Karim Foda
Research Associate

Karim assists IIPI with economic related issues of intellectual property rights.  His primary focus concerns the strength of intellectual property rights in developed versus developing economies and their impacts on economic growth and efficiency.  Karim’s research at IIPI covers a wide range of economic aspects of intellectual property rights and their role in an economy.  This includes multinational firm behavior in the presence of weak and strong IP rights, R&D investment and economic development, market valuations of innovative activity, IP as a catalyst for technological change, patent effectiveness and commercialization capabilities of firms, and international licensing. 

Karim is currently pursuing an MA in Economics from Duke University, and received his BA in Economics with a minor in Statistics from the University of California, Davis.