Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research

Lundquist College of Business faculty members are actively involved in research on entrepreneurship and innovation supported, in part, by the college's Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship.

In addition to academic papers by our faculty, the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship also produces the Oregon Capital Scan, a comprehensive analysis of the funding landscape in Oregon, designed to support entrepreneurship in the state.


Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Citations 

The following is an ever-expanding list of research related to innovation and entrepreneurship taking place at the Lundquist College of Business.

Nelson, Andrew. "Moving Entrepreneurship Education Beyond Enterprise Creation." Journal of Management Inquiry, forthcoming. June 2023
Chari, Mukund, H. Kevin Steensma, Charles Connaughton, and Ralph Heidl. "The Influence of Patent Assertion Entities on Inventor Behavior." Strategic Management Journal 43, no. 8: 1666-1690. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3382. August 2022
Myers, Kyle R., and Lauren Lanahan. "Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Energy." American Economic Review 112, no. 7: 2393-2423. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210678. July 2022
Kacperczyk, Aleksandra, Peter Younkin, and Vera Rocha. "Do Employees Work Less for Female Leaders? A Multi-Method Study of Entrepreneurial Firms." Organization Science, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1611. June 2022
Lanahan, Lauren, Daniel Erian Armanios, and Amol M. Joshi. "Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?" Organization Science 33, no. 2: 854-871. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1463. March 2022
Kacperczyk, Aleksandra, and Peter Younkin. "A Founding Penalty: Evidence from an Audit Study on Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Future Employment." Organization Science 33, no. 2: 716-745, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1456. March 2022
Johnson, Evan, Iman Hemmatian, Lauren Lanahan, and Amol M. Joshi. "A Framework and Databases for Measuring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems." Research Policy 51, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104398. March 2022
Clayton, Paige, Lauren Lanahan, and Andrew Nelson. "Dissecting Diffusion: Tracing The Plurality of Factors That Affect Knowledge Diffusion." Research Policy 51, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104389. January 2022
Murray, Alex, and Greg Fisher. "When More is Less: Explaining the Curse of Too Much Capital for Early-Stage Ventures." Organization Science, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2021.1568. November 2021
Kim, Ji Youn (Rose), H. Kevin Steensma, and Ralph Heidl. "Clustering and Connectedness: How Inventor Network Configurations within Incumbent Firms Influence Their Assimilation and Absorption of New Venture Technologies." Academy of Management Journal 64, no. 5: 1527-1552. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0225. October 2021
Lanahan, Lauren, Amol M. Joshi, and Evan Johnson. "Do Public Research Subsidies Produce Jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR Program." Research Policy 50, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104286. September 2021
Graddy-Reed, Alexandra, Lauren Lanahan, and Jesse D'Agostino. "Training across the Academy: The Impact of R&D Funding on Graduate Students." Research Policy 50, no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104224. June 2021
Huang, Laura, Maximilian Enthoven, Alex Murray, and Erik Hofmann. "modum.io (B): Bidding Farewell to Crypto." Harvard Business School Case N9-421-068. January 2021
Hallen, Benjamin L., Jason P. Davis, and Alex Murray. "Entrepreneurial Network Evolution: Explicating the Structural Localism and Agentic Network Change Distinction." Academy of Management Annals 14, no. 2: 1067-1102. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2018.0063. July 2020
Murray, Alex, Suresh Kotha, and Greg Fisher. "Community-Based Resource Mobilization: How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from Distributed Non-Professionals via Crowdfunding." Organization Science, 31, no. 4: 960-989. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1339. July 2020
Murray, Alex, and Suresh Kotha. "Kickstarter: Using Crowdfunding to Launch a New Board Game." In Strategic Management, edited by F. T. Rothaermel. Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill. January 2020
Huang, Laura, Dominik Roeck, Alex Murray, and Erik Hofmann. "modum.io: Funding a Blockchain-based Start-up's Supply Chain Solution." Harvard Business School Case N9-420-006. January 2020
Younkin, Peter, and Venkat Kuppuswamy. "Discounted: The Effect of Founder Race on the Price of New Products." Journal of Business Venturing 34, no. 2: 389-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.02.004. March 2019
Lanahan, Lauren, and Daniel Armanios. "Does More Certification Benefit a Venture?" Organization Science 29, no. 5: 931-947. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1211. September 2018
Hayter, Christopher S., Andrew J. Nelson, Stephanie Zayed, and Alan C. O'Connor. "Conceptualizing Academic Entrepreneurship Ecosystems: A Review, Analysis and Extension of the Literature." The Journal of Technology Transfer 43, no. 4: 1039-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-018-9657-5. August 2018
Younkin, Peter, and Venkat Kuppuswamy. "The Colorblind Crowd? Founder Race and Performance in Crowdfunding." Management Science 64, no. 7: 3269-3287. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2774. July 2018
Byers, Thomas, Richard Dorf, and Andrew Nelson. Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill. February 2018
Kacperczyk, Aleksandra, and Peter Younkin. "The Paradox of Breadth: The Tension Between Experience and Legitimacy in the Transition to Entrepreneurship." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 4: 731-764. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217700352. March 2017
Azoulay, Pierre, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart. "Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs." American Journal of Sociology 122, no. 4: 1223-71. https://doi.org/10.1086/689890. January 2017
Lanahan, Lauren "Multilevel Funding for Small Business Innovation: A Critical Review of State SBIR Match Programs." The Journal of Technology Transfer 41, no. 2: 220-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-015-9407-x. April 2016
Younkin, Peter, and Keyvan Kashkooli. "What Problems Does Crowdfunding Solve?" California Management Review 58, no. 2: 20-43. https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2016.58.2.20. February 2016
Steensma, H. Kevin, Mukund Chari, and Ralph Heidl. "A Comparative Analysis of Patent Assertion Entities in Markets for Intellectual Property Rights." Organization Science 27, no. 1: 2-17. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1021. January 2016
Lanahan, Lauren, and Maryann P. Feldman. "Multilevel Innovation Policy Mix: A Closer Look at State Policies That Augment the Federal SBIR Program." Research Policy 44, no. 7: 1387-1402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.002. September 2015
Hardin, J., L. Lanahan,and L. Brun. "Assessing State-level Science and Technology Policies: North Carolina's Experience with SBIR State Matching Grants." In Oxford University Handbook of Local Competitiveness, edited by David A. Audretsch, Albert N. Link, and Mary Lindenstein Walshok, 385-400. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. August 2015
Nelson, Andrew J., and Stefano Cazzago. "Culture and Innovation." In The Concise Guide to Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation, edited by David B. Audretsch, Christopher S. Hayter, and Albert N. Link, 20-27. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. June 2015
Feldman, M. P., and L. Lanahan. "Crafting a Comeback: Innovation and Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy in Mature Regions." In Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy, edited by J. R. Bryson, Jennifer Clark, and Vida Canchan, 451-473. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. June 2015
Nelson, Andrew J., and Thomas Byers. "Challenges in University Technology Transfer and the Promising Role of Entrepreneurship Education." In The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship, edited by Albert Link, Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. March 2015
Nelson, Andrew. The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. March 2015
Liu, Christopher C., and Toby Stuart. "Positions and Rewards: The Allocation of Resources within a Science-Based Entrepreneurial Firm." Research Policy 43, no. 7: 1134-1143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.04.013. September 2014
Nelson, Andrew J. "From the Ivory Tower to the Startup Garage: Organizational Context and Commercialization Processes." Research Policy 43, no. 7: 1144-1156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.04.011. September 2014
Feldman, M. P. and L. Lanahan. "State Science Policy Experiments." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, and Bengamin F. Jones, 287-317. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. August 2014
Nelson, Andrew, Andrew Earle, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Julie Haack, and Doug Young. "Do Innovation Measures Actually Measure Innovation? Obliteration, Symbolic Adoption and Other Finicky Challenges in Measuring Innovation Diffusion." Research Policy 43, no. 6: 927-940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.01.010. July 2014
Feldman, M. P., A. Freyer, and L. Lanahan. "On the Measurement of University Research Contributions to Economic Growth and Innovation." In Universities and Colleges as Economic Drivers: Measuring Higher Education’s Role in Economic Development, edited by Jason E. Lane, and D. Bruce Johnstone, 97-128. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. November 2012
Nelson, Andrew, A. Earle, and Jennifer Howard-Grenville. "Obliteration, Symbolic Adoption, and Other Finicky Challenges in Tracking Innovation Diffusion." Academy of Management Proceedings 2012, no. 1 https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.296. July 2012
Feldman, M. P., L. Lanahan, and J.M. Miller. "Inadvertent Infrastructure and Regional Entrepreneurship Policy." In The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, edited by Michael Fritsch, 216-251. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. December 2011
Byers, Tom, and Andrew J. Nelson. "Organizational Modularity and Intra-University Relationships between Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer." In University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Process, Design, and Intellectual Property, edited by Gary Libecap, 275-311. Stamford, CT: Elsevier Science/JAI Press. January 2005