Samantha Zyontz
Clinical Assistant Professor, Strategy and Innovation
Samantha Zyontz is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Boston University Questrom School of Business. She also is an affiliate (by courtesy) of the Boston University Law School. Her research focuses on intellectual property strategy and the influence of institutions on innovation, with an emphasis on CRISPR DNA-editing tools. She has work published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, International Review of Law and Economics, Stanford Technology Law Review, Hastings Business Law Journal, Tennessee Law Review, and Florida Law Review.
Dr. Zyontz has also conducted several policy focused, large-scale empirical law and economics projects with the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation in Germany (EFI); Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School; the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law; and Law and Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law. Prior to her career in academia, she worked in intellectual property litigation consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Navigant Consulting, Inc., and, currently, with Berkeley Research Group.
Dr. Zyontz received her Ph.D. Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a M.S. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William & Mary in Virginia with a B.A. in economics.
Selected Research Presentations
Zyontz, S. Open science or entrenchment? The role of biological repositories on inter-institutional co-creation, Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, 2024
Jefferson, D. , Coombe, R. , MacDonald, H. Panel on IP and Market Mechanisms (Moderator), Intellectual Property and the Anthropocene, 15th Annual Workshop, Boston University School of Law, 2024
Zyontz, S. Exploring the Institutions of Emerging Technologies: The Case of CRISPR, Ostromian Analysis of Technology and Its Implications Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, 2024
Zyontz, S. Open science or entrenchment? The role of biological repositories on inter-institutional co-creation, • Technology Policy Research Institute Works-in-Progress Seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2023
Zyontz, S. Decomposing the ‘Tacit Knowledge Problem:’ Codification of Knowledge and Access in CRISPR Gene-Editing, College of William & Mary Economics Seminar, Williamsburg, VA, 2023
Zyontz, S. Who Builds on Uncertain Patents? Innovation During the CRISPR Patent Interference Proceedings, • Faculty Workshop, Nebraska Governance and Technology Center, University of Nebraska Law School, Lincoln, NE, 2023
Zyontz, S. Who Builds on Uncertain Patents? Innovation During the CRISPR Patent Interference Proceedings, Faculty Workshop, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, Arlington, VA,, 2023
Zyontz, S. Interdisciplinary Inventions and Eligibility: AI Patentability in Life Sciences and IT, Work in Progress, Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Conference, Suffolk University School of Law, Boston, MA, February 2023, 2023
Publications
Zyontz, S. (2024). “Mapping CRISPR Research, Innovation, and Diffusion Activities in Agriculture – Cross-national”,
Beck, S., Bercovitz, J., Bergenholtz, C., Brasseur, T., D’Este, P., Dorn, A., Doser, M., Dosi, C., Effert, A., Furtuna, R., Goodyear, M., Grimpe, C., Hans, F., Haeussler, C., Heinisch, B., Katona, N., Kleinberger-Pierer, H., Kokshagina, O., LaFlamme, M., Lawson, C., Lehner, P., Lifshitz-Assaf, L., Lukas, W., Marchini, S., Mitterhauser, M., Moscato, F., Nordberg, M., Norn, M., Poetz, M., Ponti, M., Pruschak, G., Rafner, J., Romasanta, A., Ruser, A., Sameed, M., Sauermann, H., Suess-Reyes, J., Tucci, C., Tuertscher, P., Saez, R., Vignoli, M., Zyontz, S. (2021). “Experimenting with Open Innovation in Science (OIS) practices: A novel approach to co-developing research proposals”, CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, 5 (2), 28-49
Lemley, M., Zyontz, S. (2021). “Does Alice Target Patent Trolls”, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 18 47-47
Zyontz, S., Pomeroy-Carter, C. (2021). “Mapping of the Research, Innovation and Diffusion Activity of CRISPR across Countries”,
Zyontz, S. (2019). “Making the Cut: The Rate and Direction of CRISPR Innovation”,
Zyontz, S. (2016). “Technological breakthroughs, entry, and the direction of scientific progress : evidence from CRISPR/Cas9”,
Ashtor, J., Mazzeo, M., Zyontz, S. (2014). “Patents at Issue: The Data behind the Patent Troll Debate”, George Mason University School of Law, 21 957-957
Mazzeo, M., Ashtor, J., Zyontz, S. (2013). “DO NPEs MATTER? NON-PRACTICING ENTITIES AND PATENT LITIGATION OUTCOMES”, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, 9 (4), 879-904
Mazzeo, M., Hillel, J., Zyontz, S. (2013). “Explaining the “unpredictable”: An empirical analysis of U.S. patent infringement awards”, International Review of Law and Economics, 35 58-72
Allison, J., Tiller, E., Zyontz, S., Bligh, T. (2012). “Patent Litigation and the Internet”, Stanford Technology Law Review, 3 35-35
Zyontz, S., Drahozal, C. (2012). “Private Regulation of Consumer Arbitration”, Tennessee law review, 79 289-289
Drahozal, C., Zyontz, S. (2011). “Creditor Claims in Arbitration and in Court”, Hastings Business Law Journal, 7 77-77
Drahozal, C., Zyontz, S. (2010). “An Empirical Study of AAA Consumer Arbitrations”, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2 843-843
Redish, M., Julian, P., Zyontz, S. (2010). “Cy Pres Relief and the Pathologies of the Modern Class Action: A Normative and Empirical Analysis”, Florida law review, 62 617-617