Faculty
Amir Sariri is an assistant professor of strategic management at Purdue University.
His areas of interest include technology commercialization, entrepreneurial finance, and economics of science. Currently, he studies how business advice affects early firm development and growth and what it can tell us about critical processes in early firm formation and growth. Before joining Purdue, Amir founded and led the R&D group at the Creative Destruction Lab.
Amir's work is published in Management Science and featured in The Economist, Globe and Mail, and Frankfurter Allgemeine. His research has also received grants and awards, such as the Royal Bank of Canada’s Borealis AI Fellowship, the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund, and the Heizer Dissertation Award.
Amir completed his doctoral studies at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Sariri, Amir. Management Science. Forthcoming. Download Preprint.
Bryan Kevin A., Mitchell Hoffman, and Amir Sariri, Working Paper. January 2024. Most Recent Revision.
Amir Sariri is hoping to move some of the “futuristic” work by academics and researchers out of the lab and into the commercial sphere.
Some companies invest heavily in AI research but do not require researchers to apply their findings to money-making activities.
