Walter Valdivia

- Senior Policy Editor
Walter D. Valdivia is a Senior Policy Editor for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Prior to Mercatus, he was a Senior Fellow at the Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes and a Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Valdivia holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and an M.S. in Economics from Arizona State University, and a B.S. from Universidad Católica Boliviana.
Publications & Appearances
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Is Patent Protection Industrial Policy? Notes on the Political Economy of University Patenting
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 allows universities to patent inventions that result from federally funded research. The legislation
- | Working Papers Working Papers
A Lottery for the Republic of Science
Federal agencies have a duty to maximize returns on the tax dollars invested when they fund scientific research. In principle
- | Publication
A Lottery for the Republic of Science
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Research Papers Research Papers
Three Approaches to the Social Discount Rate
- | Technology and Innovation Technology and Innovation
- | Public Interest Comments Public Interest Comments
University-Industry Collaboration for Stronger Innovation
This comment is in response to the Request for Information (RFI) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)