Dr. Gregory Graff’s research at CSU looks at the economics and public policy of technological innovation and entrepreneurship in the agricultural and food industries. His work analyzes the interrelationships among intellectual property rights, technology transfer, startups, venture capital, and other aspects of the innovation ecosystem. His regional economics work focuses on the formation and impact of regional high tech clusters on economic growth. Dr. Graff publishes in the economics literature as well as in leading scientific journals such as Science and Nature Biotechnology. At CSU, he teaches courses on the global agricultural and food system, agricultural policy, entrepreneurship, and the economics of technological change in agricultural production. Dr. Graff did his bachelors in Biological Sciences at Cornell University in 1992, his master’s at Ohio State University in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California at Berkeley in 2002. Dr. Graff and his family own and operate Laughing Buck Farm on the outskirts of Fort Collins, Colorado.
