Biography
Gaetan is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at ECARES, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. He is working under the direction of Professor Bruno van Pottelsberghe. Gaétan was a visiting scholar at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (Jan/Apr 2009) and went at the European Patent Office in Munich, Germany (2006-2007). He holds a BA and a MSc in Management Sciences from the SBS-EM.

Research interests
Gaétan's research interests include - but are not limited to - the patent explosion, the propensity to patent, the price elasticity of patents, and the measurement of productivity of research input with patent data.

Acknowledgments
Gaétan gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Belgian FNRS.