Professor Nagaraj’s research is in the area of innovation economics, entrepreneurship and technology management. His research studies the power and limits of big data and AI tools on shaping firm performance and social outcomes. His work shows how these tools can act as a map to guide better decisions, but could also distort performance.
Nagaraj’s work has received a number of awards including the BPS Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award, the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Best Dissertation Award, the J. Roberts Beyster Fellowship, as well as the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. In addition to his teaching, Nagaraj teaches Entrepreneurial Strategy and enjoys advising early-stage startups on go-to-market strategy and large firms in creating and guiding their data and innovation strategy.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Innovation
- Crowdsourcing
- Mapping
- Entrepreneurship
- Big Data and the Digital Economy
- Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Open Innovation
Papers, Articles, and Publications
Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
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