Dr. Amol Joshi

Thomas H. Davis Professor in Business; Associate Professor

OFFICE: Farrell 387

BIOGRAPHY

Amol M. Joshi, PhD, MS, MBA is the Thomas H. Davis Professor in Business and an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Wake Forest University (WFU) School of Business. He holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Innovation and Commercialization at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), where he serves as Course Director for Innovation Management in the MS in Translational Biotechnology Program. Amol is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the WFU School of Medicine in the Centers for Healthcare Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Informatics, and Precision Medicine. Amol is Faculty Representative to the WFU Board of Trustees' Finance Committee and a Voting Member of the University Priorities Committee. He is also a Faculty Associate Member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Amol enjoys working with business leaders, corporate managers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and students of all levels around the world to help them pursue their business dreams. Amol has trained startup founders and executives in the U.S., Austria, Denmark, and Vietnam.

Amol researches how inventors create and commercialize new technologies and manage their intellectual property across organizational boundaries and international borders. He developed his expertise in innovation management over a 13-year career as an engineer, entrepreneur, and executive in venture capital-funded startups and high-growth public companies in Silicon Valley. He is the co-inventor of 2 patents for voice products. Amol co-founded BeVocal, a speech recognition software startup (acquired by Nuance Communications) and served as VP of Sales & Marketing (1999-2003).

His research is funded through competitive external grants from private foundations and government agencies. Amol is a 2016 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow and a 2010 Kauffman Dissertation Fellow in Entrepreneurship Research. In 2020, Amol was the co-Principal Investigator for a $200,000 RAPID grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine the effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. small business innovation ecosystem. He was also the Principal Investigator for a $50,000 NSF Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) grant (2015).

He is actively involved in analyzing and recommending improvements to innovation policies at the national, regional, and local government levels. Amol was appointed to four independent National Academies of Sciences Study Committees for evaluating the small business R&D grant programs and technology transfer processes at NASA (2023-Present), the NSF (2020-2023), National Institutes of Health (2020-2021), and the U.S. Department of Energy (2018-2020). These committees report their findings to the U.S. Congress. Amol also serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for CREATE, which is a non-partisan think tank and policy lab focused on statewide economic development issues in North Carolina. In addition, he is an Affiliate Researcher in Technology, Innovation, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship at RWTH Aachen U., which is the largest engineering university in Germany. Amol previously served on the External Advisory Boards for the WFU Department of Engineering (2022-2024) and the Georgia Tech School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (2013-2021).

Amol has published his research in leading scholarly journals, including: Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), Organization Science (OrgSci), Journal of Management, Research Policy, Organizational Research Methods, Small Business Economics, Global Strategy Journal, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, PLOS ONE, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. He currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards of 4 journals ranked in the Financial Times Top 50: SMJ, JIBS, OrgSci, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

HONORS

2024 - CTSI ePilot Ignition Fund Grant ($5,000), WFU Clinical & Translational Science Institute
2024 - Thomas H. Davis Professor in Business, Wake Forest University, School of Business
2024 - Cowan Faculty Research Award, Wake Forest University, School of Business
2023 - Outstanding Educator Award - Charlotte Saturday MBA Program, Wake Forest University, School of Business
2022 - Radical Collaboration Grant for Healthcare Innovation ($20,000), WFU Associate Provost for Research
2021 - Bern Beatty Faculty Fellowship, Wake Forest University, School of Business
2021 - High Impact Scholarship Award, Wake Forest University, School of Business
2020 - CREATE Fellow, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
2020 - RAPID Grant for Research on U.S. Small Business Innovation Ecosystem ($200,000), National Science Foundation (NSF)
2019 - External Service Award, Oregon State University, College of Business
2019 - Prominent Scholar Award (received 2 awards, both in 2019), Oregon State University, College of Business
2019 - Scholarly Impact Award, Oregon State University, College of Business
2018 - Professor of the Semester Award for Teaching Excellence in Distance Learning Executive MBA Programs, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
2017 - Best Paper Prize for Article Published in 2017 SBE Special Issue on Minority Entrepreneurship, Small Business Economics (SBE)
2017 - Betty and Forrest Simmons Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Oregon State University, College of Business
2016 - Byron L. Newton Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Oregon State University, College of Business
2016 - Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (1 of 7 nationwide), Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2015 - Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) Grant ($50,000), National Science Foundation (NSF)
2015 - Newcomb Associates Award, Oregon State University, College of Business
2013 - Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Society (SMS)
2013 - Professor of the Semester Award for Teaching Excellence in MBA Programs, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
2012 - Professor of the Semester Award for Teaching Excellence in Executive MBA Programs, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
2012 - Finalist (1 of 7 worldwide), Academy of Management Wiley-Blackwell Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy , Academy of Management, BPS Division
2012 - Best Reviewer Award, Academy of International Business (AIB)
2012 - Runner-Up, Best Conference Paper Award, Academy of International Business (AIB)
2012 - Shirley M. Lee Award for Research Excellence, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business
2010 - Finalist (1 of 8 worldwide), INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, INFORMS Organization Science
2010 - Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship for Entrepreneurship Research (1 of 15 nationwide), Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
2010 - Peggy Lee-Sunil Wahal Award for Most Outstanding Ph.D. Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
2010 - Future Faculty Fellowship (1 of 25 university-wide), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of the Provost and Center for Faculty Excellence
2004 - Top 40 Business Leader Under 40, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

EXPERTISE

- Founding and launching high-tech entrepreneurial ventures
- Creating and commercializing scientific discoveries and new technologies
- Transferring and licensing out technologies from universities and government labs
- Analyzing and evaluating national, regional, and local innovation policies
- Managing and protecting intellectual property (IP)
- Funding and supporting minority-, women-, and veteran-owned small businesses
- Internationalizing and expanding R&D operations via partnerships

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Technology Entrepreneurship
Innovation Policy
Intellectual Property (IP)
Inclusive Innovation
Global Strategy

Google Scholar Citations: Publications and Patents

TEACHING INTERESTS

Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Global Strategy for students at the undergraduate, graduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD levels.

EDUCATION

Ph D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School (Business Administration (Strategy and Entrepreneurship)) - 2011
MBA, Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business (Business Administration) - 1998
MS, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering (Engineering Sciences (Computer Architecture)) - 1997
BS, Georgia Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering (with Highest Honor)) - 1992

PUBLICATIONS

Journal of Management Studies

Governing Transnational Commons: How International Treaties and Multi-Stakeholder Organizations Shape Cooperation and Conflict

Joshi, A. M. , Antons, D. , Piening, E. P. , Dienhart, C. , & Salge, T.

Journal of Medical Internet Research

An Infrastructure Framework for Remote Patient Monitoring Interventions and Research

Claggett, J. , Petter, S. , Joshi, A. M. , Ponzio, T. A. , & Kirkendall, E. (2024)

Research Policy

Minding the Communications Gap: How Can Universities Signal the Availability and Value of their Scientific Knowledge to Commercial Organizations?

Nasirov, S. , & Joshi, A. M. (2023)

National Academies Press

Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the National Science Foundation

Joshi, A. M. (2023)

MIS Quarterly Executive

How Everything-as-a-Service Enabled Judo to Become a Billion-Dollar Bank Without Owning IT

Breidbach, C. F. , Joshi, A. M. , von Briel, F. , Maglio, P. P. , Dickens, G. , Twigg, A. , & Wünderlich, N. (2022)

PLOS ONE

Exploring the role of R&D collaborations and non-patent IP policies in government technology transfer performance: Evidence from U.S. federal agencies (1999-2016)

Hemmatian, I. , Ponzio, T. , & Joshi, A. M. (2022)

PLOS ONE

Topic Modeling Revisited: New Evidence on Algorithm Performance and Quality Metrics

Rüdiger, M. , Antons, D. , Joshi, A. M. , & Salge, T. (2022)

National Academies Press

Assessment of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the National Institutes of Health

Joshi, A. M. (2022)

Research Policy

A Framework and Databases for Measuring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Johnson, E. E. , Hemmatian, I. , Lanahan, L. , & Joshi, A. M. (2021)

Emerald Publishing Group

Exploring the Effects of Discretion, Discrimination, and Oversight on the Inclusiveness of Small Business Contracting

Hemmatian, I. , Joshi, A. M. , Inouye, T. M. , & Robinson, J. A. (2021)

Organization Science

Inappropriateness Penalty, Desirability Premium: What Do More Certifications Actually Signal?

Lanahan, L. , Armanios, D. E. , & Joshi, A. M. (2021)

Research Policy

Do Public Research Subsidies Produce Jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR Program

Lanahan, L. , Joshi, A. M. , & Johnson, E. E. (2021)

Organizational Research Methods

Computational Literature Reviews: Methods, Algorithms, and Roadmap

Antons, D. , Breidbach, C. F. , Joshi, A. M. , & Salge, T. O. (2021)

Lambert Academic Publishers

Conflict Framing, Multilateral Leadership, and Coalition Formation in International Trade Disputes, 1995-2011

Joshi, A. M. , Lahiri, N. , & Hemmatian, I. (2020)

National Academies Press

Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the Department of Energy

Joshi, A. M. (2020)

Global Strategy Journal

Counteracting Globalization's Skeptics: How Diasporas Influence the Internationalization Preferences of Minority Entrepreneurs' Firms

Inouye, T. M. , Joshi, A. M. , Hemmatian, I. , & Robinson, J. A. (2019)

Edward Elgar

Urban Innovation: At the nexus of entrepreneurship and urban policy

Robinson, J. A. , Joshi, A. , Vickerie-Dearman, L. , & Inouye, T. M. (2019)

IGI Global

Does a Federal Glass Ceiling Have Differential Effects on Female and Male Technology Entrepreneurs?

Inouye, T. M. , Robinson, J. A. , & Joshi, A. M. (2019)

Research Policy

How do legal surprises drive organizational attention and case resolution? An analysis of false patent marking lawsuits

Joshi, A. M. , & Hemmatian, I. (2018)

Journal of Management

Content, Contribution, and Knowledge Consumption: Uncovering Hidden Topic Structure and Rhetorical Signals in Scientific Texts

Antons, D. , Joshi, A. M. , & Salge, T. O. (2018)

Small Business Economics

How does agency workforce diversity influence Federal R&D funding of minority and women technology entrepreneurs? An analysis of the SBIR and STTR programs, 2001-2011

Joshi, A. M. , Inouye, T. M. , & Robinson, J. A. (2017)

Palgrave MacMillan

Innovation Policy

Joshi, A. (2014)

Journal of International Business Studies

Language friction and partner selection in cross-border R&D alliance formation

Joshi, A. M. , & Lahiri, N. (2014)

Strategic Management Journal

When do strategic alliances inhibit innovation by firms? Evidence from patent pools in the global optical disc industry

Joshi, A. M. , & Nerkar, A. (2011)