Roger Bohn is Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Diego, in its School of Global Policy and Strategy. He is also a Senior Scholar in Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. Most of his research examines how industries evolve from crafts to sciences over long periods. Firearms manufacturing took 200 years; aviation took 80; semiconductor manufacturing took only 30. Although overall industries are pushed by competition to become more scientific, they regress when new technologies or external changes make some of their existing knowledge obsolete. He is now applying these ideas to health care.
Prof. Bohn has a PhD in Economics from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He has taught at business schools on several continents. In ancient times he researched the electric power industry, but got tired of how slowly it changed, so he shifted to high tech.