Dr. David J. Teece is a distinguished scholar of strategy and innovation currently serving as Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and Distinguished Scholar of Strategy and Innovation at the University of South Florida. A New Zealand native born in 1948, he earned his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held prestigious teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University throughout his distinguished career. His academic journey has been marked by significant leadership roles including Director of the Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Teece has established himself as a preeminent figure in business economics with a career spanning over four decades of influential scholarship and institutional leadership.
Dr. Teece pioneered the dynamic capabilities perspective, defined as the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competencies to address rapidly changing environments, which has become a foundational framework in strategic management. His seminal 1997 paper Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management co-authored with Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen was the most cited paper in economics and business globally for the period 1995 to 2005 according to Science Watch. With over 200,000 citations on Google Scholar, Teece has been ranked as the world's most-cited scholar in the combined field of business and management in a PLOS Biology analysis of science-wide author citations. His extensive scholarly output includes more than thirty books and two hundred academic papers that have been translated into multiple languages, establishing him as a transformative voice in understanding innovation and competitive strategy in the global marketplace.
Beyond academia, Dr. Teece has demonstrated significant entrepreneurial impact as the co-founder of Berkeley Research Group an expert services and consulting firm that has grown to over forty offices and 1,600 employees worldwide under his leadership. He previously founded the Law and Economics Consulting Group further cementing his influence at the intersection of economic theory and business practice. Teece's thought leadership extends to global policy initiatives, notably organizing the New Enlightenment Conference at Panmure House in 2019, which produced the Panmure House Declaration calling for commitment to economic freedom and rule-of-law democracy. Recognized with nine honorary doctorates and Royal Honors from Queen Elizabeth II, Teece continues to shape business strategy discourse through his academic work, consulting practice, and thought leadership in innovation economics.
