Matt Marx is the Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and is the inaugural Faculty Director of Entrepreneurship@Cornell. An expert on innovation, he teaches executive, MBA, and undergraduate classes on Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. Marx leads the Innovation Information Initiative (I3), curates several open datasets at relianceonscience.org, serves as Department Editor for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Management Science, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Matt was previously an executive and inventor at two successful startup companies and holds six patents. (See full bio.)
"Pasteur’s quadrant researchers bring novelty, impact to publishing and patenting" Science
new website for the Innovation Information Initiative (i3): i3open.org
"Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Influx of Inventors" forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics
winter 2025 program for the i3 Technical Working Group
"Minimum Viable Signal: Venture Funding, Social Movements, and Race" forthcoming in Management Science
"Funding Black High-Growth Startups" forthcoming in Journal of Finance
Welcome to the 2026 batch of i3 fellows!
"Cassatts in the Attic: Is There a Gender Gap in the Commercialization of Science?" forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
"Beyond Blame: Attribution, Evaluative Stigma, and Employee Careers after Employer Failure" forthcoming at Administrative Science Quarterly
received 2024 undergraduate teaching award