Michael Roach

Michael Roach, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
michael.roach at duke dot edu
(919) 660-7998

Curriculum Vitae

PUBLICATIONS

Roach, M. & Cohen, W. 2013. “Lens or Prism? An Assessment of Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research” forthcoming Management Science.

Sauermann, H. & Roach, M. 2013. “Increasing Web Survey Response Rates in Innovation Research: An Experimental Study of Static and Dynamic Contact Design Features” Research Policy, 42 (1), 273-286.

Sauermann, H. & Roach, M. 2012 “Science PhD Career Preferences: Levels, Changes, and Advisor Encouragement“ PLoS ONE 7(5). (Public Library of Science is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal for scientific research. The findings of this article have been featured in Science and Nature.)

Roach, M. & Sauermann, H. 2010. “A Taste for Science? PhD Scientist’s Academic Orientation and Self-Selection into Research Careers in Industry.” Research Policy, 39 (3), 422-434.

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW & WORKING PAPERS

“Founder or Joiner? The Role of Preferences and Context in Shaping Entrepreneurial Orientations” with Henry Sauermann (revise & resubmit at Management Science)

“When Do Firms Use Academic Research? Firm Orientation in the Sourcing of External Knowledge for Innovation” (revise & resubmit at Strategic Management Journal)

“Not All Scientists Pay to be Scientists: Heterogeneous Preferences for Publishing in Industrial Research” with Henry Sauermann (revise & resubmit at Research Policy)

“When (and What) Do Firms Patent? Evidence on Patentability and the Decision to Patent at the Firm Level” (in preparation for submission to Strategic Management Journal)

“Taste for Science, Taste for Commercialization, and Hybrid Scientists” with Henry Sauermann

AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS

Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, 2012-2014, $40,000

National Science Foundation, “The Evolving University Research Enterprise,” 2012-2014, $389,698 (SciSIP-1158755 with Maryann Feldman and Janet Bercovitz)

Best Young Scholar Paper Award, DRUID Summer Conference 2011 (with Henry Sauermann)

UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA Faculty “All Star” Teaching Award 2011

Georgia Research Alliance/Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation “Knowledge Flows under the Microscope: The Transition of Science & Engineering PhDs to Startups and Established Firms,” 2009-2010, $16,000 (with Henry Sauermann)

John W. Hartman Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprises, Duke University, 2005-2006, $11,000 (with Wes Cohen).

National Science Foundation, “The Dynamics of Online Learning Communities,” Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science & Technology (SES-0135602), 2002-2004, $72,480 (with Gerardine DeSanctis).