Marshall Van Alstyne is an Associate Professor at Boston University and research scholar at MIT. He holds BA, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Yale and MIT, and his research focus is the economics of information. His research topics include the economics of networks, valuing intellectual property, and equity, growth and productivity effects of information sharing. He was a co-developer of the concept of "two-sided networks" and was among the first to measure the productivity of information flows at the individual person level. His work has received an NSF Career Award, multiple best paper awards,