David Teece
University of California, Berkeley,
Haas School of Business
David J. Teece is distinguished scholar of strategy and innovation at the University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business and professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on innovation, competition, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and corporate strategy. He pioneered the dynamic-capabilities framework, which examines how firms integrate and reconfigure internal and external competencies to adapt to rapidly changing technological and market environments.
Teece is executive director and chairman of the Berkeley Policy Institute and previously served as chairman and principal executive officer of Berkeley Research Group. He earlier co-founded the Law and Economics Consulting Group, where he served as chairman and later vice chairman.
Before his work in consulting and policy, he held a chaired professorship in global business at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and directed the Institute for Business Innovation. Earlier academic appointments include associate professor and assistant professor of business economics at Stanford University, visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, visiting fellow at Oxford University, and assistant lecturer in economics at the University of Canterbury.
His distinctions include the Herbert Simon Award, the Eminent Scholar Award from the Academy of International Business, induction into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, recognition as a Clarivate Citation Laureate, designation as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and multiple honorary doctorates.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, a master of commerce from the University of Canterbury, and a bachelor’s from the University of Canterbury.
