor productivity in innovation ecosystems.

His recent publications reveal critical frictions in intellectual mobility: the 2025 working paper identifies allocation barriers that suppress idea generation by 50%, while the 2023 Research Policy article demonstrates how economic policy uncertainty nonlinearly drives inventor migration. Both studies employ advanced econometric techniques on European inventor panels.

Key recognitions include:

• Heinz Koning Award 2024
• Best Paper Award at 10th Summer School on Knowledge Dynamics (2022)
• ICAS Foundation Merit Scholarship (2013-2017)

He has supervised Master's theses in Applied Econometrics at KU Leuven (2020-2024) and presented findings at major conferences including Munich Summer Institute and ZEW MaCCI. His work continues through the Max Planck Institute's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research group, collaborating with global institutions like École des Mines de Paris and London School of Economics.