Jennifer Ozawa

Jennifer Ozawa is a senior economist in SRI International's Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Development. Ozawa specializes in innovation- and technology-based economic development. She brings significant experience and knowledge of economic growth, national and regional innovation- and technology-based economic development strategies and efforts, and evaluations of university-industry-government partnership programs.

In the past several years, Ozawa has worked on several innovation- and technology-based strategies aimed at catalyzing the growth of emerging high-tech industries and attracting new firms to a region. These include a clean energy sector development strategy for the City of Seattle; an economic impact evaluation of Ohio’s 10-year, $1.6 billion innovation systems program, called the Third Frontier Program; analysis and technology investment recommendations for the Commonwealth of Virginia; a strategy for a new UNIDO-backed high-tech park outside of Beijing; and the evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Centers’ economic impact. These projects involved research and assessment of global industrial and technology trends, particularly in biomedicine, advanced materials, energy, power and propulsion, and electronics.

Ozawa has a B.A. in international relations and economics from the College of William and Mary and a M.Sc. in development economics from the University of London.