MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship
Searching for expert sources on global entrepreneurship? MIT Sloan School of Management faculty have timely insights for global business leaders.
Featured Experts
- Bill Aulet is an award-winning educator and author who provides a fresh lens on how to take a business idea and systematically turn it into a full-fledged, successful startup.
- An expert on deep-tech startup ventures that are based on high-tech innovation in engineering, Fiona Murray can also share her experience in building more inclusive ecosystems and engaging women and underrepresented minorities in these industries.
- Erin L. Scott draws upon her nearly two decades of academic and practical experience to partner with groundbreaking innovators to successfully navigate the entrepreneurial journey from initial idea to commercialization.
Entrepreneurship Experts
Bill Aulet
Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Bill Aulet is the Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is changing the way entrepreneurship is understood, taught, and practiced around the…
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Fiona E. Murray
Associate Dean for Innovation
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean of Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is the Faculty Director of The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship and an…
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Pierre Azoulay
International Programs Professor of Management
Pierre Azoulay is the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the impact of different funding regimes on the…
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Erin L. Scott
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Erin L. Scott, PhD draws upon her nearly two decades of academic and practical experience to partner with groundbreaking innovators to successfully navigate the entrepreneurial journey from initial idea to commercialization. Her research focuses on…
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Phil Budden
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Phil Budden is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, in Sloan's TIES (Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management) Group, where he focuses on innovation ecosystems around the world, their key stakeholders,…
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Paul Cheek
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Paul Cheek is a global expert in innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Paul is a serial tech entrepreneur, educator, software engineer, and bestselling author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan…
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Entrepreneurship Faculty Research
"Are ‘Complementary Policies’ Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK."
Pless, Jacquelyn. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
"Cash Transfers."
Niehaus, Paul, and Tavneet Suri. In The Handbook of Social Protection, edited by Benjamin A. Olken and Rema Hanna, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Forthcoming.
"What if NIH had Been 40% Smaller?"
Azoulay, Pierre, Matthew Clancy, Danielle Li, and Bhaven N. Sampat. Science Vol. 389, No. 6767 (2025): 1303-1305. Supplementary Online Material. Replication package.
"Paper Tiger? Chinese Science and Home Bias in Citations."
Qiu, Shumin, Claudia Steinwender, and Pierre Azoulay. Journal of International Economics Vol. 157, (2025): 104123. Also NBER Working Paper #32468.
"Innovation Bandits: A Dynamic Portfolio Strategy with Endogenous Rewards."
Topic: Innovation
Baumgärtner, C. Lennart, Laurin Köhler-Schindler, and Jacquelyn Pless, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7278-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2025.
Keywords: Sustainability, Portfolio Optimization, Innovation Policy, Technological Change, Experience Curves, Technology Investment
Accelerating Innovation.
Budden, Phil and Fiona Murray. The MIT Press, 2025.
Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage Through Ecosystem Engagement.
Budden, Phil and Fiona E. Murray. The MIT Press, 2025.
"Indirect Cost Recovery in U.S. Innovation Policy: History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform."
Topic: Innovation
Azoulay, Pierre, Daniel P. Gross, and Bhaven N. Sampat, Working Paper. March 2025. Also NBER Working Paper #33627.
Keywords: Science Policy, Economics of Science, Biomedicine, Indirect Cost Recovery, NIH
"Medical Progress and Health Care Finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers."
Azoulay, Pierre, Misty Heggeness, and Jennifer Kao. Research Policy Vol. 54, No. 2 (2025): 105163.
"Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals."
Pierre Azoulay and Wesley H. Greenblatt, Working Paper. February 2025. NBER Working Paper #33495.
Keywords: Scientific Risk, Scientific Productivity, Peer Review, NIH, Government Gunding