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Faculty Profile
Dr. Brent Goldfarb is
Associate Professor of
Management and Entrepreneurship
in the M&O Department at the
University of Maryland's Robert
H. Smith School of Business.
Goldfarb's research focuses on
how the production and exchange
of technology differs from more
traditional economic goods, with
a focus on the implications on
the role of startups in the
economy. He focuses on such
questions as how do markets and
employer policies affect
incentives to discover new
commercially valuable
technologies and when is it best
to commercialize them through
new technology-based firms? Why
do radical technologies appear
to be the domain of startups?
And how big was the dot.com
boom? Copies of Dr. Goldfarb's
publications and working papers
have been downloaded over 1200
times.
Primary Research
Areas:
- Technological
Entrepreneurship
- Technological Change &
Policy
- Applied Econometrics
- Industrial Organization
- Economic & Business
History
- Science Policy
Selected
Publications
Myeong-Gu Seo, Brent Goldfarb and Lisa Feldman, “Affect and the Framing Effect:
Risk Taking in a Dynamic Investment Game”, forthcoming, Academy Management Journal.
Brent Goldfarb, Gerald Marschke and Amy Smith, “Scholarship and Inventive Activity
in the University: Complements or Substitutes”, (2009), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18(8):743-756.
http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/10438590802479148
David Kirsch, Brent Goldfarb and Azi Gera, “Form or Substance? The Role of Business Plans in Venture Capital Funding”, (2009) Strategic
Management Journal 30: 487–515.
Emmanuel Dechenaux, Brent Goldfarb, Scott Shane and Marie Thursby “Appropriability and the Commercialization of Innovation: Evidence from MIT
Inventions”, (2008) Management Science 54(5), 893-906.
Brent Goldfarb, “The Effect of Government Contracting on Academic Research: Does the Source of Funding Affect Scientific Output?” (2008)
Research Policy 37(1), 41-58.
Brent Goldfarb, David Kirsch and David Miller, “Was there too Little Entry in the Dot Com Era?” (2007), Journal of Financial
Economics 86(1), 100-144.
Brent Goldfarb, “Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies: Understanding Patterns in the Electrification of US Manufacturing 1880-1930” (2005)
Industrial and Corporate Change, 14(5) 745-773.
Brent Goldfarb and Magnus Henrekson, “Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Policies towards the Commercialization of University Intellectual Property” (2003)
Research Policy 32(4) 639-658.
B.Goldfarb and M. Henrekson.
"Botton-Up vs. Top-Down Policies
towards the Commercialization of
University Intellectual
Property" Research Policy,
(forthcoming)
B. Goldfarb. "The Effect of
Government Contracting on
Academic Research: An Empirical
Analysis of Reputation in
Research Contracting" Discussion
Paper No. 00.24, Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy
Research
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