Michael Roach

Michael Roach is the J. Thomas and Nancy W. Clark Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management within the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. His research examines the career paths of science and engineering doctorates, with a particular emphasis on careers in entrepreneurship and how immigration policies influence career choice. He also investigates the role of industrial scientists in firm innovation, firms’ use of university research as an input to industrial R&D, and firm patenting activities with implications for science and innovation policy. His research has been published in leading management and science journals including Management Science, Research Policy, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Roach was awarded the Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research, and his research is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. Prior to joining Cornell in 2014, he was on the faculty at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Professor Roach received his Ph.D. in Strategy from Duke University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University.