LCB Profile
Andrew Nelson
Assistant Professor
Office phone: 541-346-1569
E-mail: ajnelson@lcbmail.uoregon.edu
Department: Management
Office: 479 Lillis
Degree History
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007
M.S., Oxford University, 2000
B.A., Stanford University, 1998
Previous Academic Positions:
Lecturer, Stanford University (2007-2008)
Research/Teaching Awards:
Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship (2009)
James E. Reinmuth M.B.A. Teaching Excellence Award (2009)
Best Dissertation Award, INFORMS Technology Management Section (2008)
Areas of Expertise
Commercialization of University Research
Economics of Innovation and Technology
Entrepreneurship
Interorganizational Networks
Recent Publications
"Measuring Knowledge Spillovers: What Patents, Publications and Licenses Reveal About Knowledge Diffusion," Research Policy, 2009
"Cacophony or Harmony: Multivocal Logics and Technology Licensing by the Stanford University Department of Music," Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 14, 2005
"Organizational Modularity and Intra-University Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and Technology Transfer," University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: Process, Design, and Intellectual Property, 2005 (with Tom Byers)
Current Projects:
"University versus Firm Collaboration and the Institutions of Public and Private Science"
"Do Organizational Origins Shape Knowledge Diffusion Processes? Investigating the University/Firm Dichotomy"
General Research Areas:
Entrepreneurship
Commercialization of University Research
University/firm relations and Interorganizational Collaborations
Institutional theory
Diffusion Networks and Network Analysis
Biography
Andrew Nelson is assistant professor of Management at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. His research focuses on the evolution of knowledge diffusion networks, the commercialization of university research, and the measurement of innovation. With Tom Byers (Stanford University) and Dick Dorf (University of California, Davis) Professor Nelson is the author of Technology Ventures (McGraw-Hill, 2009). His doctoral dissertation on technology transfer in the digital audio and biotechnology sectors won the 2008 Best Dissertation Award from the Technology Management Section of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). He has also been named one of five inaugural Kauffman Foundation junior faculty fellows for promising research in the field of entrepreneurship. Nelson holds a Ph.D. in management science and engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. from Oxford University, and a dual B.A. from Stanford.
