Edward B. Roberts
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Baer Roberts is a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He became the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology in 1974. Ed Roberts, one of the leading authorities on entrepreneurship wrote "Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond" on high-tech business creation and growth. The book won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management in 1991. Dr. Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chair of the Sloan School’s Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship research and education programs, as well as the founder and chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
Edward B. Roberts's Published Works
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Published Works
- Entrepreneurs in high technology : lessons from MIT and beyond (1991) (882)
- Synthesising research evidence. (2001) (509)
- Entrepreneurs In High Technology (1991) (417)
- Policies and structures for spinning off new companies from research and development organizations (1998) (374)
- Managing Invention and Innovation (2007) (343)
- Overcoming Weak Entrepreneurial Infrastructures for Academic Spin-Off Ventures (2004) (279)
- Managerial Applications of System Dynamics (1981) (257)
- What We've Learned: Managing Invention and Innovation (1988) (253)
- Entrepreneurs from technology-based universities: Evidence from MIT (2007) (251)
- Benchmarking Global Strategic Management of Technology (2001) (241)
- Strategic Management of Supplier-Manufacturer Relations in New Product Development (2002) (208)
- Entering New Businesses: Selecting the Strategies for Success (2011) (204)
- The Trade-Off between Efficiency and Learning in Interorganizational Relationships for Product Development (2001) (196)
- Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT (2009) (168)
- The Contingent Effects of Top Management Teams on Venture Performance: Aligning Founding Team Composition with Innovation Strategy and Commercialization Environment (2013) (143)
- Ally or Acquire? How Technology Leaders Decide (2001) (143)
- Are You Experienced or Are You Talented?: When Does Innate Talent versus Experience Explain Entrepreneurial Performance? (2012) (138)
- Benchmarking the Strategic Management of Technology—I (1995) (125)
- Entrepreneurship and Technology: A basic study of innovators; how to keep and capitalize on their talents (1968) (122)
- Globalizing the emerging high-technology company☆ (1996) (108)
- New ventures for corporate growth (2002) (105)
- Networks of innovators: a longitudinal perspective (2003) (103)
- First-mover advantages in regimes of weak appropriability: the case of financial services innovations (2002) (100)
- The technological base of the new enterprise (1991) (99)
- Technology and industrial innovation in Sweden: A study of technology-based firms formed between 1965 and 1980 (1993) (98)
- Generating technological innovation (1987) (91)
- Strategies for Effective Implementation of Complex Corporate Models (1977) (81)
- Evolving Toward Product and Market‐Orientation: The Early Years of Technology‐Based Firms (1990) (75)
- Technology alliances and networks: an external link to research capability (2005) (68)
- New Product Strategy in Small Technology-Based Firms: A Pilot Study (2011) (63)
- The financing threshold effect on success and failure of biomedical and pharmaceutical start-ups (1987) (62)
- Global R&D Activities of Japanese MNCs in the US: A Triangulation Approach (2007) (59)
- A simple model of R & D project dynamics (1974) (53)
- Commercial innovation from university faculty (1981) (52)
- Technological forecasting : a practical approach (1970) (51)
- Innovation : driving product, process, and market change (2002) (47)
- Privatization Processes and the Redefinition of Corporate R&D Boundaries (2002) (44)
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MIT: Continuing Global Growth and Impact (2015) (44)
- The process of technology transfer to the new biomedical and pharmaceutical firm (1986) (42)
- Critical Functions: Needed Roles in the Innovation Process (2013) (40)
- Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT - An Updated Report (2012) (40)
- Stimulating Technological Innovation: Organizational Approaches (1979) (38)
- A perspective on 50 years of the engineering management field (2004) (31)
- The Success of High-Technology Firms: Early Technological and Marketing Influences (1992) (30)
- Initial capital for the new technological enterprise (1990) (30)
- The personality and motivations of technological entrepreneurs (1989) (30)
- Exploratory and Normative Technological Forecasting: A Critical Appraisal (2014) (28)
- Spinning-Off New Ventures from Academic Institutions in Areas with Weak Entrepreneurial Infrastructure: Insights on the Impact of Spin-Off Processes on the Growth-Orientation of Ventures (2003) (27)
- Some Characteristics of Technical Entrepreneurs (2011) (25)
- DR .E. J AMES PRENDERGAST, Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer (2009) (25)
- Entrepreneurs from Technology-Based Universities (2006) (24)
- FDA regulation of product risk and its impact upon young biomedical firms (1987) (24)
- Strategic transformation and the success of high technology companies (1989) (24)
- A Systems Study of Policy Formulation in a Vertically-Integrated Firm (1968) (23)
- Lessons From 10 Case Studies in Innovation—I (1984) (23)
- Managerial determinants of industrial R&D performance ☆: An analysis of the global chemicals/materials industry (2002) (20)
- Technology alliances and networks: an external link to research capability (2004) (20)
- Making System Dynamics Useful: A Personal Memoir (2007) (16)
- Inter-Firm Technological Collaboration: The Case of Japanese Biotechnology (2011) (14)
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MIT: Continuing Global Growth and Impact—An Updated Report (2019) (14)
- Are You Experienced or Are You Talented?: When Does Innate Talent vs. Experience Explain Entrepreneurial Performance? (2011) (13)
- Managing Technological Innovation in the Medical Devices Industry (1989) (13)
- What Do We Really Know about Managing R&D? (1978) (12)
- E-Business Transformation via Alliance Clusters (2004) (12)
- Unutilized ideas in university laboratories. (1969) (11)
- Business planning in the start-up high-technology enterprise (1983) (11)
- The trade-off between efficiency and learning in inter-organizational relationships (1996) (11)
- Managing R&D alliances within government: the "virtual agency" concept (2003) (10)
- The problem of aging organizations (1967) (10)
- CUTTING YOUR TEETH: LEARNING FROM ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCES. (2010) (10)
- Ally or Acquire? Case Studies of Compaq and Cisco as Additional Tests of the External Technology Life Cycle Model (2003) (10)
- High-Technology Entrepreneurs (1991) (10)
- One Point of View: Linkage, Leverage And Leadership Drive Successful Technological Innovation (2004) (10)
- Acquisitions and alliances in the aerospace industry: an unusual triad (2003) (9)
- Understanding Entrepreneurial Process and Performance: A Cross-National Comparison of Alumni Entrepreneurship Between MIT and Tsinghua University (2016) (7)
- Bringing entrepreneurial ideas to life (2011) (5)
- Technology Strategy for the Medium-Size Company (1976) (5)
- Cutting Your Teeth : Learning from Rare ( One or More ) Experiences (2008) (5)
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Department Editors Editor-in-Chief (2009) (4)
- Developing new products and services by listening to the voice of the customer (1992) (4)
- Understanding barriers to innovation and intrapreneurship in an R&D organization (1996) (4)
- Initiating Successful Corporate Venture Capital Investments (2011) (4)
- New product strategy in small high technology firms: a pilot study (2011) (4)
- The patterns of interorganizational networks in the development of data communication technologies (1998) (4)
- Managing Invention and Innovation: Technological Innovation Can Alter the Competitive Status of Firms and Nations but Its Purposeful Management Is Complex, Involving the Effective Integration of People, Organizational Processes and Plans (2007) (3)
- Industrial Dynamics and the Design of Management Control Systems (2011) (3)
- Evolving Toward Product and Market-Orientation (1991) (3)
- The Financial Base of the New Enterprise (1991) (2)
- Commercial Innovation from University Faculty : Research Management (1987) (2)
- The pre-entrepreneurial development of technological entrepreneurs (1988) (2)
- Learning by knowing through social capital: a missling link to research capability (1998) (2)
- Technological Entrepreneurship: Birth, Growth, and Success (1991) (2)
- Is Licensing An Effective Alternative (1982) (2)
- Commercial Innovation from University Faculty : Research Policy (1987) (2)
- Global benchmarking study on the stategic management of technology : the case of Singapore (1994) (2)
- Technology transfer from Japanese universities to pharmaceutical companies (2004) (1)
- Modeling the diffusion of financial innovations (1997) (1)
- A Correlation of Laboratory Performance with Critical Functions Analysis : R&D Management (1988) (1)
- An environment for entrepreneurs (1991) (1)
- A Correlation of R& D Laboratory Performance With Critical Functions Analysis (2018) (1)
- The effects of social capital on technological performance of the firm: a a longitudinal analysis (1998) (1)
- Is Licensing an Effective Alternative for Achieving Commercial Benefits of R&d Results ? (2015) (1)
- Effects of organization on financial innovation (1997) (1)
- A study of scientific research in the operating components of a large decentralized manufacturing company (1964) (1)
- The design of research and development policy (2011) (1)
- Strategic Management of Technology: Global Benchmarking (Initial Report) (2015) (1)
- Benchmarking the strategic management of technology--II : R&D performance (1995) (1)
- Resolving the 'innovation dilemma': corporate development of new technology–based product lines and businesses (2014) (1)
- Cutting your teeth: The beginning of the learning curve (2009) (1)
- The management of Department of Defense laser research contracts (1970) (1)
- Technology strategy for the European firm (1975) (1)
- Cutting Your Teeth : Building on the Micro-Foundations for Dynamic Capabilities (2009) (1)
- SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS FROM MIT (SUMMARY) (2006) (1)
- Questioning the Cost/effectiveness of the R & D Procurement Process (2015) (1)
- T^c M^^^ Hd28 .m414 -9) Corporate Venture Capital Investments (0)
- Managing Research and Development Across Government Departments: The "Virtual Agency" Concept in the United States (2001) (0)
- First Mover Advantages in Financial Service Innovations... (2013) (0)
- Entrepreneurial Ideation and Organizational Performance: Imprinting Effects (2014) (0)
- Life Cycles of R& D Organizations (2015) (0)
- The Makings of an Entrepreneur (1991) (0)
- the Technological Performance of the Firm: A Longitudinal Analysis (1998) (0)
- Management of Science and Technology / Effects of Incentive Contracts in Research and Development: a Preliminary Research Report a Preliminary Research Report (2008) (0)
- The measurement and improvement of R & D marketing effectiveness (2011) (0)
- How the U. S. Buys Research (2018) (0)
- Order of market entry and competitive stratiegy in financial services innovations (1997) (0)
- Marketing and Engineering Strategies for Winning R & D Contracts (2015) (0)
- The International Centerfor Research on the Management of Technology (1997) (0)
- Honorary Life Members: Ex Officio (With Vote) Ex Officio (No Vote) (2007) (0)
- Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Critical Functions: Needed Roles in the Innovation Process Needed Roles in the Innovation Process (0)
- Celebrating Entrepreneurs (2022) (0)
- Effects of Incentive Contracts in Research and Development: A Preliminary Research Report (2018) (0)
- Is Licensing An Effective Alternative? : Research Management (1987) (0)
- How MIT Helped Cultivate Generations of Entrepreneurs (2020) (0)
- Bringing Ideas to Life: Integrating Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities by (2009) (0)
- Engineer dynamics and productivity in r and d projects organizational research program (1963) (0)
- A Systems Methodology for Evaluating Industrial Projects in the Context of National Strategies (2015) (0)
- Engineer Dynamics and Productivity in R and D Graphics (2015) (0)
- Going public : sell the sizzle or the steak? (1990) (0)
- How Strategy and Industry Should Shape Your Choice of Co-Founders (2017) (0)
- The Impact of Regulatory Constraints on Formation and Growth of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Start-Up (2011) (0)
- Evolving Toward Product an Market-Orientation : The Early of Technology-Based Firms (0)
- Research program on the organization and management of research and development. Questioning the cost/effectiveness of the R and D procurement process (1965) (0)
- Entrepreneurs from Technology-Based Universities: An Empirical First Look (2005) (0)
- Associate Professor of Management, M. I.t. Sloan School of Management Received Dec 4 1967 (2008) (0)
- Globalization patterns of emerging high technology companies : an exploratory analysis of desktop computing (1998) (0)
- The M.I.T. organization research program: research on the management of large-scale technology-based enterprises (2011) (0)
- The Management of Dod Laser Research Contracts (2011) (0)
- The financial base of the new technological enterprise (1988) (0)
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