MIT Sloan
Executive Education Faculty
Fiona Murray
Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Faculty Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Fiona Murray received BA and MA degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford before coming to the United States where she received her doctoral degree from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests include the study of science commercialization, the organization of scientific research, and the role of science in national competitiveness... Read More»
Fiona Murray received BA and MA degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford before coming to the United States where she received her doctoral degree from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests include the study of science commercialization, the organization of scientific research, and the role of science in national competitiveness. After a short time on the faculty of Oxford's Said Business School, Fiona joined the MIT Sloan School of Management where she studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, including the campus-wide iTeams course in which students develop "go-to-market" strategies for breakthrough innovations developed in MIT labs.
Murray works with a range of firms designing global organizations that are both commercially successful and at the forefront of science. These firms seek to leverage the ideas of a wide range of internal scientists and external innovators through traditional research contracts as well as "Open Innovation" mechanisms. Her recent engagements have focused on relationships that span the public and private sectors. She is particularly interested in new, emerging organizational arrangements for effective commercialization of science such as public-private partnerships, not-for profits, venture philanthropy, and university-initiated seed funding.
Murray is well-known for her academic work on how growing economic incentives - for example, intellectual property (IP) - influence the rate and direction of scientific progress, particularly in the areas of genomics, stem cells, and mouse genetics. She is actively involved in U.S. and European policy debates over the appropriate use of IP and licensing in universities and, more recently, debates on how and when to use patents to promote discovery research in neglected diseases.
Her research has been widely published in a diverse range of scientific and social science journals including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Organization Science and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Close«
Group(s):
Technological Innovation
Entrepreneurship
and Strategic Management
Research Center(s):
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
General Expertise:
Biotechnology; Biopharmaceutical; Energy; Pharmaceutical; Institutional partnerships; Knowledge management; Intellectual property; Management of engineers and scientists; Social networks; $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Innovation; Lead users; Patents; Research and development; Startups; Technological innovation; Drug models; Emerging businesses; Healthcare operations management; Human resource management; Management of technology; Medical decision making
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Contact Information:
Office: E62-470
Tel: 617-258-0628
Fax: 617.253.2660
Email: fmurray@mit.edu
Support Staff:
Name: Keira Horowitz
Tel: 617-253-3681
Email: keirah@mit.edu
Faculty's ContentCollapse [-]
The Ecosystem: Nurturing Entrepreneurship at MIT
How do the innovative technologies developed at MIT change the world? How are new drugs brought to market, new energy solutions deployed, and new... more
10 Steps To Improve Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurs and educators agree on two fundamental points. The first is so obvious that it hardly bears repeating but let's restate it anyway:... more
The Power of Competition: How to Focus the Worlds Brains on your Innovation Challenges: video
Cooperation may be making us a little bit too nice when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes theres nothing like competition... more
Programs Taught By This Faculty
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Management and Leadership
Entrepreneurship Development Program
January 27-February 01, 2013
Our Programs
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Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy
June 18-19, 2012 | November 08-09, 2012
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Management and Leadership
Strategic Marketing for the Technical Executive
July 24-25, 2012 | November 13-14, 2012
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Strategy and Innovation
October 11-12, 2012
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