Jason Potts

Jason Potts is a professor of economics whose research focuses on innovation, technological change, economic evolution, institutional economics, and digital economies. He earned a B.Com. (Hons) in economics from the University of Otago and a PhD in economics from Lincoln University, New Zealand. He was previously a professor at RMIT University, where he founded and directed the Blockchain Innovation Hub, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

Potts is a co-author of Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (MIT Press, 2021). His other books include Innovation Commons, The New Evolutionary Microeconomics, The General Theory of Economic Evolution (with Kurt Dopfer), and Creativity and Innovation: A New Theory of Ideas (with Prateek Goorha).