Dr. Amol Joshi

Amol researches how inventors create and commercialize new technologies and manage their intellectual property across organizational boundaries and international borders. He developed his expertise in innovation management over a 13-year career as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive  in venture capital-funded startups and high-growth public companies in Silicon Valley. He is the coinventor of 2 patents for voice products. Amol co-founded BeVocal, a speech recognition software startup (acquired by Nuance Communications) and served as VP of Sales & Marketing (1999-2003). His research is funded through competitive external grants from private foundations and government agencies. Amol is a 2016 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow and a 2010 Kauffman Dissertation Fellow in Entrepreneurship Research. Amol is the co-Principal Investigator for a $200,000 RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine the effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small business innovation ecosystem. He was also the PI for a $50,000 NSF Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) grant (2015). He is actively involved in analyzing and recommending improvements to innovation policies at the national, regional, and local government levels. Amol was appointed to three independent National Academies of Sciences Study Committees for evaluating the small business R&D grant programs and technology transfer processes at the NSF (2020-Present), National Institutes of Health (2020 2021), and the U.S. Department of Energy (2018-2020). These committees report their findings to the U.S. Congress. Amol also serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for CREATE, which is a non-partisan think tank and policy lab focused on statewide economic development issues for driving inclusive prosperity in North Carolina. Amol has published his research in leading scholarly journals, including: the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Journal of Management, Organization Science (OrgSci), Research Policy, Organizational Research Methods, Small Business Economics, Global Strategy Journal, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive and PLOS ONE. He currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards of 4 journals.

 

Currently: Bern Beatty Fellow and Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Wake Forest University School of Business

Formerly: (1) Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Oregon State University, (2) External Faculty for Executive Education Programs, University of Hawaii at Manoa, (5) Assistant Professor of Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Education: (1) 2011 – Ph.D. Business Administration, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, (2) 1998 – M.B.A., The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, (3) 1997 – M.S. Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College, (4) 1992 – B.S. Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology