Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology at MINES ParisTech. Her research concerns innovation, productivity, and competition. She has written a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry – specifically, the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Her recent work examines the effect of trade and intellectual property policies on the level, location, and direction of R&D investment and competition. She also works on issues of innovation and access to therapies in developing countries. Dr. Kyle’s papers have been published in various economics, strategy, and health policy journals, including The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, Management Science, and Health Affairs. In 2019, she was named one of the “40 in their 40s” notable women competition professionals by W@.

Dr. Kyle holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an associate editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. She previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, London Business School, and the Toulouse School of Economics, and is a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Kyle is currently a member of the Conseil national de productivité in France.

Bio last updated in June 2021.