The world's leading experts

Based on our technology transfer and GLOBE social networks, we have assembled the world’s leading experts on technology transfer, representing 15 nations, who have had a major impact on national innovation policy and practice. Key institutions associated with GCTT leadership, such as the Technology Transfer Society and the Journal of Technology Transfer, help us capitalize on global expertise. We are also able to leverage ASU’s connection to the University Innovation Alliance in the U.S. This ensures that in addition to conducting leading-edge research, we use our connections to global experts to develop the best educational programs and policy advice for many nations. 

In sum, we are passionate about developing the global field of technology transfer. GCTT is a unique center of excellence, focused on helping advance research, identify and disseminate best practices and train the next generation of technology transfer scholars and managers. We exist to promote convergence of managerial practice and public policy, and accelerate the process of technology transfer for broader impacts. Moreover, GCTT serves as a role model in supporting such endeavors in many countries around the world.
 

Leadership

Donald Siegel

Donald Siegel

Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management, School of Public Affairs, and Co-Executive Director, Global Center for Technology Transfer 

David Waldman

David Waldman

Dean's Council Distinguished Professor of Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, and Co-Executive Director-Global Center for Technology Transfer 

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Maryann Feldman

Watts Chair of Public Policy and Management, School of Public Affairs, and Research Director, Global Center for Technology Transfer

Mansour Javidan

Mansour Javidan

Najafi Chair in Global Mindset and Digital Transformation and Executive Director, Najafi Global Mindset Institute, Thunderbird School of Global Management

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Maribel Guerrero

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, School of Public Affairs, and Global Center for Technology Transfer

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

Professor and Director, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Postdocs and students

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Benjamin Agyei-Owusu

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

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Jing Deng

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

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Devin Flake

Doctoral student

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Alaina George

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

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Shuqi Sun

Grad Research Assistant

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Salome Opoku

Doctoral student

Other partners

Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center (intellectual property and economic development)

Al Link, Virginia Batte Phillips Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Technology Transfer (technology transfer/academic entrepreneurship, economics of innovation)

Phillip Phan, Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Johns Hopkins University, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Editor, Academy of Management Perspectives and Associate Editor, Journal of Technology Transfer (technollgy transfer/academic entrepreneurship, especially in health care)

Marie Mitchell, Professor of Management and I. W. Cousins Professor of Business Ethics, Department of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia (micro aspects of technology transfer, organizational behavior)

Miriam Erez, The Mendes France Chair of Management and Economics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel (micro aspects of technology transfer, organizational behavior)

Siri Terjesen, Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and Professor, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway (entrepreneurship, including global and social aspects)

Paula Stephan, Professor of Economics, Georgia State University (economics of science) 

Shiri Breznitz, Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada (technology transfer, innovation policy)

Rosa Grimaldi, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, University of Bologna, Italy (technology transfer, innovation policy)

Mirjam Knockaert, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship , Ghent University, Belgium and Technical University Munich, Germany (technology transfer, incubators/accelerators/science parks)

Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K. (entrepreneurship, innovation, public policy)

Claudia Peus, Professor of Research and Science Management, Technical University of Munich

Philippe Mustar, Professor, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France (technology transfer, national labs)

David Rigby, Professor of Geography, UCLA, (geography of knowledge and innovation)

Maureen McKelvey, Professor of Industrial Management, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (innovation and entrepreneurship)

Glenn Hoetker, MBS Foundation Chair of Sustainability & Business, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia (strategy, innovation, and sustainability)

Stefan Volk, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia (organizational behavior, international business, neuroscience in management)

Reinhilde Veugelers, Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, KU Leuven, Belgium (economics of science and innovation, technology transfer)

Sharon Simmons, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Jackson State University (entrepreneurship, innovation and technology transfer)   

P. Devereaux Jennings, Professor of Strategy and Organization, University of Alberta, Canada, (strategy, entrepreneurship and organizational theory)

Xue Lan, Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China (innovation policy, national labs)

Jemima A. Frimpong, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU (organizational neuroscience, health care organizations)

Marcel Bogers, Professor of Open and Collaborative Innovation, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands and Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (organization and management of technology, entrepreneurship)

Constant Beugré, Professor of Management, College of Business, Delaware State University (organizational behavior, entrepreneurship)

Ethlyn Williams, Associate Professor, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University (leadership, human resource management)

European TTO Circle

Paul Zielinski, Executive Director, Federal Laboratory Consortium

Sandra Watson, President and CEO, Arizona Commerce Authority

Christine Mackay, Community and Economic Development Director, City of Phoenix

Steve Zylstra, President and CEO, Arizona Technology Council

The Journal of Technology Transfer, the official journal of the Technology Transfer Society, an association of academics (and some practitioners) dedicated to the identification and dissemination of best practices in knowledge worker entrepreneurship and the commercialization of research, and Springer (publisher of the Journal of Technology Transfer). 

Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University and Professor, School of Public Affairs

Ann McKenna, Vice Dean and Professor of Engineering

Barry Bozeman, Regents Professor, School of Public Affairs

Stuart Bretschneider, Foundation Professor, School of Public Affairs

Monica Gaughan, Professor, School of Public Affairs 

Dennis Hoffman, Professor of Economics, W.P. Carey School of Business

Jose Lobo, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures

Derrick Anderson, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs

Mary Feeney, Professor, School of Public Affairs

Christopher Hayter, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs

Anthony Howell, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs

Eric Welch, Professor, School of Public Affairs

Rachel Balven, Clinical Assistant Professor, W. P. Carey School of Business

Diana Bowman, Professor and Associate Dean, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

NSF I-Corps node, Skysong Innovations (accelerating tech transfer and advancing the ASU Knowledge Enterprise), ASU Research Park, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, and ASU's Entrepreneurship and Innovation hub.