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Dr. Marie Thursby
Executive Director, TI:GER®
Hal and John Smith Chair in Entrepreneurship
Professor

Area(s):TI:GER
Academic Area(s):Strategic Management
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Phone:404-894-6249
Address:800 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
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Office:4123
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Dr. Marie Thursby is a Professor of Strategy and Hal & John Smith Chair in the Georgia Tech’s College of Management and founding Director of the NSF-funded graduate program Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) for which she received the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award in 2006.

She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has published over 80 articles on various topics including the economics of innovation, the role of universities in innovation systems, multinational R&D decisions, and how incentive systems created by government and other institutional policies affect inventive effort, as well as the disclosure and diffusion of scientific discoveries. Her work has been published in top-ranked peer-review journals such as Science and the American Economic Review, and she serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Management Science, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Research Policy. She has received research funding from the Alan and Mildred Peterson Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

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Areas of Specialization
Economics of innovation
International R&D competition
Optimal license strategies
International economics and industrial organization
Education
AB, cum laude, Mount Holyoke College
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Featured Publications and Papers
  • Haeussler, C., Jiang, L., Thursby, J., Thursby, M. (2011) “Sharing among Competing Researchers”.  
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  • Conti, A., Thursby, M., Rothaermel, F. (2011) “Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups”. 
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  • Jensen, R., Thursby, J., Thursby, (2011) “University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting”. 
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  • Thursby, M., Fuller, A., and Thursby J. (2010) “An Integrated Approach to Educating Professionasl for Careers in Innovation,” Academy of Management Learning and Education 8, 389-405.  
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  • Thursby, J. and Thursby M. (2010) “University Licensing: Harnessing or Tarnishing Research,” Innovation Policy and the Economy, Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern, eds, 159-189. 
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  • Dechenaux, E., Thursby M., and Thursby J. (2009) “Shirking, Sharing Risk, and Shelving,” International Journal of Industrial Organization 27, 2009, 80-91. 
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  • Dechenaux, E., Goldfarb, B., Shane S., and Thursby M. (2008) “Appropriability and Commercialization: Evidence from MIT Inventions,” Management Science 52, 893-906. 
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  • Thursby, M., Thursby J., and Gupta-Mukherjee, S. (2007) “Are there Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research: A Life Cycle View,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 63, 577-598. 
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  • Thursby J. and Thursby M. (2006) “Where is the New Science in Corporate R&D?” Science 314, Dec. 8. 
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  • Thursby, J. and Thursby M. (2003) “University Licensing and the Bayh Dole Act,” Science 301, 1052. 
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  • Thursby, J. and Thursby M. (2002) “Who is Selling the Ivory Tower: The Sources of Growth in University Licensing,” Management Science.  
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  • Jensen, R. and Thursby M. (2001) “Proofs and Prototypes for sale: The Licensing of University Inventions,” American Economic Review, 240-259. 
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