Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation

F. Scott Kieff is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and also the Ray and Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in Stanford, California. He regularly serves as a testifying and consulting expert, mediator and arbitrator to law firms, businesses, government agencies and courts, and on a range of government panels related to business and technology. Troy A. Paredes is a professor at the Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is a co-author (beginning with the fourth edition) of a multi-volume securities regulation treatise with Louis Loss and Joel Seligman entitled Securities Regulation and is presently on leave from his academic positions, having been appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was sworn in on August 1, 2008.