Publications

Companies Inadvertently Fund Online Misinformation Despite Consumer Backlash

Take Me Home, Country Roads: Return Migration and Platform-Enabled Entrepreneurship

Born into Chaos: Founding-Condition Effects on Venture Survival and Growth

In Institutions We Trust? Trust in Government and the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Intentions

Entrepreneurial Strategies During Institutional Changes: Evidence from China's Economic Transition

Platform Governance and the Rural–Urban Divide: Sellers' Responses to Design Change

Do University Entrepreneurship Programs Promote Entrepreneurship?

For Startups, Adaptability and Mentor Network Diversity Can Be Pivotal

The Dark Side of Junior Stock Exchanges

The Persistence of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Immigrants

Understanding Entrepreneurial Process and Performance: A Cross-National Comparison of Alumni Entrepreneurship Between MIT and Tsinghua University

How Entrepreneurs Leverage Institutional Intermediaries in Emerging Economies

Through the Mud or in the Boardroom: Examining Activist Types and their Strategies in Targeting Firms for Social Change

Founding Team Composition and Venture Performance

When External Shocks Attract Capital: Export Controls and Venture Capital Allocation in China

Industrial Policy Reshapes Venture Capital Allocation and Growth Trajectories in Climate Technologies

Subsidy Design Without Capability Screening: Entry Composition in China's Battery Sector

Learning-by-Advising? Startup Learning as an Advice-Giver in Accelerators

The Impact of Entrepreneurial Universities on the Economy: A Foundational Synthesis

The Economic Impact of Entrepreneurial Alumni: A Case Study of the University of Virginia

Stanford Innovation Survey: The Economic Impact of Stanford-Founded Companies

Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT

Why leading on AI innovation means thinking beyond 'market freedom' versus 'state funding'

Sole-author essay arguing that the decisive ingredient in a high-functioning innovation economy is the institutional layer between state funding and market freedom — tech-transfer offices, university-industry programs, accelerators, founder-mentor networks — not the balance between the two. Frames China's $138B state VC fund and U.S. NSF cuts + Genesis Mission as wagers running through institutions neither government is investing in. Draws on the MIT, Stanford, Tsinghua, ITRI / TSMC, and Project 985 cases.

Alumni Innovation Survey

Open survey instrument for measuring the economic and innovation impact of a university's alumni-founded ventures. Pioneered with Edward B. Roberts at MIT (2009), extended at Stanford with William F. Miller (2012), at UVA (2014), and at Tsinghua (2016, with Delin Yang), and since adopted by Technion (with Shlomo Maital), the University of Toronto (with Shiri Breznitz), the University of Alberta, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and others. In the years since, many additional universities have undertaken similar alumni-impact studies inspired by this approach — including NUS, UC Berkeley, and IIT Delhi (which released its first Alumni Impact Report in January 2026).

Alumni Surveys as a Data Collection Methodology

Methodological companion paper to the alumni-survey instrument. Documents the design choices, response-rate experience, statistical weighting, and validation approach that has guided subsequent adoption across MIT, Stanford, UVA, Tsinghua, Technion, Toronto, Alberta, CUHK, and other research universities measuring the economic impact of their entrepreneurial alumni.