Biography
Mercedes Delgado is a Visiting Scholar in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Delgado serves as Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the relationship between the regional business environment and the performance of firms, regions, and countries. Her work examines the role of regional clusters (geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and their associated institutions) in job creation, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Part of this work involves developing new methods to define regional clusters, providing useful tools to help practitioners and policymakers create successful regional strategies. More broadly, Delgado studies the determinants of national and regional competitiveness, seeking to understand how different components of the microeconomic and macroeconomic environment contribute to prosperity. Her most current research explores the location choices of firms through their value chain.
Delgado has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships and research grants. She is currently working on a project funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administrationon: Mapping Regional Innovation Clusters.
Delgado received her PhD in business economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the ISC, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy Group.
Web Site: http://astro.temple.edu/~mdelgado
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