Faculty & Research

Rory O'Shea is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Rory is also a tenured faculty member at the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland. 

His research is primarily focused on the commercialization of academic research, with a particular emphasis on the optimal organizational and financial mechanisms for transferring university-based IP into knowledge-based start-ups. He also studies the clustering effect of high tech regions with a particular focus on the interface of university-industry-government relations. Rory’s other research area examines the critical junctures and resource assembly processes in the creation and development of technology-based ventures. 

Rory has published in leading journals such as Organizational Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, R&D Management and the Journal of Technology Transfer. He has recently co-edited (with T. Allen, MIT Sloan) a volume for Cambridge University Press entitled, Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities: An Entrepreneurial Approach.

Rory teaches courses in the area of new venture finance, technology strategy and entrepreneurship. He has a particular interest in the entrepreneurial education of undergraduate and postgraduate scientists and engineers. 

Prior to entering academia, Rory worked as a management consultant in the Communications and High-Technology industry group with Accenture.

He holds a BComm, an MSc in business, and a PhD in managerial economics from University College Dublin.

Rory O'Shea is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Rory is also a tenured faculty member at the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland …