Professor Jason Potts

Jason Potts is Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University and a chief
investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.
His work is broadly centred about the study of the creation and use of new knowledge (i.e.
technological change) and its institutional context as the core explanation of long run
economic transformation. His research includes evolutionary growth theory, creative
industries, economics of cities, innovation commons, economics of institutions, crypto-
economics and blockchain and recently the economics of AI. Highly cited work includes
network-theory based approaches to evolutionary economics (for which he won the 2000
Joseph A Schumpeter Prize), Cultural Science (jointly with John Hartley), behavioural
innovation economics, the theory of ‘social network markets’, the theory of the ‘innovation
commons,’ and ‘institutional cryptoeconomics’. Potts is an editor of the Journal of
Institutional Economics and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.