MIT Sloan
Executive Education Faculty
Fiona Murray
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Faculty Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Fiona Murray's research interests focus on entrepreneurship and the commercialization of science. She has done extensive work on the policies and programs that shape vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems including prizes, accelerators, patent licensing rules and proof of concept funding programs. She is broadly interested in the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in regional competitiveness... Read More»
Fiona Murray's research interests focus on entrepreneurship and the commercialization of science. She has done extensive work on the policies and programs that shape vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems including prizes, accelerators, patent licensing rules and proof of concept funding programs. She is broadly interested in the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in regional competitiveness. After a short time on the faculty of Oxford University’s Said Business School, Murray joined MIT Sloan. She teaches the “Innovation Teams” course, which assembles cross-disciplinary teams of students from across MIT to learn the process of science and technology commercialization, with a focus on evaluating a technology’s potential for significant commercial and social impact.
Murray works with a range of firms, designing global organizations that are both commercially successful and deeply engaged with their regional ecosystem-including linkages to scientists and entrepreneurs. Her recent engagements have focused on relationships that span the public and private sectors. She is particularly interested in emerging organizational arrangements for effective innovation-driven entrepreneurship, including 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 influence the rate and direction of scientific progress. She is actively involved in U.S. and European policy discussions regarding the appropriate use of intellectual property and licensing in universities, the role of entrepreneurship education and mechanisms to build entrepreneurial capacity. Her research has been widely published in a diverse range of scientific and social science journals, including Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Organization Science, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Murray holds a BA in chemistry from Merton College, University of Oxford, and an MS in engineering sciences and a PhD in applied sciences from Harvard University. Close«
Website: http://web.mit.edu/fmurray/www/
Group(s):
Technological Innovation
Entrepreneurship
and Strategic Management
Research Center(s):
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
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
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A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs: New Kauffman Paper Highlights Different Types & Their Roles in Economy
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What Do a Chemical Engineer and a Pizza Maker Have in Common?
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London Tech City: an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem
Imagine the scene: an entrepreneur is sitting across the table from a psychologist playing a word association game (reminiscent of a scene in the... more
Programs Taught By This Faculty
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Management and Leadership
Entrepreneurship Development Program
January 27-31, 2014
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Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
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Strategic Marketing for the Technical Executive
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September 08-13, 2013 | March 23-28, 2014 | September 07-12, 2014
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