Arvids Ziedonis

Interests:
Strategy, Innovation, and Technology Policy

Arvids Ziedonis is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2002, Professor Ziedonis was a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and remains affiliated with Wharton’s Mack Center for Technological Innovation.

Professor Ziedonis’ research interests are centered on understanding the factors that influence the acquisition and commercialization of embryonic technologies by firms. Current areas of research activity include understanding the institutional and environmental factors that influence innovative activity, the mechanisms firms use to acquire new technologies and manage knowledge flows, and the empirical measurement of innovative activity. His research has been published in management journals including Management Science and Research Policy. With co-authors David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, and Bhaven N. Sampat, he recently published a book on the commercialization of academic research, Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Professor Ziedonis has developed an MBA course in strategy for the commercialization of new technologies. He also teaches an MBA course and a PhD seminar in corporate strategy at Michigan.