Dr. Matthias Sahli

• Participating Faculty. Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute Public Sector Transformation

• Senior Researcher in the SNSF- and Belmont Forum-funded research project ReVerDi

• Teaching in Bachelor's and Master's programmes, plus supervision of theses and student research projects

• Economics

• Applied Econometrics

• Sustainability

• Digitalisation

• Intellectual Property

• Cultural Economics

• MSc Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation

• BSc Betriebsökonomie, International Business Administration, Wirtschaftsinformatik

• Entrepreneurial Law (ELAW, 2026-), lecturer

• Digital Law (SWD3, 2025-), guest lecturer

• Management of Intellectual Property (MGT 404, 2025-), lecturer, EPFL

• Economics of Innovation (2026-), guest lecturer, Haute Ecole de Gestion Genève HES-SO

• Supervision of theses (Master, Bachelor) and projects (EPRP, AFE 1 & 2)

• Critical Data Literacy (continuing education, Canton of Bern, 2026-), lecturer

• Economics

• Digitization

• Sustainability

• Creative and Cultural Industries

• Intellectual Property

• Applied Econometrics

• Matthias Sahli is a postdoctoral researcher at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Business School, where he conducts research in the SNSF- and Belmont Forum-funded research project ReVerDi. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher and Research Fellow at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of the United Nations in Geneva. Matthias Sahli completed his PhD in Economics in 2023 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In 2020 he was a visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark. Before that, he worked as an intern and Junior Economist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI). His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of intellectual property, innovation, digitalisation, sustainability, applied econometrics and creative industries. His research approach is interdisciplinary; he collaborates with scholars from cultural economics, data science, law and economics, among others. His research has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Cultural Economics, Industry and Innovation and Information Economics and Policy.

• 2024 - Postdoc Bern University of Applied Sciences - Business Department
• 2025 External Lecturer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
• 2019 - 2024 Research Fellow World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), United Nations Organization (UNO)
• 2017 - 2019 Intern & Junior Economist Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI)

• 2019 - 2023 PhD Economics University of Neuchâtel
• 2016 - 2019 MSc Economics University of Bern
• 2012 - 2016 BSc Economics University of Bern

• Lead of SNF / Belmont funded Project ReVerDi

Young Researchers Workshop Best Paper Award. 21th International Conference on Cultural Economics