Marc Banik

M. Marc Banik is a Professor of Management and Technology in the School of Management Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His research is in the management of biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms. He teaches courses in intellectual property management and operations management.

Marc’s dissertation title was “Essays on R&D, Innovations and Patents: Empirical Constructs and Policy Analysis of Uncertainty” (2001). Marc’s essays included two analyses of patents as incomplete contracts and as an enforcement problem under uncertainty. He also examined the pharmaceutical R&D process as a sense-making phenomenon, showing its superiority to a screening process under uncertainty.

Here is his university web page.