Research

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“Can Technology Startups Hire Talented Early Employees? Ability, Preferences and Employee First Job Choice” (w/H. Sauermann), Management Science (forthcoming)
– Best Paper, AOM Special Conference “From Start-up to Scale-up” 2018

“Rethinking Immigration Policies for STEM Doctorates” (w/J. Skrentny), 2021, Science, Jan. 22, 371(6527). (Data, methods, and complete regression analyses in Supplementary Materials)

“Are Foreign STEM PhDs More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences and Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science & Engineering PhD Students” (w/H. Sauermann and J. Skrentny) in “The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,” (eds.) Ganguli, Kahn & MacGarvie (2020). NBER Working Paper No. 26225

“Why foreign STEM PhDs are unlikely to work for US technology startups” (w/J. Skrentny), 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Aug. 5, 116(34). (Data, methods, and complete regression analyses in Supporting Information)

“The Declining Interest in an Academic Career.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2017, PLOS ONE, 12(9), Sept. 18.

“Encouraging Entrepreneurship in University Labs: Research Activities, Research Outputs, and Early Doctorate Careers.” 2017, PLOS ONE, 12(2), Feb. 8.

“Why Pursue the Postdoc Path?” (w/H. Sauermann), 2016, Science, May 6, 352(6286). (details of data and complete regression analyses in Supplementary Materials)

“Founder or Joiner? The Role of Preferences and Context in Shaping Different Entrepreneurial Interests.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2015, Management Science, 61(9):2160-2184.

“Founders and Joiners.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2015, Science, June 12, 348(6240). Editor-invited research vignette highlighting the policy implications of my research on joiners for STEM doctorate careers in entrepreneurship. Part of issue’s cover feature on university entrepreneurship.

“Not All Scientists Pay to Be Scientists: PhDs’ Preferences for Publishing in Industrial Employment.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2014, Research Policy, 43(1):32-47.

“Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research.” (w/W. Cohen), 2013, Management Science, 59(2):504-525.

“Increasing Web Survey Response Rates in Innovation Research: An Experimental Study of Static and Dynamic Contact Design Features.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2013, Research Policy, 42(1), 273-286.

“Science PhD Career Preferences: Levels, Changes, and Advisor Encouragement.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2012, PLOS ONE, 7(5)

“A Taste for Science? PhD Scientists’ Academic Orientation and Self-Selection into Research Careers in Industry.” (w/H. Sauermann), 2010, Research Policy, 39(3):422-434.

“Learning in Online Forums” (w/G. DeSanctis, A. Fayard, and J. Lu), 2003, European Management Journal, 21(5), 565-577.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS & WRITINGS

“We must retain foreign Ph.D.s to keep America’s innovation advantage” (w/J. Skrentny) The Hill, Aug. 19, 2020.

“Big Tech’s Unfair Immigration Advantage” (w/J. Skrentny) The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2019.

“Foreign-born entrepreneurial human capital in the US: The preference–outcome gap.” (w/H. Sauermann & J. Skrentny), Vox EU, Center for Economic and Policy Research Online Policy Portal, Nov. 24, 2019.

WORKING PAPERS

“Are Startups Losing Out to Established Firms in Hiring High-Skilled Foreign Workers?” with J. Skrentny

“Do Women Prefer Different Jobs from Men? Gender and Preferences for Academic Science Careers” with A. Elias & H. Sauermann

“The Divergent Roles of Faculty and Graduate Students on University Startup Founding Teams”

“Re-Examining Patents as Measures of Firm Invention”

“Firm R&D Orientation and the Use of External Knowledge”

“Taste for Science, Taste for Commercialization, and Hybrid Scientists”, with H. Sauermann

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

“The Early Careers of STEM Doctorates” with Henry Sauermann

“The Founding Team of University Spinouts” with Diane Burton

“Experiments in Entrepreneurial Identity and Creativity”