Justus Baron

Dr. Justus Baron is a Research Director at Northwestern University, Center on Law, Business, and Economics. Justus holds a PhD in Economics from Mines ParisTech. His area of expertise is the economic analysis of technological innovation, standardisation, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

Justus’ academic research has been published in leading scholarly outlets, such as Research Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Antitrust Law Journal, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Justus has created the Searle Center Database, which offers comprehensive data on standards and standardisation processes to academic researchers.

Justus regularly contributes to European policy debates on topics related to standardisation. He has authored several comprehensive studies for the Joint Research Center of the European Commission on the governance of standards organisations and the licensing of Standard-Essential Patents (SEP). He was also a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on SEPs, and has produced empirical studies to support the European Commission with an impact assessment on SEPs.