University-based technological opportunities are often exploited through joint corporate and academic entrepreneurship activities such as university-industry research collaborations. This paper explores the partner attributes that drive the matching of academic scientists and firms involved in...

We develop and apply a new set of empirical tools consistent with the tenets of value-based business strategies, leveraging the principle that “no good deal comes undone” and the methods of revealed preferences, to empirically estimate drivers of value creation. We demonstrate how to use...

This paper examines the impact of the macro-institutional environment on exploitative-explorative innovation. Building on organizational learning, institutional economics, and innovation studies, we identify country-level institutions that might foster or hinder firms’ incentives and ability...

Research Summary: To address endogeneity concerns stemming from firm-CEO matching, we deploy a two-sided matching model that identifies the complementarities arising from the CEO-firm match and subsequently account for these complementarities in empirical tests. Applying this approach, we...

University research-based technological opportunities are often created and exploited through joint corporate and academic entrepreneurship activities such as university-industry research collaborations. This dissertation aims to understand what determines a "good match" between faculty and...