Gary Dushnitsky Faculty Profile

Gary Dushnitsky
Assistant Professor of Management

PhD, New York University, 2004; MS, Tel-Aviv University, 1999; BA, Tel-Aviv University, 1994

Research Areas
Economics of innovation and entrepreneurship; corporate strategy in knowledge industries; venture capital; intellectual property rights

Current Projects
Study the conditions under which established corporations succeed, or fail, to partner with innovative startups, and the implication to corporate innovativeness; Investigate direct and indirect relationships between corporate venture capital investors and independent venture capital funds in the market for entrepreneurial financing.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2004-present

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
2005 Heizer Best Dissertation Award (Entrepreneurship Division’s); Technology and Innovation Management Division’s 2005 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award; Business & Public Policy Division’s 2005 Best Dissertation Award (finalist); Best Paper Award, Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2004; Herman E. Krooss Outstanding Dissertation Award, Stern School of Business, 2004; McKinsey & Company / Strategic Management Society Best Paper Prize Honorable Mention, 2003.

Representative Publications
(with M. Lenox)
"When Do Firms Undertake R&D By Investing In New Ventures?" Strategic Management Journal 26 (10): 947-965.

(with M. Lenox)
"Corporate Venture Capital and Incumbent Firm Innovation Rates." Research Policy 34(5): 615-639.

(with M. Lenox)
"Are Firms Profiting From Corporate Venture Capital?" Journal of Business Venturing (Forthcoming).

"Corporate Venture Capital: Past Evidence and Future Directions” in Casson, Yeung, Basu & Wadeson (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship 2006.

“Limitations to Inter-organizational Knowledge acquisition: The Paradox of Corporate Venture Capital.” Best Paper Proceedings of the 2004 Academy of Management Conference New Orleans, LA (2004).