I am an Assistant Professor of Innovation and New Ventures (Senior Lecturer, Tenure-Track) at the Coller School of Management of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. I conduct research related to managerial strategy, technology and innovation, corporate and public scientific research, markets for technology, and knowledge spillovers. More specifically, my research focuses on the commercialization and organization of scientific discovery. As part of my research initiatives, I compile open-source large-scale firm-level datasets on innovation. My research has been featured in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review and Research Policy. I received my PhD in Business Administration (Strategy) from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. I was the recipient of the 2020-2021 Fuqua School of Business's Best Dissertation Award. I earned an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a B.A. in Economics from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to entering academia, I worked in the Banking Industry and served as an economic consultant in the Ministry of Defense's Budget Department in Israel. I am a co-founder of Fuqua-STAGE (Society to Advance Gender Equality in Business Academia) and an advocate for women in STEM.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Sitting on the fence: integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm”, Research Policy, 51(7):104550, September 2022
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- “Knowledge spillovers and corporate investment in scientific research” (w/ A. Arora & S. Belenzon), American Economic Review, 111(3): 871-898, March 2021
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- “Matching patents to Compustat firms, 1980-2015: Dynamic reassignment, name changes, and ownership structures” (w/ A. Arora & S. Belenzon), Research Policy, 50(5):10421, June 2021
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- Dataset: DISCERN: Duke Innovation & SCientific Enterprises Research Network (w/ A. Arora, S. Belenzon, L. Cioaca, & D. Shvadron). Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/13619821, (August 2024)
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ONGOING PROJECTS
- “The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D”, (w/ A. Arora & S. Belenzon & L. Cioaca & H. Zhang), NBER working paper No. w31899 , November 2023
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- “The Share of Science-Based Startups in Venture Capital is Shrinking”, (w/ Honggi Lee & Matt Marx)
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- “Back to the Future: Are Big Firms Regaining their Scientific and Technological Dominance? Evidence from DISCERN 2.0”, (w/ A. Arora & S. Belenzon & L. Cioaca & D. Shvadron)
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- “The growing incidence of foreign scientific espionage and its effects on the U.S. innovation system”, (w/ Dan Gross & Britta Glennon)
MEDIA COVERAGE
- “Universities are failing to boost economic growth”, The Economist, February 5 2024 (Hebrew version)
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- “More Startups Throw in the Towel, Unable to Raise Money for Their Ideas”, The Wall Street Journal, June 9 2023
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DATA
DISCERN 2.0: Duke Innovation & SCientific Enterprises Research Network | Released August 2024
We are excited to announce the release of DISCERN 2.0, a significant advancement in our dataset aimed at supporting academic research on corporate innovation. The dataset traces U.S. publicly traded R&D firms' investment in innovation and scientific discovery for 41 years. It includes patents, and scientific articles matched to Compustat firms over the period 1980-2021.
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DISCERN 1.0 introduced a major extension and improvement to the historical NBER patent data (Hall, Jaffe, & Trajtenberg, 2001). First presented at the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Innovation Information Initiative meeting.
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DISCERN 2.0 is an extensive update to the original DISCERN dataset. By adding nine years of coverage, we extend the dataset to 2024, incorporate improved firm and subsidiary data, and integrate open-access scientific publications and patent data using the OpenAlex and PatentsView datasets, as well as patent reassignments (USPTO PAD) and pre-grant patent applications data. These improvements result in a more comprehensive and accurate coverage.
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The data including an historical firm name list with dynamic reassignment, are publicly available.
Download the data at (over 23K downloads): https://zenodo.org/records/13619821
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