With a background in Industrial Organization economics, he has been responsible for the department's graduate IO course and, at the undergraduate level, for international marketing, first as export marketing, then global marketing strategies.
Efforts are underway to present export marketing as a tutorial available through the Web.
Research has been focused broadly on technology transfer issues, especially as applied to biotechnology. Contributions include a draft 'animal variety rights' statute and proposed procedures for collecting royalties on patented livestock. Most recently this work has encompassed 'equitable use' issues under the Biodiversity Convention. Along with conservation, the Convention is concerned with the transfer and use of genetic technologies. Particular issues include benefit sharing for traditional technologies, access legislation and the status of germplasm collected prior to the Convention.