Rick and Jo Berquist Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- PhD, Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School (London)
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology (India)
Biography
After having completed my PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida in 2007, I returned to India and was associated with a technology start-up. I then opted for another PhD in Entrepreneurship from Imperial College Business School, London. My research examines the contextual influences on individual-level entrepreneurial actions by recognizing the multi-level nature of entrepreneurship and by employing multi-level methodological treatment to data available on individual’s entrepreneurial actions as well on the focal entrepreneur’s context. The research accounts for the variance that exists in an individual’s propensity to engage in entrepreneurship across cultures, social reference groups, organizations, etc.
Teaching Interests
- Entrepreneurship
- Technology innovation
- Technology transfer and the protection of intellectual property
- Quantitative research techniques in entrepreneurship
- Design of entrepreneurship survey data
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship
- International business
- Contextual influences on entrepreneurial actions and innovativeness
- Multi-level analyses of longitudinal entrepreneurship survey data
- Measurement (in) variance in individual-level entrepreneurial attitudinal attributes across cultures