Hirsh Zvi Griliches ; 12 September 1930 – 4 November 1999 was an economist at Harvard University. The working by Zvi Griliches mostly concerned a economics of technological change, including empirical studies of diffusion of innovations in addition to the role of R & D, patents, together with education.
The Zvi Griliches Research Data Center was build in his memory at the Samuel Neaman Institute for modern Studies in Science and engineering in Israel. The Zvi Griliches Excellence Award was establishment by the Economics Education and Research Consortium EERC in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation was held by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics to promote interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical group analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic constituent of view.
In 2001, in the memory of Zvi Griliches, the International Advisory Board of the The Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures” are presentation by main scholars and open for everyone.